Amazon Lightsail now supports source-IP based firewall rules, allowing you to allow or restrict the network traffic to your instances based on the source IP, port and protocol of the traffic flowing in. Lightsail firewall rules already supported port and protocol. Addition of the source-IP condition gives you more granularity in controlling who can access your instances or the applications hosted on it.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with instance sizes that offer 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 TB of memory will offer higher storage and network bandwidths. Each instance can drive 38 Gbps of dedicated storage bandwidth and an additional 100 Gbps of network bandwidth which equates to a performance boost of up to 2X for storage bandwidth for all sizes and up to 4X for network bandwidth for 6 TB, 9 TB, and 12 TB instances. Customers can utilize the higher storage and network bandwidths to improve workload performance and to fasten backup and recovery workflows for mission-critical enterprise applications such as SAP.

You can now select resource groups as targets for desired state configurations in Systems Manager State Manager. This allows you to define, enforce, and report on different desired states for your resources based on logical groupings, such as applications or environments. 

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the South America (Sao Paulo) AWS region.

Amazon Chime provides new access policy options for organizers to use when scheduling their meetings. Organizers need the flexibility to balance confidentiality and security while continuing to offer easy join options for experienced and first-time Amazon Chime users. The new options allow the organizer to restrict or allow user access based on the attendee’s Amazon Chime registration status including verified email address and company affiliation. Organizers can also restrict attendees from joining the meeting using in-room video systems or dialing in.

Today, Amazon CloudWatch is introducing Saved Queries, a new feature that makes it easier for CloudWatch Logs Insights users to save queries. They can organize these queries in folders and easily run them again for different purposes by team, application, or runbook.

The Amazon Redshift console simplifies isolating and fixing expensive queries with the redesigned query monitoring page. You can use the redesigned query monitoring page by navigating to cluster details for a cluster and then selecting the Query monitoring tab. 

AWS Security Hub is now available in the new Europe (Milan) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in this region, which is the first region in Italy launched by a major cloud provider.  

AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer is an AWS Solution that automatically provisions the infrastructure necessary to aggregate cost optimization recommendations and actively track cost optimization health across your organization over time. The solution creates a data lake that can be used to create dashboards to visually explore the data. The solution enriches the data with Resource Tags that further enhance the discovery and filtering capabilities.  

AWS has updated Video on Demand on AWS, a solution that automatically provisions the AWS services necessary to build a scalable, distributed video-on-demand workflow. The solution now leverages AWS Elemental MediaConvert Accelerated Transcoding which increases the processing speed of file-based video encoding jobs by up to 25 times. With Accelerated Transcoding, you can meet the most demanding turnaround times for processing the highest quality video with confidence.