The AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh directly using Kubernetes. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your applications. 

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management (CM), a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef Automate and Puppet Enterprise, now has updated their AWS CloudFormation support for OpsWorks resources, including supporting all AWS CLI and SDK operations, as well as opening up the implementation to allow for community feedback and contributions. 

With CloudWatch Logs integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, developers working in VS Code can now interact with CloudWatch log groups in an AWS Region that are available to the active credentials profile. After listing and filtering the CloudWatch log streams for a selected log group, they can view a stream’s most recent 10,000 lines/1 MB of log data, with the option of loading older data or new event that occurred after the initial loading. The interface for the log stream editor also allows you to download log data to files stored on your local machine.

ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from stackArmor, an AWS Security Competency Partner. ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration provides FedRAMP, FISMA, ITAR, HIPAA, DFARS & CMMC compliance acceleration on AWS & AWS GovCloud. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that includes rapid solution enablement using a Discover, Design, and Deployment sprints methodology; end-to-end integration of security services including log configuration, agent deployment, and setup of alerts and dashboards for critical and auditable events; documentation; and control statements as well as ongoing solution support.

We’ve introduced the following 5 fields to the instance metadata service: region, placement group name, partition number, host ID, and availability zone-ID. You can use these fields after launch or while your instance is running to understand your instance location. This is useful for populating the region for your AWS environment. Additionally, these fields help you identify your instance placement information within an availability zone.  

Amazon EKS now supports containerized applications that require access to EC2 instance metadata using the IMDSv2 format.

Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of AWS SDK for .NET v3.5. This release transitions support for all non-Framework versions of the SDK to .NET Standard 2.0+. Unity, Xamarin, and UWP users can now utilize the .NET Standard 2.0 distribution to gain access to the same services and AWS vended libraries as .NET Core users. Read our blog post for details.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MongoDB 4.0 as a source in AWS DMS v 3.4.1 . Using DMS, you can now perform live migrations from MongoDB 4.0 clusters to any AWS DMS supported target including Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with minimal downtime. For full list of supported AWS DMS targets, see targets for data migration .  

Provisioned Concurrency for AWS Lambda is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Provisioned Concurrency is a feature that provides customers greater control over performance of their serverless applications at any scale. Functions using Provisioned Concurrency execute with consistent start-up latency making them ideal for building interactive mobile or web backends, latency sensitive microservices, and synchronously invoked APIs. Read more about Provisioned Concurrency in the AWS Lambda documentation .

Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available popular third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can select to install the pre-built Dynatrace ONE Agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. AWS will continue to seek opportunities to offer many other popular security and monitoring agents.