Amazon Aurora Supports Cross-Account Encrypted Snapshot Sharing

Amazon Aurora now supports the sharing of encrypted snapshots between AWS accounts. This follows our recent announcement of encrypted database replication and snapshot copy across regions, and extends the Aurora security model to separate accounts that have shared encryption keys. The owner of the other account can copy the snapshot or restore a database instance from it.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

Amazon Aurora Announces Encryption Support for Globally Distributed Database Deployments

We are pleased to announce new Amazon Aurora capabilities for global database deployment. Replication across AWS regions now supports encrypted databases, so you can scale read operations to a location close to your users, build a disaster recovery architecture that spans the globe, and easily migrate data from one region to another, all the while maintaining full encryption at rest and in transit.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

New GitHub repository with AWS Lambda actions for AWS Health

The AWS Health APIs and the AWS Personal Health Dashboard give you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources. The service provides relevant and timely information to help you manage AWS events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help you plan for scheduled activities. You can use CloudWatch Events to detect and react to changes in the status of AWS Health events. Then, based on rules you create, CloudWatch Events invokes one or more target actions when an event matches the values you specify in a rule.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Now Supports NFSv4 Lock Upgrading and Downgrading

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports NFS version 4 lock upgrading and downgrading functionality. This new capability extends support in Amazon EFS for the NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.0 protocols by allowing you to run applications that upgrade a read lock atomically to a write lock and downgrade a write lock atomically to a read lock. One example is SQLite, a popular library that’s embedded into many applications and programming language tools like Python and PHP.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

Amazon SNS Now Offers Dedicated Short Codes

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now offers dedicated short codes (5-, 6- digit phone numbers) in the US. If you are delivering notifications to telephone numbers in the US, you can now use a specific, customer-assigned SMS short code to send large marketing campaigns, Application-to-Person (A2P) messages like order updates and appointment reminders, and two-factor authentication text messages.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Now Supports NVSv4 Lock Upgrading and Downgrading

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports NFS version 4 lock upgrading and downgrading functionality. This new capability extends support in Amazon EFS for the NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.0 protocols by allowing you to run applications that upgrade a read lock atomically to a write lock and downgrade a write lock atomically to a read lock. One example is SQLite, a popular library that’s embedded into many applications and programming language tools like Python and PHP.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

AWS Direct Connect enables Link Aggregation Group for additional AWS regions

We are excited to announce support for 1G and 10G Link Aggregation Groups (LAG). Customers in AWS GovCloud (US), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can start using LAG to link existing connections on the same AWS device, or request new connections. Customers who wish to purchase multiple ports, but treat them like a single managed connection can now use our LAG feature to do just this. In addition to ordering and managing bundles, customers can now see when their ports fall on the same router so customers can manage your network availability.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com

AWS Direct Connect enables Link Aggregation Group for all commercial AWS regions

We are excited to announce support for 1G and 10G Link Aggregation Groups (LAG). Customers in AWS GovCloud (US), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can start using LAG to link existing connections on the same AWS device, or request new connections. Customers who wish to purchase multiple ports, but treat them like a single managed connection can now use our LAG feature to do just this. In addition to ordering and managing bundles, customers can now see when their ports fall on the same router so customers can manage your network availability.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com