Today we are adding Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to our list of HIPAA Eligible Services. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon EFS now a HIPAA-Eligible Service

The Media Analysis Solution is a reference implementation that helps customers process, analyze, and extract meaningful data from their audio, image, and video files. The solution combines Amazon Rekognition, to provide highly accurate object, scene and activity detection; facial analysis and recognition; and celebrity detection in videos and images, Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service, Read more about Introducing the Media Analysis Solution[…]

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight will offer pay-per-session pricing, a first among business analytics services. With pay-per-session pricing, you can enable everyone in the organization with interactive, data driven dashboards and pay only when users access these dashboards. This makes Amazon QuickSight an even more cost-effective way for you to make personalized business analytics available to Read more about Amazon QuickSight announces Pay-per-Session pricing, Private VPC Connectivity and more![…]

PostgreSQL 11 Beta 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing customers to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 11 on Amazon RDS.  Source: Amazon Web Services News PostgreSQL 11 Beta 1 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an industry-standard protocol for securing network connections. You can now use TLS version 1.2 to establish a secure network connection to all editions of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1.2

AWS CloudFormation StackSets now allows you to create multiple execution roles in target accounts. This allows you to control resource types users can create or update in their stack sets. For example, you can restrict a group to create or update only Amazon S3 related resources in StackSets, while another group can only access Amazon Read more about AWS CloudFormation StackSets Supports Multiple Execution Roles and Selective Update Operation on Stack Instances[…]

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of an eighth Edge location in Tokyo, Japan. The addition of another Edge location continues to expand CloudFront’s capacity in the region, allowing us to serve increased volumes of web traffic. For a full list of CloudFront’s global network, see the CloudFront Details webpage. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon CloudFront Read more about Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of its eighth Edge location in Tokyo, Japan[…]

Auto Recovery is an Amazon EC2 feature that is designed to increase instance availability. Auto Recovery is now available for Dedicated Instances in all AWS Regions. You can now automatically recover Dedicated Instances when a system impairment is detected. This feature recovers the instance on different underlying hardware and reduces the need for manual intervention.  Read more about Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery is now available for Dedicated Instances[…]

Amazon Neptune — now generally available — is a fast, reliable graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF), and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin 3.3.2 and SPARQL 1.1. Source: Read more about Amazon Neptune is now generally available to build fast, reliable graph applications[…]