Today, AWS Managed Services (AMS) released a feature set of usability improvements for the AMS Console. AMS allows you to choose from a catalog of over 30 AWS services, and over a hundred different Change Types (CTs), to deploy or update resources into your AMS environment. This release allows you to use a keyword search to find CTs, and an option to filter your results by most recently or frequently used. This simplifies your ability to find what you need based on your usage.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring now supports AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation enables you to provision and configure AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly through template files.  

Amazon Cognito has increased support for AWS CloudFormation. This new support includes the ability to securely and automatically configure a hosted UI domain, configure customization for a hosted UI, configure an IdentityProvider, configure the behavior of advanced security features and configure resource servers, all directly within CloudFormation.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint added support for enhanced message templates. You can create templates for email messages, push notifications, and SMS messages for all of your Amazon Pinpoint projects. Message templates help you design, manage, and reuse your messaging content in an easy and effective manner.

The Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and AWS IoT Greengrass Machine Learning Inference (MLI) Solution Accelerators make it easier and faster for developers to build IoT edge solutions with AWS IoT Greengrass.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints (FIPS endpoints) in all U.S. AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is available. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. AppStream 2.0 FIPS endpoints use FIPS-compliant cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or regulated workloads.  

AWS Direct Connect has enhanced the AWS management console and added support for the Connection Wizard as part of the Resiliency Toolkit. The Connection Wizard provides AWS customers the ability to achieve highly resilient network connections between AWS and their on-premises infrastructure. The use of the Connection Wizard lets you order Dedicated connections to meet your SLA needs. You can select a resiliency model, and then the Connection Wizard guides you through the Dedicated connection ordering process. The resiliency models are designed to ensure that you have the appropriate number of connections in multiple AWS Direct Connect locations so that you have connectivity to AWS in case of a connection, a device, or a location failure.

Amazon EventBridge now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring EventBridge resources — along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. 

Starting today, customers can queue purchases of EC2 RIs in advance by specifying a time of their choosing in the future to execute those purchases.  

You can now use Amazon EventBridge to easily connect applications together using data from your own applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.