AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector  are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

AWS is launching additional APIs to create, read, update and delete users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). The new APIs expand existing capabilities to help reduce administrative effort and save time, and provide greater visibility into the users and groups that are available in IAM Identity Center. You can use the APIs for provisioning, de-provisioning or updating users and groups programmatically in a scalable manner. The new Identity Center directory APIs enable you to retrieve users and their group memberships from the Identity Center directory for audit and reconciliation purposes.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor version 14.4. We recommend you upgrade to this latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs from prior versions of PostgreSQL. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

Inspector has added Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019, 2022 support for continual EC2 vulnerability scanning. Customers that have Inspector EC2 scanning already enabled and the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent installed and configured, do not need to take any additional actions. Windows instances will now automatically and continually be scanned for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. New customers can get started  with Inspector with a single click in the AWS Management Console to start assessing for software vulnerabilities in their EC2 instances, both Windows and Linux, along with their container images in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). A complete list of operating systems supported by Inspector can be found here .

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

Starting today, customers now have the option of using Enterprise On-Ramp Support or Enterprise Support to satisfy the prerequisite for ordering AWS Outposts. With the addition of Enterprise On-Ramp Support, customers now have more flexibility in selecting the AWS Support plan that best suits their Outposts workloads and support needs.

In May 2019, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) launched the ability for customers to take crash-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance with a single API call. Now you can choose to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of Amazon EBS data volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. You can also use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate taking crash-consistent snapshots of the same subset of Amazon EBS volumes on a retention schedule defined by DLM policies.

AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in and deployed from AWS Systems Manager documents (SSM documents). Conformance packs are collections of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. Conformance packs are defined through a YAML-based template and deployed by AWS Config. As templates are offline files, customers had to maintain manual processes for version control and sharing across accounts.

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of esbuild support in SAM CLI. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Esbuild , “an extremely fast JavaScript bundler”, links JavaScript ( js , jsx , ts , and tsx ) and CSS dependencies as deployable assets for the web. Starting today, you can now use esbuild in the SAM CLI build workflow for your JavaScript applications.