Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to restrict access to your Kubernetes cluster’s public endpoint by specifying allowed IPv4 address ranges in CIDR notation. This allows you to implement network-based access control to your public endpoint.

Application Auto Scaling now publishes notifications to the AWS Personal Health Dashboard and AWS Health API when a scale-out operation for one of your Amazon DynamoDB Tables or Global Secondary Indexes is prevented because a DynamoDB throughput service limit has been reached. This gives you actionable feedback to request a service-limit increase.

Application Auto Scaling now publishes to Amazon EventBridge when a scaling policy scales your resource to the configured maximum. You may have set a maximum bound for cost control, this event notification gives you the visibility to check in and ensure that operating at maximum bound does not pose an availability risk for your application. This notification is available for all resource types that are supported for automatic scaling by Application Auto Scaling, including Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet requests, ECS services, DynamoDB tables and global secondary indexes, Aurora replicas, EMR clusters, Sagemaker endpoint variants, AppStream 2.0 fleets, Comprehend document classification endpoints, and AWS Lambda functions with provisioned concurrency.

Starting today you can monitor the traffic processed by AWS Global Accelerator via Amazon CloudWatch metrics. You can now view the total number of incoming and outgoing bytes processed by your accelerator. In addition, you can view the total number of new TCP or UDP flows from clients to your application endpoints every minute. This allows you, for example, to view the geographical distribution of your user traffic and monitor how much of it is local (e.g., North America to North America) or global (e.g., Australia or India to North America). Amazon CloudWatch metrics enable you to set alarms or automate actions based on predefined thresholds and to easily build dashboards that overlay different metrics.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a major update to the SharePoint Server on AWS Quick Start. This Quick Start automatically deploys SharePoint Server 2019 on the AWS Cloud in your choice of a multiple-server or single-server topology in approximately 1-2 hours.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is now available in nine additional AWS regions: US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS OpsWorks CM now supports assigning tags to OpsWorks CM servers and backups for both OpsWorks for Chef Automate and OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise. You can define access controls using tags and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to resources and actions. Tags are key value pairs you can use to organize resources, search, create cost allocation reports and control access. For example you can allow your development team full access to your staging OpsWorks CM server but restrict access to your production server. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. 

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and ACM Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints in US Regions to protect sensitive information.