Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to add new columns to existing tables. 

Amazon CloudFront customers in China can now get detailed information about their CloudFront usage and activity by using CloudFront Reports in the AWS Management Console. Customers in China can use the CloudFront Cache Statistics Report to see total requests, the percentage of viewer requests by result type, bytes transferred, HTTP status codes, and the percentage of GET requests that did not finish downloading. The CloudFront Popular Objects Report shows the 50 most popular objects and statistics about those objects. The CloudFront Top Referrers Report shows the top 25 referrers and the number of requests from each referrer. The CloudFront Usage Report shows the number of requests and data transferred by protocol or destination. The CloudFront Viewers Report shows the breakdown of viewers by devices, browsers, operating systems, and locations. These reports are available to all CloudFront customers at no additional cost. To get started with CloudFront in China, go to Amazon CloudFront . For documentation, see CloudFront Reports in the Console in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports reading AWS Secrets Manager secrets with a specific version or from a key within a JSON object for tasks using the EC2 launch type. This gives you more granular control to reference sensitive information such as database credentials, tokens, or configuration variables for your applications on Amazon ECS. Previously, you could only load the latest version of a secret and could not read secrets from JSON objects directly. Now, you can now load a secret by specifying a particular version instead of the latest version by default. Additionally, you can now load a secret from a specific key within a JSON object.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now publishes notifications to the AWS Personal Health Dashboard and AWS Health API when EC2 instances fail to launch in one of your Auto Scaling groups due to a missing launch template or security group. This gives you actionable feedback to review and update the Auto Scaling group.

Amazon FSx for Lustre—a service that makes it simple and cost effective to launch and run the world’s most popular high-performance file system, Lustre—is launching several enhancements that make it even easier to use a Lustre file system for any workload where storage speed matters: The ability to launch persistent file systems that are durable and highly available, increased throughput for non-durable scratch file systems, and enhanced encryption capabilities.

Today, AWS is launching the Activate Founders package, a new set of benefits specifically designed for bootstrapped startups. The package is being offered as part of the AWS Activate program and is open to founders and startups who have not yet raised any venture capital, seed, or angel funding and have no affiliation with any accelerators or incubators. Successful applicants can receive up to $1,000 in AWS Activate Credits, which are valid for two years, and one year of technical support.

Today AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabled you to control access for requests made on your behalf by AWS services. For example, using the new control, you can now grant your IAM principals the ability to launch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, but only through AWS CloudFormation, without granting direct access to EC2.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB has been updated to support release 10.3.20 of the MariaDB database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and January 2020 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c and 19c.

AWS Security Hub has added 7 new external partner integrations bringing its total 54 integrations, including 48 external partner integrations and 6 AWS service integrations. Security Hub now supports integrations with Cloud Custodian (cloud compliance and remediation), FireEye Helix (Security Information Event Management, or SIEM), Forcepoint CASB (cloud access security broker), Forcepoint DLP (data loss prevention), Forcepoint NGFW (next-generation firewall), Rackspace Cloud Native Security (Managed Security Service Provider, or MSSP), and Vectra.ai Cognito (network anomaly detection). The Forcepoint and Vectra.ai integrations send findings from their respective product to Security Hub using the AWS Security Finding Format. FireEye receives findings from Security Hub, and Rackspace is a managed security service provider (MSSP) that leverages Security Hub to gather security and compliance information about their customers’ accounts. Setting up the integration only requires deployment of a AWS CloudFormation template or similar script. To learn more, visit the Integration pages in the Security Hub console and click on the “Configuration” link for the partner to learn more about the integration and how to set it up.