AWS Lambda now participates in Compute Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that allows customers to save money on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and now on AWS Lambda in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term.

Customers can now sign-on to Amazon Redshift cluster with Microsoft Azure Active Directory(AD) identities. This allows customers who use Azure AD to be able to sign-on to Redshift without duplicating these identities in Redshift. 

This Quick Start automatically deploys the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) PROTECTED Reference Architecture on the AWS Cloud in about an hour. It is for users who want to create cloud-based workloads that use AWS controls that meet the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Information Security Manual (ISM) requirements for sensitive government data handling at the PROTECTED classification level.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you enable and disable target tracking, step, and simple scaling policies. You can temporarily disable individual scaling policies during events such as maintenance windows. Once you’re ready, you can simply enable the scaling policies again to re-activate them, eliminating the need to delete and re-create the policies from scratch.

Amazon Neptune now enforces SSL connections to your database. You have the option to disable SSL in regions, such as US East (N. Virginia) or Europe (London), where both SSL and non-SSL connections are supported.

Starting today, you can now launch Z1d instance types when using Amazon RDS for SQL Server in the following AWS Regions:

North America

• US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and US West (N. California).

Europe, Middle East and Africa

• EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London).

Asia Pacific

• Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS now supports FreeRTOS 202002.00 . The latest version of AWS IoT Device Tester supports custom code signing for OTA (Over-the-air) update qualification tests, managed policy, and device setup check for serial ports.

You can now receive notifications about pull request approval events in AWS CodeCommit. You can create notification rules to receive notifications about events when a pull request is approved, rejected, and when a pull request approval rule is overridden. You can also modify existing notification rules to include these events. 

Amazon Neptune now allows you to stop and start database clusters. This makes it easy and affordable to use database clusters for development and test purposes where the database is not required to be running all of the time. 

You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using Ruby 2.7. This is the latest release of Ruby and supports new features like pattern matching, argument forwarding and numbered arguments. Lambda functions written in Ruby 2.7 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. To learn more about the Ruby programming model and how to create AWS Lambda functions in Ruby 2.7, please click here .