Amazon EMR Release 6.2 now supports improved Apache HBase performance on Amazon S3 with persistent HFile tracking, and Apache Hive ACID transactions on HDFS and Amazon S3. EMR 6.2 contains performance improvements to EMR Runtime for Apache Spark, and PrestoDB performance improvements. 

Today we announced the availability of AWS Glue custom connectors, a new capability in AWS Glue and AWS Glue Studio that makes it easy for you to transfer data from SaaS applications and custom data sources to your data lake in Amazon S3. With just a few clicks, you can search and select connectors from the AWS Marketplace and begin your data preparation workflow in minutes. For example, with the new capability, you can take advantage of connectors for Salesforce, SAP, and Snowflake. You can also build custom connectors and share them across teams, and integrate open source Spark connectors and Athena federated query connectors into you data preparation workflows. If you are an AWS Partner, you can develop custom connectors and share them on the AWS Marketplace.

Compliant Framework for Federal and DoD Workloads in AWS GovCloud (US), a new AWS Solutions Implementation, helps customers accelerate their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing (CC) Security Requirements Guide (SRG) compliance while reducing the level of technical effort, cost, and risk. The solution deploys foundational AWS infrastructure to support an automated, secure, scalable, multi-account environment based on AWS best practices in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. It is designed to meet requirements prescribed by the DoD for hosting Impact Level (IL) 4 and IL 5 workloads in the cloud, as well as provide the foundation for a CMMC compliant environment. With the Compliant Framework solution, U.S. Federal and DoD customers, as well as defense industrial base contractors, are able to quickly deploy an architecture baseline that will allow them to more rapidly achieve Authority to Operate and CMMC certification.

AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports remote execution of containerization Workflow. With this feature, users can now direct A2C workflows that need to be run on an application server (where applications are deployed) remotely. This is done without directly logging into the application server. Ability to run some of the containerization workflows remotely, has been supported in previous releases. With this new feature, users can now use a remote machine as a single place to run all A2C workflows interacting with applications running on different application servers. This eliminates the need for installing A2C on each application server.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced the general availability of Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker, for EC2 and Fargate launch types. With this feature, Amazon ECS customers using the ECS Rolling update deployment type can automatically roll back unhealthy service deployments without the need for manual intervention. This empowers customers to quickly discover failed deployments, without worrying about resources being consumed for failing tasks, or indefinite deployment delays. 

Customers are no longer required to execute a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before downloading AWS compliance reports from the AWS Artifact service. As such, we have removed the click-through NDA requirement from most compliance reports. Instead, we have added applicable Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) to the first page of every compliance report in AWS Artifact, that details the circumstances under which customers can distribute the applicable report. AWS customers can now share many of the AWS compliance reports (depending on the T&Cs) with their regulators and customers directly, without requiring to contact AWS for such requests.

Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, with a frequency up to 4.5 GHz.

High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Logicworks, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower accelerates the design and build-out of cloud architecture that can scale to support multiple teams, applications, or tenants. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers assessment of customer requirements and existing architecture; design and build of the solution; and migration, testing, and optional management of the new environment.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.4 . Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.4 databases, and from MariaDB 10.4 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets .

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded its functionality by supporting parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. By taking advantage of the multithreaded CDC task settings, you can improve the performance of your on-going replications from any DMS supported sources to Amazon Redshift.