AWS IoT Device Tester, a Windows/Linux/Mac test automation tool for connected devices, is now available for Amazon FreeRTOS 201906.00 Major.

Amazon MQ now supports the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create and manage keys for at-rest encryption of customer data in Amazon MQ. Amazon MQ handles the encryption and decryption seamlessly, so you don’t have to change your applications to access your data. When you create a broker, you can now select the KMS key used to encrypt your data from the following three options: a KMS key in the Amazon MQ service account, a KMS key in your account that Amazon MQ creates and manages, or a KMS key in your account that you create and manage. In addition to encryption at rest, all data transferred between Amazon MQ and client applications is securely transmitted using TLS/SSL. 

Today, AWS Systems Manager updated the layout for the documents selection screen. Now, documents published by AWS are organized by use case so you can easily navigate and discover them. This update also includes the ability to view custom documents owned by you or shared with you, allowing you to quickly find your custom documents.  

The Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) provider is officially integrated into the Libfabric 1.8 release. Customers can directly use Libfabric 1.8 without needing to install the EFA provider separately.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports increased number of repositories per region and images per repository. Previously, the default limit was 1,000 repositories per region and 1,000 images per repository, and required an extra step to increase limits. Now, the default limit has been increased to 10,000 repositories per region and 10,000 images per repository to better align with your requirements and growth.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, and T3a instances are available in additional regions.

• M5a and R5a instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris), US West (San Francisco), Canada (Montreal) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Montreal) and AWS GovCloud(US-West) Regions
• T3a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Paris, London, Frankfurt), US West (San Francisco), Canada (Montreal) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Device Farm is an app testing service that lets you test your Android, iOS, and web apps , on a massive collection of real mobile devices hosted in the AWS Cloud. You can use one of the supported automation test frameworks to parallelly test your app on many devices, or you can use Device Farm’s Remote Access (manual testing) feature to gesture, swipe, and interact, with the device in real time directly from your web browser.  

Starting today, Amazon Inspector is available to customers in the Europe (Stockholm) region. With the addition of this region, Inspector is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East).  

Starting today, you can create custom usage forecasts using AWS Cost Explorer to gain a line of sight into your future usage patterns. Cost Explorer’s usage forecasts use a machine learning algorithm that learns your historical usage trends and uses that information to provide a forecast of your future usage. Using these forecasts, you can better understand your expected cost trends and monitor your key usage patterns (for example, storage, data transfer, or running hours). Please note that you can generate your usage forecasts and explore your cost and usage data programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer API .

AWS CodePipeline is now a HIPAA Eligible Service. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using AWS CodePipeline for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you do not have a BAA in place with AWS or have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.