Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to embed dashboard authoring capability within third party applications and portals. Customers (e.g., Independent Software Vendors or ISVs, enterprises) can now provide self-service data exploration, ad-hoc data analysis, and dashboard authoring capabilities directly to their end-users. Customers benefit from not having to repeatedly create custom dashboards based on ad-hoc requests from their end-users, while also creating strong product differentiation and up-sell opportunities within their applications.  

AWS Secrets Manager has been Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessed and accepted at the PROTECTED level. Now, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to store secrets that are required to meet the Information Security Manual (ISM) control objectives. This support for IRAP is in addition to compliance with U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), System and Organizational Controls (SOC), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced by AWS Secrets Manager previously.  

You can now search, sort, and filter across all tables and view more detail on your AWS accounts and organizational units (OUs) within the AWS Control Tower console.

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now supports private data transfers between AWS and Salesforce leveraging AWS PrivateLink. Customers can use AppFlow’s private data transfer option to ensure that data does not get exposed to the public internet during transfers between AWS and Salesforce, improving security and minimizing risks of Internet based attack vectors. AppFlow makes it easy for customers to configure private data transfers with Salesforce in just a few clicks. It automatically sets up PrivateLink endpoints and manages the lifecycle of these endpoints without requiring customers to set up or monitor any network infrastructure.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

The new CIS Benchmark for Amazon EKS helps you accurately assess the secure configuration of nodes running as part of your Amazon EKS clusters. 

AWS App Mesh is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use AWS App Mesh to manage communication between services that contains protected health information (PHI). To learn more, visit our site on services compliance or see our compliance resources.  

Amazon CloudFront now provides enhanced granular control to configure headers, query strings, and cookies that can be used to compute the cache key or forwarded to your origin from your CloudFront distributions. Further, you can configure the cache key and origin request settings independently as account-level policies that can be easily applied across multiple distributions.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB support 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.7 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements.