Amazon GuardDuty now offers an Amazon SNS notification topic so you can be notified automatically when new Amazon GuardDuty finding types or features are released. To subscribe to this SNS topic, see the documentation . GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads.  

You can now access AWS CodePipeline from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Many AWS customers run their applications within a VPC for security or isolation reasons. Previously, you could connect to CodePipeline from your VPC using an internet gateway or VPN connection. With VPC endpoints, no public IP addresses are required and traffic between the VPC and CodePipeline does not leave the Amazon network. 

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaConnect flows as inputs for your AWS Elemental MediaLive channel. Simply select the flow when creating the input and the MediaLive resources will be created in matching availability zones, so your live channel can benefit from the high-quality, reliable, and secure video transport that MediaConnect provides.

AWS Service Catalog, a service to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, now integrates with AWS Organizations. With this feature, you can simplify sharing of AWS Service Catalog portfolios across member accounts in your organization. AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts.

Now, AWS Service Catalog administrators no longer need to have the receiving account ID or portfolio ID on hand. You can save time and reduce the risk of error with manually sharing portfolio and account IDs. Using your organization’s master account, you can share portfolios to member accounts by referencing an existing organizational unit or organization ID without leaving AWS Service Catalog.

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This Quick Start automatically deploys Fortinet FortiGate Auto Scaling Baseline on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes. The Quick Start is intended to be a baseline for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who plan to implement or extend Fortinet’s Security Fabric workloads on the AWS Cloud.

You can now allow other AWS accounts to create their application resources, such as EC2 instances, Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, Redshift clusters, and Lambda functions, into shared, centrally-managed Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Customers create multiple AWS accounts to streamline billing and restrict access to various environments, such as development, staging, and production, across different business and application teams. With the increase in the number of accounts, you need to efficiently manage network and security policies across your application environments. Today, you can create separate Amazon VPCs for each account with the account owner being responsible for connectivity and security of each Amazon VPC. With VPC sharing, your IT team can own and manage your Amazon VPCs and your application developers no longer have to manage or configure Amazon VPCs, but they can access them as needed.

You can also share Amazon VPCs to leverage the implicit routing within a VPC for applications that require a high degree of interconnectivity and are within the same trust boundaries. This reduces the number of VPCs that need to be created and managed, while you still benefit from using separate accounts for billing and access control. Customers can further simplify network topologies by interconnecting shared Amazon VPCs using connectivity features, such as AWS PrivateLink , AWS Transit Gateway , and Amazon VPC peering .

VPC sharing is available in all commercial AWS Regions except in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), and China regions. There are no additional charges for using this feature. For more information about VPC sharing, please visit our documentation .

Today we are announcing a 60% improvement in performance of General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volumes from 10,000 IOPS to 16,000 IOPS and from 160 MB/s to 250 MB/s of throughput per volume.

You can now assign AWS resource tags to your Amazon MQ brokers and configurations. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies the process of cost allocation.  

Amazon Pinpoint’s new Deliverability Dashboard helps you understand and solve issues that could impact the deliverability of your emails. You rely on the email channel to deliver important information to your users, such as password resets and order confirmations, so protecting and improving your inbox placement rate and email sender reputation is incredibly important. With the Deliverability Dashboard, you can increase the effectiveness of your email campaigns and create a better email experience for your users.

The Deliverability Dashboard gives you insight into your inbox placement rate, provides predictive email placement tests, enables you to protect and manage your sender reputation, permits you to lease and monitor dedicated IP addresses, and is integrated directly within the Amazon Pinpoint email platform.

These features provide you with greater visibility into your email sending health and provide a set of tools that you can use to increase the likelihood of reaching your users. Building these deliverability tools on top of the Amazon Pinpoint email sending platform allows you to quickly and easily see a direct correlation between the quality of your messages and the engagement rates of your recipients.

The Amazon Pinpoint Deliverability Dashboard is available for a monthly cost of $1,250, which includes reputation monitoring for up to five domains and 25 predictive email placement tests. Please visit the Amazon Pinpoint pricing page for more information. You can use these features today in every AWS Region where Amazon Pinpoint is available . For more information, see the Amazon Pinpoint User Guide .

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs  for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  in AWS GovCloud regions US-West and US-East are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline, which includes over 400 security controls.