Resource tags allow you to add metadata and apply access policies to your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) resources. Starting today, you can allow resource tags set on your EBS volumes to be automatically copied to any EBS snapshots that are created using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). This allows you to easily set snapshot metadata, such as access policies, to match the parent volume. You may enable this functionality on new or existing lifecycle policies. You may also choose to disable it at a future date.

Xilinx Zynq-7000 Programmable system-on-chip (SoC) is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using the Avnet MicroZed Industrial IoT Bundle, a development board powered by Xilinx.

Now you can use AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to manage SSO access to more pre-integrated business applications such as Evernote, DataDog, and JFrog Artifactory. This expands the list of already pre-integrated business applications, such as Salesforce, Google Suite, and Microsoft Office 365. For full list of business applications pre-integrated with AWS SSO, see Cloud Applications .

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Always On Availability Groups for the Multi-AZ configuration in all AWS Regions. This new high availability option meets the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads on SQL Server. 

The new AWS CloudFormation console is now generally available. The new console makes it easier for you to use AWS CloudFormation and simplifies the management of CloudFormation Stacks and StackSets. You can opt-in to the new experience by visiting the CloudFormation console . Send us your comments and suggestions using the feedback link in the new console.

The CloudFormation console is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), EU (London), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. To learn more about CloudFormation, visit our product page .
 

AWS IoT Core now supports Basic Ingest, a new feature that allows AWS IoT Core customers to securely send large amounts of data to over 10 AWS services such as Kinesis and S3 via AWS IoT Rule Actions , without incurring additional messaging charges.  

Amazon SageMaker is now available in 5 additional AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. With this announcement, SageMaker is available in the US West (N. California), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions.

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Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS for MariaDB , Amazon RDS for MySQL  and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances with up to 32 TiB of storage. Existing database instances using SSD-backed storage can also be scaled up to 32 TiB storage without any downtime. The new storage limit is an increase from 16 TiB and is supported for Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose SSD storage types.

The 32 TiB storage size supports larger databases and it also allows you to consolidate database shards into a single database instance, which will simplify your application code and reduce database administration work. To learn more, please visit the Storage for Amazon RDS documentation page.

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for MariaDB , Amazon RDS for MySQL  and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL  for regional availability.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations, adding to our global presence in major cities around the world. The new edge locations are in Hyderabad (2), New Delhi, London (2), and Hillsboro. Both Hyderabad, India and Hillsboro, Oregon are brand new locations. With this launch, CloudFront increases its average request processing capacity in India and the United Kingdom by up to 55%.
Adding these edge locations enhances delivery, performance, and scale for our customers. A full list of CloudFront’s global locations is available on the CloudFront Features webpage.