Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Europe (Spain).

Amazon Redshift data sharing enables you to share live data across Amazon Redshift data warehouses. Amazon Redshift now supports simplified governance of Amazon Redshift data sharing by using AWS Lake Formation to centrally manage permissions on data being shared across your organization. With the new Amazon Redshift data sharing managed by AWS Lake Formation, you can manage permission grants, view access controls, and audit permissions on the tables and views in the Redshift datashares using Lake Formation APIs and the AWS Console.

AWS Amplify Flutter is announcing the launch of version 1.0.0, expanding support to web and desktop as target platforms. Amplify is a set of tools and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, fullstack applications. With this release, Flutter developers can target 6 platforms, including iOS, Android, web, MacOS, Linux, and Windows. Developers can build Authentication, API (GraphQL +REST), Storage, and Analytics experiences with Amplify targeting the platforms that matter most to their users. 

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CodeCatalyst, a unified software development service that makes it easier for you to quickly build and deliver applications on AWS. CodeCatalyst provides everything you need to start planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS with a streamlined, integrated experience. With CodeCatalyst, you can spend more time developing application features and less time setting up project tools, creating and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, provisioning and configuring development and deployment environments, and onboarding team members to their projects.

Amazon S3 compatible storage is now available on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices. Amazon S3 compatible storage enables customers to store data and run highly available applications on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices by delivering secure object storage with high resiliency, increased scale, an expanded S3 API feature-set to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments.

Amazon Redshift announces support for MERGE command which enables you to apply source data changes unto Redshift warehouse tables with a simple SQL command. MERGE command allows you to combine a series of DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements into a single statement, .

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) launches a networking capability called Service Connect in the Middle East (UAE) and Europe (Zurich) Regions.

We are excited to announce the new AWS WAF Ready specialization for AWS Partners with software products that integrate with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF). Ensuring websites and applications are protected from external threats that can lead to a loss of revenue, customer trust, and brand reputation has become a top concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes. AWS WAF Ready specialization offers customers a simple solution to deploying and maintaining their application layer security solution with AWS WAF Ready Partner offerings.

Amazon Redshift already supports role-based access control, row-level security, and column-level security to enable organizations to enforce fine-grained security on Redshift data. Amazon Redshift now extends these security features by supporting Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) that allows you to simplify the process of protecting sensitive data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse. With Dynamic data masking, you control access to your data through SQL based masking policies that determine how Redshift returns sensitive data to the user at query time.

Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to continuously monitor network activity logs, starting with VPC Flow Logs, generated from the execution of AWS Lambda functions to detect threats to Lambda such as functions maliciously repurposed for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, or compromised Lambda functions that are communicating with known threat actor servers. GuardDuty Lambda Protection can be enabled with a few steps in the GuardDuty console, and using AWS Organizations, can be centrally enabled for all existing and new accounts in an organization.