Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes Docker Hub, Azure Container Registry, and GitHub Container Registry as supported upstream registries for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers can configure a rule that is designed to automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registries to their private ECR repositories.
AWS Transfer Family announces an alternate port for SFTP servers
AWS Transfer Family now supports port 2222 for SFTP servers with VPC-hosted endpoints. This enables you to enhance the security of your servers as well as accommodate your business partners’ port requirements.
New payment options for the AWS Marketplace flexible payment scheduler
AWS Marketplace now offers more convenient methods of payment for customers leveraging the flexible payment scheduler. Partners selling on AWS Marketplace can extend AWS Marketplace Private Offers with the flexible payment scheduler to customers on any AWS approved payment method – credit cards, bank accounts, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) network, or invoicing terms.
Amazon QuickSight launches custom access to capabilities based on roles
Amazon QuickSight launches custom permissions support for roles to restrict QuickSight functionality for users based on their role in the account (Reader, Author, Admin.) This feature is supported with all QuickSight identity types, including IAM Identity Center.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports Group Replication plugin for active-active replication
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports creating active-active clusters using the Group Replication plugin. You can use the plugin to set up active-active replication between your RDS for MySQL database instances to provide continuous availability for your applications. Writing to two or more database instances in an active-active cluster can help maximize availability and reduce write latency.
Amazon EventBridge EventBus announces support for read-only API events from CloudTrail
Amazon EventBridge EventBus allows customers to audit and monitor the actions in their AWS environments through events that are generated by AWS CloudTrail for API calls. Previously, only mutating API calls (for example: Create, Update, or Delete) were available in EventBridge. With support for read-only API events (for example: List, Get or Describe), customers will be able to receive and process the full suite of CloudTrail events from services that are integrated with EventBridge.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports migrating your ElasticSearch indexes to Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to migrate your data from Elasticsearch version 7.x clusters to the latest versions of Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters and both public and VPC serverless collections, eliminating the need for 3rd party tools like Logstash to migrate your data. This launch also enables you to migrate your data from 2.x version Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters to serverless collections. Additionally, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to replicate and migrate indexes between Amazon OpenSearch serverless collections.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion announces support for persistent buffering
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now offers persistent buffering when ingesting streaming data from push-based sources, offering data durability and simplifying data ingestion architecture. Customers can now use persistent buffering to ingest data from http sources like FluentD and FluentBit and OpenTelemetry collectors without the need to set up a standalone buffer. Persistent buffering in Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is serverless and scales elastically to meet the throughput needs of even the most demanding workloads.
Enhancements to AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard
To help you measure and maximize your investments, the AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard now consolidates data insights from AWS Marketplace and APN Customer Engagements (ACE) in AWS Partner Central—providing you a single pane of glass view of your AWS business activities.
Automate application-consistent EBS Snapshots for SAP HANA databases
Customers can now use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the creation and retention of application-consistent EBS Snapshots for SAP HANA databases. In addition to backing up data using AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA, customers can now back up their SAP HANA databases as storage snapshots that can be easily and quickly copied into different AWS Regions and accounts for Disaster Recovery purposes.