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.

Amazon GameLift is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet.

Amazon GameLift is a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. You can deploy your first game server in the cloud in just minutes, saving up to thousands of engineering hours in upfront software development and lowering the technical risks that often cause developers to cut multiplayer features from their designs. Built on AWS’s proven computing environment, Amazon GameLift lets you scale high-performance game servers up and down to meet player demand. You pay only for the capacity you use, so you can get started whether you’re working on a new game idea or running a game with millions of players.

Amazon GameLift is also available in US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon and N. California), Central Canada (Montreal), EU Central (Frankfurt), EU West (London and Ireland), Asia Pacific South (Mumbai), Asia Pacific Northeast (Seoul and Tokyo), Asia Pacific Southeast (Singapore and Sydney), and South America East (São Paulo).

Please visit the Amazon GameLift product page for more information.

Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming is now available in five additional AWS regions: Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), EU (Paris) Region.

Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming simplifies the management of DNS names and health checks for microservices that run on top of AWS when microservices scale up and down. You can call the Auto Naming APIs to create a service, and then register instances of that service with a single API call. Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming will automatically populate the DNS records and optionally create a health check for the service endpoint. When a new service instance is registered, you can access it by making a simple DNS query for the service name.

Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming API powers Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service discovery functionality and enables unified service discovery for services managed by Amazon ECS and Kubernetes.

You can use Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming APIs in the following 15 AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (São Paulo) regions. For more information on AWS regions and services, please visit the AWS global region table.

To learn more about Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming, see our documentation and product page .