You can now launch Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm).

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 21.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for all Oracle Database versions. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 21.2, please refer to Oracle’s documentation .

Amazon Connect Cases provides built-in case management capabilities that make it easy for your contact center agents to create, collaborate on, and quickly resolve customer issues that require multiple customer conversations and follow-up tasks, all without having to build custom applications or integrate with third-party products. Cases provides your agents with a unified timeline view of all activities and customer information associated with a case, including individual tasks that can be assigned and tracked across multiple agents. Additionally, case information can be used to answer customer questions in self-service IVR and chatbot interactions.

We’re pleased to announce that AWS IoT TwinMaker has released a new Application Kit that will help IoT application developers build customized web applications for their digital twins. This Application Kit is a part of the open-source UI components library for IoT application developers – AWS IoT Application Kit .

AWS is excited to announce the launch of a new hands-on course on Coursera for business analysts – “Practical Decision Making using No-Code ML on AWS ,” featuring Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS-optimized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server have traditionally leveraged Mirantis Container Runtime (formerly Docker Engine – Enterprise) as the default runtime framework. AWS customers have been using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS to run and optimize their Microsoft Windows Server workloads. AWS has now migrated all the latest (September 2022) container-optimized Windows Server AMIs to use Docker Community Edition (CE). This change is to help customers avoid paying additional costs to get continued support, bug fixes and security patches for Mirantis Container Runtime with the Microsoft announcement to transfer support for Mirantis Container Runtime to Mirantis at the end of September 2022.

You can now set an EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) by default. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that requires session-oriented requests to add defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. IMDSv2 requires a PUT request to initiate a session to the instance metadata service and retrieve a token. To set your instances as IMDSv2-only, you previously had to configure Instance Metadata Options during instance launch or update your instance after launch using the ModifyInstanceMetadataOptions API.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports quicker set up of time-series forecasting models with simplified administration of required permissions. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.

IAM Access Analyzer policy validation  helps you author secure and functional policies. Now, we are extending policy validation to role trust policy to make it easier to author and validate the policy that determines who can assume a role. The new IAM console experience for role trust policy guides you to add each element of the policy, such as the list of available actions for role trust policies, and offers context specific documentation. As you are authoring your policy, IAM Access Analyzer policy validation evaluates the policy for any issues to make it easier for you to author secure policies. This includes new policy checks specific to role trust policies, such as validating the format of your identity provider. Prior to saving the policy, IAM Access Analyzer generates preview findings for the external access granted by the role trust policy. This helps you review external access, such as access granted to a federated identity provider, and ensure only the intended access is granted when the policy is created.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has introduced two new networking metrics; 1) Network Address Usage and 2) Peered Network Address Usage. These new metrics will help network administrators plan for expansion of their VPC architecture while proactively managing service quotas.