AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) is now available. This introductory digital course features updated, streamlined content to help you better understand security in the cloud for your organization. In this two-hour, self-paced, digital course, the experts at AWS will help you address your security responsibility in the AWS Cloud and the different security-oriented services available. You will learn to identify the security benefits and responsibilities when using the AWS Cloud. You will also learn fundamental AWS Cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured.

Customers using AWS ParallelCluster to set up their High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters can now take advantage of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). AWS ParallelCluster helps you easily configure everything you need to run your application with EFA, including security group with ingress & egress rules, Open MPI, and Libfabric library. 

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. The addition of the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region increases the availability of the AWS Serverless Application Repository, which offers region support for Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), and US East (N. Virginia, Ohio). The AWS Serverless Application Repository is available in 17 regions.

Customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.

CloudEndure, an AWS company, now offers CloudEndure Migration to move applications from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure to AWS at no charge. This offer is available to all AWS customers and partners. 

Whether it’s an organization’s first cloud project or part of a larger transformation initiative, the migration of Independent Software Vendor (“ISV”) workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS requires significant domain expertise in planning, execution, and optimization. Such migrations require an understanding of workload dependencies, application customizations, and AWS deployment options.

To address this challenge, we’re excited to introduce the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP). The program helps customers migrate ISV workloads to AWS to achieve business goals and accelerate their cloud journey.

AWS ISV WMP collaborates with AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partners and their APN Consulting Partner communities to create a prescriptive and repeatable migration process for their AWS offering, whether its deployed as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Bring Your Own License (BYOL), or a Managed Service. The program is open to Select, Advanced, and Premier tier APN Partners and provides technical enablement, migration funding to offset costs, and go-to-market support.

With the goals of streamlining migration and lowering the cost of migrating ISV workloads for the customer, this program aligns APN Partners and AWS to support the success of our customers’ cloud journey. With AWS ISV WMP, APN Partners drive and deliver ISV workload migrations, enhancing their cloud practices and customer success on AWS.

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Last month, we announced support for tagging Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them in all standard AWS Regions. Today, we extend tagging support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Tags are labels you can attach to AWS resources to make them easier to manage, search, and filter.

Amazon Chime is now a HIPAA Eligible Service. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Chime for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you do not have a BAA in place with AWS or have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.

AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying data between NFS file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon EFS file systems.

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.