Amazon GuardDuty has added three new threat detections. Two of the detections help detect suspicious Tor Network-related activity, and the third helps identify cryptocurrency mining-related activity.

AWS has updated Video on Demand on AWS, a solution that automatically provisions the services necessary to build a scalable, distributed video-on-demand workflow on AWS. The solution now leverages AWS Elemental MediaConvert job templates to define the solution’s encoding options. You can customize the solution to work with any valid MediaConvert template.

You can now quickly resize your Amazon Redshift cluster in minutes by adding nodes to get better performance and more storage for demanding workloads or by removing nodes to save cost.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now provides server-side encryption (SSE) of topics for additional protection of sensitive data. This feature is integrated with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), which allows you to centrally manage keys that protect Amazon SNS topics along with keys that protect your other AWS resources.

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, nonrelational database that delivers reliable performance at any scale. Because of the flexible DynamoDB data model, enterprise-ready features, and industry-leading service level agreement, customers are increasingly moving to DynamoDB sensitive workloads such as financial and healthcare data, whose compliance regulations mandate data encryption.

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new AWS Cost Explorer console. With brand new summary dashboards, automated identification of spend and usage trends, and a simplified user experience, the new Cost Explorer console is designed to help customers of all sizes, and levels of expertise, perform cost management activities.

Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Starting today, you can configure your AWS Cost & Usage Report to automatically integrate with Amazon Athena, making it easier and more cost effective than ever to directly access and query your cost and usage information.

This Quick Start deploys Cisco Blockchain Platforman on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about an hour.

iOS users can now monitor and access their AWS resources through the new AWS Console mobile application.

The Console mobile application lets customers view and manage a select set of resources to support incident response while on-the-go. Login process leverages biometrics authentication (on supported devices), making access to AWS resources a simple and quick.

AWS Systems Manager now integrates with Windows PowerShell DSC to manage Windows instance configuration through State Manager. With native PowerShell DSC support in AWS Systems Manager you can use existing custom workflows to manage and report compliance of Windows instances at scale using tags. This helps you meet your compliance requirements and eliminates the need to create and maintain new configuration documents.