This month, Amazon GuardDuty launched enhancements to several existing threat detections that will result in many customers seeing a 50% reduction in findings generated for port probes, SSH brute force attempts, and indications of DNS data exfiltration. These enhancements are now included in Amazon GuardDuty across all supported AWS regions globally.  

AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, providing you with a simple and automated way to accelerate the migration of your self-managed file systems to fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems in AWS. With this new capability you can easily and securely transfer datasets containing hundreds of terabytes and millions of files to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. This simplifies and accelerates the migration of home directories and Windows-based workloads that require file storage, such as CRM, ERP, and .NET applications.  

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in 13 additional regions – US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (Sao Paulo). Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to create canaries to monitor your endpoints and APIs. 

AWS Auto Scaling is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) customers can now use AWS Auto Scaling to manage dynamic scaling configuration for multiple resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora read replicas with a single scaling plan. 

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.10 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.9. 

HashiCorp and AWS are pleased to release a major update to the HashiCorp Consul Quick Start, which deploys HashiCorp Consul on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. HashiCorp Consul is a tool that provides a foundation for cloud networking automation by using a central registry for service-based networking. 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

You can now enable deletion protection for your Amazon Neptune database clusters. When a database cluster is configured with deletion protection, the database cannot be deleted by any user.

The AWS Deep Learning Containers are available today with bug fixes to the SageMaker integration with Tensorflow Server and the latest version of SageMaker Debugger. You can launch the new versions of Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning Containers, see release notes . 

Today, we’re reducing the price for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) by 50% to $0.10 per hour for each Kubernetes cluster that you run.