Starting today, C5d instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. C5d instances were first introduced in May 2018 and delivers C5 instances equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. C5d instances provide high-performance block storage for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation and other forms of media processing. It will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing and applications that need caches and scratch files.  

Notifications about changes to tags are now available via Amazon CloudWatch Events. This allows you to monitor tag states on your AWS resources.

Starting today, M5d instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. M5d instances were first introduced in June 2018 and delivers M5 instances equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. M5d instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low latency local block storage including data logging and media processing.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers a new reserved pricing model that lowers costs for predictable, non-urgent media workloads. By purchasing reserved transcoding slots, you get access to fixed parallel processing capacity for a set monthly rate, with an annual commitment. Each slot can run one video transcoding job at a time, and you can purchase multiple slots. To learn more about pricing and how it works, visit the documentation page .

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12 TB of memory are generally available.

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.6 brokers on Amazon MQ. This minor version of ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.0. 

Amazon RDS enables you to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage database access for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instances. Database administrators can now associate database users with IAM users and roles. By using IAM, you can manage user access to all AWS resources from a single location, avoiding issues caused by permissions that are out of sync on different AWS resources.

You can choose to use IAM for database user authentication simply by selecting a checkbox during the DB instance creation process. Existing DB instances can also be modified to enable IAM authentication. Once this feature is enabled, database administrators can associate new and existing database users to IAM users and roles. Credentials can then be managed via IAM without needing to manage users in the database. This includes expanding and restricting permission levels, associating permissions with different roles, and revoking access. IAM authentication also allows easier and safer integration with your applications running on EC2.

After configuring the database for IAM authentication, client applications authenticate to the database engine by providing temporary security credentials generated by the IAM Security Token Service. These credentials are used instead of providing a password to the database engine.

Database IAM authentication is available for Amazon RDS database instances running PostgreSQL versions 9.5.13, 9.6.9, and 10.4 (and higher).

To learn more about enabling IAM authentication for your database instance, please refer to the Amazon RDS documentation . To learn more about IAM, refer to the AWS Identity and Access Management page.

 

Starting today, AWS X-Ray is now available in Europe (Paris) Region. 

AWS CodeCommit enables you to directly delete a file, get contents of a file, and access a folder through the AWS CLI, and SDKs. Previously, you needed to install and configure a Git client to perform any of these operations. Now, you can save time by quickly performing these actions in any of your CodeCommit repositories using the CLI or SDKs.

AWS CodeCommit enables you to directly delete a file, get contents of a file, and access a folder through the AWS CLI, and SDKs. Previously, you needed to install and configure a Git client to perform any of these operations. Now, you can save time by quickly performing these actions in any of your CodeCommit repositories using the CLI or SDKs.