AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced features to improve configuration and metrics of containers: environment files, secret versions and JSON keys, granular network metrics, and more metadata.
Savings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers savings of up to 72% on your Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate type usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term. When you purchase a Savings Plan, you will be charged the discounted Savings Plans price for your usage up to your commitment.
Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
Amazon EventBridge now supports Event Replay, which makes event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing developers an easy way to replay past events. Event replay enables developers using Amazon EventBridge to build applications with the confidence that they can quickly recover from errors in their code, and the ability to easily extend their existing applications to add new functionality.
Encrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keys
With Amazon DynamoDB global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to DynamoDB tables for fast read and write performance. All of your data in DynamoDB is encrypted by default using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Starting today, you can now choose a customer managed key for your global tables, giving you full control over the key used for encryption of your DynamoDB data replicated using global tables. Customer managed keys also come with full AWS CloudTrail monitoring so you can view every time the key was used or accessed.
Amazon Translate allows user to specify a part of the text to not be translated – Do Not Translate
Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-five languages – is now enabling you to tag content so that it isn’t translate. Now, customer can wrap the text that need not be translated in a HTML element span and set translate attribute to “no”. This is available for both real-time and asynchronous batch API.
IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet protocol (IP) multicast in AWS regions worldwide namely: US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), EU (Paris), EU (Milano), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South Africa (Cape Town).
Amazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking mode
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports native Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for Amazon ECS tasks using task networking (awsvpc networking mode). Previously, IPv6 was only supported in host networking mode. With this capability, tasks using awsvpc networking mode can communicate with other endpoints in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and internet in dual-stack mode via either IPv4 or IPv6. This will allow customers to communicate with on-premises resources that support only IPv6 addresses and meet IPv6 compliance requirements.
Amazon Fraud Detector launches ability to delete additional resource types in AWS Console and SDK
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. You can now delete Amazon Fraud Detector models, event types, entity types, outcomes, labels, and variables. You can also remove an imported AWS SageMaker model from Amazon Fraud Detector (while keeping the model’s endpoint available within SageMaker). In addition, the Amazon Fraud Detector console now lists associated resources so you can more easily discover where a particular resource is utilized across the service. For example, you can view which Models and Detectors are using a particular Event Type.
Amazon WorkDocs adds support for managing the color theme in-app on iOS
Amazon WorkDocs now supports the ability to change the color theme (Light or Dark) directly in the WorkDocs iOS app. With this release, you are provided full control to manage the WorkDocs specific color theme within your WorkDocs iOS setting menu independently from your device’s system wide light or dark appearance setting. By default, the Amazon WorkDocs iOS app will follow you device’s appearance; however, at any time you can override your Amazon WorkDocs application appearance by setting the theme to Light or Dark in the settings. See the user guide for specific details.
AWS Security Hub adds five new integrations and a new consulting partner
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with 3CORESec, cloudtamer.io, Prowler, StackRox, and ThreatModeler. Further, Amazon GuardDuty’s integration with AWS Security Hub is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). Lastly, AllCloud is now an AWS Security Hub APN Consulting Partner. This brings the total number of AWS service and AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partner integrations available in Security Hub to 60 and the number of APN Consulting Partners with a Security Hub offering to 3. 3CORESec, Prowler, and StackRox send findings to Security Hub. ThreatModeler receives findings from Security Hub. Cloudtamer.io both sends and receives findings to/from Security Hub. To learn more, visit the Integration pages in the Security Hub console and click on the “Configuration” link for the integration to learn more about the integration and how to set it up.