Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the US West (N. California) region. Customers can also now create Multi-AZ file systems in the Canada (Central) region.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new Amazon CloudWatch metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs.

Today, AWS announces the launch of Policy Assistant for AWS Verified Access, which makes it easier to express, troubleshoot, and simulate application access policies. Verified Access enables you to provide VPN-less secure access to corporate applications using Zero-Trust principles. Using policy assistant, you can accelerate the validation, troubleshooting and authoring of your application access policies. 

AWS Lambda now supports failed-event destinations for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka event source mappings. Failed-event destinations enable your Lambda function to continue processing events on a topic even when it returns an error.

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. With AppSync, you can configure data sources to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients. AppSync handles connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting, allowing you to focus on your application business needs instead of managing complex infrastructure.

Starting today, we are extending the history and improving the granularity of data available in AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer by default now supports 14 months of cost and usage data at daily granularity, up from 13 months. In addition, customers have the option to enable up to 38 months of history at a monthly granularity, and they have the option to enable 14 days of resource level data for any AWS service at daily granularity. Each of these features is offered for free.  

Today, Amazon announced the availability of a new CloudWatch metric called EBS Stalled I/O Check to monitor the health of your AWS EBS volumes. You can use this CloudWatch metric to monitor the status of the I/O being driven on your EBS volume to determine when your volumes are impaired. With this new volume level metric, you can now quickly detect and respond to EBS impairments that may potentially be impacting the performance of your applications. The metric will return a 0 (pass) or a 1 (fail) status based on if the EBS volume is processing requested I/O operations. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use the new metric to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on the metric.

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for logging data event SQS APIs using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into SQS activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Starting today, AWS Graviton3E-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon EC2 C7gn instances feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and deliver the highest network bandwidth, the best packet-processing performance, and the best price performance for network-intensive workloads. C7gn instances offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 3x higher packet-processing performance per vCPU versus comparable current generation x86-based network optimized instances. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities to scale performance and throughput while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads. Workload examples include network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Amazon VPC allows customers to create VPCs and subnets of different sizes using IPv6 CIDRs. With this capability, customers can now create VPCs in sizes between /44 and /60, and subnets in sizes between /44 and /64, in increments of /4. Before today, AWS supported one standard IPv6 CIDR block size of /56 for VPC and /64 for subnet, whereas IPv4 CIDR block size were flexible for both VPCs and subnets.