Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now allows you to bring your own licenses (BYOL) of Windows operating systems. With this release, you can now create an EC2 Capacity Reservation and launch EC2 instances, running your existing Windows licenses, into the Capacity Reservation.
Amazon Aurora Supports In-Place Upgrade from PostgreSQL 10 to 11
Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 10 to 11, with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console .
AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive convolutional neural network model (AR-CNN) in AWS DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get started with machine learning (ML). With AWS DeepComposer, developers can get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques to expand their ML skills. To learn the concepts of generative AI algorithms, developers can use easy-to-consume, bite-size learning capsules in the AWS DeepComposer console. In our previous learning capsule launched in June 2020, developers were introduced to an AR-CNN model and learned how it is able to add or remove one note at a time to generate music.
AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
You can now use a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute UDP traffic to container-based applications running on AWS Fargate orchestrated by Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Network Load Balancers are fully-managed load balancers that operate at the connection level (Layer-4) and are capable of handling millions of requests at ultra-low latency. Until now, you could use Network Load Balancers with AWS Fargate only with the TCP protocol. With this new integration, you get the simplicity of serverless containers to run applications on Fargate that use the UDP protocol. You can run workloads such as DNS, IoT, real-time media, and syslog while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency through the Network Load Balancer.
Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
Amazon GuardDuty broadens threat detection coverage to monitor for highly-suspicious data access and anomaly detection to help you better protect your data residing in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This new capability adds S3 data events (LISTs/PUTs/GETs) as a new log and event source that GuardDuty continuously profiles to monitor data access behavior, combine it with GuardDuty threat intelligence, and identify suspicious activity such as data access from an unusual geo-location, API calls from a known malicious IP address, or unusual API calls consistent with malicious data discovery attempts.
Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in these regions to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3.
Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
Customers can now connect their OneLogin Identity Management Platform (OneLogin) to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using OneLogin to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar OneLogin experiences for administrators who manage identities, and for end users as they sign in. AWS SSO and OneLogin use standards-based automation to provision users and groups into AWS SSO, saving administration time and increasing security.
Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.1
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.1 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.
AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
Starting today, you can use enhanced premigration assessments to identify potential database migration problems before initiating your migration. Once the migration task is set up, a premigration assessment scans both the source and target database schemas and the migration task settings to identify a list of potential issues ranging from a data type mismatch to possible performance issues. You can select one or more premigration assessments to run on your database migration tasks and review the results on the console or in an AWS S3 bucket.
AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 7 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 12 new controls to our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).