Amazon ECS announces non-root container support for managed EBS volumes

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to containers running as non-root users. With this launch, ECS automatically configures the EBS volume’s file system permissions to allow non-root users to read and write data securely, while preserving the root-level ownership of the volume. This enhancement simplifies security-first container deployments by removing the need for manual permission management or custom entrypoint scripts.
This feature enhances container security by allowing tasks to run as non-root users, reducing the risk of privilege escalation and unauthorized access to data. Previously, for a container in a task to write to a mounted Amazon EBS volume, it had to run as the root user. ECS now automatically manages EBS volume permissions, simplifying workflows and ensuring that all containers within a task — regardless of user ID — can securely read and write to the mounted volume.
This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon ECS and Amazon EBS are supported, for EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances launch types. To learn more, see Use Amazon EBS volumes with Amazon ECS in the Amazon ECS Developer Guide.
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Amazon DynamoDB Streams expands AWS PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for all available Amazon DynamoDB Streams Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions. With this launch, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints instead of connecting over the public internet, helping you meet your organization’s business, compliance, and regulatory requirements to limit public internet connectivity. Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints is available with Amazon DynamoDB Streams in the US and Canada commercial AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). To learn more about Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints, visit the Amazon DynamoDB Stream documentation. For more information about AWS PrivateLink and its benefits, visit the AWS PrivateLink product page. 
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Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in additional Regions

Today, we’re announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Europe (Paris) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and flexibility of AWS for running your VMware workloads in the cloud. Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances, powered by AWS Nitro. Using either our step-by-step configuration workflow or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) with automated deployment capabilities, you can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours. This rapid deployment enables faster workload migration to AWS, helping you eliminate aging infrastructure, reduce operational risks, and meet critical timelines for exiting your data center. The added availability in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Europe (Paris) Regions gives your VMware workloads lower latency through closer proximity to your end users, compliance with data residency or sovereignty requirements, and additional high availability and resiliency options for your enhanced redundancy strategy. To get started, visit the Amazon EVS product detail page and user guide. 
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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region, allowing customers in the Middle East to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency while keeping their data within the Region to meet data residency requirements. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so you pay for only the resources that you use and you can build applications that serve thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. The Middle East (UAE) Region provides the same Amazon Keyspaces features available in other AWS Regions, including point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6 support. This regional expansion enables organizations in the Middle East to build highly scalable, low-latency applications using familiar Cassandra Query Language (CQL) without the operational burden of managing Cassandra clusters. To learn more about on Keyspaces, visit the Amazon Keyspaces documentation.
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AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 introduces system log forwarder and TPM2.0 capabilities

AWS announces the release of AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16, introducing new core components for nucleus and nucleus lite. AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software at the edge. The latest version 2.16 release includes enhanced debugging capabilities through the system log forwarder component. This component uploads system log files to AWS Cloud Watch, making it easier for developers to troubleshoot IoT edge applications. The AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 release also features a new nucleus lite version (v2.3) with TPM2.0 specification support, enabling developers to manage edge device security for their resource constrained devices using hardware-based root of trust modules. The implementation helps developers to scale their IoT deployments with confidence while providing secure storage for secrets and streamlined device authentication. AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 is available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Greengrass is offered. To learn more about AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 and its new features, visit the AWS IoT Greengrass documentation. Follow the Getting Started guide for a quick introduction to AWS IoT Greengrass.
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