The following table describes the important changes in each release of the AMS Accelerate User Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
The RDS Average CPU Utilization alarm threshold has been changed from 75% to 90%. | February 20, 2025 | |
Accelerate Update to AMS automatic remediation of alerts table. | The alert remediation table has been expanded with new content. | February 20, 2025 |
You can configure Alarm Manager to retain alarms in CloudWatch instead of automatic deletion. | February 20, 2025 | |
Updated Self-service reports with new data options for aggregated report viewing | Added data options to include new Field Name:
| January 28, 2025 |
Added additional AWS Trusted Advisor checks supported by Trusted Remediator | The following Trusted Advisor checks are now supported by Trusted Remediator:
| January 28, 2025 |
Updated resource inventory spreadsheet. | January 23, 2025 | |
Aggregated self-service reporting (SSR) provides you a view of existing self-service reports aggregated at the organization level, cross-account. | January 21, 2025 | |
Use this feature to configure "hooks" with SSM Command documents to run operating system level commands before or after patching. | January 16, 2025 | |
Added information on a new feature, configuring alert notifications by resource, or instance ID, rather than by incident. | January 8, 2025 | |
Update to Onboarding section of EKS Monitoring and Incident Management | Updated the onboarding procedure note to clarify when alert signals are suspended and resumed. | December 19, 2024 |
You can use the Member accounts log to find the account ID, onboarded AWS Regions, and execution time of each member account. | December 19, 2024 | |
Content on blocking outbound traffic is updated. | December 4, 2024 | |
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) is now a supported by Accelerate Monitoring and Incident Management for EKS | November 21, 2024 | |
The following operating systems are supported for in-place upgrades:
| November 11, 2024 | |
Africa (Cape Town) is now a supported by Accelerate Monitoring and Incident Management for EKS | November 4, 2024 | |
The following operating systems are supported for in-place upgrades:
| November 1, 2024 | |
Updated diagram, template parameters, and yaml template file. | October 28, 2024 | |
The following Trusted Advisor checks are now available in Trusted Remediator:
| October 25, 2024 | |
Updated supported Oracle Linux operating systems to 9.0-9.3, 8.0-8.9, 7.5-7.9. | October 24, 2024 | |
Instructions on how to offboard with Alarm Manager and Resource Tagger dependencies added to Offboard from AMS Accelerate. | October 24, 2024 | |
The Resource Tagger dashboard is now available in Self-service reporting. | September 26, 2024 | |
You can now include multiple email addresses in tag-based alerts. | Multiple email addresses are now supported in tag-based alerts. | September 20, 2024 |
AMS Accelerate limits are now included in AMS patch management. | AMS Accelerate limits are included in Patch management - Create a patch maintenance window. | August 30, 2024 |
A new section in Account Discovery has been added for Amazon EC2 Instance Evaluation. | August 29, 2024 | |
AMS Accelerate default patch baseline is now available for Ubuntu operating systems. | AMS Accelerate default patch baseline is now available for Ubuntu operating systems. | August 22, 2024 |
Four new AWS API calls have been added to the AWS CloudTrail Evaluation section in the operational check table. | August 2, 2024 | |
Trusted Remediator now supports the security check Hs4Ma3G192 - RDS DB Instances should prohibit public access. | July 30, 2024 | |
AMS now supports Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall | July 30, 2024 | |
AMS Accelerate onboarding_role_minimal.zip now contains Terraform code | AMS Accelerate onboarding_role_minimal.zip now contains Terraform code. | July 30, 2024 |
The Security Config Rules Dashboard is now available in Self-Service reporting. | July 24, 2024 | |
AMS Accelerate now supports Oracle Linux 8.9, RHEL 8.10, and RHEL 9.4. | AMS Accelerate now supports Oracle Linux 8.9, RHEL 8.10, and RHEL 9.4. | July 5, 2024 |
The account discovery process used when onboarding AWS accounts to AMS Accelerate is updated. | July 1, 2024 | |
Trusted Remediator, an AWS Managed Services solution that automates the remediation of AWS Trusted Advisor checks, is now available. | June 24, 2024 | |
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS firewall events in Security Incident Response. | AMS now monitors Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS firewall events in Security Incident Response | June 21, 2024 |
AMS Accelerate now supports AlmaLinux 8.3-8.9, 9.0-9.2 (AlmaLinux is only supported with x86 architecture) | June 19, 2024 | |
Automatic instance profile limit now increases if the default is met. | AMS now increases the default instance profile limit to 20 if the default limit of 10 is reached. | June 18, 2024 |
AMS SSM Agent automatic installation feature now enabled by default. | The AMS SSM Agent automatic installation feature is enabled by default for accounts onboarded after 6/03/2024. | June 7, 2024 |
A Security FAQ is now available that covers common questions about the security best practices, controls, access models, and audit mechanisms used when an AMS operations engineer or automation accesses your accounts. | June 3, 2024 | |
Additional AWS Regions now supported by Monitoring and Incident Management for Amazon EKS. | Three additional AWS Regions are now supported by Monitoring and Incident Management for Amazon EKS. | May 23, 2024 |
Service request patch notifications are now sent in advance of Patch Maintenance windows. | AMS Accelerate patching creates a new service request 4 days in advance of a Patch Maintenance window. You can use the service request to communicate with AMS for adjustments to the patch or to skip a patch. | May 3, 2024 |
Alert thresholds added to the AMS Accelerate EKS monitoring baseline alerts table. | Detailed alert thresholds are now available in the Baseline alerts table for Amazon EKS monitoring. | May 3, 2024 |
Added notes about creating Anomaly Detection alarms with Alarm Manager. | April 25, 2024 | |
DynamoDB tables and Amazon S3 buckets are now available in Resource Tagger | April 25, 2024 | |
Detailed information about the PEM service offering is now available in the AMS Accelerate User Guide. | April 25, 2024 | |
AMS supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.x. | April 25, 2024 | |
AMS Accelerate supports reporting for all AWS Region configurations. | AMS Accelerate supports SSM Inventory Reporting for all AWS Region configurations. | April 25, 2024 |
Updated the AWSManagedServicesDeploymentToolkitPolicy with new ECR permissions. | April 4, 2024 | |
Added | March 21, 2024 | |
Updated: Incident reports and service requests in Accelerate section. | Changed the topic title to Incident reports, service requests, and billing questions in Accelerate. Added a new section, Billing questions. | March 21, 2024 |
Added clarification on how AMS handles service requests that contain a feature request or a bug. | March 21, 2024 | |
Updated: Create aws_managedservices_onboarding_role role with AWS CloudFormation section | Added commands to create the role from AWS CloudShell. | March 21, 2024 |
Added commands to download the template from AWS CloudShell. | March 21, 2024 | |
New resource types available for Alarm Manager configuration profiles. | Added resource types for Amazon FSx, Amazon EFS, and Elasticsearch to Alarm Manager configuration profiles. | March 21, 2024 |
Additional pseudoparameter substitutions available for configuration profile. | Added Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx pseudoparameter substitutions. | March 21, 2024 |
Added new section to Features in the Service description topic. | Added a new section, Service request management under AMS Accelerate features. | March 21, 2024 |
New columns added to the self-service reporting Weekly Incident report | New columns were added to the Weekly Incident report so that you can filter for incidents based on quarter, month, week, or day that the incident was created or resolved. | March 11, 2024 |
Earlier updates
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation of the AMS Accelerate guide prior to March 2024.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Improvements for AMS Accelerate CloudTrail trail onboarding | Improvements for AMS Accelerate CloudTrail trail onboarding:
For more information, see Review and update your configurations to enable AMS Accelerate to use your CloudTrail trail. |
February 23, 2024 |
| Updated: Account onboarding process. | Restructured the Account onboarding process section to make the steps more clear. Also aded an optional Quick Start template for onboarding features. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated: Offboarding AMS Accelerate. | Updated the AMS Accelerate offboarding considerations section to indicate that the |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated: Configuration compliance in Accelerate. | Changed "Incident Report" to "Service Request" where applicable to avoid confusion on these terms. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated: Account discovery in Accelerate. | Reorganized Account discovery in Accelerate to better group prerequisites with the relevant section. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Renamed: AMS Patch reporting to AMS host management. | Renamed AMS Patch reporting to AMS host management and renamed the report, Patch Details report, to SSM Agent Coverage report. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated Operations on Demand Catalog | Updated the Operations on Demand catalog of offerings table to remove references to "health" in |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated AMS Event Router | Updated the |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated Supported Operating Systems. | Updated Supported Operating Systems to include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated EC2 volume usage remediation automation | Updated the EC2 volume usage remdiation automation section with correct capacity expansion schedule. |
February 22, 2024 |
| Updated: Review and update your configurations to enable Accelerate to use your CloudTrail trail | Updated the AMS Accelerate Organization CloudTrail S3 bucket policy section. See Review and update your configurations to enable AMS Accelerate to use your CloudTrail trail | February 15, 2024 |
| Added new feature: SSM Agent auto installation |
Added a new section for SSM Agent auto installation |
January 26, 2024 |
| Updated: Supported configurations | Added information regarding the supported versions of AWS Control Tower |
January 26, 2024 |
| Updated: AMS Patch reporting. | Removed three sections from AMS Patch reporting:
|
December 22, 2023 |
| Updated: Accelerate onboarding prerequisites. | Updated the support plans required to onboard AMS Accelerate. |
December 15, 2023 |
| Updated: Create a patch maintenace window. | Removed Default patch cycle sectio as this feature is deprecated. |
December 13, 2023 |
| Updated: Notification settings in Accelerate. | Clarified what email is used for notifications. See Notification settings in Accelerate for more information. |
December 12, 2023 |
Updated: AMSAccelerateCustomerAccessPolicies template.
|
Updated the See Permissions to use AMS features for more information. |
December 12, 2023 |
| Added: Change request security reviews | Added a new section Change request security reviews under Security Management. See Change request security reviews for more information. |
December 11, 2023 |
| Updated: resource_inventory.xlsx | Updated the resource_inventory.xlsx to include Security Analyst roles. See Resource inventory for Accelerate for more information. |
November 17, 2023 |
| Updated: ams-access-admin-operations role description | Updated ams-access-admin-operations description. See Why and when AMS accesses your account and Authenticating with identities in AMS Accelerate for more information. |
November 17, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Accelerate offboarding considerations | Updated Security section to clarify what is available from Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Config rules after offboarding. See AMS Accelerate offboarding effects for more information. |
November 17, 2023 |
| Added: Monitoring and Incident Management for Amazon EKS | Monitoring and Incident Management for Amazon EKS monitors your Amazon EKS resources for failures, performance degradation, and security issues. See Monitoring and incident management for Amazon EKS in AMS Accelerate for more information. |
November 14, 2023 |
| Updated: Tagging | Added information on customer-provided tagging. See Customer-provided tags in Accelerate for more information. |
November 7, 2023 |
| Updated: Resource Tagger Configuration Profiles | Added AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup, AWS::EKS::Cluster, AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain, and AWS::FSx::FileSystem to the Filter section. See Resource Tagger Configuration Profiles in AMS Accelerate for more information. |
October 27, 2023 |
| Updated: Service Description | Added Ubuntu 22.04 to Supported Operating Systems. See Service description |
September 29, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Accelerate Onboarding Prerequisites | Added a note to AMS Accelerate VPC endpoints to include CloudFormation template. See Accelerate onboarding prerequisites. | September 29, 2023 |
| Updated: Detect | Removed endpoint protection type from the AMS Accelerate security response. See Detect. | September 29, 2023 |
| Updated: Alerts from Baseline Monitoring in AMS | Added AWS Outposts to the Alerts from Baseline Monitoring table. See Detect monitoring-default-metrics. | September 29, 2023 |
| Updated: Create aws_managedservices_onboarding_role role with AWS CloudFormation | Updated screenshot for Specify Stack Details. See Create aws_managedservices_onboarding_role with AWS CloudFormation for Accelerate. | September 29, 2023 |
| Updated: Amazon EventBridge Managed Rules deployed by AMS Accelerate | Added new AMS Accelerate Amazon EventBridge Managed Rule AMSCoreRule. Updated AMS Accelerate Amazon EventBridge Managed Rule AMSAccessRolesRule to add a new role. See Amazon EventBridge Managed Rules deployed by AMS for more information. |
September 19, 2023 |
| Updated: Alarm Manager Configuration Profiles |
Added AWS Outposts pseudoparameter substitution identifiers. See Monitoring and event management in AMS Accelerate. |
September 11, 2023 |
| Updated: Resource Tagger Configuration Profiles | Added AWS Outposts resource type. See Accelerate Configuration profile: pseudoparameter substitution. |
September 11, 2023 |
| Updated: Supported services | Added Amazon Elastic File System to the Services monitored by CloudWatch alarms section. See Service description for more information. |
September 6, 2023 |
| Updated: Patch monitoring and failure remediation | Added the following note to Using Patch Orchestrator section: "Patch failure alerts aren't created for instances that have unsupported operating systems, or that are stopped during the maintenance window" See Understand patch management in AMS Accelerate for more information. |
September 6, 2023 |
| Updated: Clarified Response to malware events runbook | Clarified Response to malware events runbook for Security Incident response. See Security Incident Response in AMS for more information. |
September 6, 2023 |
| Updated: Connecting your Accelerate account with Transit Gateway | Clarified steps for Connecting a new Accelerate account VPC to the AMS Multi-Account Landing Zone network (creating a TGW VPC attachment): See Connecting your Accelerate account withTransit Gateway for more information. |
September 5, 2023 |
| Updated: Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS | Removed reference to two deprecated alarms AMSReadLatencyAlarm and AMSWriteLatencyAlarm. See Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS for more information. |
September 5, 2023 |
| Added: AMS Event Router | Added documentation for AMS Event Router See Using Amazon EventBridge Managed Rules in AMS for more information. |
September 5, 2023 |
| Updated: List of Alarm Manager pseudoparameters. | Updated the list of Alarm Manager pseudoparameters. EC2 instance name parameter was added to EC2 instance and EC2 disk alarm configurations. See Accelerate Configuration profile: pseudoparameter substitution for more information. |
August 29, 2023 |
| Added: AMS Access Offboarding | Added consideration when offboarding AMS Access. See AMS Accelerate offboarding effects. |
August 24, 2023 |
| Added: AMS Security Incident Response | Added documentation for using AMS Security Incident Response. See Security Incident Response in AMS . |
August 18, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Accelerate access roles | Corrected a typo in the role names. See AWS Identity and Access Management in AMS Accelerate. |
August 10, 2023 |
| Updated: Policy statements | Replaced hardcoded role names with wildcards. See Review and update your configurations to enable AMS Accelerate to use your CloudTrail trail. |
August 10, 2023 |
| Updated: List of monitored services with EFS alerts. | Updated the list of monitoring services with new EFS alerts for AMS baseline monitoring. 4 new EFS alert types were added. See Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS for more information. |
August 03, 2023 |
| Updated: Accelerate resource inventory table | Removed ams-backup-config-rule-stack and related resources. See Resource inventory for Accelerate. |
July 18, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Accelerate access roles | Removed roles ams-backup-config-rule-st-amsBackupAlertConfigRule-<8-digit hash> and ams-backup-config-rule-st-amsBackupPlanConfigRuleH-<8-digit hash>. See AWS Identity and Access Management in AMS Accelerate. |
July 18, 2023 |
| Updated: List of monitored RDS alerts. | Updated the list of RDS alerts for AMS baseline monitoring. 9 new RDS alert types were added and 3 existing RDS alert types were removed. See Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS for more information. |
June 19, 2023 |
| New: AMS Accelerate access roles | Added new access roles for AMS Security. |
June 16, 2023 |
| New: AMS Accelerate CloudTrail log management can now use customer CloudTrail trails. | Updated Accelerate supported options for CloudTrail log management, including Accelerate deployed trail or integration with customer managed CloudTrail account or Organization trail. See Review and update your configurations to enable AMS Accelerate to use your CloudTrail trail for more information. |
June 09, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Accelerate Config Rules Response Configuration Report. | Updated on-request reporting for AWS Config Rules Response Configuration Report. See Accelerate updates to on-request reporting. See AMS Config Rules Response Configuration report. |
May 26, 2023 |
| Updated: Service Billing Start Date policy. | Updated definitions of Billing Start Date in AMS key terms. |
May 15, 2023 |
| Updated: AWS managed policies. | Updated the AWSManagedServicesDeploymentToolkitPolicy with new CFN and ECR permissions, and scoped down existing actions with wildcards. See Accelerate updates to service-linked roles. See Accelerate updates to service-linked roles. |
May 09, 2023 |
| Updated: Access role policy links. | The access roles can now be downloaded directly from Accelerate S3 bucket locations. See Why and when AMS accesses your account and AWS Identity and Access Management in AMS Accelerate. | |
| Updated: Monthly Billing Self-Service Report. | Added note: The Monthly Billing reports are only available in a Management Payer account (AMS Advanced multi-account landing zone), but are available for all linked AMS Accelerate-managed accounts. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: List of Alerts. | Removed CloudTrail references. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: List of Alerts. | Added three new SSM agent alerts. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: Accelerate Prerequisites. | Clarified that Accelerate requires one of four AWS Support plans be in place and excludes the Developer plan. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: Accelerate service-linked role policy. | The Contacts Service policy zip file has been updated. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS Resource Scheduler. | Incorrect role name, AWSManagedServices-DescribeScheduleOrPeriod, corrected to AWSManagedServices-DescribeScheduleOrPeriods. See Cost optimization with AMS Resource Scheduler. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: AWS managed policies. | Updated Customized findings responses with instructions for updating custom reponses in single or multiple accounts. |
April 13, 2023 |
| Updated: Resource Tagger | Added warnings about "specifying the name for your new configuration (SampleConfigurationBlock in the provided example) as you may inadvertently override the AMS-managed configuration with the same name". See Resource Tagger use cases in AMS Accelerate. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Patch RACI | Several updates and clarfications to the RACI for patching. See Service description. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Actions in deployment toolkit SLR JSON | Updated policy and actions. See: Using service-linked roles for AMS Accelerate. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Auto remediation | Removed LVM support for EC2 volume automation. See: AMS automatic remediation of alerts. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Accelerate Onboarding. | Clarified use of roles, espcially the minimal role The template to create AMS roles. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Self-service reporting. | Daily backup reports now support primary and secondary regions. Both are reported in the Resource Region field of Backup report (daily). |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Patching guidance | Added a warning not to customize the default patching baselines, which are managed by AMS. Instead, create a new custom patching baseline. See: Default patch baseline and Custom patch baseline with AMS Accelerate. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated Service Termination policy. | Updated definitions of Service Termination and Service Termination Date in AMS key terms. Termination notcies must be issued by the 20th day of the month prior to your last full month. |
March 16, 2023 |
| Updated: AWS managed policies. | Clarified policy name: Contacts service-linked role for AMS Accelerate. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| New: AWS managed policies. | Added policy: Contacts service-linked role for AMS Accelerate. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Configuration compliance. | Fixed a misspelled word in: Configuration compliance in Accelerate. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| New Content: Unsupported OSes | Added information on what services AMS provides for unsupported operating systems (OSes), see Capabilities for unsupported operating systems in Accelerate. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| Updated: Create patch windows | Added a link for using CloudShell to Create a maintenance window with the Systems Manager command line interface (CLI) for AMS Accelerate. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| Updated Content: Onboarding management resources | Updated the zipped JSON templates in The template to create AMS roles. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| New Content: Configuration Compliance | Added a new topic: Customized findings responses. |
Feb 16, 2023 |
| New: AWS managed policies. | Added policy: Amazon EventBridge rule service-linked role for AMS Accelerate. |
Feb 07, 2023 |
| Updated: AWS managed policies. | Updated the |
Jan 30, 2023 |
| New opt-in region: CPT. | AMS Accelerate is now available in the Capetown (CPT) opt-in region. To opt in, see Managing AWS Regions. |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: Service Description. | Added FSx services monitored by CloudWatch alarms to Service description. |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: Monitoring default metrics. | Added 6 FSx alarms to Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS. |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: AMS patterns. | Added Customize Cloudwatch Alarm Notifications to AMS patterns. |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: Onboarding management resources. | Updated the table of templates, adding a row for |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: Configuration compliance. | Additional details for requesting custom remediations (in the Important box) on Configuration compliance in Accelerate. |
Jan 12, 2023 |
| Updated: Service-linked-role permissions. | Removed older or duplicated permissions. See Using service-linked roles for AMS Accelerate. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Patch management, maintenance windows. | Added guidance to console instructions, step 5, for creating a maintenance window. See Create a maintenance window from the Systems Manager console for AMS Accelerate. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| New: Patch management section. | Added a section for Patch Tuesday maintenance windows. See Create a recurring "Patch Tuesday" maintenance window from the AMS console (recommended). |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS Resource Scheduler. | Updated the AWS CloudFormation stack name. See Using resources with AMS Resource Scheduler. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Tag your resources for backup. | Added guidance for using AMS Resource Tagger. See Tag your resources to apply AMS backup plans. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Select a backup plan. | Indicated which plans offer continuous backup. See Select an AMS backup plan. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS Resource Scheduler. | Updated the AWS CLI example for deleting a period or schedule. See Working with periods and schedules in AWS Managed Services Resource Scheduler. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: AWS managed policies. | Added the |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| New: Added section describing the AMS new service-linked role, AWSServiceRoleForManagedServices_DetectiveControlsConfig. | Added GovCloud regions and permissions. See Detective controls service-linked role for AMS Accelerate. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| New: AWS-managed policy | Added section describing how the AWS-managed policy, AWSManagedServices_AlarmManagerPermissionsBoundary, is used in the service-linked role policy, AWSManagedServices_AlarmManager_ServiceRolePolicy, to restrict permissions of IAM roles created by the service-linked role AWSServiceRoleForManagedServices_AlarmManager. See AWS managed policies for AMS Accelerate. |
Dec 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Operations on Demand. |
Added offerings: SQL Server on EC2 Operations and AMI Building and Vending. See Operations On Demand. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Monitoring and event management. |
Updated explanation of service notifications and incident reports. See How monitoring works. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Service-linked role regions |
Added GovCloud regions and permissions. See Using service-linked roles for AMS Accelerate. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| New: Service-linked role. |
Added new role: See Detective controls service-linked role for AMS Accelerate. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Access management. |
Updated subsections with improved instructions. See Access management in AMS Accelerate. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Service description. |
Updated AMS Patterns in the RACI matrix. See Service description. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS patterns. |
Customers are responsible for pattern deployments. See AMS patterns. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Offboarding. |
Added details of what happens to specific Backup and Monitoring resources during offboarding. See Offboard from AMS Accelerate. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| Updated: Patch management.. |
Updated and shortened guidance regarding IAM policies. See Creating an IAM role for on-demand patching of AMS Accelerate. |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| New: links to architecture diagrams. |
Added links to
AMS Reference Architecture Diagrams |
Nov 10, 2022 |
| New: Operations on Demand offering | Added "Landing Zone Accelerator Operations". See Operations On Demand. |
Oct 13, 2022 |
| Update: Monitoring management. Alerts generate incident reports, not service requests | Oct 13, 2022 | |
| New: Creating a patch maintenance window with an Accelerate-custom CFN template | AWS CloudFormation patch window configuration templates. See Create a patch maintenance window in AMS. |
Sept 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Offboarding | Emphasized that backup plans in Accelerate no longer work after offboarding. See Offboard from AMS Accelerate. |
Sept 15, 2022 |
| Updated: CloudWatch configuration change details | Corrected a mistake in the Windows and Linux examples. See CloudWatch configuration change details. |
Sept 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Using AMS Resource Scheduler | Added guidance about Cost Allocation Tags. See Cost estimator in AMS Resource Scheduler. |
September 15, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS Config Rule Library | Added two |
September 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Backup Management | Removed the misleading label PITR (point-in-time-recovery) from backup plan titles and descriptions. See Select an AMS backup plan. |
September 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Accelerate Service Description | Updated descriptions of config rules and canaries. See Service description. |
September 15, 2022 |
| Updated: Service Description, Supported Configurations | Removed end-of-service date for Windows 2008 R2. Accelerate does not support Windows 2008. See Supported configurations. |
August 11, 2022 |
| Updated: Service Description, Roles and Responsibilities | Updated the RACI table. Removed ELB access logs from the last row of the Networking section. We do not enable ELB access logs for Accelerate customers. See Roles and responsibilities. |
August 11, 2022 |
| Updated: Configuration Compliance | Corrected a typo in the Table of Rules, Frameworks column. NIST-CSF was incorrectly listed as NIST-CIS. See Configuration compliance in Accelerate. |
August 11, 2022 |
| New: Accelerate Offboarding | Considerations and process for offboarding. See Offboarding AMS Accelerate. |
August 11, 2022 |
| Updated: List of pre-installed SSM agents' operating systems | Added "Ubuntu Linux 18.04 and 20.04" to the list. See Onboarding EC2 instances to Accelerate. |
August 11, 2022 |
| New: Resource Scheduler | Use AMS Resource Scheduler to cost optimize by stopping and starting resources only as needed. See Cost optimization with AMS Resource Scheduler. |
July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: Service Description for Resource Scheduler | Several sections of the service description were updated for the new Resource Scheduler offering. See Service description. |
July 14, 2022 |
| New: AMS Patterns | AMS offers pattern templates, a generalized solution that solves for a family of use cases in the AMS managed environment. First pattern on offer: AMS patterns. |
July 14, 2022 |
| New: Cost optimization note | Added a note explaining how costs can increase with resource usage. See Resource inventory for Accelerate. |
July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS Config Rules | Reorganized the tables in the AMS Config Rule library. The HTML table has fewer columns, to make it easier to read at a glance. The downloadable spreadsheet has additional columns to allow sorting and filtering. |
July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: Access Management |
Updated the sample CloudFormation template in
Permissions to use AMS features. The |
July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: Self-Service Reporting | Added instructions for encrypting AWS Glue metadata with KMS keys. See box labeled Important on Self-service reports. |
July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS baseline monitoring | Added DeleteRecoveryPoint backup alert. Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS | July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: Supported operating systems | Added End of Support date for Amazon Linux 2. Service description | July 14, 2022 |
| Updated: AMS Reporting | Added note about Opt-in Regions. Reports and options | July 14, 2022 |
| Resource Scheduler | Added information about onboarding and using AMS Resource Scheduler to assist in cost optimization by scheduling resource stop and start times. Also, updated the Accelerate service description to include mention of Resource Scheduler. Additionally, updated the Amazon Linux 2 supported end of support date to 2024. See Cost optimization with AMS Resource Scheduler and Service description |
June 30, 2022 |
| New alarm | Added a AWS Backup alarm. Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS |
June 21, 2022 |
| New content | Added the service-linked role content. Using service-linked roles for AMS Accelerate |
June 16, 2022 |
| AWS Network Firewall Operations added to Operations on Demand (OOD) catalog of offerings. Operations On Demand | June 16, 2022 | |
| Added problem management feature description. Service description | June 16, 2022 | |
| Added note about the set of config rules that does not support in particular opt-in regions. Configuration compliance in Accelerate | June 16, 2022 | |
| Updated content | Configuration compliance. "AMS Config Rule library" -> "Table of rules", was updated and removed to ZIP only. Configuration compliance in Accelerate |
June 16, 2022 |
| Removed escalation emails. Escalation path | June 16, 2022 | |
Moved topic list to below opening paragraphs. What is AMS Accelerate? |
June 16, 2022 | |
Updated the auto remeditation content. AMS automatic remediation of alerts |
June 16, 2022 | |
| Updated content: Service Description |
Added EKS to the list of services monitored by AMS Config Rules in Supported services. Updated monitoring description in RACI table in Roles and responsibilities. |
May 12, 2022 |
| Updated content: Configuration Compliance | Added EKS-related config rules. See Configuration compliance in Accelerate. |
May 12, 2022 |
| Updated content: Getting Started, Account Discovery | Added a newer version of the AwsAccountDiscoveryCli script (in the Account Discovery Changelog zip file) in Step 1. Account discovery in Accelerate. |
May 12, 2022 |
| Updated content: Monitoring, default metrics | Updated trigger conditions for ALB-related metrics. See Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS. |
May 12, 2022 |
| Updated content: Patching onboarding | Added an explicit patching prerequisite: you need to opt-in to EBS. See Onboarding patching in Accelerate. |
May 12, 2022 |
| Updated content: Accelerate resource inventory table | Changed ams-detective-controls-config-rules-cdk rules, added rules for ams-detective-controls-recorder-cdk and ams-detective-controls-infrastructure-cdk. See Resource inventory for Accelerate. |
April 14, 2022 |
| Updated content: Configuration Compliance |
Introduction to industry standards, config rules, and types of responses. Emphasizes that customers do not choose individual config rules or responses. Configuration compliance in Accelerate. |
April 14, 2022 |
| Updated content: Service Description | Moved the existing Scope of Changes section under Roles and Responsibilities. See Roles and responsibilities. |
April 14, 2022 |
| Updated content: Tagging and Monitoring | Added |
April 14, 2022 |
| Updated content: Accelerate Prerequisites | Added SSM-required bucket permissions to Amazon EC2 Systems Manager in Accelerate. |
April 14, 2022 |
| New content: Patching and Monitoring | Added sample code to use Cloudformation to deploy tagging and monitoring configurations. See Deploying a configuration profile with AWS CloudFormation for Accelerate and Using AWS CloudFormation to deploy Accelerate configuration changes. |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Patch maintenance console | Reordered steps in Create a maintenance window from the Systems Manager console for AMS Accelerate to match the console interface. |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Patch maintenance CLI | Updated CLI parameters (schedule, duration, and cutoff) for Create a maintenance window with the Systems Manager command line interface (CLI) for AMS Accelerate |
March 10, 2022 |
| New content: Auto Instance Config | Added definition of |
March 10, 2022 |
| New content: Onboarding |
Added a sample Linux command to Outbound internet connectivity in Accelerate |
March 10, 2022 |
| New content: Onboarding |
Added a least-privilege option to The template to create AMS roles. |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Accelerate escalation instructions | Added guidance, links, and email contacts to Escalation path |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Supported Configurations |
AMS expects to end support for RHEL 6 and CentOs on March 14, 2023. See Supported configurations |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Resources table | Added AMS access IAM roles to Resource inventory for Accelerate resources table |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Onboarding and Backup |
Added instructions for opting in to AWS Backup to Onboarding AWS Backup in Accelerate and Continuity management in AMS Accelerate |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Access Management | Removed Advanced-specific instructions from Accelerate guidance How and when to use the root user account in AMS. |
March 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Supported Configurations |
AMS now supports Oracle Linux 8.3 and Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. See Supported configurations. |
February 28, 2022 |
| Updated content: Service Level Agreement | Updated the downloadable Service Level Agreement in Supported services. |
February 28, 2022 |
| Updated content: Access Management | Updated How AMS accesses your account with FAQs for AMS operator console roles and a warning not to modify or delete them. |
February 28, 2022 |
| Updated content: Alarm Manager | Updated Accelerate Configuration profile: monitoring. Alarm Manager is no longer limited to single-metric alarms. |
February 28, 2022 |
| Updated content: Getting Started | Updated Step 2. Onboarding management resources in Accelerate. Added an IAM role with minimal access for onboarding resources. |
February 28, 2022 |
| New content: Scope of Changes in Service Description | Added a new section,Scope of changes performed by AMS Accelerate that emphasizes boundaries and actions that AMS Accelerate does not perform. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Getting Started | New onboarding process starts with setting up default features and configurations before customizing. Subsections contain feature-specific goals and related links. See Getting Started with AMS Accelerate. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: AMS Backup Management. | Shortened and reorganized the Continuity management in AMS Accelerate chapter for readability. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Tagging | Added a Tagging Tools section to accommodate code samples for CloudFormation and other tools. See Tagging in AMS Accelerate. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Baseline Monitoring | Improved trigger condition for RedShift cluster alarm reduces false alarms during maintenance. See Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: Patching | Updated sample CLI command to register a maintenance window. See Create a maintenance window with the Systems Manager command line interface (CLI) for AMS Accelerate. |
February 10, 2022 |
| Updated content: AWS Config Rules Inventory. | Removed deprecated config rule |
January 27, 2022 |
| New content: Creating patch maintenance windows. | Added a link to the SSM tutorial and sample commands for creating patch maintenance windows from the command line. See Create a maintenance window with the Systems Manager command line interface (CLI) for AMS Accelerate. |
January 27, 2022 |
| New content: Resource Tagger recognizes new Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) resource type. | Added Auto Scaling Groups to the resource types filterable with Resource Tagger configuration profiles. See Syntax and structure. |
January 13, 2022 |
| New content: Additional backup plans and vaults. | Added new backup plans and vaults to mitigate high-risk scenarios including ransomware attacks. See View backups in AMS vaults and View backups in AMS vaults. |
January 13, 2022 |
