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Now You Can Configure Password Policies to Help Meet Your Security Standards with AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory

Starting today, you can use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, to help enforce password policies that meet your security standards. AWS has added five password policies to your AWS Microsoft AD directory, and you can configure and manage these policies to enforce different security requirements for different user groups.
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New Information in the AWS IAM Console Helps You Adhere to IAM Best Practices

Today, we made it easier for you to follow AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices by adding additional information in the Users section of the IAM console. This new information in the IAM user table helps you monitor user activity in your AWS account and identify access keys and passwords that should be rotated regularly. It also enables you to better audit users’ MFA device usage, and gives you better visibility into users’ group memberships. This information is available in all AWS regions today.
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AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, Amazon DynamoDB and more

You can now provision the following AWS resources using CloudFormation.

AWS::ApiGateway::DomainName

Use the AWS::ApiGateway::DomainName resource to specify a custom, friendly URL for your API that’s deployed to Amazon API Gateway.

AWS::EC2::EgressOnlyInternetGateway

Create an egress-only Internet gateway for your VPC with the AWS::EC2::EgressOnlyInternetGateway resource.

AWS::EMR::InstanceFleetConfig

Configure a spot instance fleet for an Amazon EMR cluster using the InstanceFleetConfig resource.

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Amazon WorkMail Now Allows You to Configure Email Flow Rules

Starting today, you can now use email flow rules to filter inbound email traffic for your Amazon WorkMail organizations. This helps you reduce email from unwanted senders, route suspicious mail to junk folders, and make sure important messages are successfully delivered.
Email flow rules can be applied based on specific email addresses, or entire email domains. You can configure email flow rules from the Amazon WorkMail console.
You can use email flow rules in all AWS Regions where WorkMail is offered, and at no additional charge. To learn more, please see Managing Email Flows.
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CloudWatch Events adds cross account event delivery support

We are excited to announce that CloudWatch Events now allows different AWS accounts to share events with each other. You can now collect all your events from different AWS accounts to a single account. These events can be EC2 events, AWS API call events, AWS health events, and more. Please see the list of supported events here.  
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Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition now supports Federated Single Sign-On using SAML 2.0

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition customers can use Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 to access QuickSight. This allows users to sign in to their Identity Provider portals with existing credentials and then access QuickSight with a single click, without having to enter any QuickSight-specific account names or passwords. With Federated SSO and QuickSight’s permissions-based just-in-time user provisioning capabilities, AWS administrators can use existing identity management mechanisms to enable QuickSight access for thousands of users with a few clicks. 
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Amazon Lex now supports 8 Khz telephony audio for increased speech recognition accuracy

The Amazon Lex speech recognition engine has now been trained on telephony audio (8 Khz) to provide increased speech recognition accuracy for conversations over the phone. Amazon Lex enables your users to interact with your application via natural conversation using the same deep learning technology as Amazon Alexa to fulfill most common requests. Amazon Lex chatbots maintain context and manage the dialogue, dynamically adjusting the responses based on the conversation. 
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AWS Database Migration Service Now Available in GovCloud

The AWS Database Migration Service makes it easy for you to migrate production databases to AWS with minimal downtime. You can keep your applications running while you are migrating your database and the AWS Database Migration Service ensures that data changes to the source database that occur during and after the migration are continuously replicated to the target. Migration tasks can be setup in minutes in the AWS Management Console. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate your data to and from all widely used database platforms, such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. The service supports homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL, or even to Amazon Redshift and Amazon DynamoDB. The AWS Database Migration service can be used to perform one-time migrations, or can maintain continuous replication between databases without a customer having to install or configure any complex software. 
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