AWS Config conformance packs now enable the inclusion of process checks rules, in addition to AWS Config managed rules, custom rules and remediation actions. Process check rules help you track resource-agnostic tasks as part of different compliance frameworks and operational best practices. You can add process check rules to new and existing conformance pack templates in your account. Unlike other rules and remediation actions in AWS Config, which can be used to automatically evaluate the compliance of specific AWS resources, the compliance status of a process check rule is manually administered and set by you through the AWS Config console or using the PutExternalEvaluation API. Two new sample conformance pack templates for operational best practices for CIS benchmarks Level 1 and Level 2 are now available, which include process check rules to match specific controls.

Just in time for the holidays, we are excited to announce the update to Amazon GameLift Server SDK Version 4.0.2. An AWS managed service, GameLift enables developers to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated servers in the cloud for multiplayer games. Game developers, such as Ubisoft and Behavior, expect to be able to use the latest versions of Unity and Unreal with the GameLift Server SDK, so we’re giving them a treat to close out the year.

Amazon QuickSight adds dashboard performance improvements and query cost optimization through Dynamic Querying, along with introducing advanced data preparation capabilities.  

FHIR Works on AWS is a new AWS Solutions Implementation with an open source software toolkit that can be used to create a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interface over existing healthcare applications and data. It uses a serverless implementation to provide FHIR APIs that support the majority of FHIR resource types and operations. FHIR Works on AWS also includes architecture patterns for designing and building integrations to existing systems. Independent software vendors, system integrators, and healthcare providers can use the solution to improve access from mobile devices and web portals with standard FHIR APIs. Finally, the solution includes guidance on how to customize the default FHIR Works on AWS API to an organization’s specific needs.

FreeRTOS now supports the ability to update multiple file types in an over-the-air (OTA) update operation. With this feature, FreeRTOS users can classify different types of files (e.g. firmware, certificate, general image) while creating an OTA update job. This enables a FreeRTOS device to identify the category of an incoming update and use it for a specific purpose (e.g. firmware update, certificate rotation, picture download) or target (e.g. secondary microcontroller, external memory) in an embedded application. Learn more here .

Multi-Attach is now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2. Launched in August 2020, io2 is the newest generation of our Provisioned IOPS volume type designed for 99.999% durability (100x io1) and 500:1 IOPS:GiB (10x io1). Multi-Attach lets you share access to an EBS data volume between up to 16 Nitro-based EC2 instances within the same Availability Zone (AZ). Each attached instance has full read and write permission to the shared volume. Multi-Attach is intended to make it easier to achieve higher application availability for customers that want to deploy applications that manage storage consistency from multiple writers in shared storage infrastructure.

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.14 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.13.

Porting Assistant for .NET now supports automated code translation. In addition to identifying incompatibilities in the source code, Porting assistant can now automatically make changes to the source code to address commonly found incompatibilities with .NET Core. For example, when Porting Assistant detects the usage of Entity Framework in an application, it automatically adds EF Core as a dependency, update the namespaces in the source code, and add applicable stubs to allow developers to quickly port the application.

AWS Systems Manager Automation now lets you define the actions to perform when an operator cancels the execution of a runbook. Using this feature, you can automatically roll back any changes or perform necessary cleanups when the execution of a runbook is canceled.

Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that dives deep into Transformer models. To learn the concepts behind generative AI, developers can use easy-to-consume, bite-sized learning capsules in the AWS DeepComposer console. In this new learning capsule , developers will learn about Transformer models which use attention layers to capture dependencies non-sequentially. Transformers are a machine learning architecture model designed to handle sequential data. By building a transformer-based model that understands musical motifs, or sequences, developers can create a model that can generate new music based on a series of sequences learned during training. Get started with creating a composition using the Transformers technique in the AWS DeepComposer Music studio .