Starting today, customers can use Migration Hub Refactor Spaces with CloudHedge OmniDeq to replatform applications into containers and deploy them directly into refactoring environments. Customers can now get started modernizing in minutes without building or managing additional AWS infrastructure.

Today, we are releasing an IBM Db2 data source connector for Amazon Athena. With Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or copy data to another storage solution. IBM Db2 is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) designed for efficient storage and analytics on relational, object, and non-relational data. Starting today, you can use Athena to run SQL queries on IBM Db2 .

Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for automatic association of application resources in AppRegistry based on AWS tags. With this release, customers can build applications using their preferred tools, and the associated resources are automatically added to the application based on their tags. Once registered, AppRegistry applications and their resources can be managed and assessed in tools like AWS Systems Manager Application Manager, AWS CloudWatch Application Insights, AWS Well-Architected, and AWS Resilience Hub.

AWS Step Functions now supports cross-account access for more than 220 AWS services so it’s easier to process data, automate IT and business processes, and build applications across accounts.

AWS Audit Manager automatically collects evidence data, via snapshots of user activity or resource configurations, against controls that customers want to evaluate. Now, Audit Manager more easily allows you to sift through thousands of pieces of this collected evidence from multiple disparate sources, using search filters and groupings to identify trends and cross-reference issues. This will help you deep dive into issues identified via flagged compliance checks in the service, either in assessments – an automated data collection process against a specific set of controls – or on the Audit Manager dashboard. With this feature, you can filter and group evidence data using parameters like controls, resource types or resource IDs, service, event names, account IDs, etc. to understand the drivers of the issue. These results can then be exported as audit-ready PDF reports.

Today, we are announcing three new features for AWS Launch Wizard; including the ability to add subordinate/ standby HANA and application server nodes after deployments, support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, and support for 18/24 TB Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances with hourly pricing and EC2 Savings Plans.

Amazon FinSpace’s new ability to connect to a customer VPC enables customers to access data on their network. Amazon FinSpace is an analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using Amazon FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark Engine with Capital Markets Time Series Analytics Library. Often, to perform a particular analysis, customers need to access resources that reside on their network, such as databases, API endpoints, and code and artifact repositories. These resources are hosted either in a customer’s VPC or in an on-premise data center.

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics for container, database, and queue utilization.

AWS Fargate adds the ability to monitor the utilization of the ephemeral storage attached to a Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) task. Customers can track the storage utilization with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and ECS Task Metadata endpoint.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during Amazon Machine Image (AMI) CopyImage operations. This feature aims to reduce customer burden if you want to employ the same tags across all your copied AMIs. Previously, when you created a copy of an AMI, any tags you created for that AMI did not get copied over to the new AMI. You had to apply the tags to the new AMI manually after it was created if you wanted to replicate the same tags from the original AMI.