Starting today, Elastic Volumes extends support to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) magnetic (standard) volume type. You can now dynamically increase capacity or change the type of magnetic (standard) volumes with no downtime or performance impact using a simple API call or a few console clicks. You can streamline and automate changes using Amazon CloudWatch with AWS Lambda.

You can now access Amazon CloudWatch from within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. This allows you to privately connect to CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, and Events, securely on the AWS network.

Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in the EU (Paris) Region. With on-demand backup and restore, you can create full backups of your DynamoDB tables for data archiving and retention, helping you meet your corporate and governmental regulatory requirements. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data, protecting you against accidental writes or deletes. When you enable PITR on your DynamoDB table, you can recover that table from backup at any point in time from the moment you enable it to a maximum of the 35 preceding days.

You can enable backup and restore for your DynamoDB table data with a single click in the AWS Management Console, a simple API call, or with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). You can back up tables with no impact on performance and availability to your production applications.

DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in 15 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo).

To learn more about DynamoDB backup and restore, see Backup and Restore . For backup and restore pricing, see Amazon DynamoDB Pricing .

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe API calls are recorded with AWS CloudTrail. Also, now you can monitor API call logs in real-time using Amazon CloudWatch Events. With CloudTrail and CloudWatch Events, you can simplify security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting your transcription applications, as well as better monitor application health and performance.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is now HIPAA-eligible. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can use Amazon EKS to manage processing encrypted Protected Health Information (PHI) in Docker containers deployed onto a cluster of Amazon EC2 compute instances.

Today, Amazon Macie is introducing support for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles to setup Amazon Macie with the delegated permissions needed to access resources in other services on your behalf. Service-linked roles also help you meet monitoring and auditing requirements because all actions performed on your behalf by Amazon Macie will appear in your AWS CloudTrail logs.

AWS is pleased to release a major update to the SAP HANA Quick Start that supports Multi-AZ, single-node configurations with high availability. 

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is not just for migrations. It can also replicate data continuously between databases, using Change Data Capture (CDC) to capture changes in the transaction log. With the new Native CDC Start Points, you can precisely control the replication start point, using the native Log Sequence Numbers defined by the database, such as SCN for Oracle or LSN in SQL Server.

You can now enable access logs for your Application Load Balancer (ALB) to help analyze traffic patterns and troubleshoot issues from within the AWS Elastic Beanstalk console. Access logs capture detailed information about requests sent to your ALB. These logs contain information such as the time the request was received, the client’s IP address, latencies, request paths, and server responses. Access logging is an optional feature that is disabled by default. To enable ALB access logs for your Elastic Beanstalk environment, select the feature to enable access logs and specify the S3 bucket where the logs will be stored from within the configuration-load balancer page in the Elastic Beanstalk console. To learn more, refer to Configuring an Application Load Balancer in Elastic Beanstalk .

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