We’re proud to announce the release of Getting Started with AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance , a new three-hour fundamental digital course developed by the experts at AWS. This free, on-demand course will teach you about the security pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. It also covers key services used in identity and access management, detective controls, infrastructure protection, and data protection categories.

Customers in the AWS Europe (Milan) region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). 

Amazon Neptune has refreshed the console experience, which includes a single page to create a database, the ability to add Tags during cluster creation, and the ability to choose instance type for Workbench.

Starting today, you can use AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions.

Starting today, application developers building on the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript can use data messages to send signals between clients connected to an Amazon Chime SDK meeting. Messages can be any small data payload in any format that a developer wants to transmit in real-time between meeting attendees. Developers can use data messages to indicate changes to meeting state, power custom-built collaborative features such as emoji reactions or shared whiteboards, or for other purposes appropriate to their application. 

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 20.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, when transcribing audio streams, you can instruct Amazon Transcribe to automatically mask, remove, or tag specific terms in the transcription results based on a vocabulary that you specify. For example, you can use a vocabulary filter to automatically remove profane words from the transcription results for content moderation or generating family-friendly captions. You can create a vocabulary filter once and use it when processing multiple audio streams. You can also create multiple vocabulary filters and choose which one should be used for a particular audio stream. With this launch, vocabulary filtering is now available for both Amazon Transcribe’s batch and streaming transcription APIs.

AWS Backup now supports service opt-in, enabling AWS customers to opt into (or out of) AWS Backup support for supported AWS services at the account level. Service opt-in provides an easy-to-configure solution to ensure that AWS Backup service coverage reflects exactly what you need. It will also make it easy for customers to opt-in when AWS Backup introduces support for a new service, without having to change tagging strategies. Service opt-in is available in all regions where AWS Backup is available except Beijing and Ningxia.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) directly on RDS DB instances. There is no additional cost to install SSIS directly on your Amazon RDS DB instance. 

Semiconductor manufacturers like NXP can now use AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration to pre-configure silicon components like secure elements with X.509 certificates and private keys, ensuring devices built using these components are pre-qualified to connect to AWS IoT by default. AWS IoT customers can then use these qualified devices together with AWS IoT Multi-Account Registration to simplify device registration and easily move devices between multiple AWS accounts in the same Region.