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Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Trend Micro Vision One Server & Workload Protection Agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the agent to support your security needs.

Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS. It also helps simplify modernization of your migrated applications by allowing you to select preconfigured and custom optimization options during migration.

This feature is now available in all of the Commercial regions where Application Migration Service is available. Access the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability information.

To start using Application Migration Service for free, sign in through the AWS Management Console . For more information, visit the Application Migration Service product page .

For more information on Trend Micro and to create a trial account, visit the Trend Micro sign-up page .
 

The AV1 video codec is now supported in the AWS Elemental Media Services. You can use AV1 in AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor, and MediaConvert to produce both live and on-demand streams with ad insertion.

This launch enables live streaming and packaging of AV1 encoded content, preparation of AV1 VOD assets and ads, and ad insertion into AV1 encoded videos. AV1 provides a lower bitrate with a similar viewing experience when compared to HEVC and AVC, reducing both the bandwidth required to deliver live events and CDN costs. AV1 can also deliver better video quality for viewing on mobile devices and in network constrained environments.

AWS Media Services enable you to transport, prepare, process, and deliver live and on-demand content in the cloud. These managed services let you build and adapt video workflows quickly, eliminate capacity planning, easily scale with growth, and benefit from pay-as-you-go pricing. Connect with other AWS services and third-party applications for live and on demand video streaming, media storage, machine learning, content protection, advertising and monetization, and more.

To learn how the AV1 codec can reduce bandwidth and improve the viewing experience, read the blog post. For more information about live AV1 pricing, please review the AWS Elemental MediaLive pricing page. To learn more about the services, please visit the AWS Media Services page.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere, which allows you to run live video transcoding on your on-premises hardware. MediaLive Anywhere brings the cloud control and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS Elemental MediaLive to compute resources you manage. With MediaLive Anywhere, you can take advantage of MediaLive’s centralized configuration, control, and monitoring capabilities while processing live video on premises close to video sources and outputs.

With MediaLive Anywhere, you deploy the same broadcast-grade video encoding engine used in AWS Elemental MediaLive on your hardware. MediaLive Anywhere supports a wide range of hardware configurations and can ingest video from multicast, SDI, and standard internet-based transport protocols. You get a consistent set of APIs, channel profiles, logs, and monitoring metrics across your cloud and on-premises live video workflows.

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaLive is available.

To learn more, visit the AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere page.

Today, AWS Backup announces a new AWS Backup Audit Manager control, allowing you to audit and check if a resource’s backup data is in a logically air-gapped vault. With this launch, you can assess if a backup was copied inside a logically air-gapped within a specified time frame, and evaluate whether it meets your business or compliance requirements.

To use the new AWS Backup Audit Manager control, resources are inside a logically air-gapped vault, simply enable it in your existing AWS Backup Audit Manager frameworks or create a new framework. Once you enable this control, AWS Backup Audit Manager automatically runs it on a daily basis, monitoring if a backup was successfully copied inside your logically air-gapped vault based on the specified time frame for your selected resources. You can also generate auditor-ready reports to help prove compliance of your data protection policies to organizational or industry-specific regulatory requirements.

Get started with AWS Backup Audit Manager using the AWS Management console, SDKs, or CLI. AWS Backup Audit Manager is available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). To learn more about AWS Backup Audit Manager, visit the AWS Backup product page and documentation . For more information on AWS Backup availability and pricing, see the AWS Regional Services List and pricing page .
 

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables by automatically removing data files that are no longer needed. Each write to an Iceberg table creates a new snapshot, or version, of a table. In addition, any failures during writing to Iceberg tables will create data files that aren’t referenced in snapshots known as “orphan” files that further increases storage costs. AWS Glue catalog’s new storage optimizations along with automated compaction will help you reduce metadata overhead, control storage costs and improve query performance.

With this launch, you can enable AWS Glue catalog table optimization to include snapshot and orphan data management. You can optimize Amazon S3 layout by providing configuration such as default retention period and days to keep orphan files. Once enabled, AWS Glue catalog periodically monitors tables, removes snapshots from table metadata, removes the Amazon S3 data files, and orphan files that are no longer needed. You can view history of number of data, manifest, manifest lists and orphan files deleted from the table optimization tab in the Glue catalog console.

In addition to the AWS console, customers can also use AWS CLI or AWS SDKs to enable table optimization of Apache Iceberg tables. Automatic optimization for Iceberg tables is available in 13 AWS regions US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney), South America (São Paulo). To learn more, read the blog , and visit the AWS Glue Data Catalog documentation .
 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This capability allows you to apply two independent layers of server-side encryption to images stored in Amazon ECR. Dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS) enables you to meet stronger compliance and regulatory requirements of applying multiple layers of encryption to your container images.

ECR supports server-side encryption of ECR images using either Amazon S3-managed encryption keys or keys stored in Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). This often meets your security requirements as it protects data at rest, however, if you operate in highly regulated environments that require rigorous security standards, you may require a second layer of encryption for your images. Now with DSSE-KMS, you can easily apply two layers of encryption and control the keys used for both layers. Once this feature is enabled, ECR automatically encrypts your images twice when pushed and decrypts twice when pulled using your encryption keys managed by Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). AWS KMS is a simple to use key management service that makes it easy for you to create, manage, and control keys by setting permissions per key and specifying key rotation schedules.

DSSE-KMS with ECR is available for use in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at an additional cost. For pricing information, visit the Amazon ECR pricing page . To learn more about all available encryption options on Amazon ECR and get started with this feature, visit our user guide .

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3^rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System , deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached, Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark).

R6in and R6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, with up to 128 vCPUs and 1024 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. R6in and R6idn instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. R6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage.

With this regional expansion, R6in and R6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see R6in and R6idn instances page . To get started, see AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.