Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Service Catalog now supports Stack Set instance operations. With this new feature, end-users can control the individual instances for their StackSets, within the constraints specified by their AWS Service Catalog administrator. View the full article

Amazon EventBridge is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications using data from a variety of data sources. Amazon EventBridge enables you to build event-driven architectures that are loosely coupled and distributed. View the full article

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce German and Italian language support for streaming audio. We are also announcing availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming in the EU (London) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. These new languages and regions expand the markets served by Amazon Transcribe streaming and enable customers to reach a broader global audience. View the full article

You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to perform single-instance deployments of Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server and Ubuntu Server. View the full article

AWS Security Hub is now integrated with 3CORESec, Cloudtamer, Prowler, StackRox, and ThreatModeler. Further, Amazon GuardDuty’s integration with AWS Security Hub is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). Lastly, AllCloud is now an AWS Security Hub APN Consulting Partner. This brings the total number of AWS service and AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partner integrations available in Security Hub to 60 and the number of APN Consulting Partners with a Security Hub offering to 3. 3CORESec, Prowler, and StackRox send findings to Security Hub. ThreatModeler receives findings from Security Hub. Cloudtamer both sends and receives findings to/from Security Hub. To learn mo…

Document Understanding Solution is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an easy-to-use web application that extracts text from documents, identifies structural data (tables, key value pairs), extracts critical information (entities), and creates smart search indexes from the data. Additionally, files can be uploaded directly to and analyzed files can be accessed from your AWS account. Part of the Intelligent Document Processing services offered from AWS, this solution uses AWS artificial intelligence (AI) services to solve business problems that apply to various industry verticals: Search and discovery: Search information across multiple scanned documents…

The Client VPN self-service portal is a read-only web portal that helps end-users of Client VPN to download VPN Profile and updated versions of AWS Client VPN desktop application. End-users will be able to download the VPN profile and desktop application directly to their computers. We will also continue to support the ability for end-users to directly download the desktop application without the need to enter any credentials. View the full article

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ, a popular open source message broker. This enables you to migrate your existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without having to rewrite code. Amazon MQ is a fully managed service that provisions and manages open source message brokers like RabbitMQ and Apache ActiveMQ for you. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ manages both individual and clustered message brokers and handles tasks like provisioning the infrastructure, setting up the broker, and updating the software. View the full article

Antares Cloud Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Claranet, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Antares Cloud Management provides an ecosystem of tools for day-to-day operation of containers in production. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a discovery workshop, implementation of the Antares platform, application migration, and 24/7 optimization and support. View the full article

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. View the full article

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […] The post New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances, the next generation of GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for machine learning (ML) training and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for applications such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, and genomics research. P4d instances are powered by the latest NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and provide first in the cloud 400 Gbps instance networking with support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA (remote direct memory access) to enable efficient scale-out of multi-node ML training and HPC workloads. Vie…

We are excited to announce that Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) now supports NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). GPUDirect RDMA support on EFA will be available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P4d instances- the next generation of GPU-based instances on AWS. P4d provides the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for applications such a natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, and computational drug discovery. GPUDirect RDMA support on EFA enables network interface cards (NICs) to directly access GPU memory. This avoids extra memory copie…

Amazon Honeycode has introduced three new app templates that help you build mobile & web apps for managing work in teams - with no programming required. Honeycode app builders can now launch app templates for applicant tracking, instant polls, and collaborative brainstorming in addition to Honeycode’s existing template library. The new templates are intended for Honeycode builders who are seeking more app examples or want to build an app faster than starting from scratch. View the full article

AWS CodeArtifact now supports resource tagging making it simpler for customers to manage their CodeArtifact resources. View the full article

Amazon Braket, the fully managed quantum computing service, now supports resource tagging, making it easy for you to manage resources effectively as you scale use of the service. Tags are simple labels consisting of a customer-defined key and value that make it easier for you to manage and filter resources. You can now add, manage, and remove tags for quantum task resources using the AWS CLI and the Amazon Braket SDK. View the full article

Amazon Braket now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing private connectivity between Amazon Braket, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), and on-premises applications. Amazon Braket is a fully managed quantum computing service that enables researchers and developers to explore quantum algorithms, test them on quantum circuit simulators, and run them on different quantum hardware technologies. View the full article

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. View the full article

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. With this launch, AWS DMS now supports parallel full load with the range segmentation option when using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB as a source. You can accelerate the migration of large collections by splitting them into segments and loading and unloading the segments in-parallel in the same migration task. This feature could improve the migration performance by up to 3x. View the full article

Application developers building real-time audio, video, and screen sharing applications can now collect client metrics from meetings events available from the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript. Developers can help end users troubleshoot their application without requiring them to send in client logs. And by streaming metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, developers can analyze meeting health trends or deep dive on problematic meetings or devices. View the full article

Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Kendra to manage healthcare and life science workloads that contain protected health information (PHI). View the full article

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports gRPC protocol. With this release, you can use ALB to route and load balance your gRPC traffic between microservices or between gRPC enabled clients and services. This will allow customers to seamlessly introduce gRPC traffic management in their architectures without changing any of the underlying infrastructure on their clients or services. View the full article

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables customers to manage their own contact lists and offers enhanced subscription management capabilities. View the full article

Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default, auto-generated REST API endpoint. The default REST API endpoint in API Gateway looks like https://{restapi_id}.execute-api.{region}.amazonaws.com. This feature is intended for customers who use custom domain names for REST APIs and want to ensure that all traffic to their API only goes through the custom domain name and not the default endpoint. This feature was already available for HTTP APIs. Now, it is available for REST APIs too. View the full article

AWS Service Catalog now provides simplified provisioning of cloud resources with a one-page launch process and a new console experience. With this new feature, end-users can more easily and quickly provision products with fewer errors. View the full article

Virtusa Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Virtusa, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. vDaaS provides employees access to their digital workspace and secure data anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a full life cycle of services to aid in your digital workplace transformation. View the full article

Starting today, Jira Service Desk users can view EC2 specific parameters from AWS accounts associated with version 1.7 of the AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk, simplifying the provisioning of compute resources. End users can now view parameters such as Availability Zones, Instance IDs, Key Pairs, and Security Groups directly in Jira Service Desk during provisioning, eliminating the need to find this information in other consoles or have them coded directly into CloudFormation templates. View the full article

Starting today, customers can use Jira Service Desk as a single place to track operational items from AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. Jira Service Desk users can now view, investigate, and resolve operational items related to their AWS resources, while using their existing workflows in Jira. Additionally, they can use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Jira Service Desk to remediate known issues. AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter enables operators to track and resolve operational items related to AWS resources in a central place, helping reduce time to issue resolution. View the full article

AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) adds support for application monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. With the integration of AWS SMS with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, you can start monitoring applications in Amazon CloudWatch as soon as the application migration is complete in AWS SMS. View the full article

Starting today, c5d.12xlarge, c5d.24xlarge and c5d.metal instance sizes are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Additionally, m5.metal, m5d.metal, r5.metal and r5d.metal instance sizes are available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. View the full article

We have recently introduced notifications regarding Site-to-Site VPN Connections. AWS will now send a notification via the Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) if your VPN is operating without the recommended dual tunnel configuration for redundancy (Single Tunnel Notification), or if your VPN has experienced a momentary loss of redundancy due to a tunnel endpoint replacement (Tunnel Replacement Notification). View the full article

Amazon Neptune now enforces a minimum version of TLS v1.2 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) client connections to Neptune in all AWS Regions where Neptune is available with the latest engine release, 1.0.4.0. View the full article

Amazon Neptune now supports Apache TinkerPop 3.4.8 in the latest engine release, 1.0.4.0, improving the development experience for Gremlin users. View the full article

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Confluence repositories using Kendra's new built-in Confluence Server connector. View the full article

Amazon QuickSight is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. View the full article

AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the new AWS Activate Console. The Activate Console is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups through every stage of their journey, from their initial idea, to building a MVP, to securing their first customer, to scaling their business on AWS and beyond. View the full article

ACM for Nitro Enclaves is an enclave application that allows you to use public and private SSL/TLS certificates with your web applications and servers running on Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Nitro Enclaves. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet as well as resources on private networks. Nitro Enclaves is an EC2 capability that enables creation of isolated compute environments to protect and securely process highly sensitive data, such as SSL/TLS private keys. View the full article

AWS Nitro Enclaves is a new EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments (enclaves) to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most sensitive data processing applications. View the full article

NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available. You can design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench, which has a point-and-click interface for creating nonrelational data models. View the full article

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can increase customer engagement by sending marketing campaigns and transactional messages across multiple channels: email, SMS, and push notifications. View the full article

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the first technical course designed specifically for APN Technology Partners! AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Migrating Your Application to AWS (Technical) explains the technical fundamentals and best practices for migrating your application from on-premises deployments to a single-tenant, highly available AWS Cloud solution. View the full article

Customers can now share AMIs from Image Builder pipelines with AWS accounts in multiple AWS regions, using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). View the full article

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. View the full article

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that enables you to automatically extract text and data, including from tables and forms within scanned documents and images. As a managed service, Textract delivers continuous improvements over time. Today, we are pleased to announce that we delivered enhancements to the underlying machine learning models resulting in a decrease of 20% in average latency when calling both the synchronous and asynchronous APIs. These improvements apply to the DetectDocumentText API and AnalyzeDocument APIs. View the full article

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) feature that allows customers to find objects and scenes in images unique to their business needs with a simple inference API. Customers can create a custom ML model simply by uploading labeled images. No ML expertise is required. View the full article

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink for data plane APIs (PUT and GET APIs). You can securely send and receive data from within your VPC, without crossing the public internet and without using public IPs. You can do so by creating a VPC endpoint for the AWS IoT SiteWise service to establish a private connection between your VPC and AWS IoT SiteWise. For more information, please visit the AWS IoT SiteWise and interface VPC endpoints page in our developer guide. View the full article

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Global Datastore, which provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication, is now available in an additional 6 regions. With expanded region support, Global Datastore is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Paris), Canada Central (Montreal), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. View the full article

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers you the ability to publish both live ingress and egress logs as CloudWatch Logs. This feature allows you to easily build custom monitoring dashboards with CloudWatch Logs Insights or third-party data processing and monitoring tools. Analyzing these logs and correlating them with encoders or content distribution network (CDN) logs can help identify problems such as slow ingest uploads on the encoder side or cache hit ratio drops on the CDN side. For instructions on how to configure access logging, please refer to the documentation page and corresponding API documentation. View the full article

AWS Auto Scaling with scaling plans and predictive scaling (for Amazon EC2) is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) regions. AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. With a simple, powerful user interface, you can build scaling plans in minutes across resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. View the full article

Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks to explore datasets and build models. Starting today, you can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with your own images. View the full article

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce two new courses for Game Tech: Using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ for Game Servers and Game Server Hosting with Amazon EC2. These digital courses are designed for game developers who want to host their game servers on AWS. Each course will help you make a decision about using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to deliver the desired player experience while meeting your business needs. View the full article

This new digital course, Advanced Testing Practices using AWS DevOps Tools, teaches you how to improve application reliability and security by integrating and automating testing into your AWS DevOps pipelines. This advanced course is designed for DevOps engineers and developers who have significant experience with DevOps methodology and practices. View the full article

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now allows you to import custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics into Amazon S3. You can specify the custom dimensions and metrics that you want to import while mapping source fields to the destination fields during flow set up and AppFlow will transfer records, including these dimensions and metrics, during flow execution. View the full article

AWS Shield now global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers. These summaries provide you an overview of all events detected by AWS Shield, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other volumetric anomalies, for each of your accounts and for all events detected and mitigated on AWS. View the full article

Today Amazon announced quarterly updates for Amazon Corretto 8, Amazon Corretto 11, and Amazon Corretto 15. This release also includes Corretto 8 support for TLS1.3, Corretto 11 ARM64 updates and Corretto 11 general availability of the Shenandoah GC (Garbage Collector). Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. View the full article

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Today, the AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched version 0.5.0. Starting with this release, you can deploy applications or jobs that need to run only on a particular schedule. AWS Copilot has built in timeouts and retries to provide more flexibility for how your scheduled jobs run. AWS Copilot will also deploy all the required infrastructure and settings, while you just provide the application and the schedule to be run. This allows you to focus on development instead of manually setting up rules and infrastructure to ensure your scheduled jobs run when needed. View the full article

Amazon CodeGuru is a set of developer tools powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler allows you to profile your applications in a low impact, always on manner. It helps you improve your application’s performance, reduce cost and diagnose application issues through rich data visualization and proactive recommendations... View the full article

The ALB Ingress Controller is now the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The new controller enables you to simplify operations and save costs by sharing an Application Load Balancer across multiple applications in your Kubernetes cluster, as well as using a Network Load Balancer to target pods running on AWS Fargate. View the full article

You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon S3 as Apache Parquet format in additional regions. Parquet is an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics and is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to other text formats. You can analyze the exported data with other AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SageMaker. View the full article

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and enables options to tune for high-availability of your applications. App Mesh has now increased the default limits for a set of resources - virtual nodes, and virtual gateways. These limit increases make it easier for you to manage larger applications with App Mesh. View the full article

You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain the consistency in processing messages across multiple independent services in a strictly ordered manner. Example use cases include bank transaction logging, stock tickers, flight trackers, news broadcasting, inventory management, vote tabulation, and price updates. View the full article

In August 2020, Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) launched a feature to share Certificate Authorities (CA) between AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). With today’s launch, App Mesh customers will be able to use a certificate authority shared with their AWS account while configuring TLS between services in their mesh. View the full article

AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas - template size, resources, parameters, mappings, and outputs. The maximum size of a template that can be passed in an S3 Object is now 1MB (previously 450KB). The new per template limits for the maximum number of resources is 500 (previously 200), parameters is 200 (previously 60), mappings is 200 (previously 100), and outputs is 200 (previously 60). View the full article

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds a new instance size to the General Purpose instance family. This new instance size, stream.standard.small, offers 1 vCPU and 2 GiB of memory. It is ideally suited for streaming lightweight, non-graphics applications such as browsers for secure web browsing and bastion host administration tools, and applications that are not resource intensive. To use the new instance size, create a new AppStream 2.0 fleet or modify your existing fleet by using the AppStream 2.0 console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. View the full article

AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon Athena, an interactive query service, allowing you to build workflows that queries data on your S3 data lake. AWS Step Functions support built-in error handling, parameter passing, recommended security settings, and state management, reducing the amount of code you have to write and maintain. View the full article

Amazon SageMaker is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS regions. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models. View the full article

You can now add connection time metrics to your reporting in Amazon Connect. This enables you to understand the time from when Connect sends a contact to an agent to when they accept and are connected to the phone call or chat. View the full article

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the US West (California) AWS region. View the full article

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions including US West (N. California), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm). This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES. View the full article

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your applications. View the full article

You can now hibernate newly-launched EBS-backed Amazon EC2 I3, M5ad, and R5ad instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your workloads and resuming them later from the saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid — your application will start right from where it left off. By using hibernation, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications. View the full article

Amazon QLDB Go Driver is now generally available, providing Go developers a simply way to access QLDB. The Go Driver offers an abstraction layer on top of the AWS SDK to handle QLDB sessions, streamline PartiQL statements, and handle ION data. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the availability in preview of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. With AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can instrument your applications just once to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions. Use auto-instrumentation agents to collect traces without changing your code. AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry also collects metadata from your AWS resources and managed services,…

AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override the destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. This allows you to map a list of external destination ports — that your users send traffic to — to a list of internal destination ports that you want an application endpoint to receive traffic on. By default, an accelerator routes user traffic to endpoints in AWS Regions using the protocol and port ranges that you specify when you create a listener. For example, if you define a listener that accepts TCP traffic on ports 80 and 443, the accelerator routes traffic to those ports on an endpoint. View the full article

With today’s Amplify CLI release, you gain the ability to import existing Amazon Cognito resources into your Amplify project. Just run the “amplify import auth” command and Amplify CLI will automatically configure all your Amplify-provisioned resources (GraphQL APIs, S3 buckets and more) to be authenticated with your designated existing Cognito User Pool or Identity Pool. View the full article

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. View the full article

Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now enables you to customize the shell environment by specifying the commands to run at the start of a session. Using this feature, you can tailor the shell experience to the needs of your users or your organization, by adding customizations such as changing the default shell interpreter, displaying the hostname, or configuring command shortcuts. View the full article

AWS Backup is now available in 2 additional Regions: Cape Town (CPT) and Milan (MXP). View the full article

Jira Software Data Center Implementation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Cprime, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Jira Software Data Center Implementation provides Jira Software Data Center, a software development tool used by agile teams. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a customized configuration and deployment of the Jira products on AWS Quick Start as well as cost optimization and training. View the full article

Amazon Web Services has recently launched the preview of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to detect unusual spending patterns in AWS accounts. It aims to minimize unintended spending and improve cost controls. View the full article

AWS Batch now allows users to configure retry strategies based on defined exit codes. Customers can now determine whether their AWS Batch jobs retry based on specified events such as infrastructure failure or application failure. This allows customers to tightly control the actions taken on job failure - resulting in lower costs and faster throughput by retrying only when necessary. View the full article

AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink. With this feature you can manage and invoke Lambda functions from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your traffic to the public internet. PrivateLink provides private connectivity between your VPCs and AWS services, like Lambda, on the private AWS network. View the full article

You can now process multiple Amazon Kinesis data streams with a single Kinesis Client Library (KCL) based consumer application. Previously, each KCL based application processes a single Kinesis data stream. With this new capability, you can update the list of streams at runtime for multi-stream processing in a scalable KCL application without redeploying the application. This reduces operational overhead of maintaining multiple KCL applications. View the full article

Amazon CloudFront announces Origin Shield, a centralized caching layer that helps increase your cache hit ratio to reduce the load on your origin. Origin Shield also decreases your origin operating costs by collapsing requests across regions so as few as one request goes to your origin per object. You can also use Lambda@Edge with Origin Shield to enable advanced serverless logic like dynamic origin load balancing. Customers using Origin Shield for live streaming, image handling, or multi-CDN workloads have reported up to a 57% reduction in their origin’s load. View the full article

You can now filter automation executions by resource groups in Systems Manager Automation. This allows you to group and view the automation executions specific to your applications or environments. View the full article

Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now support multiple simultaneous connections over the session. This improvement reduces the rendering latency and improves load times for applications that load data using multiple concurrent connections, when delivering such applications over a port forwarding session. View the full article

Amazon Connect now enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s Neural Text-to-Speech Voices (NTTS) within their contact center across four new regions. These new voices deliver improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. You can now use 14 NTTS voices in the London, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Tokyo regions, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you can continue to use the over 60 standard voices available in 29 languages in the Amazon Polly portfolio. View the full article

AWS DataSync now offers a simplified agent setup using the agent’s local console. This enables you to set up your agent faster, and test network connectivity between your on-premises storage and AWS within minutes. View the full article

AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ allows you to connect with experts within minutes, easily grant access to your AWS account and pay through your AWS bill when work is complete. View the full article

Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source. Users can now extend the data set with new recommendations for assessment and use the extended data set to scan their project for incompatibilities. Users can also review and offer suggestions on exiting data sets. Users can actively participate in the development process and bring their experience and expert knowledge to the tool. They can review open issues in GitHub, comment on any of the issues that they are familiar with, make suggestions, ask questions, or open new issues if they like to start a new conversation. Source code for compatibility analysis component, assessment APIs and the data set used for the assessment a…

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. View the full article