Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly?AWS News Round-Up!?
I'm back at my desk this week after re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas last week - I've just about recovered from the jet lag! I'm writing a post about my experience at the conference, which I?will share in next week's newsletter. Despite the fact that it was re:Invent last week, the AWS announcements just keep on coming!??
If you're new to the Round-Up, every week?I handpick the most interesting AWS-related?articles from across the Internet and share them directly into your inbox. No marketing, just useful and informative?content (I hope).??Read on for?new AWS product or feature releases,?technical how-to?articles, and?general business updates.
- AWS launches Data Transfer Terminals in key locations, allowing customers to upload large datasets securely and rapidly to the cloud, reducing time and eliminating the need for shipping devices like Snowball?via Georgia Butler on DatacenterDynamics
- AWS Transfer Family Web Apps now enables secure, no-code access to Amazon S3 data directly through the browser, simplifying file management for non-technical users with a user-friendly interface?via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ
- AWS introduces Amazon S3 Metadata, a new feature that enhances data management and querying by automatically capturing and organizing object metadata, enabling real-time analysis and seamless integration with AWS analytics tools?via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ
- AWS strengthens cloud security with new AI-powered tools for Amazon GuardDuty, enhanced data normalization with Amazon Security Lake, and access control for non-HTTP resources, aiming to simplify threat detection and remediation for security teams?on DevOps.com
- Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience, automatically routing email traffic to an available region during outages to ensure uninterrupted email delivery?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Network Firewall now offers Geographic IP Filtering, enabling customers to restrict traffic based on the geolocation of IP addresses, helping meet compliance and security requirements in regulated industries?via Prasanjit Tiwari and Dhiren P. on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Network Firewall now offers a CloudWatch Dashboard, providing enhanced visualization and monitoring for firewall performance, security events, and logs, simplifying network security management with preconfigured insights?via Ajinkya P., Amish Shah and Todd Pula on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon EBS now offers detailed performance statistics with sub-minute granularity, providing real-time insights into latency, throughput, and IOPS, allowing for proactive troubleshooting and optimization of storage performance?via Tommy Shi and Swapnil Dinkar on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Secrets Manager introduces an enhanced transform version, automating Lambda updates, improving security, and simplifying secret rotation management with new CloudFormation features?via Sanjay Varma Datla and Robert Stevens on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard helps users accelerate migration to Graviton-based instances by providing centralized visibility, cost estimations, and prioritizing migration efforts for optimized performance and savings?via aostan on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon Managed Grafana now helps you detect and respond to security threats in near real-time by visualizing AWS Security Hub findings, enabling centralized monitoring of security and operational data across multiple accounts?via SAMEEKSHA GARG, Anjali Sharma, Scott Kellish and Yash Bindlish on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports physical replication for Blue/Green Deployments, offering improved flexibility, scalability, and performance for tasks like minor version upgrades, schema changes, and storage adjustments?via Liz Guillén and Anisha Cherodian on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
That’s all for this week! Tune in next week for another round-up of everything I think you should know about what’s happening in the world of?AWS. If you find this useful, please share it with friends and colleagues via the social links below, or?send them to our website to sign up.
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