Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports setting lifecycle policy rules for all images, without requiring a tag value. This makes it easier to set rules to automate container image cleanup in your Amazon ECR repositories.

An Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host is a physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.

You can now tag EC2 Dedicated Hosts using the AWS API or CLI. A tag is a label that you can assign to EC2 Dedicated Hosts and they enable you to categorize your Hosts in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This helps you quickly identify specific Dedicated Hosts based on the tags assigned to it.

Click here to learn more about you can start tagging Dedicated Hosts. 

Info techies are more influential decision makers in today’s IoT-oriented, smart lighting, smart building environment, according to a survey by GE’s Current group.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now certified as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. You can now use the latest version of ElastiCache for Redis for low latency and high throughput in-memory processing of sensitive payment card data for use cases such as payment processing, mobile wallet, and payment fraud prevention.

AWS Fargate is now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.

AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.

Visit the AWS global region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Fargate is available. To learn more about using Fargate, visit the documentation page.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come with the latest deep learning framework support for Chainer 4.2, Keras 2.2 as well as the Apache MXNet Model Server 0.3. This release also includes upgrades of the NIVIDA stack in the AMIs including the latest NVIDIA GPU driver 390.46, CUDA 8.0 and 9.0, as well as cuDNN 7.1.4 and NCCL 2.2.13.  

Starting today, Tag-On Create for Amazon EC2 & Amazon EBS is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region , an isolated region designed to address specific regulatory and compliance requirements for vetted government customers and organizations in government-regulated industries that run sensitive workloads in the cloud.

Upon creation, you can tag your Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EBS volumes from the EC2 Instance launch wizard or through the RunInstances or CreateVolume APIs. By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation. In addition, you can now set resource-level permissions on the CreateVolume , CreateTags , DeleteTags , and the RunInstances APIs. This allows you to implement stronger security policies by giving you more granular control over who has access to these APIs. You can also enforce the use of tagging and control which tag keys and values are set on your resources.

This capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial regions, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. You can get started from EC2 Instance launch wizard, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. To learn more about tagging your Amazon resources, visit the EC2 User Guide . 

 

VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB enables you to have all network traffic between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB stay within the AWS cloud instead of traversing the public internet.

DynamoDB offers data protection and security using TLS endpoints for encryption-in-transit, a client-side encryption library , and fine-grained access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), providing control at the item and attribute level. VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB further improves privacy and security, especially for applications with strict compliance and audit requirements, or that handle sensitive data.

If you’re connecting to DynamoDB from a VPC, here are four reasons that make using VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB a no-brainer. First, while normal charges apply for NAT gateway access, there is no additional cost for using VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB. Second, with VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB, you do not need an Internet gateway or NAT gateway. This ensures your VPC remains closed and isolated from the public Internet. Third, VPC endpoints offer simplified network configuration that removes the need for you to set up and maintain firewalls to keep you VPC secure from network attacks. Fourth, you can use IAM policies to allow DynamoDB access through VPC endpoints only from your corporate network, and only from specific applications.

VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB is now available in AWS GovCloud (US). To learn more about Amazon VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB, read the blog post and the VPCE for DynamoDB Developer Guide . 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports adding tags to queues, presets, and job templates. Tags can be added using the API or the MediaConvert console, and are automatically removed upon deletion. Tags on AWS resources let you categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria, and create business-relevant tag groupings to organize your resources.

Amazon Connect now allows you to dynamically set your caller ID phone number for outbound calls so recipients of the calls may recognize the number and use the number you specify to return calls. This is useful when you have multiple telephone numbers used to make outbound calls, but want to consistently display the same phone number as the caller ID for calls made from your contact center. You can also display a phone number for a specific line of business or for customers based on their account type.