Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you safely and securely recycle instances in an Auto Scaling group (ASG) at a regular cadence. The Maximum Instance Lifetime parameter helps you ensure that instances are recycled before reaching the specified lifetime, giving you an automated way to adhere to your security, compliance, and performance requirements. You can either create a new ASG or update an existing one to include the Maximum Instance Lifetime value of your choice between seven and 365 days.

We are pleased to announce Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption at rest through AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and node-to-node encryption, enabling organizations to host sensitive workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. 

You can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems that span AWS Availability Zones (AZs), making it easy to deploy Windows file storage in AWS with high availability and redundancy across multiple AZs. Multi-AZ file systems are designed to provide continuous availability to data, even in the event that an AZ is unavailable—supporting business-critical workloads such as business applications, web serving environments, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports Data Deduplication, reducing storage costs by 50-60% for general file shares.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports user storage quotas, enabling storage administrators to monitor and control user-level storage consumption on their file systems.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports managing file shares via PowerShell, enabling storage administrators to automate migration, synchronization, and ongoing management of file shares on Amazon FSx file systems.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now enables storage administrators to enforce in-transit encryption on all connections to a file system.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now allows you to create file systems as small as 32 GBs.

Today, we’re reducing the price for AWS DataSync by 68% to $0.0125 per-gigabyte transferred by the service. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates and accelerates copying data between Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems.

You can now schedule AWS DataSync transfers between NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). DataSync task scheduling enables you to periodically execute a transfer task to detect and copy changes from your source storage system to the destination. Customers use DataSync to migrate data to AWS, to transfer data to the cloud for analysis and processing, and to replicate data to AWS for archiving or business continuity.