Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now offers customers greater control over how long sessions remain idle before being terminated automatically. This feature can help you meet compliance requirements, such as PCI Requirement 8.1.8, which requires that users reauthenticate if a session is idle for more than 15 minutes.

AWS IoT Device Management customers use Secure Tunneling to securely access and troubleshoot remote devices located behind a restricted firewall. Now, customers can make concurrent client connections to a single device over a secure tunnel using the new multiplexing capability. Multiplexing enables customers to perform more advanced device troubleshooting, such as modifying parameters via a web application on the device while simultaneously issuing remote shell commands to verify the device is working properly.

AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) enabling customers to view end-to-end requests when using Amazon S3. AWS X-Ray traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It aggregates the data generated by the individual services like AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 and the many resources that make up your application, providing you an end-to-end view of how your application is performing.

The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. It features secure connectivity, fast and robust data ingestion and highly reliable and durable storage of factory equipment data. This solution is easy to deploy, can help reduce machine downtime and increase factory efficiency. 

CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the use of environment variables with canaries. This allows you to save time by using a single canary script to create different canaries that have a similar task. 

This new on-demand digital course provides a deep dive into AWS IAM and best practices for using IAM policies. The advanced course is designed for security professionals with a working knowledge of AWS and it includes five learning modules, video demonstrations, assessments, and three optional self-paced labs.

Amazon CloudFront announces its first two edge locations in Thailand. These new edge locations in Bangkok will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s Asia Pacific geographic region. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure .

AWS Training and Certification has launched a major update to the classroom course AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS (Business). This four-hour, intermediate-level course is designed for account owners and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner organizations.

Starting today, you can use the console to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations across all accounts in your organization with AWS Organizations. The new Organizational View feature in Trusted Advisor allows you to generate reports with detailed check results across multiple accounts in your AWS organization. In addition, you can view a high level summary of check status within the console.  

AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions.