Today, we are excited to announce a public preview of AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing, an AWS Mainframe Modernization service feature that automates functional equivalence testing of mainframe applications being modernized with the AWS cloud. This new feature provides cloud-native testing capabilities including test capture, on-demand automated test replays, comparisons, and regression testing at scale. Available as a part of AWS Mainframe Modernization service console, the Application Testing feature is designed to offer a simplified testing experience that is highly scalable across a wide range of mainframe testing use cases, with support for parallel test runs and visualization of testing results.

AWS Control Tower is excited to announce 65 new AWS-managed controls and enhanced Region deny capabilities to help you meet your digital sovereignty requirements. With this release, you can discover 245+ controls under a new digital sovereignty group in the AWS Control Tower console. You can use these controls to help prevent actions, enforce configurations, and detect resource changes for data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, and resiliency capabilities. 

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to automate validations when launching EC2 instances for recovery and drills. This saves you time used to perform tedious manual verifications, as AWS DRS empowers you to define custom automated validations tailored to your specific needs. Also, you can leverage the convenience of pre-defined validations such as volume free space detection and network connectivity verification, providing you with the tools to conduct thorough drills to ensure robust and resilient production environments.

Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software. Currently, Amazon Inspector leverages the widely deployed AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Agent to assess your EC2 instances for third-party software vulnerabilities. With this new capability, you can expand your vulnerability assessment coverage across your EC2 infrastructure with Amazon Inspector agentless scanning for EC2 instances that do not have SSM Agents installed or configured. For agentless scanning, Amazon Inspector takes snapshots of EBS volumes to collect software application inventory from the instances to perform vulnerability assessments. Once you enable EC2 scanning within Amazon Inspector, it automatically discovers all your EC2 instances and starts evaluating them for software vulnerabilities. Customers can enable agentless scanning by simply visiting the EC2 settings page within the Amazon Inspector console and selecting hybrid scan mode. In hybrid scan mode, Amazon Inspector relies on SSM Agents to collect information from instances to perform vulnerability assessments, and automatically switches to agentless scanning for instances that do not have SSM Agents installed or configured. 

We are excited to announce public availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC. This capability relies on BMC’s mainframe data set transfer technology to discover, transfer, and convert mainframe data sets for use on the AWS Cloud.

Today, AWS AppFabric announced a new feature, AWS AppFabric for productivity, that reimagines end-user productivity in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications by generating insights and actions with context from multiple applications. AWS AppFabric is a service that connects multiple SaaS applications to enhance security and increase productivity. Since its launch, IT professionals can use AppFabric to automatically normalize application logs from 19 different SaaS applications for improved SaaS observability across their application stack. 

Today, AWS announces new capabilities in AWS Security Hub that allow security teams to centrally enable and configure Security Hub standards and controls across accounts and Regions in just a few steps. This enhancement is designed to streamline and simplify how you set up and administer Security Hub in your multi-account, multi-Region organizations. You can now use Security Hub central configuration to address gaps in your security coverage by creating security policies with your desired standards and controls and applying them in selected Regions across accounts and Organizational Units (OUs). 

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues or a standard custom destination queue. Now SQS customers can also redrive messages from a FIFO dead-letter queue to FIFO source queues or FIFO custom destination queues. 

Today, AWS announces the support of multi-account experiments for AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This feature allows you to set up and run real-world failure scenarios on an application which spans multiple AWS accounts using a single FIS experiment. You can centrally configure, monitor, and review an experiment that targets resources in multiple accounts. 

Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces general availability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This launch gives customers in both the public and commercial sectors, as well as their partners, access to AWS DRS capabilities in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.