AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, and reduces the complexity and time required to establish governance supporting multiple AWS accounts. We are excited to introduce AWS Control Tower Delivery Partners offering consulting services on AWS Control Tower, and AWS Control Tower Ready Partners offering software products that support AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower Partners receive prescriptive guidance to build solutions on Control Tower, and their offerings are vetted by AWS Solutions Architects.

AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access AWS CloudShell in the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile App provides AWS CloudShell in a mobile-friendly interface that enables users to run scripts with the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI) to interact with 250+ AWS services while on-the-go. Users also have access to an extended mobile keyboard when using AWS CloudShell in the Console Mobile App. The extended mobile keyboard provides users with key inputs (e.g. tab, ctrl, alt, esc) that are available in the AWS CloudShell console on desktop. The Console Mobile App currently offers AWS CloudShell in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon EMR supports PrestoDB and Trino for running interactive SQL analytics over large datasets across multiple data sources. Today, we’re excited to announce the latest PrestoDB and Trino updates included in EMR release 6.8.

Amazon MSK Connect now supports Private DNS hostnames for enhanced security. With Private DNS hostname support in MSK Connect, you can configure connectors to reference public or private domain names. Connectors will use the DNS servers configured in your VPC’s DHCP option set to resolve domain names. You can now use MSK Connect to privately connect with databases, data warehouses and other resources in your VPC to comply with your security needs.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and are build using AWS Nitro SSDs which enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn and Is4gen instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized instances. Im4gn instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance and up to 44% lower cost per TB versus comparable current generation x86-based storage optimized instances for applications requiring dense local SSD storage and higher compute performance such as MySQL, NoSQL, and file systems. The Is4gen instances provide the lowest cost per TB and highest density per vCPU of SSD storage in Amazon EC2 for applications such as stream processing and monitoring, real-time databases, and log analytics, that require high random I/O access to large amounts of local SSD data. These instances enable 15% lower cost per TB of storage and up to 48% better compute performance compared to I3en instances.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 supports the replacement of instance root volume using an updated AMI without requiring customers to stop their instance. This allows customers to easily update their applications and guest operating system, while retaining the instance store data, networking and IAM configuration.

Amazon Aurora now supports exporting database clusters directly to S3 in Apache Parquet format without creating a snapshot first. Customers can also initiate an export to S3 directly from the Aurora database cluster, saving them time, cost and the extra overhead of creating/retaining snapshots to export data to S3.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Paris) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage such as high-speed caches and scratch files, and temporary data storage like batch and log processing.

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are available in Stockholm. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference, and up to 3.3x higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.

AWS WAF announces AWS Bot Control for Targeted Bots, a new feature of AWS Bot Control that provides protection against bots that attempt to evade detection and target applications such as e-commerce, retail, and financial services websites. Traffic from targeted bots can result in a poor user experience by competing against legitimate user traffic for website access to high-demand inventory, increasing business risk through chargebacks from fraudulent transactions, and increasing infrastructure costs.