AWS announces the general availability of VPC Route Server to simplify dynamic routing between virtual appliances in your Amazon VPC. Route Server allows you to advertise routing information through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynamically update the VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateway.

Prior to this feature, you had to create custom scripts or use virtual routers with overlay network to dynamically update VPC route tables. VPC Route Server removes the operational overhead of creating and maintaining overlay networks or custom scripts and offers a managed solution for dynamically updating routes in route tables. With VPC Route Server, you can deploy endpoints in your VPC and peer them with your virtual appliances to advertise routes using BGP. The Route Server filters these received routes using standard BGP attributes and propagates the selected routes to the specified route tables. This makes it easy for you to dynamically update routes and quickly mitigate appliance failure or other issues.

VPC Route Server is available in US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions.

For more information, see the VPC Route Server documentation.
 

 

​AWS announces the general availability of VPC Route Server to simplify dynamic routing between virtual appliances in your Amazon VPC. Route Server allows you to advertise routing information through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynamically update the VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateway. Prior to this feature, you had to create custom scripts or use virtual routers with overlay network to dynamically update VPC route tables. VPC Route Server removes the operational overhead of creating and maintaining overlay networks or custom scripts and offers a managed solution for dynamically updating routes in route tables. With VPC Route Server, you can deploy endpoints in your VPC and peer them with your virtual appliances to advertise routes using BGP. The Route Server filters these received routes using standard BGP attributes and propagates the selected routes to the specified route tables. This makes it easy for you to dynamically update routes and quickly mitigate appliance failure or other issues. VPC Route Server is available in US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. For more information, see the VPC Route Server documentation.    

Starting today, AWS Marketplace supports the Japan Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) rule, making it easier for Sellers to meet the Japanese regulatory requirements and providing a seamless tax experience for customers in Japan. Under the MPF rule, AWS Marketplace will collect the Japan consumption tax (JCT) and issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) for sales by non-Japan addressed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners (together as non-Japan addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. Also, AWS Marketplace will offer the same customer experience by enabling TQI issuance for sales by Japan-addressed ISVs and Channel Partners (together as Japan-addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan.

With this launch, for non-Japan addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will collect the 10% JCT on products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers, issue a TQI to the customers, and remit the JCT to the Japan Tax Authorities. For Japan-addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will continue to collect 10% JCT on the products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers and disburse the collected JCT to the Japan-addressed Sellers; additionally, AWS Japan will issue a TQI to the customers. The TQI issuance helps customers reduce the administrative burden for managing tax documentation.

This feature is available for all Sellers when transacting via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator. To learn more, please visit the AWS Japan FAQ or AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.

 

​Starting today, AWS Marketplace supports the Japan Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) rule, making it easier for Sellers to meet the Japanese regulatory requirements and providing a seamless tax experience for customers in Japan. Under the MPF rule, AWS Marketplace will collect the Japan consumption tax (JCT) and issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) for sales by non-Japan addressed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners (together as non-Japan addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. Also, AWS Marketplace will offer the same customer experience by enabling TQI issuance for sales by Japan-addressed ISVs and Channel Partners (together as Japan-addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. With this launch, for non-Japan addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will collect the 10% JCT on products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers, issue a TQI to the customers, and remit the JCT to the Japan Tax Authorities. For Japan-addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will continue to collect 10% JCT on the products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers and disburse the collected JCT to the Japan-addressed Sellers; additionally, AWS Japan will issue a TQI to the customers. The TQI issuance helps customers reduce the administrative burden for managing tax documentation. This feature is available for all Sellers when transacting via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator. To learn more, please visit the AWS Japan FAQ or AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.  

AWS CodeBuild now supports on-demand Windows build environments in four additional AWS Regions: South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). The expansion allows customers in these AWS Regions to run Windows-based workloads with the flexibility of on-demand pricing. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment.

Additionally, CodeBuild Windows build environment now supports non-container builds, enabling you to run build commands directly on the host operating system without containerization. You can also configure your builds to build docker images in Windows environment.

CodeBuild on-demand Windows environment is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt).

To learn more about CodeBuild build environment, please visit our documentation. To learn more about how to get started with CodeBuild, visit the AWS CodeBuild product page.
 

 

​AWS CodeBuild now supports on-demand Windows build environments in four additional AWS Regions: South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). The expansion allows customers in these AWS Regions to run Windows-based workloads with the flexibility of on-demand pricing. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, CodeBuild Windows build environment now supports non-container builds, enabling you to run build commands directly on the host operating system without containerization. You can also configure your builds to build docker images in Windows environment. CodeBuild on-demand Windows environment is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more about CodeBuild build environment, please visit our documentation. To learn more about how to get started with CodeBuild, visit the AWS CodeBuild product page.    

Amazon Connect now allows you to customize the number of seconds which the system will wait between a caller’s keypad button presses so you can optimize user inputs in your Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Administrators can now adjust this waiting period from 1 to 20 seconds, which was previously fixed at 5 seconds. For example, in a banking IVR flow, you can now set a longer inter-digit timeout for account number entry benefitting customers who may need more time between pressing digits. Additionally, two existing settings, Maximum Digits and Timeout Before First Entry, can now be set dynamically using variables, giving administrators more flexibility in designing IVR flows. This added flexibility allows you to optimize your IVR systems for specific use cases, improving user experience and system efficiency.

To learn more refer to our public documentation. This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
 

 

​Amazon Connect now allows you to customize the number of seconds which the system will wait between a caller’s keypad button presses so you can optimize user inputs in your Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Administrators can now adjust this waiting period from 1 to 20 seconds, which was previously fixed at 5 seconds. For example, in a banking IVR flow, you can now set a longer inter-digit timeout for account number entry benefitting customers who may need more time between pressing digits. Additionally, two existing settings, Maximum Digits and Timeout Before First Entry, can now be set dynamically using variables, giving administrators more flexibility in designing IVR flows. This added flexibility allows you to optimize your IVR systems for specific use cases, improving user experience and system efficiency. To learn more refer to our public documentation. This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.    

AWS Payment Cryptography now supports exchanging cryptographic keys using Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH). With this new feature, customers now have a method to electronically exchange keys up to 256 bits in strength. These capabilities bring more flexibility in addition to existing support for industry norms such as TR-34 and TR-31/X9.143. With AWS Payment Cryptography, you can simplify cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications with a service that grows elastically with your business and has been assessed as compliant with PCI PIN Security and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) requirements.

While payment processing has traditionally relied on TDES (Triple DES) encryption schemes, customers have shown a greater interest in moving to the more secure AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) standard including the 256-bit option. With this feature, AWS Payment Cryptography provides an interoperable method to exchange any key supported by the service with a customers on-premise HSM, providing a secure method of key synchronization and migration. ECDH can also be used when transferring keys to mobile payment applications such as those certified under the PCI MPoC (Mobile Payments on Commercial-off-the-shelf devices) standard. This removes the risks and hassle of manual processes and makes it easier to upgrade to the latest cryptographic standards.

These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Payment Cryptography is available. For detailed information and samples for utilizing the new key exchange features, please download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and review importing and exporting keys in the AWS Payment Cryptography Developer Guide.
 

 

​AWS Payment Cryptography now supports exchanging cryptographic keys using Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH). With this new feature, customers now have a method to electronically exchange keys up to 256 bits in strength. These capabilities bring more flexibility in addition to existing support for industry norms such as TR-34 and TR-31/X9.143. With AWS Payment Cryptography, you can simplify cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications with a service that grows elastically with your business and has been assessed as compliant with PCI PIN Security and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) requirements. While payment processing has traditionally relied on TDES (Triple DES) encryption schemes, customers have shown a greater interest in moving to the more secure AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) standard including the 256-bit option. With this feature, AWS Payment Cryptography provides an interoperable method to exchange any key supported by the service with a customers on-premise HSM, providing a secure method of key synchronization and migration. ECDH can also be used when transferring keys to mobile payment applications such as those certified under the PCI MPoC (Mobile Payments on Commercial-off-the-shelf devices) standard. This removes the risks and hassle of manual processes and makes it easier to upgrade to the latest cryptographic standards. These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Payment Cryptography is available. For detailed information and samples for utilizing the new key exchange features, please download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and review importing and exporting keys in the AWS Payment Cryptography Developer Guide.    

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in embedded dashboards and console. The Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight help business analysts and business users easily build and consume insights using natural language.

With executive summaries, users of embedded dashboards can quickly grasp essential insights from any dashboard in seconds. Dashboard-authoring capabilities empower your users to build interactive dashboards more easily than ever, leveraging natural language to generate visuals and perform complex calculations with ease. With just a few lines of code, developers can integrate Generative BI capabilities into their applications by embedding the new multi-visual Q&A experience—enabling end users to confidently explore and answer questions from data. Users can prompt Amazon Q using a few words to generate a sharable document or presentation in moments that explains data, extracts key insights and visuals, and recommends best actions to improve your business.

These Amazon Q capabilities in embedded dashboards and console are now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai and Sydney ), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) AWS Regions.

To learn more about Amazon Q in embedded QuickSight see the AWS Business Intelligence Blog and try Amazon QuickSight free for 30 days.

 

​Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in embedded dashboards and console. The Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight help business analysts and business users easily build and consume insights using natural language. With executive summaries, users of embedded dashboards can quickly grasp essential insights from any dashboard in seconds. Dashboard-authoring capabilities empower your users to build interactive dashboards more easily than ever, leveraging natural language to generate visuals and perform complex calculations with ease. With just a few lines of code, developers can integrate Generative BI capabilities into their applications by embedding the new multi-visual Q&A experience—enabling end users to confidently explore and answer questions from data. Users can prompt Amazon Q using a few words to generate a sharable document or presentation in moments that explains data, extracts key insights and visuals, and recommends best actions to improve your business. These Amazon Q capabilities in embedded dashboards and console are now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai and Sydney ), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) AWS Regions. To learn more about Amazon Q in embedded QuickSight see the AWS Business Intelligence Blog and try Amazon QuickSight free for 30 days.  

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 32 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon CloudFront.

With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:

1. apigateway:vpclinks 2. appconfig:application 3. appconfig:deploymentstrategy 4. backup:report-plan 5. ce:anomalymonitor 6. ce:anomalysubscription 7. cloudfront:continuous-deployment-policy 8. cloudtrail:channel 9. codedeploy:application 10. codedeploy:deploymentconfig 11. events:archive 12. events:endpoint 13. gamelift:location 14. groundstation:mission-profile 15. inspector:target/template 16. iot:cacert

17. iot:cert 18. iotdeviceadvisor:suitedefinition 19. iotfleetwise:decoder-manifest 20. iotfleetwise:model-manifest 21. iotfleetwise:signal-catalog 22. managedblockchain:accessors 23. oam:sink 24. omics:referenceStore 25. omics:runGroup 26. omics:workflow 27. personalize:solution 28. pipes:pipe 29. scheduler:schedule-group 30. schemas:discoverer 31. transfer:certificate 32. transfer:connector

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.

 

​AWS Resource Explorer now supports 32 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon CloudFront. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:

1. apigateway:vpclinks 2. appconfig:application 3. appconfig:deploymentstrategy 4. backup:report-plan 5. ce:anomalymonitor 6. ce:anomalysubscription 7. cloudfront:continuous-deployment-policy 8. cloudtrail:channel 9. codedeploy:application 10. codedeploy:deploymentconfig 11. events:archive 12. events:endpoint 13. gamelift:location 14. groundstation:mission-profile 15. inspector:target/template 16. iot:cacert
17. iot:cert 18. iotdeviceadvisor:suitedefinition 19. iotfleetwise:decoder-manifest 20. iotfleetwise:model-manifest 21. iotfleetwise:signal-catalog 22. managedblockchain:accessors 23. oam:sink 24. omics:referenceStore 25. omics:runGroup 26. omics:workflow 27. personalize:solution 28. pipes:pipe 29. scheduler:schedule-group 30. schemas:discoverer 31. transfer:certificate 32. transfer:connector

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.  

Today, AWS App Studio announces two new capabilities that accelerate enterprise application building from idea to production. App Studio now offers a prebuilt solutions catalog and application Import and Export, enabling users to get started quickly and easily deploy applications across Regions and AWS accounts.

App Studio’s prebuilt solutions catalog offers a variety of ready-to-use applications and common patterns (like Amazon S3 and Amazon Bedrock integration) that can be seamlessly imported into any App Studio instance. Customers can explore and deploy these applications to their own instances, significantly reducing initial setup time and move from concept to production instances in less than 15 minutes.

These new capabilities are now available in all AWS Regions where AWS App Studio is available, including US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland).

To learn more about App Studio, visit the AWS App Studio page and join the conversation in the #aws-app-studio channel in the AWS Developers Slack workspace. To explore App Studio’s prebuilt solutions catalog and Import and Export capabilities, visit the blog post. There is no charge for building and managing your App Studio applications. Get started by visiting the AWS Management Console.
 

 

​Today, AWS App Studio announces two new capabilities that accelerate enterprise application building from idea to production. App Studio now offers a prebuilt solutions catalog and application Import and Export, enabling users to get started quickly and easily deploy applications across Regions and AWS accounts. App Studio’s prebuilt solutions catalog offers a variety of ready-to-use applications and common patterns (like Amazon S3 and Amazon Bedrock integration) that can be seamlessly imported into any App Studio instance. Customers can explore and deploy these applications to their own instances, significantly reducing initial setup time and move from concept to production instances in less than 15 minutes. These new capabilities are now available in all AWS Regions where AWS App Studio is available, including US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). To learn more about App Studio, visit the AWS App Studio page and join the conversation in the #aws-app-studio channel in the AWS Developers Slack workspace. To explore App Studio’s prebuilt solutions catalog and Import and Export capabilities, visit the blog post. There is no charge for building and managing your App Studio applications. Get started by visiting the AWS Management Console.    

You can now create a Transfer Family web app in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These Regions are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud if you have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. With this release, you can now create a Transfer Family web app with an option to enable a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 compliant endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and meet compliance requirements.

AWS Transfer Family web apps provide a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, upload, and download data in S3.

To learn more about AWS Transfer Family web apps, read our blog and visit the Transfer Family User Guide. For complete regional availability information, see the AWS Region Table.

 

​You can now create a Transfer Family web app in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These Regions are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud if you have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. With this release, you can now create a Transfer Family web app with an option to enable a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 compliant endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and meet compliance requirements. AWS Transfer Family web apps provide a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, upload, and download data in S3. To learn more about AWS Transfer Family web apps, read our blog and visit the Transfer Family User Guide. For complete regional availability information, see the AWS Region Table.  

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import in the Europe (Frankfurt) region to import and use their customized models alongside existing foundation models via a single, unified API.

Customers can access their imported custom models in an on-demand, serverless manner without having to manage the underlying instances. They can accelerate generative AI application development by integrating their imported custom models seamlessly with native Bedrock tools and features like Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Evaluation, and Prompt Flows.

To get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import page and see the documentation page for more details.

 

​Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import in the Europe (Frankfurt) region to import and use their customized models alongside existing foundation models via a single, unified API. Customers can access their imported custom models in an on-demand, serverless manner without having to manage the underlying instances. They can accelerate generative AI application development by integrating their imported custom models seamlessly with native Bedrock tools and features like Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Evaluation, and Prompt Flows. To get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import page and see the documentation page for more details.