AWS announces the availability of control and finding consolidation capabilities in AWS Security Hub in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The consolidated controls view shows all security controls in one place. You can use it to help identify misconfigurations based on severity and number of failed resources, improve your overall security score, and configure each control across standards. This release also includes a matching set of APIs to obtain , list , and update security controls across standards.

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Web Crawler to index and search pages, including dynamic pages from web sites they have authorization to crawl from.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of memory-optimized, high CPU performance Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) R7iz instances. R7iz instances are the fastest 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency. They deliver up to 20% better performance than previous generation z1d instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient and flexible cloud services with enhanced security, isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R7iz instances are ideal for front-end Electronic Design Automation (EDA), relational databases with high per-core licensing fees, financial, actuarial, data analytics simulations, and other workloads requiring a combination of high compute performance and high memory footprint.

AWS Marketplace now enables sellers to set disbursement preferences to receive their outstanding balances on a daily basis, granting increased flexibility. While AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, were previously limited to monthly disbursements on a specific day, now sellers can select between daily and monthly disbursements. For the monthly disbursement option, sellers can also select what day of the month they want to receive their disbursements.

You can now learn how to use Amazon Detective to conduct security investigations for threats detected in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS security findings in the latest Amazon Detective Workshop Studio. These new modules will help you understand how to dive deep quickly on container threats but also broaden your investigations to services beyond Amazon GuardDuty.

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has additional metrics for improved visibility into your video streams and upfront error detection. The new metrics indicate consecutive packet drops, consecutive packets not recovered, jitter, latency, and up time. You can easily monitor your live video stream source metrics in the AWS Management Console, via Amazon CloudWatch, or via the API. 

Today, we are excited to announce the new quick Studio setup for Amazon SageMaker. This new quick setup allows you to create SageMaker Studio with default pre-sets in minutes for individual users.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.5, 10.6.15, 10.5.22 and 10.4.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

AWS Step Functions announces the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in your AWS Step Functions workflows to help you identify errors more clearly and provide you with fine-grained control over your retry strategies. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate business processes and data processing workloads.

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