Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver version 0.3 is now available for use by Kubernetes clusters running on AWS. 

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger secret size of up to 64 Kb, making it easier for customers to manage secrets such as certificates with a long chain of trust. Secrets Manager also supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 2000 requests per second. These increased service quotas will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end. 

We are excited to announce the launch of Media Essentials for IT Business Decision Makers , a two-day classroom course built by the experts at AWS. This course covers the media and cloud fundamentals that can empower you to develop a cloud migration strategy for media workflows.

Amazon Neptune has refreshed the console experience, which simplifies managing a cluster and its instances as well as navigating through the properties.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) search which can enhance search by similarity use cases like product recommendations, fraud detection, and image, video and semantic document retrieval. Built using the lightweight and efficient Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB), k-NN enables high scale, low latency nearest neighbor search on billions of documents across thousands of dimensions with the same ease as running any regular Elasticsearch query.  

Amazon SQS is now available through VPC endpoints in the Middle East (Bahrain) region, allowing you to access Amazon SQS within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet.

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory.

AWS Config launched advanced query last year, which makes it easy to query the resource configuration properties of your AWS resources for audit, compliance, or operational troubleshooting using simple SQL-like queries. With today’s launch, you can now use advanced query with configuration aggregators , enabling you to run the same queries across accounts and Regions. This provides you an easy mechanism to query your entire AWS footprint from a central account and get relevant information about your resources. For example, using this query capability, you can retrieve a list of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances of a particular size, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are not attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, or resources that have encryption disabled. This capability works across accounts, Regions, and organizations in AWS Organizations. 

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has added support for aws:CalledVia, a new condition key, for use with all services that make requests using your credentials. With this release, Amazon Athena has added support for the CalledVia key. 

AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning through the Control Tower console. This feature allows master account administrators to provision new accounts from within the Control Tower console.