Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs now makes it easier to query VPC flow logs using Amazon Athena. With a few clicks, you can now automate the integration between Athena and your VPC flow logs delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can also choose from a set of predefined Athena queries to derive actionable insight such as the total egress traffic from your VPCs, identify the top talkers in your subnets, or troubleshoot anomalies in your VPC traffic.

Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to WorkSpaces desktops. With webcam support, you can make video conferencing and other streaming applications available to your users, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Your users can collaborate by using familiar video conferencing applications without having to leave their WorkSpaces desktops. To get started, see Webcams and Other Video Devices in the Amazon WorkSpaces User Guide .

Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 20 regions, with the addition of the Japan (Osaka) region.

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), is now supported as a target for routing events in Amazon EventBridge. This enables customers to trigger the execution of the Amazon SageMaker model building pipeline based on any event in their event bus or on a schedule by selecting the pipeline as the target in Amazon EventBridge. For example, customers can set up EventBridge to trigger the execution of the SageMaker model building pipeline when a new file with the training data set is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket or when the SageMaker Model Monitor indicates a deviation in model quality through alarms in Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Customers can also create rules in Amazon EventBridge that trigger the pipeline execution on an automated schedule.

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Starting today, you can use the Amazon WorkSpaces macOS client application with Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards. Smart card support is available on WorkSpaces using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP). WSP is a cloud-native streaming protocol that enables a consistent user experience when your end users are accessing their WorkSpaces across global distances and unreliable networks. To learn more, see Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol.

Amazon Macie is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now discover sensitive data stored in this region to help protect your AWS workloads and data in Amazon S3.

Run Command, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now displays up to 24,000 characters of the output log of a Run Command invocation from the console. This is an increase from the 2,500 characters available in the console before this enhancement. Additionally, you can now view the output and error logs separately, and you can copy the logs or download them as text files directly from the console. This feature reduces the need to navigate to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Amazon CloudWatch consoles to view and download logs for Run Command invocations, which helps you troubleshoot invocation issues more quickly.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN service today increased the default service quotas for the dynamic routes advertised to and from a Site-to-Site VPN connection on a Transit Gateway. You can now advertise up to 1,000 dynamic routes (an increase from 100) from a customer gateway device to a Site-to-Site VPN connection on a Transit Gateway. Similarly, you can now advertise up to 5,000 routes (an increase from 1,000) from a Site-to-Site VPN connection on a Transit Gateway to a customer gateway device. Advertised routes come from the route table that’s associated with the VPN attachment.

Starting today, the interactive EC2 Serial Console is now generally available. EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. It provides a one-click, text-based access to an instances’ serial port as though a monitor and keyboard were attached to it. This access can be used for interactive troubleshooting.