Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers now support three new security policies for forward secrecy: ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-1-2-2019-08, ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-1-1-2019-08 and ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-1-2-Res-2019-08.
Amazon Athena now provides an interface VPC endpoint
Amazon Athena now allows you to connect directly to Athena through an interface VPC endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With this feature, you can submit your queries to Athena securely without requiring an Internet Gateway in your VPC.
Amazon Redshift introduces AZ64, a new compression encoding for optimized storage and high query performance
AZ64, a proprietary compression encoding that is designed to achieve a high compression ratio and improved query performance, is now available. Innovations in the AZ64 algorithm efficiently compress small groups of data values and leverage SIMD instructions for data parallel processing. This encoding results in significant storage savings in most cases relative to LZO and ZSTD encodings and optimal de-compression performance for numeric and date/time data stored in Amazon Redshift.
Amazon ECS adds support for G4 Instance types
Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS) now supports the ability to add G4 Instance types to your ECS clusters in all regions where G4 is supported by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) . Amazon EC2 G4 instances deliver the industry’s most cost-effective GPU instance for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications.
AWS Managed Services Console now supports search and usage-based filtering to improve change type discovery
Today, AWS Managed Services (AMS) released a feature set of usability improvements for the AMS Console. AMS allows you to choose from a catalog of over 30 AWS services, and over a hundred different Change Types (CTs), to deploy or update resources into your AMS environment. This release allows you to use a keyword search to find CTs, and an option to filter your results by most recently or frequently used. This simplifies your ability to find what you need based on your usage.
Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring now supports AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation enables you to provision and configure AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly through template files.
Amazon Cognito Increases CloudFormation Support
Amazon Cognito has increased support for AWS CloudFormation. This new support includes the ability to securely and automatically configure a hosted UI domain, configure customization for a hosted UI, configure an IdentityProvider, configure the behavior of advanced security features and configure resource servers, all directly within CloudFormation.
Amazon Pinpoint Adds Support for Message Templates
Today, Amazon Pinpoint added support for enhanced message templates. You can create templates for email messages, push notifications, and SMS messages for all of your Amazon Pinpoint projects. Message templates help you design, manage, and reuse your messaging content in an easy and effective manner.
Two New Solution Accelerators for AWS IoT Greengrass Machine Learning Inference and Extract, Transform, Load Functions
The Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and AWS IoT Greengrass Machine Learning Inference (MLI) Solution Accelerators make it easier and faster for developers to build IoT edge solutions with AWS IoT Greengrass.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports FIPS 140-2 Compliant Endpoints
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints (FIPS endpoints) in all U.S. AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is available. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. AppStream 2.0 FIPS endpoints use FIPS-compliant cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or regulated workloads.