R&D Weekly

This week the base2 research and develoment team have been looking into

AWS Control Tower Improvements

We have been playing with AWS Control Tower receintly and building integrations into to Bearse and these 2 new release from Amazon are going to improve the experince of updating and adding new accounts.

Before the process of adding existing AWS accounts to Control Tower was a manual process, but this new release of adding an existing OU really improves this!

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/aws-control-tower-extends-governance-existing-ous-aws-organizations/

AWS Control Tower now allows for bulk update of upto 300 accounts at a time which imrpoves updating enrolled accounts to align them to the current landing zone version

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/aws-control-tower-provides-bulk-account-update/

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12

Great news to see PostgreSQL 12 support on Amazon Aurora as well as a inplace upgrade from version 11 to 12.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/amazon-aurora-supports-postgresql-12/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/amazon-aurora-supports-in-place-upgrades-postgresql-11-12/