Starting today, you have access to new dashboards in the WAF console to enable you to better monitor your traffic. These dashboards are available by default and require no additional setup. These dashboards leverage CloudWatch metrics and highlight metrics such as total requests, blocked requests, allowed requests, bots vs non bot requests, bot categories, CAPTCHA solve rate, top 10 matched rules and more, on a per-Web ACL basis.

Today, AWS announces support for Terraform within Amazon CodeCatalyst. This launch allows you to provision infrastructure using Terraform within a CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a Terraform action to your workflow, providing a way to create or update infrastructure as defined in a .tf file.

Today, AWS Managed Services (AMS) announces the general availability of monitoring and incident management for Amazon EKS in AMS Accelerate. AMS Accelerate helps you operate AWS workloads efficiently and securely leveraging standard AWS services. It offers expertise, operational best practices, and automations that are tailored to your environment and applications. With monitoring and incident management for EKS, AMS Accelerate maintains the health and improves the resiliency of your EKS workloads, while removing the need for you to manage alerts and incidents.

Amazon Connect now supports creating and managing tasks in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. For example, you can configure rules in Amazon Connect that automatically create tasks to route customer tickets from your ticketing system to available agents, pre-populate relevant information using task templates to help them resolve issues faster, and schedule tasks for a specific date or time to reach out to the customer. Amazon Connect Tasks also provides pre-built integrations with CRM applications (e.g., Zendesk, Salesforce) and APIs to more easily integrate with business-specific applications and leverage all relevant customer information to successfully resolve customer issues.

AWS Wickr now allows your Wickr network users to interact with individuals outside your organization. Anyone can sign-up for a Wickr guest account with their email address, and participate in secure conversations that are initiated by licensed Wickr network users. Wickr administrators can enable or disable the guest user feature for individual security groups in the Wickr admin console.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of multi-account search for AWS Resource Explorer. Now, you can search for and discover resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Kinesis streams, and Amazon DynamoDB tables across regions and across accounts in your organization using AWS Organizations. Multi-account search in Resource Explorer is available at no additional charge.

AWS Graviton2-based R6g and T4g database instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ,EU (Spain), EU (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE) regions for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. These instances are powered by the AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. You can now more easily determine whether integration issues occured at the source, target, or the intermediary transformation and enrichment stages, customize the verbosity of your logs by selecting one of three log levels (error, info, and trace), and optionally choose to include event payloads, service requests, and service responses in your logs. Support for logs in Pipes provides improved observability for event-driven architectures, and enables you to troubleshoot issues faster.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and US West (N. California) regions. Additionally, M7gd and R7gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Today, we are announcing an improvement to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance of Amazon Compute-Optimized C6in, General Purpose M6in and M6idn, and Memory-Optimized R6in and R6idn EC2 instance types.