AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, has achieved FedRAMP High authority to operate in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. You can now use AWS AppConfig to more quickly and safely update software, and build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a new built-in algorithm for text classification: Text Classification – TensorFlow. It takes text as input and outputs probability for each of the class labels. It is a supervised learning algorithm that supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub . These pre-trained models can be fine-tuned using transfer learning even when large amount of text are not available. It is available through the SageMaker built-in algorithms as well as through SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of ECS task scale-in protection, a new feature that enables customers to protect long-running tasks from being terminated by scale-in events and deployments. This feature helps simplify orchestration of queue-processing asynchronous applications such as a video transcoding jobs wherein some tasks may be running for hours even when cumulative service utilization is low or when a new code version is being deployed while some tasks have not yet finished completing ongoing work that would be expensive to reprocess.

Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Ventura (13.0) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Ventura is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. Apple macOS Ventura supports running Xcode versions 14.0 and later, which include the latest SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.

Today, we are excited to launch Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, expanding its current scheduling capabilities by making it simple for developers to create, execute, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.

The Amazon Time Sync Service is now available over the Internet. Built on Amazon’s network infrastructure, the Amazon Time Sync Service utilizes a global fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic reference clocks in AWS regions to deliver current time readings of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) global standard. Previously, Amazon Time Sync was available through EC2 instances.