September 2023

Amazon Inspector is now available in four additional regions including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Europe (Zurich). You can now continuously monitor your Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, and container images residing in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure in these regions.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Now, the Amazon Chime SDK provides loss recovery for up to 100ms of audio, which helps enable smooth playback of audio transmitted across networks with random and burst packet loss.

You can now better protect your CloudFront distributions with AWS WAF security recommendations in the CloudFront console. CloudFront conveniently displays additional security rules for your distributions based on elements of your CloudFront configuration including path patterns or your origin type. Simply select the rules you’d like to enable and CloudFront automatically adds those rules to your AWS WAF configuration.

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints used to create and manage meetings are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions.

Amazon QuickSight and AWS Billing now support tagging users with the TagResource and RegisterUser APIs. With this launch, administrators can tag users and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate user based costs by team, department or application.

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc launches expanded resource support for AWS Application Composer, from 13 to all 1000+ resources supported by AWS CloudFormation. This launch allows you to drag any resource required for your use case onto an interactive diagram-like canvas where an editor provides auto completion and validation as you configure each service. With AWS Application Composer, you can focus on the high-level architecture of your application while the canvas assists with configuration and maintains deployment-ready infrastructure as code definitions. 

Today, AWS App Runner launched improvements for managing Auto-Scaling Configuration (ASC). App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. With App Runner, you do not have to manage load balancer for your service(s). App Runner automatically scales compute resources, specifically instances, up or down for your App Runner service. Automatic scaling provides adequate request handling when traffic is heavy, and reduces your cost when traffic slows down. You can control auto scaling settings through a sharable resource called AutoScalingConfiguration.

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for security profiles. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect security profiles —along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure— in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, allowing you to apply consistent security policies across instances. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed. For more information, see Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

AWS is excited to introduce the AWS Telecom Services Competency, which provides customers with a vetted list of AWS Partners validated for their expertise and proven success delivering telecom consulting services. The AWS Telecom Services Competency validates partner strengths and capabilities in key telecom service areas including Operation Support Services (OSS), Business Support Systems (BSS), Communication as a Service (CaaS), Mobile Networks, and Media & TV.

AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS PrivateLink. You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS Cloud Map APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your data through public internet. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of EC2 storage optimized instances.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of custom notifications in AWS Chatbot. Customers can use AWS Chatbot custom notifications to define and add additional information in the notifications to monitor the health and performance of their AWS applications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades. Starting today, you can upgrade your RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys from major version 13.4 and above and 14.5 and above to 15.4 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Connect provides a new event for updates to contact (voice call, chat, and task) attributes. This new event will notify customers in two scenarios: 1) when there is an update to the scheduled timestamp of a task, and 2) when there is an update to a contact’s user-defined attributes. As an example, customers can use this event to update an analytics dashboard that monitors task scheduling changes in real-time.

Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup, allowing specific point-in-time restore within customers' retention period of up to 35 days. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, Aurora customers using AWS Backup can now restore their database to a specific time directly from their AWS Backup console or API/CLI.

AWS Marketplace now enables sellers to set disbursement preferences to receive their outstanding balances on a daily basis, granting increased flexibility. While AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, were previously limited to monthly disbursements on a specific day, now sellers can select between daily and monthly disbursements. For the monthly disbursement option, sellers can also select what day of the month they want to receive their disbursements.

AWS WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots now offers predictive Machine Learning (ML) technology to provide protection against distributed, proxy-based attacks. AWS WAF previously launched AWS Bot Control for Targeted Bots which provides protection against sophisticated bots that attempt to evade detection. Now, AWS WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots can also be used to define block, challenge and Captcha rules against distributed bot attacks, such as attacks using residential and mobile proxies.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the h3-pg extension, which provides an API to H3, an open-source hexagonal, hierarchical geospatial indexing system. With this extension, you can perform different kinds of spatial analysis over large datasets, including efficient indexing and lookups, modeling flow through a grid, and applying machine learning models over your geospatial data stored in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

We are excited to announce the launch of the AWS Automotive Competency designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in the automotive industry. AWS Automotive Competency Partners have shown their AWS competency across at least one of eight automotive strategic workloads: 1/Autonomous Mobility (AM), 2/Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), 3/Connected Mobility, 4/ Sustainability, 5/Digital Customer Experience (DCE), 6/Product Engineering, 7/Manufacturing, and 8/Supply Chain. 

Customers can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client when using SageMaker real-time inference to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators.