Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in 11 more AWS regions. DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your backups. 

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to quickly deploy solutions that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message filtering. 

Introducing email reports for QuickSight! Customers can now automatically send elegant reports directly to their users’ inbox on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, keeping them up to date on the latest data. Now readers and authors can get access to their information delivered straight to their inbox. They can click into their QuickSight account when they need to dive in and explore their interactive dashboards. Email Reports are available today for all Enterprise Edition customers.

AWS CloudFormation now supports Secure String Parameter from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. A Secure String parameter is any sensitive data that needs to be stored and referenced in a secure manner. Now, you can use the Parameters section in your CloudFormation templates to dynamically reference Secure Strings into your templates each time you create or update your stack without exposing the values as clear text. CloudFormation retrieves the value of the specified Secure String Parameter from the Parameter Store when necessary and use it during stack operations.

To learn more about dynamic references and CloudFormation resources that support dynamic references for Secure String Parameter from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, please visit AWS CloudFormation documentation .

The CloudFormation support for Secure String as a parameter in templates is available in the following regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US).
 

This Quick Start deploys a Corda Enterprise node on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The Quick Start was created by APN Partner R3 in collaboration with AWS.

All Amazon SageMaker APIs are now fully supported on AWS PrivateLink, which increases the security of data shared with cloud-based applications by reducing the exposure of data to the public Internet. All communication between applications and Amazon SageMaker can be secured inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) region. This allows you to create re-usable graphs and have unified operational view across your cloud resources and applications. 

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

This Quick Start builds a data lake environment for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models with Amazon SageMaker on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The deployment takes about 10-15 minutes and uses AWS services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces two new Edge locations in Oslo, Norway, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Both of these Edge locations are the first in their respective countries and increase CloudFront’s capacity in the Nordics by 55%. CloudFront’s expansion across the Nordics further improves the availability and performance of content delivery to users in the region. Compared to CloudFront’s performance before the new locations were added, we expect that CloudFront end users will see a 35% reduction in latency for content delivery within Norway and Denmark.

A full list of CloudFront’s global locations is available on the CloudFront Details webpage.