Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes  now supports m5d, r5d, and m6gd database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes, you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications, such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use MemoryDB to build applications for workloads that are subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance.

Today, AWS announces expanded AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Security Hub, which allows you to use CloudFormation to deploy Security Hub and manage its standards and controls. Using the updated AWS::SecurityHub::Hub resource, you can now enable Security Hub, decide if it should be provisioned with default standards (the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices and CIS Foundations Benchmark version 1.2), and opt into its Consolidated Control Findings capability. You can also use the new AWS::SecurityHub::Standard resource to enable specific security standards such as NIST 800-53 or PCI DSS and manage individual controls in them. This expanded integration is available in all AWS Regions where Security Hub and CloudFormation are available.

Sensitive data detection feature in AWS Glue can now detect over 250 sensitive entity types from 50 countries out-of-the-box.

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces the general availability of support for FIDO2 security keys in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. The FIDO2 specifications rely on public key cryptography, enabling cryptographically secure and phishing-resistant multi-factor (MFA) authentication.

AWS Glue now provides data preview for streaming jobs in Glue Studio that helps data engineers accelerate their Streaming ETL job development. 

Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that reduces time required to get machine learning (ML) models in production by automating load testing and model tuning across SageMaker ML instances. Today, SageMaker Inference Recommender is announcing two key features. First, you can now use Inference Recommender from the AWS console for SageMaker. Second, Inference Recommender now offers recommendations on prospective instances to deploy a model at the time of model creation.

Amazon MQ now supports cross-region data replication for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to build regionally resilient messaging applications using continuous asynchronous message replication from a primary broker to a replica broker in a standby AWS region with a few clicks, eliminating the need to use third-party tools or custom code to replicate data between regions.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum per file system throughput on Amazon EFS Provisioned Throughput mode by 3x. With this launch, you now have a cost-effective way to drive up to 10 GiB/s of read throughput and 3 GiB/s of write throughput for workloads including machine learning, data processing, analytics, and transcoding that demand consistent and high levels of throughput performance.

The Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances  shows that, in 2019,  the latest year for which data is available, the average white family in the U.S. had a net worth of almost $1 million, while the mean net worth of Black American families was only $142,500. For Hispanics, this number stood at $165,500. Looking at …

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