Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family.

Starting today, you can configure the set of instance types used when requesting EC2 capacity with attribute-based instance type selection.

Starting today, customers can create custom line items in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) that span across multiple billing periods. For customers who want to apply consistent discounts or fees to specific billing groups , recurring custom line items remove the need to create a new custom line item each month for the same purpose. For example, customers can use a flat recurring custom line item to distribute credits or use percent-based recurring custom line items to apply a managed service fee or tax. ABC applies recurring custom line items at the beginning of each new billing period.

Starting today, you can request EC2 instances based on your workload’s network bandwidth requirements through attribute-based instance type selection.

AWS Config now supports 14 more resource types for services including AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EventBridge, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1].

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation instances: all three instances deliver up to 15% better price performance; C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0 requirements, Level 1 and 2 (CIS v1.4.0). Security Hub’s CIS v1.4.0 standard includes up to 39 automated rules that conduct continuous checks against 38 CIS v1.4.0 requirements across 8 AWS services. The CIS v1.4.0 standard is supported in addition to the CIS v1.2.0 standard which was previously available in Security Hub.

Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.17.2, which includes several fixes and enhancements to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.17.1. The default connection limits for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ has been increased to 300 connections per transport protocol for mq.t2.micro and mq.t3.micro broker types and 2,000 connections per transport protocol for all other supported broker types.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the Murmur3Partitioner.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Starting today, you can now use Amazon Polly inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) , instead of connecting over the internet, which allows you to have better control over your network environment.