AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London)

AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded its global presence with availability in three new regions – Canada(Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London). This expansion enables customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without depending on cross-region support. For customers processing payment workloads in Europe, availability in London offers additional options for multi-Region high availability. AWS Payment Cryptography is a fully managed service that simplifies payment-specific cryptographic operations and key management for cloud-hosted payment applications. The service scales elastically with your business needs and is assessed as compliant with PCI PIN and PCI P2PE requirements, eliminating the need to maintain dedicated payment HSM instances. Organizations performing payment functions – including acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and banks can now position their payment cryptographic operations closer to their applications while reducing dependencies on auxiliary data centers with dedicated payment HSMs. AWS Payment Cryptography is available in the following AWS Regions: Canada(Montreal), US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Africa(Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Mumbai). To start using the service, please download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and see the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide for more information.
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AWS Transfer Family now supports changing identity provider type on a server

AWS Transfer Family now enables you to change your server’s identity provider (IdP) type without service interruption. This enhancement gives you more control and flexibility over authentication management in your file transfer workflows, enabling you to adapt quickly to changing business requirements. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTP, FTPS, AS2, and web-browser based interfaces. With this launch, you can now dynamically switch between service managed authentication, Active Directory, and custom IdP configurations for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP servers. This enables you to implement zero-downtime authentication migration and meet evolving compliance requirements.  Changing IDP type is available in all AWS Regions where the service is available. To learn more, visit the Transfer Family User Guide.
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Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations. For example, Reachability Analyzer can help you identify a missing route table entry in your VPC route table that could be blocking network reachability between an EC2 instance in Account A that is not able to connect to another EC2 instance in Account B in your AWS Organization. VPC Network Access Analyzer allows you to identify unintended network access to your AWS resources, helping you meet your security and compliance guidelines. For example, you can create a scope to verify that all paths from your web-applications to the internet, traverse the firewall, and detect any paths that bypass the firewall. For more information, visit documentation for VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer. For pricing, refer to the Network Analysis tab on the Amazon VPC Pricing Page. 
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Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions for conversation recordings and transcripts

Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions to access conversation recordings and transcripts in the UI, giving administrators greater flexibility and security control. Contact center administrators can now separately configure access to recordings and transcripts, allowing users to listen to calls while preventing unauthorized copying of transcripts. The system also provides flexible download controls, enabling users to download redacted recordings while restricting downloads of unredacted versions. Administrators can also create sophisticated permission scenarios, providing access to redacted recordings of sensitive conversations while granting unredacted recording access for other conversations. This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. 
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio supports Amazon Athena workgroups

Data engineers and data analysts using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio can now connect to and run queries with pre-existing Amazon Athena workgroups. This feature enables data teams to run SQL queries in SageMaker Unified Studio with the default settings and properties from existing Athena workgroups. Since Athena workgroups are used to manage query access and control costs, data engineers and data analysts can save time by reusing Athena workgroups as their SQL analytics compute while maintaining data usage limits and tracking query usage by team or project. When choosing a compute for SQL analytics within SageMaker Unified Studio, customers can create a new Athena compute connection or choose to connect to an existing Athena workgroup. To get started, navigate to SageMaker Unified Studio, select “Add compute” and choose “Connect to existing compute resources”. Then create a connection to your pre-existing Athena workgroups and save. This new compute is now available within the SageMaker Unified Studio query editor to run SQL queries. Connecting to Athena workgroups within SageMaker Unified Studio is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported. To learn more, refer to the SageMaker Unified Studio Guide and Athena Workgroups Guide.
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New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance

Today, Amazon announced two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics that provide insight into when your application exceeds the I/O performance limits for your EC2 instance with attached EBS volumes. These two metrics, Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the maximum EBS IOPS or throughput that your instance can support. With these two new metrics at the instance level, you can quickly identify and respond to application performance issues stemming from exceeding the EBS-Optimized limits of your instance. These metrics will return a value of 0 (performance not exceeded) or a 1 (performance exceeded) when your workload is exceeding the EBS-Optimized IOPS or throughput limit of the EC2 instance. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can use these new metrics to create customized dashboards and set alarms that notify you or automatically perform actions based on these metrics, such as moving to a larger instance size or a different instance type that supports higher EBS-Optimized limits. The Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check metrics are available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charges, for all Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances with EBS volumes attached. You can access these metrics via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API in all Commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. To learn more about these CloudWatch metrics, please visit the EC2 CloudWatch Metrics documentation.
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Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies, enabling you to simplify access control for your Aurora DSQL resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and the specific IAM actions they can perform against your Aurora DSQL resources. Resource-based policies also enable you to implement Block Public Access (BPA), which helps to further restrict access to your Aurora DSQL public or VPC endpoints. Aurora DSQL support for resource-based policies is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Frankfurt). To get started, visit the Aurora DSQL resource-based policies documentation.
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports predictive scaling in six more regions

Customers can now enable predictive scaling for their Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) in six more regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your ASGs to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. To see the list of all supported AWS public regions and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, click here. Predictive Scaling is appropriate for applications that experience recurring patterns of steep demand changes, such as early morning spikes when business resumes. It learns from the past patterns and launches instances in advance of predicted demand, giving instances time to warm up. Predictive scaling enhances existing Auto Scaling policies, such as Target Tracking or Simple Scaling, so that your applications scale based on both real-time metrics and historic patterns. You can preview how Predictive Scaling works with your ASG by using the “Forecast Only” mode. Predictive Scaling is available as a scaling policy type through AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), EC2 Auto Scaling Management Console, AWS CloudFormation and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the Predictive Scaling page in the EC2 Auto Scaling documentation.
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Amazon Quick Sight announces the general availability of a new data preparation experience

Amazon Quick Sight, a capability of Amazon Quick Suite, now offers a visual data preparation experience that helps business users perform advanced data transformations without writing complex code. Users can now clean, transform, and combine data in multi-step workflows—appending tables, aggregating data, executing flexible joins, and other advanced operations that previously required custom programming or SQL commands. Users can easily track data transformations step-by-step, enhancing traceability and shareability. With the ability to utilize datasets as a source expanded from 3 to 10 levels, teams can build reusable transformation logic that cascades across departments. For instance, centralized data analysts can now prepare foundational data sets that can then be further customized by regional business users, applying territory-specific calculations and business logic with simple clicks. The enhanced experience now also supports 20X larger cross-source joins, moving from a previous capacity of 1GB to 20GB today. This feature is available to Quick Sight Author and Author Pro customers in the following regions: US East (N.Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm, Ireland, London, Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney), AWS GovCloud (US-West, US- East) and to Quick Suite Enterprise subscribers in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland). For more details, read our documentation here.
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Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB.  Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications, break data silos in your organization, and gain significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. Now you can run enhanced analysis on your DynamoDB data with the rich capabilities of Amazon Redshift, such as high performance SQL, built-in ML and Spark integrations, materialized views with automatic and incremental refresh, and data sharing. Additionally, you can use history mode to easily run advanced analytics on historical data, build lookback reports, and build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from DynamoDB, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. The Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), in addition to previously supported regions. For a complete list of supported regions, please refer to the AWS Region Table where Amazon Redshift is available. To learn more, visit the getting started guides for DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift. For more information on using history mode, we encourage you to visit our recent blog post here.
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