Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain. Ethereum is a popular decentralized blockchain framework that establishes a peer-to-peer network allowing participants to transact without a trusted central authority. It enables popular use cases such as decentralized finance (DeFi), a network of financial applications built on top of blockchain networks. DeFi is different from existing financial networks because it is open and programmable, operates without a central authority, and enables customers to offer new methods for payments, investing, lending and trading. As customers build these Ethereum-based applications, they find it complicated and time-consuming to operate and manage their Ethereum infrastructure. Specific concerns include data reliability due to out-of-sync nodes, data storage scaling challenges, and time-sensitive Ethereum software upgrades.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL versions 11.9, 10.14, and 9.6.19 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community.

Intelligent SAP Migration and Management on AWS is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Protera, an AWS SAP Competency Partner. Intelligent SAP Migration and Management uses the Protera FlexBridge® platform to speed up your migration, reduce your project risk, and run your SAP environment more efficiently on AWS. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers analysis of existing SAP systems, AWS target architecture design, cost modeling, and migration and management of your SAP environment on AWS.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to implement envelope encryption of Kubernetes secrets using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for existing EKS clusters. Envelope encryption adds an addition, customer-managed layer of encryption for application secrets or user data that is stored within a Kubernetes cluster. Implementing envelope encryption is considered a security best practice for applications that store sensitive data and is part of a defense in depth security strategy .

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is a feature of Amazon Connect and automatically brings together customer information from multiple applications into a unified customer profile, delivered to agents at the beginning of the customer interaction. It now supports ingestion of customer data from homegrown and third- party applications with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), in addition to existing pre-built connectors for third-party applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Marketo.

Starting today, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Frankfurt and Stockholm) regions.  

CloudWatch Synthetics now supports storing your canary run artifacts, including log files, screenshots, and HAR files, in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket in another Region with a new major runtime version, syn-nodejs-puppeteer-3.0. CloudWatch Synthetics now also supports upgraded major versions of the Puppeteer, Chromium, and Node.js dependencies.

Starting today, AWS CodePipeline supports 1,000 pipelines per account by default, an increase from the previous limit of 300. You can request a limit increase beyond 1,000 pipelines per Region/Account through the Support Center Console.

AWS Launch Wizard now gives you the option to specify a private IP address of your choice for each EC2 instance in your SAP deployment. This makes it easy to adhere to organizational security/ governance processes that dictate which IP addresses are permissible.

Starting today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN customers can use the AS923-1 frequency band to connect LoRaWAN gateways and devices that are physically present in countries that support the frequency ranges and characteristics of this band. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN enables customers to setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their LoRaWAN devices and gateways to the AWS cloud without developing or operating a LoRa Network Server (LNS). AS923-1 is commonly used in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan among other countries. In addition, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN also supports the US902-928 and EU863-870 bands, commonly used in the North America and European regions, respectively.