AWS News Blog

Category: Announcements

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Update: December 19, 2023 – You can now send snapshots of your file systems to file systems in another AWS Region or AWS account. The text of this post has been updated to reflect the extra benefits unlocked by these two new capabilities. Today we’re adding to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS the capability to send […]

AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests

Now AWS Lambda scales up to 12 times faster. Each synchronously invoked Lambda function now scales by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until the aggregate concurrency across all functions reaches the account’s concurrency limit. In addition, each function within an account now scales independently from each other, no matter how the functions are invoked. […]

External endpoints and testing of task states now available in AWS Step Functions

Now AWS Step Functions HTTPS endpoints let you integrate third-party APIs and external services to your workflows. HTTPS endpoints provide a simpler way of making calls to external APIs and integrating with existing SaaS providers, like Stripe for handling payments, GitHub for code collaboration and repository management, and Salesforce for sales and marketing insights. Before […]

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Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters

Starting today, you can use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters so you can connect with AWS services outside […]

New Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client provides cost-effective, secure access to virtual desktops

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client improves end-user and IT staff productivity with cost-effective, secure, easy-to-manage access to virtual desktops. The devices are preconfigured and shipped directly to the end user, ready to deploy, connect, and use. Here’s my testing setup: The Thin Client is a small cube that connects directly to a monitor, keyboard, […]

GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring

Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty

Today, we’re announcing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), anomaly detection, network monitoring, and malicious file discovery against various AWS data sources. When threats […]

Amazon Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations

Today, Amazon Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators of compromise (IoCs) to determine potential involvement in known tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. […]