AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS EU (Paris) Region

Today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is introducing support for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles , a type of IAM role that allows you to easily delegate permissions to AWS services and gain additional transparency into when they are used on your behalf.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.3.1 for new clusters. Apache Kafka version 2.3.1 includes several new features and bug fixes. Apache Kafka version 2.3.1 is offered in all regions where Amazon MSK is available. For more information, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 .

You can now copy snapshots across regions using Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). You can enable policies which, along with create, can now also copy snapshots to one or more AWS region(s). Copies can be scheduled for up to three regions from a single policy and retention periods are set for each region separately.

AWS WAF has added a new log field, terminatingRuleMatchDetails, that allows you to identify the area within a request deemed to be suspicious by SQLi or XSS detection rules.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. By default, each AWS account has a service limit of 100 concurrent transcription jobs in an AWS region. Until now, when the concurrency quota was exhausted, you had to wait for existing jobs to finish before submitting more jobs. Starting today, job queuing will allow you to submit up to 10,000 jobs and queue your jobs for execution until slots become available. When slots become available, the jobs are processed from the queue in FIFO order (first in, first out).  

If you use Amazon Corretto, you can now use Corretto Yum and Corretto Apt repositories for a convenient and familiar way of keeping these installations up-to-date and easy to work into your existing processes. Alternatively, if you prefer tools like cURL you can now rely on the Corretto Permanent URLs to ensure your scripts always download the latest Corretto release. Finally, although you can download your Docker images from Docker Hub, if you want to remain inside the AWS cloud you can now use the Corretto Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Instance as your source of Docker images. 

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, you can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and temporary security credentials to grant users in your AWS account access to your DynamoDB resources from NoSQL Workbench. Previously, you could use only long-term AWS credentials (IAM user access key IDs and secret access keys) with NoSQL Workbench. 

We are thrilled to announce that we have released a new batch of updates just in time for the holidays that enable you to experience updated Identity and Access Management features that are consistent across all other AWS services.  

Amazon CloudFront now offers eight additional real-time metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. These new metrics provide you even more visibility into the performance of your CloudFront traffic. You can use CloudFront’s real-time metrics to monitor, alarm, and receive notifications on the operational performance of your CloudFront distributions. CloudFront already provides six operational metrics , and four Lambda@Edge function metrics , to all CloudFront customers at no additional cost.