Customers can now connect PingFederate to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using PingFederate to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar Ping Identity experiences for administrators who manage identities, and for end users as they sign in. AWS SSO and PingFederate use standards-based automation to provision users and groups into AWS SSO, saving administration time and increasing security.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Nielsen SID/TIC watermarking for mezzanine and OTT content delivery. This feature enables the application of Nielsen watermarks to encoded audio streams that can be detected by metering equipment to track the number of viewers, type of viewing equipment, and consumption methods. Once content is encoded with SID/TIC unique identifiers, the job record and log is packaged and saved for easy transfer to Nielsen where the content is registered. Registered content can be metered across different device types and consumption methods through Nielsen analysis, enabling you to track your viewership and content impact.

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to mobile users can now host their application in Canada (Central) and Europe (London) regions. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number , or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. Customers can send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries.

You can now control access to AWS Batch resources based on tag values. 

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) CSI driver now supports creating volumes on worker nodes running in AWS Outposts subnets.  

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports resource tagging for profiling groups, making it easy for AWS customers to manage their resources effectively as their utilization of AWS services begins to scale.  

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Redis 6. This release brings several new and important features to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

Apache Flink Kinesis Consumer now supports Enhanced Fan Out (EFO) and the HTTP/2 data retrieval API for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. EFO allows Amazon Kinesis Data Streams consumers to scale by offering each consumer a dedicated read throughput up to 2MB/second. The HTTP/2 data retrieval API reduces latency of data delivery from producers to consumers to 70 milliseconds or better. In combination, these two features allow you to build low latency Apache Flink applications that utilize dedicated throughput from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

AWS Security Hub has improved how we display details for security standards, which are collections of automated security checks based on industry and regulatory frameworks like the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundational Benchmarks, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and AWS’s own Foundational Security Best Practices. We have implemented a new tabular view that makes it easier to understand your security posture relative to the security checks you have enabled in Security Hub. We have removed the legacy cards view for standards, so you will now see a visual summary of all your security checks and a count of how many checks have passed or failed. The controls table will show you at a glance the count of failed, unknown, passed, and disabled controls in the standard. Because the controls are grouped by status, you can more easily focus on failed controls. You can filter and search the controls to pinpoint specific resource types and can also sort using any of the table columns. You can now see the security score for a standard in the standard’s page alongside its controls.

Starting today, you can now switch the color theme of your WorkDocs iOS application for a darker appearance. With Dark Mode, the appearance of the app is inverted so that instead of black text on white background, you see white text on a black background. The design reduces the light emitted by your device’s screen while maintaining the minimum color contrast ratios required for readability. Dark mode is not only a user preference and personalization feature but also a supplemental accessibility setting that may improve visibility and reduce eye strain while even preserving battery life.