AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) topic can now access to usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager using SASL/SCRAM (Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism).  

AWS Glue DataBrew today announced integration of third-party data sets available via AWS Data Exchange directly in the AWS Glue DataBrew console. Customers who use AWS Data Exchange to acquire third-party data can now easily view their entitled third-party data in the AWS Glue DataBrew console and then, visually explore , combine, clean and transform the data to make it ready for analysis. Similarly, these customers can easily export their entitled third-party data sets directly from the AWS Data Exchange console as an AWS Glue DataBrew dataset and start visually transforming the data.  

Data providers using the AWS Data Exchange console can now see filtered views of their products and owned data sets. Providers now have the ability to filter their products in the console by name, short description, publishing status, and subscriber visibility. They can also filter their owned data sets by name, data set ID, and data set ARN. This filtering capability is additionally surfaced in the process of adding data sets to new or existing products. For providers with many data sets and products, these console features facilitate faster product creation and management. 

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now stores encrypted credentials used to connect to flow sources and destination applications including OAuth tokens, Application and API keys, and passwords in customers’ own AWS Secrets Manager account. Previously, AppFlow was storing these encrypted credentials in the AWS Secrets Manager account owned by the Amazon AppFlow service.

Amazon EC2 now allows you to copy up to 100 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) concurrently per destination region per account, an increase from the previous limit of 50 concurrent copies. This increase helps reduce the throttling exceptions and propagation limitations faced while copying multiple AMIs across regions at the same time. You can use CopyImage API to copy an AMI from one region to another.  

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which makes it easy to create highly accurate machine learning (ML) models without requiring any ML expertise, now includes deep learning models, enabling you to quickly and accurately make predictions in a wide variety of deep learning applications. 

Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new and easier self-service experience for independent software vendors (ISVs) to add new versions and update product information on their container product listings. AWS Marketplace is consistently improving the way that sellers can keep their products up-to-date. With this release, ISVs with container products can now rapidly update and adjust their listing on their own. AWS Marketplace has made it easier for ISVs to publish new container images and Helm charts by hosting dedicated ECR repositories for their product.

Today, the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing availability for attribute-based access control (ABAC) to allow the use of tags and aliases in policy conditions for IAM policies and AWS KMS key policies. Attribute-based access control is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on tags which can be attached to users and AWS resources. KMS additionally supports the use of key aliases in policy conditions.

Customers of EC2 Image Builder can now build and test container images compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. As a result, EC2 Image Builder can be used to automate the building of both – Virtual Machine and container images with similar workflows.

Amazon SQS now supports a preview of a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 3000 messages per second per API action. This is a tenfold increase compared to current SQS FIFO queue throughput quota.