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AWS announces Block Public Access for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

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Today, AWS announced Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Block Public Access (BPA), a new centralized declarative control that enables network and security administrators to authoritatively block Internet traffic for their VPCs. VPC BPA supersedes any other setting and ensures your VPC resources are protected from unfettered Internet access in compliance with your organizations security and governance policy.

Amazon VPC allows customers to launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network. Often times customers have thousands of AWS accounts and VPCs that are owned by multiple business units or application developer teams. Central administrators have the critical responsibility to ensure that resources in their VPCs are accessible to the public Internet in a highly controlled fashion. VPC BPA offers a single declarative control that allows admins to easily block Internet access to VPCs via the Internet Gateway or the Egress-only Internet Gateway and ensures that there is no unintended public exposure to their AWS resources regardless of their routing and security configuration. Admins can apply BPA across all or select VPCs in their account, block bi-directional or ingress-only Internet connectivity and exclude select subnets for resources that need Internet access. VPC BPA is integrated with AWS Network Access Analyzer and VPC Flow Logs to support impact analysis, provide advanced visibility and help customers meet audit and compliance requirements.

VPC BPA is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon VPC is offered. There is no additional charge for using this feature. For additional information, visit the Amazon VPC documentation and blog post .
 

Amazon ECS now allows you to configure software version consistency

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to configure software version consistency for specific containers within your Amazon ECS services.

By default, Amazon ECS resolves container image tags to the image digest (SHA256 hash of the image manifest) when you create a new Amazon ECS service or deploy an update to the service. This enforces that all tasks in the service are identical and launched with this image digest(s). However, for certain containers within the task (e.g. telemetry sidecars provided by a 3rd party) customers may prefer to not enforce consistency and intead use a mutable container image tag (e.g. LATEST). Now, you can disable software version consistency for one or more containers in your ECS service by configuring the new versionConsistency attribute in the container definition. ECS applies changes to version consistency when you redeploy your ECS service with the task definition revision.

You can disable software version consistency for your Amazon ECS services running on AWS Fargate platform version 1.4.0 or higher and/or version v1.70.0 or higher of the Amazon ECS Agent in all commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, please visit our documentation .
 

AWS Glue expands connectivity to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications

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AWS Glue announces 19 new connectors for Enterprise applications to expand its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Instagram Ads, Intercom, Jira Cloud, Marketo, Oracle NetSuite, SAP OData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, ServiceNow, Slack, Snapchat Ads, Stripe, Zendesk and Zoho CRM.

As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they are looking for services making it easier to integrate with data from various Enterprise applications. With these 19 new connectors, customers can easily establish a connection to their Enterprise applications using AWS console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application specific APIs. These connectors are scalable and performant with AWS Glue Spark engine and support for standard authorization and authentication method like OAuth 2.0. With these connectors, customers can test connection, validate their connection credential, browse metadata and preview data.

AWS Glue native connectors to Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Instagram Ads, Intercom, Jira Cloud, Marketo, Oracle NetSuite, SAP OData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, ServiceNow, Slack, Snapchat Ads, Stripe, Zendesk and Zoho CRM are available in all AWS commercial regions.

To get started, create new AWS Glue connections with these connectors and use them as source in AWS Glue studio. To learn more, visit AWS Glue documentation for connectors.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports adding Regions to existing Keyspaces

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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability.

Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add Regions to existing Keyspaces. With this launch, you can convert an existing single-Region Keyspace to a multi-Region Keyspace or add a new Region to an existing multi-Region Keyspace without recreating the existing Keyspaces. As your application traffic and business needs evolve over time, you can easily add new Regions closest to your application to achieve lower read and write latencies. You can also improve the availability and resiliency of your workloads by adding Regions. Keyspaces fully manages all aspects of creating a new Region and populating it with the latest data from other Regions, enabling you to focus your resources on adding value for your customers rather than managing operational tasks. You can still perform read and write operations on your tables in the existing Region during the addition of a new Region. With this capability, you get the flexibility and ease to manage the regional footprint of your application based on your changing needs.

Support for adding Regions to existing Keyspaces is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Keyspaces offers multi-Region Replication . For more information on multi-Region Replication, see documentation . If you’re new to Amazon Keyspaces, the Getting Started guide shows you how to provision a Keyspace and explore the query and scaling capabilities of Amazon Keyspaces.

Disk-optimized vector engine now available on the Amazon OpenSearch Service

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Amazon OpenSearch’s vector engine can now run modern search applications at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17 domains. When you configure a k-NN (vector) index for disk mode, it becomes optimized for operating in a low memory environment. With disk mode on, the index is compressed using techniques like binary quantization and search quality (recall) is retained through a disk-optimized rescoring mechanism using full-precision vectors. Disk-mode is an excellent option for vector search workloads that require high accuracy, cost efficiency and are satisfied by low hundreds-of-milliseconds latency. It provides customers with a lower cost alternative to the existing in-memory mode when single-digit latency  is unnecessary. To learn more, refer to the documentation .

CloudWatch RUM now supports percentile aggregations and simplified troubleshooting with web vitals metrics

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CloudWatch RUM, which captures real-time data on web application performance and user interactions, helping you quickly detect and resolve issues impacting the user experience, now supports percentile aggregation of web vital metrics and simplified events based troubleshooting directly from the web vitals anomaly.

Google uses the 75th percentile (p75) of a web page’s Core Web Vitals—Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift—to influence page ranking. With CloudWatch RUM, you can now monitor these p75 values of web page vitals and ensure that majority of your visitors experience optimal performance, minimizing the impact of outliers. You can also click on any point in the Web Vitals graph to view correlated page events, allowing you to quickly dive into event details such as browser, device, and geolocation to identify specific conditions causing performance issues. Additionally, you can track affected users and sessions for in-depth analysis and quickly troubleshoot issues without the added steps of applying filters to retrieve correlated events in CloudWatch RUM.

These enhancements are available in all regions where CloudWatch RUM is available at no additional cost to users.

See documentation to learn more about the feature, or see user guide or AWS One Observability Workshop to get started with real user monitoring using CloudWatch RUM.

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