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Week in Review – February 13, 2023
AWS announced 32 capabilities since we published the last Week in Review blog post a week ago. I also read a couple of other news and blog posts. Here is my summary. The VPC section of the AWS Management Console now allows you to visualize your VPC resources, such as the relationships between a VPC […]
New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations
Today, we are launching a new reference architecture and a set of reference implementations for enterprise-grade deployment pipelines. A deployment pipeline automates the building, testing, and deploying of applications or infrastructures into your AWS environments. When you deploy your workloads to the cloud, having deployment pipelines is key to gaining agility and lowering time to […]
Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default
At AWS, security is the top priority. Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) encrypts all new objects by default. Now, S3 automatically applies server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object, unless you specify a different encryption option. SSE-S3 was first launched in 2011. As Jeff wrote at the time: “Amazon S3 server-side encryption […]
AWS Week in Review – December 19, 2022
We are half way between the re:Invent conference and the end-of-year holidays, and I did expect the cadence of releases and news to slow down a bit, but nothing is further away from reality. Our teams continue to listen to your feedback and release new capabilities and incremental improvements. This week, many items caught my […]
Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
I am excited to announce the availability of a distributed map for AWS Step Functions. This flow extends support for orchestrating large-scale parallel workloads such as the on-demand processing of semi-structured data. Step Function’s map state executes the same processing steps for multiple entries in a dataset. The existing map state is limited to 40 […]
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights – Simplify Third-Party Software Risk Assessments
Update 8 February 2023: I edited this blog post to remove the “preview” messaging for AWS Artifact third-party reports. —- AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a new capability of AWS Marketplace. It simplifies third-party software risk assessments when procuring solutions from the AWS Marketplace. It helps you to ensure that the third-party software continuously meets […]
AWS Verified Access Preview — VPN-less Secure Network Access to Corporate Applications
Today, we announced the preview of AWS Verified Access, a new secure connectivity service that allows enterprises to enable local or remote secure access for their corporate applications without requiring a VPN. Traditionally, remote access to applications when on the road or working from home is granted by a VPN. Once the remote workforce is […]
Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (XKS)
I am excited to announce the availability of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) External Key Store. Customers who have a regulatory need to store and use their encryption keys on premises or outside of the AWS Cloud can now do so. This new capability allows you to store AWS KMS customer managed keys on […]