AWS Security Hub has released 19 new security controls, increasing the number of controls offered to 292. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports four additional AWS services: Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon MQ, and Amazon Route 53. Security Hub also released new controls against eight previously supported services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). For the full list of recently-released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide .

AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports native connectivity to Google BigQuery, which enables users to efficiently read and write data from BigQuery without the need to install or manage BigQuery connector for Apache Spark libraries. Users can now add BigQuery as a source or target within AWS Glue Studio’s no-code, drag-and-drop visual interface or use the connector directly in an AWS Glue ETL job script. When combined with AWS Glue’s ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) capabilities, this new connector simplifies the creation of ETL pipelines enabling ETL developers to save time building and maintaining data pipelines.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paolo) and Canada (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and offer up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Europe (Frankfurt, Germany) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The new Im4gn instance type is best suited for storage-intensive workloads and offers a lower cost per TB than the existing storage optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service. Im4gn supports up to 30 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers can launch Windows Server 2022 WorkSpaces and take advantage of the latest Windows server operating systems features. It also enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions.

AWS Resilience Hub is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use AWS Resilience Hub, a service to help customers compliantly improve the resilience of applications running on AWS.

Starting today, Route 53 geoproximity routing can be used with AWS Local Zones in Route 53 traffic flow to reduce latency for end users connecting to applications running in their nearest Local Zone. With this release, you can improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads by routing traffic within the same geographic area as that of Local Zone infrastructure.

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet, delivering foundational balance and transactional data with full history and sub-second latency without the need for specialized infrastructure. With this release, AMB Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet and completes its Testnet and Mainnet coverage for Bitcoin and Ethereum, helping developers from test to production.

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