Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Supply Chain Sustainability, a module that creates a more secure and efficient way for companies to obtain Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) documents and datasets from their supplier network. With this module, customers can request, collect, and export artifacts, such as product life cycle assessments, certificates on product safety, or reports on hazardous substances used, at any point in the supply chain. Customers can also upload their own data collection form for their suppliers to document any sustainability issue, utilize a standard workflow process to send their suppliers reminders to answer data requests, and communicate necessary changes based on supplier responses.

Amazon Location Service now has full support for managing resources via CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS. It allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and include version controls so you can easily roll back changes if needed. Amazon Location now has CloudFormation support for API keys, enabling automated and streamlined management of these keys through CloudFormation templates, making it easier to provide secure access control. Additionally, developers can now modify Amazon Location resource properties through Cloudformation without having to delete the underlying data. This facilitates more efficient resource management, allows users to change the political view of Map resources, and manage tags on Amazon Location resources. Amazon Location has also introduced the ability to delete unused API Keys via CloudFormation, which optimizes testing and deployment processes. Lastly, Amazon Location now provides the option to delete active API Keys using an API call with a force-delete feature, applicable even to keys that have already been utilized.

AWS Transfer Family now provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors , enabling connection with remote SFTP servers that are secured by IP allowlisting controls. With this enhancement, you can now reliably and seamlessly exchange files with external business partners that only accept inbound connections from known IP addresses. 

Today, we are excited to announce a simplified console experience for creating Amazon EMR Studio. With the new experience, with just a few clicks, you can get started with interactive and batch workloads with default settings. The default experience also creates an EMR Serverless application ready to serve interactive workloads. Additionally, with improved start times, you can now launch your EMR Studio Workspaces in seconds to perform interactive analysis in notebooks.

You can now use AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to help issue ISO/IEC 18013-5:2021 international standard mobile driver’s license (mDL) certificates. mDLs are digital representations of the information contained in a physical driver’s license or non-driver identification card. Organizations are working together to use mDLs across various situations, ranging from validating identity during airplane boarding to sharing information for age-restricted activities. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports multi-source replication, which allows you to configure multiple RDS for MySQL database instances as sources for a single RDS for MySQL target database instance. Multi-source replication on RDS for MySQL enables you to merge multiple shards into a single target, or consolidate data in one RDS for MySQL instance for analytics, or long-term backups.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US East (Ohio) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

On Jan 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 21.0.2, 17.0.10, 11.0.22, 8u402 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

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