Amazon MQ now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), enabling you to authenticate and authorize Amazon MQ users using directory services like Microsoft Active Directory. LDAP support simplifies authentication and access control for Amazon MQ brokers. You can now authenticate your Amazon MQ users through the credentials stored in your LDAP server. You can also add, delete, and modify Amazon MQ users and assign permissions to topics and queues.  

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. 

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. 

Starting today, new general purpose Amazon EC2 M6gd, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6gd, and memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance and 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. The local SSD storage provided on these instances is ideal for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files.

AWS DataSync now enables you to automate and accelerate online data transfers between on-premises object storage and Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server over the internet or AWS Direct Connect. With DataSync you can now easily and securely migrate, archive, or replicate on-premises datasets containing petabytes of data and billions of objects from on-premises to AWS.  

AWS CloudHSM is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions. 

Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to install and update software agents on instances running Oracle Linux 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8. This support simplifies agent management for environments that include Oracle Linux instances.

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now integrates with AWS Organizations to allow you to easily enable visibility and control of your instances across AWS accounts and Regions. Now, with just a few clicks, you can enable operations best practices across your organization, such as patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human review systems or managing large numbers of human reviewers. 

You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources while creating the resource. These resources are VPCs, Subnets, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, Internet Gateways, Egress-only Internet Gateways, DHCP Option Sets and VPC Peering Connections.