Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections that inform you when data residing in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets is accessed from an IP address associated with known malicious actors on the internet. These threat detections are available to customers that have enabled S3 protection in GuardDuty, and represent the latest in a continuously growing library of managed threat detections available for customers who enable Amazon GuardDuty in their AWS accounts.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches.

AWS OpsHub now supports the Linux operating system. AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality of Snow devices at your fingertips; you can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics. AWS OpsHub for Windows and Mac operating systems was announced in April 2020. Starting today, AWS OpsHub will be available for Linux as well.

AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS now supports FreeRTOS 202012.00 release which can be used to validate and qualify development boards using the latest FreeRTOS. The updated AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS also supports qualification of development boards with cellular connectivity modules. AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass now supports AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 which can be used to qualify devices running AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0.

Starting today, AWS WAF is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.

AWS Config conformance packs now enable the inclusion of process checks rules, in addition to AWS Config managed rules, custom rules and remediation actions. Process check rules help you track resource-agnostic tasks as part of different compliance frameworks and operational best practices. You can add process check rules to new and existing conformance pack templates in your account. Unlike other rules and remediation actions in AWS Config, which can be used to automatically evaluate the compliance of specific AWS resources, the compliance status of a process check rule is manually administered and set by you through the AWS Config console or using the PutExternalEvaluation API. Two new sample conformance pack templates for operational best practices for CIS benchmarks Level 1 and Level 2 are now available, which include process check rules to match specific controls.

Just in time for the holidays, we are excited to announce the update to Amazon GameLift Server SDK Version 4.0.2. An AWS managed service, GameLift enables developers to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated servers in the cloud for multiplayer games. Game developers, such as Ubisoft and Behavior, expect to be able to use the latest versions of Unity and Unreal with the GameLift Server SDK, so we’re giving them a treat to close out the year.

Amazon QuickSight adds dashboard performance improvements and query cost optimization through Dynamic Querying, along with introducing advanced data preparation capabilities.  

FHIR Works on AWS is a new AWS Solutions Implementation with an open source software toolkit that can be used to create a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interface over existing healthcare applications and data. It uses a serverless implementation to provide FHIR APIs that support the majority of FHIR resource types and operations. FHIR Works on AWS also includes architecture patterns for designing and building integrations to existing systems. Independent software vendors, system integrators, and healthcare providers can use the solution to improve access from mobile devices and web portals with standard FHIR APIs. Finally, the solution includes guidance on how to customize the default FHIR Works on AWS API to an organization’s specific needs.

FreeRTOS now supports the ability to update multiple file types in an over-the-air (OTA) update operation. With this feature, FreeRTOS users can classify different types of files (e.g. firmware, certificate, general image) while creating an OTA update job. This enables a FreeRTOS device to identify the category of an incoming update and use it for a specific purpose (e.g. firmware update, certificate rotation, picture download) or target (e.g. secondary microcontroller, external memory) in an embedded application. Learn more here .