Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Customers can now use Amazon MWAA to manage workflows that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS. 

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you validate configuration changes before applying them to your clusters. With the enhanced dry run option, Amazon OpenSearch Service checks for validation errors that might occur when deploying your configuration changes and provides a summary of these errors, if any. The dry run feature will also indicate whether a blue/green deployment will be required to apply a change, so that you can plan for these changes accordingly. 

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports higher resource quotas and quota adjustment using AWS Service Quotas . Quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in an AWS account. Previously, a maximum of 5 resources could be targeted by an FIS action . Now, you can adjust the maximum number of resources that some FIS fault actions can target using AWS Service Quotas. Quotas are now more granular so you can define quotas for specific combinations of FIS fault action and target resource type. For example, you can increase the number of instances which terminate from 5 to 200. Actions with increased quotas include EC2 reboot instances, EC2 stop instances, EC2 terminate instances, ECS stop task, Spot instance interruptions, and Systems Manager send command, which supports CPU stress, memory stress, IO stress, kill process, network blackhole, network latency, and network packet loss.

Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports capturing, retaining, and enforcing DOS attributes listed in file metadata. Previously, files copied to the gateway were copied without this common metadata (Archive, Hidden, Read Only, and System). Support for DOS attributes is intended for users who want to hide files or folders, enforce read only access at the file or folder level, or mark files as archived once moved to Amazon S3.

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for cross-account Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can include metrics that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS region in a single Metric Stream. This helps to reduce the number of streams needed to collect metrics for a common destination. 

Amazon S3 File Gateway increases the number of supported file shares per gateway from 10 to 50 file shares. Previously, a single gateway could only support up to 10 file shares. With this release, gateway admins can optimize resources, and save time and money by creating and managing up to 50 file shares from a single gateway.

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 Microsoft (MS) Yammer Connector to index and search messages from MS Yammer.

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region.

To reduce Russian gas supplies, EU countries had set a goal of reducing their natural gas consumption by 15 %  between August 2022 and March 2023 compared to the average of the past five years. In December, Eurostat announced that the EU was on track with that goal, with gas consumption in the EU-27 falling …

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