May 2024

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20240408. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more visit, the AWS Shield Advanced product page.

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.12.13, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Starting from RabbitMQ 3.12.13, all Classic Queues on Amazon MQ brokers are upgraded to Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) automatically. All queues on RabbitMQ 3.12 now behave similarly to lazy queues. These changes provide a significant improvement to throughput and lower memory usage for most use cases. 

Amazon SageMaker now integrates with Amazon DataZone making it easier for customers to access machine learning (ML) infrastructure, data and ML assets. This integration will unify data governance across data and ML workflows.

Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags to define who can access specific flows and flow modules from the Connect admin website. For example, you can now tag flows with Department:Support from the flow designer UI, restricting access to only administrators from your support line of business.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the highly expressive generative engine with the three English Amazon Polly voices: two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice Amy. 

AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access. You can now add tags to your AWS Budgets resources and define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Budgets resources based on their resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these two granular access control features.

AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Today, AWS announced enhancements to AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph that enable faster and more flexible entity metadata query capabilities for industrial customers. These optimizations provide faster entity-metadata queries using full-text search and wildcard search, addressing the data engineering needs of customers requiring efficient entity metadata access.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides support for personally identifiable information (PII) redaction in the Spanish (US) language, enabling contact centers to help identify and redact sensitive information on contact transcripts such as social security numbers, credit card details, bank account information, and personal contact information (i.e. name, email address, phone number, and mailing address). 

Starting today, you can use Amazon EMR Studio in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions to run interactive workloads on EMR.

Today, AWS introduces a new EC2 API to retrieve the public endorsement key (EkPub) for the Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM) of an Amazon EC2 instance.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode for SQL Server 2019. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance.