Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), enabling you to set up Amazon EFS client (amazon-efs-utils) across all the Amazon EC2 instances in your organization with a few clicks. In addition to installing and configuring the Amazon EFS client, Quick Setup also supports periodically updating the client to the latest available version.

AWS Systems Manager is now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline. With FedRAMP-High compliance, you can use AWS Systems Manager to gain operational insights and safely take actions on your workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region’s authorization boundary.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports auditing end-user access to files, folders, and file shares. You can publish logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or stream logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, enabling you to query, process, store, and archive logs and trigger actions to further advance your security and compliance goals.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton, the first fully managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. It is designed to provide platform teams the management tools, governance, and visibility needed to provide consistent standards and best practices when managing deployments, while helping to increase developer productivity and innovation.

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. 

The latest query engine for Amazon Athena is generally available in all 24 AWS Regions where Athena is available. Customers who use Athena engine version 2 benefit from new features and performance enhancements that make analyzing data easier and more cost-effective than before. 

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications expands its features with Veeva. Customers can now export documents from Veeva Vault into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When choosing the document option for the Veeva connector in AppFlow, customers can choose to bring just the latest version (default) or all versions of documents, along with document metadata.

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports customer-managed customer master keys (CMKs) for Hyperledger Fabric networks. Customers can encrypt new member-specific resources using their own CMK. These CMKs are declared in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and used by Amazon Managed Blockchain. Each member can use their own CMK and manage it according to their security policy.

Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in the Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions.

You can now launch NAT Gateways in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises environments and thus, do not need an internet gateway attached to their VPCs.