Today, AWS added a third Availability Zone (AZ) to the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to support the high demand of our growing Korean customer base.

Amazon GuardDuty adds two new threat detections. These new detections represent the latest in a continuously growing library of fully managed threat detections available for customers who enable Amazon GuardDuty in their AWS accounts. With 25 added since launch, Amazon GuardDuty now supports 54 active finding types.  

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announced the idle disconnect timeout feature. With this feature, you can automatically disconnect an idle user after a configurable period of time, ensuring your streaming instances are being actively used. Your user will receive a notification informing them if they are about to be disconnected due to inactivity. If your user reconnects before the separately configurable disconnect timeout period has elapsed, they will be reconnected to the same streaming session they previously had. If your user reconnects after the disconnect timeout has elapsed, or the separately configurable max session duration has elapsed, they will start a new streaming session. To configure the idle disconnect timeout feature for your fleets, see our documentation .

The idle disconnect timeout feature is available today at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is offered. AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you-go pricing. Please see Amazon AppStream 2.0 Pricing  for more information, and try our sample applications .
 

Starting today, you can package, encrypt, and originate on demand video using AWS Elemental MediaPackage. The same just-in-time packaging features that you use for live channels are now available for video on demand (VOD) content. This means you can package file-based video and live video to multiple distribution formats and protect content with multiple digital rights management (DRM) standards to make video available on a wide range of playback devices.

This Quick Start automatically deploys Micro Focus Operations Orchestration (OO) into a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes.

You can now use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with applications that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a service that provides fully-managed native Microsoft Windows file systems.

You can now use Amazon FSx for Lustre with applications that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance file system that is integrated with Amazon S3 and optimized for data processing workloads like machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and April 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2.

You can now use cost allocation tags to manage your Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) costs. Cost allocation tags are key-value pairs that let you categorize SNS topics to easily identify their purpose and track associated costs. For example, you may use tags to identify the Amazon SNS topics for a particular department, project, or application.

You can now enforce password policies in your Amazon RDS for MySQL databases using the MySQL validate_password plugin. This improves the security of your databases by defining minimum password length, required characters, and other rules.