AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.

You can now access AWS PrivateLink based services privately from within your VPC using Private DNS names like ‘myinternalservice.mycompany.com’. With this announcement, you can access your internal / 3rd party AWS PrivateLink based services, without making changes in your application to use the AWS specified public DNS Name or managing private DNS Names your own Route 53 Private Hosted Zones.

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Change Calendar, a new capability that helps you prevent changes to your AWS resources during important business events. Using Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control the changes made to your AWS resources during events, such as public marketing promotions, when you expect high demand on your resources. 

Amazon QuickSight makes available new math functions to perform advanced statistical calculations. These functions include logarithms (log()), natural logarithm (ln()), expotent (exp()), square root (sqrt()) and absolute (abs()). Additionally, QuickSight now supports level aware aggregations on RANK, DENSE RANK and PERCENTILE RANK functions. With this, you can compute these functions on your business metrics irrespective of the filters applied and aggregations performed on your visuals. To learn more, see here .

This Quick Start deploys an end-to-end .NET continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 40 minutes.

You can now restrict direct access to AWS Elemental MediaPackage by securing requests for live content using CDN authorization. With CDN authorization, content requests require a specific HTTP origin header and authorization code. MediaPackage verifies this code before it serves any content. For instructions on how to configure CDN authorization for live endpoints, please refer to the documentation pages .

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, has now made Data Deduplication, user storage quotas, and other administration features launched on November 20, 2019 available to all file systems. Until today, these features were available only on file systems created since November 20. Now, storage administrators can use these features on any existing Amazon FSx file system.

Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility are now available to customers in the AWS Americas (São Paulo) region. Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

AWS Security Hub today released updates and additions to AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) . It now supports additional resource types and these include AwsElbv2LoadBalancer, AwsKmsKey, AwsIamRole, AwsSqsQueue, AwsLambdaFunction, AwsSnsTopic, and AwsCloudFrontDistribution. Each of these resource types also includes an accompanying resource details object that identifies recommended fields for findings providers to populate. Updates were also made to the AwsAccessKey resource details object to include information on principal ID and name.

Amazon Lex is now one of the AWS services under ISO Compliance for the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. You can download copies of the AWS ISO certificates and use them to jump-start your own certification efforts: AWS ISO 9001 certificate, AWS ISO 27001 certificate, AWS ISO 27017 certificate, and AWS ISO 27018 certificate.