Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) made it easier to verify permissions using the policy simulator by adding support for resource-based policies, such as Amazon S3 bucket policies. This new feature extends the capabilities of the policy simulator to help you understand, test, and validate how your resource-based policies and IAM policies work together to Read more about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Now Supports Resource-based Policies in the IAM Policy Simulator[…]

AWS CodePipeline is now available in the US West (Oregon) AWS region. CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features Read more about AWS CodePipeline Available in US West (Oregon) Region[…]

The Amazon Auto Scaling service now allows you to create launch configurations that include encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. When an EBS volume is encrypted, data stored at rest on the volume, disk I/O, snapshots created from the volume, and data in-transit between EBS and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are all encrypted. Read more about Create Auto Scaling launch configurations that include encrypted EBS volumes[…]

Recently, Amazon EMR introduced software releases referenced by their release label rather than the AMI version. AWS Data Pipeline now supports Amazon EMR 4.x software releases. You can specify the required release in the releaseLabel field on the EmrCluster object in your pipeline. Using the EmrConfiguration object, you can specify cluster configurations, such as choosing Read more about AWS Data Pipeline Now Supports Amazon EMR 4.x Software Releases[…]

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to embed CEA-708 captions in the H.264 Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) user data in any MP4 or MPEG-TS output format. This allows you to deliver closed captions to televisions or to legacy iOS devices via HLS. You can try this feature by choosing the “cea-708” option as the Read more about Amazon Elastic Transcoder Adds Support for Closed Captioning Standard Typically Used by Digital Television[…]

Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon WorkSpaces Connection Health Check Website. Now, WorkSpaces users who want to know if their local network meets the requirements to use Amazon WorkSpaces can simply visit the website and find out. The website quickly checks if you can get to all of the required Read more about Amazon WorkSpaces Launches Connection Health Check Web Site[…]

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS region. AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of Read more about AWS CodeDeploy Available in EU (Frankfurt) Region[…]