Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.32. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.32 includes several improvements, such as Instant DDL support for drop column operations, support for new language-specific collations, Generated Invisible Primary Keys (GIPKs), and performance schema monitoring enhancements. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.32 release notes.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights introduces two new historical database cache options to provide customers more price/performance choices when configuring high-speed caching for their historical kdb clusters. The new 250 MB/s/TiB and 12 MB/s/TiB options are now offered along with the existing 1000 MB/s/TiB option. 

AWS Glue now provides example jobs for visual ETL and notebooks, drag-and-drop for connecting nodes, a data-preview-focused layout, and a simpler UI with fewer clicks. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. These improvements make it faster to work with and easier to learn.

AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS can now use their mobile device’s password manager for faster sign in, set a default AWS identity for quicker recurring access to their resources, and use supported virtual authenticator apps, FIDO security keys and hardware TOTP tokens for multi-factor authentication (MFA). The enhanced sign in experience for the AWS Console Mobile App for Android is coming soon.

AWS Transfer Family now supports the option to include username and password credentials, termed as Basic authentication, when sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages over HTTPS. This enables you to be compatible with your trading partner’s AS2 implementations that require Basic authentication and comply with their security requirements. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Europe (Milan).

Today, we are excited to introduce a new management action for AWS Migration Hub, giving the ability to change the AWS Region used to store discovery and migration planning information.

Today, we are excited to introduce a new set of management actions for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), supporting the removal of resources no longer needed to be tracked as part of a migration.

Amazon SNS message data protection is a set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data. Now, you can use custom data identifiers to detect the protect domain-specific sensitive data, such as your company’s employee IDs. Previously, you could only use managed data identifiers to detect and protect common sensitive data, such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers.