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AWS IAM Identity Center now supports language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal

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The AWS access portal provides AWS IAM Identity Center users with single sign-on access to all their assigned AWS applications and AWS accounts. Today, AWS IAM Identity Center added support for user preferences on language and visual mode in the AWS access portal.

When customers need to access AWS applications and resources through the AWS access portal, having the ability to work with their preferred language and visual mode improves their efficiency and comfort. AWS access portal now supports 12 different language options, allowing users to work in their most natural and comfortable language. Users can now switch the visual mode of their AWS access portal to dark mode, helping reduce eye strain and improving readability in bright environments. AWS access portal inherits language and visual mode preferences from browser settings by default and allow users to customize further if needed.

The language and visual mode preferences for AWS access portal are available in all AWS regions where AWS IAM Identity Center is available .

IAM Identity Center helps customers connect or create their workforce identities, and manage their access to multiple AWS applications and AWS accounts. IAM Identity Center is available to customers at no additional cost. To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page . To get started with using the AWS access portal, please refer to the user guide .
 

Amazon Redshift now supports altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration

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Amazon Redshift now lets you alter sort keys of tables replicated through zero-ETL integration. Sort keys play a crucial role in determining the physical sorting order of rows within a table, and optimizing them can significantly enhance query performance, especially for queries using range-bound filters on sort key columns.

Amazon Redshift’s zero-ETL integration helps you derive holistic insights across many applications and break down data silos in your organization, making it simpler to analyze data from different operational databases. You can now modify the sort keys of your tables replicated through the zero-ETL integration, and achieve faster and more efficient querying of your replicated data in Amazon Redshift. Furthermore, you can even set the sort key of zero-ETL tables to AUTO and allow Amazon Redshift to observe your workload and automatically set a sort key based on your evolving workload and data patterns.

To learn more and get started with zero-ETL integration, visit the getting started guides for Amazon Redshift . To learn more about how Amazon Redshift sort’s data, see documentation .

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports customer managed KMS keys

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Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys , allowing you to encrypt Pipes filter patterns, enrichment parameters, and target parameters with your own keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that you create, own, and manage can satisfy your organization’s security and governance requirements.

Amazon EventBridge lets you use events to connect application components, making it easier to build scalable event-driven applications. EventBridge Pipes provides a simple, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers. Pipes enables you to send data from one of 6 different event sources to any of the 20+ targets supported by the EventBridge Event Bus, including HTTPS endpoints through EventBridge API Destinations and event buses themselves. With support for Customer Managed Keys, you have more fine-grained security control over your Pipe’s configuration data to more easily meet your organization’s regulatory and compliance requirements. You can also audit and track usage of your encryption keys with AWS CloudTrail .

Customer managed key support for EventBridge Pipes is available in all AWS Regions where EventBridge Pipes is available.

To get started, follow the directions provided in the EventBridge Pipes documentation . To learn more about customer managed keys, visit the AWS Key Management Service documentation.
 

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