Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds dynamic network processing to enhance I/O handling in Redis 5.0.3. By utilizing the extra CPU power available in nodes with four or more vCPUs, ElastiCache transparently delivers up to 83% increase in throughput and up to 47% reduction in latency per node. That is in addition to the significant performance improvements delivered late last year with the introduction of R5 and M5 instances on the service. You can now benefit from the enhanced I/O handling to further boost application performance and reduce costs.

AWS Config now gives you the ability to run advanced queries based on resource configuration properties, making it easier to assess your resource configurations to help you meet compliance, cost, auditing, and security requirements. For example, using this query capability, you can retrieve a list of Amazon EC2 instances of a particular size, Amazon EBS volumes that are not attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, or resources that have encryption disabled.

You can now control access to the Kubernetes API server endpoint managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), so that traffic between Kubernetes worker nodes, the Kubectl command line tool, and the EKS-managed Kubernetes API server stays within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This allows you to isolate the Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes within your VPC, providing an additional layer of protection to harden clusters against malicious attack and accidental exposure.

Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.7.25 and 5.7.24, and MariaDB minor version 10.2.21 in all AWS regions. These new minor versions include functionality improvements and fixes.

Refer the release notes for details:

• MySQL 5.7.25
• MySQL 5.7.24
• MariaDB 10.2.21  

Get started by launching a new Amazon RDS database instance or upgrading your current instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console . Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide .

You can now use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need.

Learn more about the AWS GovCloud (US) .

You can now assign AWS resource tags to crawlers, development endpoints, jobs, and triggers in AWS Glue. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value, both of which you define. You can use tags in AWS Glue to easily organize and identify your resources, create cost allocation reports , and control access to resources .

You can now use AWS Config to record configuration changes to Amazon API Gateway . Maintaining a configuration change history for API Gateway resources is useful for operational troubleshooting, audit, and compliance use cases.

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AWS IoT Device Tester, a Windows/Linux/Mac test automation tool for connected devices, is now available for AWS IoT Greengrass 1.8.0. You can download the latest release here.

You can now assign tags to your AWS Config resources for cost allocation and access control. Tagging is available for AWS Config resources that describe AWS Config rules and multi-account, multi-region Aggregators with AWS Config. You can add, remove or list tags for your AWS Config resources using the available APIs .