Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Amazon ECS Exec – a simple, secure, and auditable way for customers to execute commands in a container running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug issues, diagnose errors, collect one-off dumps and statistics, and interact with processes in the container.

Today we are excited to announce Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. With Channel Assembly, you can create linear channels that are delivered over-the-top (OTT) in a cost-efficient way, even for channels with low viewership. Virtual live streams are created with a low running cost by using existing multi-bitrate encoded and packaged VOD content. You can also easily monetize Channel Assembly linear streams by inserting ad breaks in your programs without having to condition the content with SCTE-35 markers.

Virtual Desktop Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from RedNight Consulting, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. Virtual Desktop Accelerator will accelerate your Amazon WorkSpaces deployment and empower you to manage and scale your virtual environment. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a walkthrough of the critical design elements, help making decisions on features and functions to use, and deployment of Amazon WorkSpaces for your organization.

Design and Implementation for Druva Data Protection Solutions is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Softcat, an AWS Storage Competency Partner. With the Design and Implementation for Druva Data Protection Solutions consulting offer, Softcat can design and deploy a fully executed backup solution for your organization. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that includes performing the total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, planning the implementation, procuring the software, and delivering the project.

The scheduled scaling feature of
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to set a schedule for your Auto Scaling group to scale in and scale out your EC2 capacity. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to set a local time zone for scheduled scaling actions via the
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and
AWS SDKs, with support in the
AWS Management Console and
AWS CloudFormation coming soon. Selecting a time zone makes schedules easier to review and also removes the need to adjust schedules for Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Conversational AI Platform is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Accenture, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Conversational AI Platform helps organizations manage a conversational AI solution’s end-to-end lifecycle. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers discovery and planning, proof of value, a solution pilot, and ongoing scaling and management.

ISO Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength are now in compliance with ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.

AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL Compatible Edition. Graviton2 instances provide up to 20% performance improvement and up to 35% price/performance improvement for Aurora depending on database size. You can also mix and match Graviton2 R6g and Intel R5 instances within the same cluster for your primary instance or for your read replica, enabling you to maximize price/performance improvements based on workload requirements. Graviton2 instances are already generally available for Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB.

AWS Backup adds support for continuous backups and point-in-time recovery (PITR) of Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) instances. You can now streamline your backup planning, management, and access control to Amazon RDS continuous backups in addition to the existing support of scheduled Amazon RDS snapshots.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now enables you to validate access before deploying permissions changes. IAM Access Analyzer uses comprehensive policy analysis to provide provable security and generate findings for resource access. Now with IAM Access Analyzer, you can prevent public and cross-account access before you set permissions. You can preview findings and validate that your policy changes grant only intended access to your resources. By previewing findings, you can prevent unintended access before you deploy permissions.