Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports idempotent creation of EBS Volumes, allowing you to safely retry volume creation without additional side effects. Idempotent creation of EBS Volumes is intended for customers that have higher level processes such as container orchestration systems or automation scripts that create EBS volumes as part of a workflow.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports parameter changes for full-text search. Full-text search in SQL Server lets users and applications run full-text queries against character-based data in SQL Server tables.

AWS Control Tower guardrail naming and descriptions have been revised to better reflect the guardrail policy intention. The revised names and descriptions will help users more intuitively understand how guardrails enhance control of their accounts. For example, names of detective guardrails were modified from “Disallow” to “Detect” since the detective guardrail itself does not enforce a specific action but detects policy violations and provides alerts through the dashboard. Guardrail behavior, guidance, and implementation remains unchanged.

Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle  supports the auto upgrade of Oracle time zone files. The Oracle time zone file auto upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the DST timezone file version in the database instance. Customers observing timezones with TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types in their databases previously had to provision a new database instance and migrate their data manually. These customers can now benefit from this feature by automating the upgrade of their current time zone file version to the latest available version in the database instance.

Today we’re releasing a flexible and simple way to implement custom authorization logic with AWS Lambda for AWS AppSync GraphQL API calls.

Organizations continue to need options that rapidly enable users to work from any location and any computer while remaining secure and productive. To streamline deployments of Amazon WorkSpaces using WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) without having to install a native client application, your users can now access Amazon WorkSpaces from supported web browsers on Windows, macOS, or Linux computers.

You can now use AWS IoT Core Credential Provider to request temporary, limited-privilege security token that are valid up to 12 hours and use the token to sign and authenticate any AWS request. Until now, the AWS IoT Core Credential Provider issued security tokens that were valid up to 1 hour only. Now with tokens valid up to 12 hours, customers have the ability to optimize the number of calls made to the Credential Provider by caching the credentials for a longer duration per their business needs.

Agents in Amazon Connect can now set their next status while still on a contact, enabling seamless transition from work to offline or lunch. This enables agents to indicate that they are about to go to lunch, and don’t want to be routed new contacts, while finishing up ongoing work. Once the agent has wrapped up any after contact work for their ongoing contacts, they will be automatically transitioned to the status they had selected. 

Amazon WorkSpaces introduces USB redirection support for YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces with WorkSpaces Windows client app. The feature is intended for customers who need to perform YubiKey U2F authentication to access web-based services from their WorkSpaces.

A chip company founded 52 years ago had success with a programmable logic technology which used a matrix of circuit lines in which there was a fuse at every interconnection. When a fuse was blown by an electric charge it became an insulator. In this way the chip could be programmed to fit an application. …

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