Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for Windows authentication using the AWS Managed Microsoft AD service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Lumberyard 1.25 is available now, bringing you an updated UI, an updated Starter Game project to help you get set up with best practices, and the brand new White Box Tool!  

Amazon MQ now supports mq.t3.micro, the next generation of micro instance, priced at 8% to 13% less than the previous generation mq.t2.micro.  

EC2 VM Import / Export (VMIE) now allows you to import virtual machine images with Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 8/8.1/8.2 and CentOS 8/8.1/8.2 for creating Amazon Machine Images (AMI). You can use the AMI to create Amazon EC2 instances.  

We’ve updated the Amazon Elastic File system (Amazon EFS) console to make it even easier for you to create and manage your file system resources. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can now create a file system using the recommended settings in just a few clicks, you can customize your view to quickly find information you’re looking for, and you can monitor your file system’s behavior using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms natively in the EFS console.

Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports a new security policy, TLSv1.2_2019, which includes only the following ciphers:

• ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
• ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
• ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
• ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384

AWS Systems Manager now supports scheduling of maintenance tasks, such as applying patches, offset from a specific day in a specific week of the month. This enables IT operators to specify the number of days to wait before executing a maintenance window. 

Today we’re excited to announce two new courses and two refreshed courses created specifically for our Amazon Partner Network (APN) Partner community. First, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Amazon Connect (Business) is a new digital course designed to help partners understand how to discuss the business advantages of creating a cloud-based contact center with Amazon Connect. Enroll in this 90-minute digital course and start learning today!

AWS Service Catalog is now available in two new AWS Regions. With this release, AWS Service Catalog is now available in 21 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Tokyo) and Africa (Cape Town). AWS Service Catalog is also available in GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East) Regions, AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline. With CDK Pipelines, development teams can define and share “pipelines-as-code” patterns for deploying their applications. Teams can easily add stages to their pipeline to deploy their applications across multiple AWS accounts or additional AWS Regions.