Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)—a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service— now is in scope for FedRAMP Moderate compliance to help you run highly regulated Cassandra workloads more easily.
Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Forecast
Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Forecast services from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet to connect to Amazon Forecast. With this launch, customers can also gain additional access control of the VPC endpoints through usage of VPC endpoint policies . Forecast uses machine learning (ML) to help generate more accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any ML experience. Forecast brings the same technology used at Amazon to developers as a fully managed service, removing the need to manage resources.
IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your dual-stack VPCs and launch EC2 instances built on Nitro System in these subnets in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) R6g and T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Paris) Regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads.
Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
Incident Manager, from AWS Systems Manager, now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to incident data via managed VPC endpoints within your virtual private network. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, providing a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about Incident Manager, visit our product page.
AWS announces geolocation enrichment for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
We are excited to announce the launch of a new geolocation enrichment feature for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning (ML) models that automatically calculates the distance between the IP address, billing address, and shipping address provided for an event. This helps you to prevent more fraud, particularly when a user attempts to create an account with someone else’s information or make a transaction with someone else’s credit card.
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides Confusion Matrix and additional new insights for classification problems.
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides new metrics and reports that provide you better visibility into model performance for classification problems. You can leverage these metrics to gather more insights about the best model in the Model leaderboard.
Amazon VPC now supports an AWS-managed prefix list for Amazon CloudFront
Starting today, you can use the AWS managed prefix list for Amazon CloudFront to limit the inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic to your origins from only the IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers. CloudFront keeps the managed prefix list up-to-date with the IP addresses of CloudFront’s origin-facing servers, so you no longer have to maintain a prefix list yourself.
Now consistently deploy Alert Logic MDR Agent across EC2 and On-Premises instances using AWS Systems Manager
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can deploy the pre-built Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Agent directly from Distributor to your EC2 or on-premises instances without having to create or maintain any software packages. The Alert Logic MDR is now available along with third-party and AWS agents that are already available by default. You can use Distributor to install or update any of these available agents on your instances or create your own software packages to distribute. Your software packages are stored in Systems Manager, providing a centralized repository with version control.
AWS Launch Wizard now supports the latest versions and to bring your own subscription (BYOS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 and 7.9 versions. This allows you to take advantage of the latest RHEL operating system (OS) versions to support your SAP systems running on AWS. Additionally, with this launch, you can bring existing RHEL subscriptions to support new SAP deployments with Launch Wizard. This gives you the flexibility to choose between license-included images from AWS Marketplace , or images from the Red Hat Cloud Access program.