AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, launches new platform version 1.4.0. This latest version enables several new Fargate features of which some are highlighted below. Unless otherwise noted, the new features discussed in this post are relevant to the native Fargate platform and are directly consumable by the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestrator.

Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in the AWS US West (N. California) region.

AWS Data Exchange is now one of the AWS services under ISO Compliance for the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. 

With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now use Manifest Filtering to customize video streams presented to specific devices based on their capabilities, or presented to specific end-user groups based on their subscriber status or language preferences. You can configure up to four filters that select tracks depending on audio language, audio sample rate, video codec, and video bitrate criteria. Filters can be combined to create highly targeted variants of the manifests in all supported formats, for live and VOD endpoints. This capability improves the overall viewing experience with customized and targeted video content tailored to specific audiences. For instructions on how to configure Manifest Filtering, please refer to the documentation page .

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters for less than $2.50/day using kafka.t3.small brokers.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. ECS tasks using EFS will automatically mount the file systems specified by the customer in the task definition and make them available to the containers in the task across all availability zones in the region. This enables persistent, shared storage to be defined and used at the task and container level in ECS. 

Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), is now available in preview for Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS PostgreSQL. RDS Proxy makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.

You can now use the AWS Elastic Beanstalk ListPlatformBranches API action that lists available Elastic Beanstalk platform branches and provides summary information about each platform branch. You can use the API action to query the platform state (Supported, Beta, Deprecated, Retired) of your Elastic Beanstalk environment. For more information on Platform Branch state, see Elastic Beanstalk Platforms Glossary in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide. For details about the ListPlatformBranches API action, see ListPlatformBranches in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk API Reference. See Release Notes for additional details.

You can now run your applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the new generation of Docker, Corretto and Python Elastic Beanstalk platforms built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System.

AWS Service Catalog now supports local launch constraints. With this new feature, administrators can share products from one AWS account to other AWS accounts, and have those products launch locally in each account. In Service Catalog, this is referred to as a hub-and-spoke model of sharing approved IT services. This makes it easier for administrators to distribute and manage these services across multiple accounts, providing self-service access while staying compliant with organizational best practices and policies.