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AWS Advanced NodeJS Driver is Generally Available

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced NodeJS Driver is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, Federated Authentication, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced NodeJS Driver is a standalone driver and supports the underlying NodeJS driver with the PostgreSQL Client or the MySQL2 Client. You can install the PostgreSQL and MySQL packages for Windows, Mac or Linux by following established installation guides in GitHub. The driver relies on monitoring the database cluster status and being aware of the cluster topology to determine the new writer. This approach reduces writer failover times to single digit seconds compared to the open-source driver.

The AWS Advanced NodeJS driver is released as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 Public License. For more details click here to view Getting Started instructions and guidance on how to raise issues.

AWS CloudFormation Hooks now support custom AWS Lambda functions

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AWS CloudFormation Hooks introduces a pre-built hook that allows you to simply point to an AWS Lambda function in your account. With CloudFormation Hooks, you can provide custom logic that proactively evaluate your resource configurations before provisioning. Today’s launch allows you to provide your custom logic as a Lambda function, allowing a simpler way for you to author a hook while gaining extended flexibility of hosting Lambda functions in your account.

Prior to this launch, customers used the CloudFormation CLI (cfn-cli) to author and publish hooks to the CloudFormation registry. Now, customers can simply activate the Lambda hook and pass a Lambda Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) for hooks to invoke. This allows you to directly edit your Lambda function to make updates without re-configuring your hook. Additionally, you no longer have to register your custom logic to CloudFormation registry.

The Lambda hook is available at no additional charge in all AWS Commercial Regions . Customers will incur a charge for Lambda usage. Refer to Lambda’s pricing guide for more information. To get started, you can use the new Hooks console workflow within CloudFormation console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.

To learn more about the Lambda hook, check out the detailed feature walkthrough on the AWS DevOps Blog or refer to the Lambda Hook User Guide . To get started with creating your Lambda function, visit AWS Lambda User Guide .
 

AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

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AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations.

AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant . AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with end-to-end encryption. Customers have full administrative control over data, which includes addressing information governance polices, configuring ephemeral messaging options, and deleting credentials for lost or stolen devices. You can log both internal and external conversations in an AWS Wickr network to a private data store that you manage, for data retention and auditing purposes.

AWS Wickr is available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS Canada (Central), AWS Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Zurich), and AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and now Malaysia) Regions.

To learn more and get started, see the following resources:

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