October 2019

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Europe (Paris) region.  

AWS Service Catalog now enables administrators and team members to change the ownership of their provisioned products. With this feature, when team members or responsibilities change, ownership of their provisioned products can easily be transferred to a new team member or role. 

AWS Client VPN is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), EU (Stockholm), North America (Northern California) regions. The addition of these regions increases availability of AWS Client VPN, which offers region support in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), North America (N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon) With this launch, AWS Client VPN is now available in a total of 14 regions. 

AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS now supports Amazon FreeRTOS 201910.00. With this release, silicon vendors can qualify their development boards with secure elements to AWS device catalog using the latest Amazon FreeRTOS. The latest AWS IoT Device Tester also brings improvements for SecureSockets and WiFi test groups by providing an ability to configure the preferred port for Echo server.

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications. The Amplify CLI (part of the Amplify Framework) is a toolchain to create, integrate, and manage the AWS cloud services for your application.  

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger secret size of up to 10 Kb, making it easier for customers to manage secrets such as certificates with a long chain of trust. Secrets Manager now also supports larger size resource policies of up to 20 Kb enabling customers to allow multiple users and applications access a single secret. Secrets Manager also supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 1,500 requests per second. These increased service quotas will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available on Ubuntu 18.04, in addition to Ubuntu 16.04, Amazon Linux 2, and Amazon Linux. AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with PyTorch 1.2, MXNet 1.5.0, and add support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables Deep Learning AMI customers to run training jobs that require high levels of inter-node communications at scale. To get started with distributed training using EFA, see this tutorial in the AWS Deep Learning AMI developer guide.  

You can now easily adopt best practices, such as infrastructure as code and continuous delivery, when you create a serverless application from the AWS Lambda console.  

AWS App Mesh is now available in Europe Paris Region. This is the fourth region with App Mesh availability in EU, in addition to Ireland, Frankfurt and London regions. 

Amazon Chime now provides users an integrated room experience on Dolby Voice Room. Amazon Chime now lets you join meetings with a single tap or by saying “Alexa, start the meeting” when using Amazon Chime with Alexa for Business on Dolby Voice Room. You can easily share content, get a visual roster with attendee information, and use enhanced whiteboard features during your meeting.  

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. You can create Neptune clusters using r5 instance types.

Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of the AWS for WordPress plugin. Previously known as the Amazon Polly and Amazon AI plugin, the new AWS for WordPress plugin now provides a workflow to configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution that is highly optimized for WordPress websites.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. You can create Neptune clusters using r5 instance types.

Starting today, enhanced support for Secure Elements in Amazon FreeRTOS is available. We have provided two qualifications that support secure elements. In the first, the Amazon FreeRTOS windows simulator implementation is connected to the Microchip ATECC608A secure element and the second is the Infineon XMC4800 IoT Connectivity Kit with OPTIGA Trust-X. Both reference integrations have been qualified using AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS. Additional changes in our 201910.00 release can be reviewed in our Changelog.

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. CodeCommit makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. 

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now allows you to modify authentication tokens by setting and rotating new tokens. Redis authentication tokens enable Redis to require a token (password) before allowing clients to execute commands. You can now modify active tokens while in use, or add brand-new tokens to existing encryption-in-transit enabled clusters that were previously setup without authentication tokens. ElastiCache for Redis provides a two-step process that allows you to set and rotate the token without interrupting client requests. 

EMR Notebooks is a managed Jupyter-based notebook environment that allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to prepare and visualize data, collaborate with peers, and build applications using EMR clusters. You can now associate Git repositories, such as GitHub and Bitbucket, with your Amazon EMR Notebooks. Associating a repository with a notebook allows you to add versions to your notebook. It also simplifies collaborating with peers by allowing you to share code through remote Git repositories. You can clone or merge code from remote Git repositories and push changes back to those remote repositories directly from your notebook. To make it easier to compare and merge two different notebooks, the nbdime utility is now available in EMR Notebooks.

You can now create CodeStar projects using the publicly available CodeCommit and GitHub CloudFormation resources. You can also create the initial commit for your repository through CloudFormation. Previously, customers could not easily replicate CodeStar’s resource provisioning. Now you can provision toolchain resources simply by using the CloudFormation template CodeStar configures for you. You can customize your CodeStar templates to setup a more complex continuous integration and deployment process, so you no longer need to start from scratch.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions, in addition to the US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES.

This Quick Start deploys an Autodesk BIM 360 integration environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes.

We are pleased to announce that starting today, your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances can be directly fronted by AWS Global Accelerator. Before, you needed to use an Elastic IP address to front an EC2 instance with Global Accelerator. Now, you can use Global Accelerator directly as your single internet-facing access point for your EC2 instances, improving availability and performance of applications with local or global users. You can also use Application Load Balancers or Network Load Balancers in conjunction with Global Accelerator to connect to your EC2 instances.

AWS Snowball Edge now supports block storage volumes of up to 10 TB, ten times higher than the previous limit of 1 TB. A higher volume size limit provides you greater flexibility when using block storage with your applications on Snowball Edge.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates. Name constraints are defined in the Internet public key infrastructure (PKI) standard RFC 5280 and provide a way for CA administrators to restrict subject names in certificates.

Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. New users can sign up for QuickSight with Asia Pacific (Seoul) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in-region and providing proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing Amazon QuickSight users can switch to this region via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in that region.

You can now develop your AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications using PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory.  

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. The addition of these regions increases the availability of the AWS Serverless Application Repository, which offers region support for Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and AWS GovCloud regions. With this launch, the AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in 20 commercial regions. 

You can now use ElastiCache data migration feature to migrate your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully-managed ElastiCache cluster-mode disabled configuration. With this feature, once you provide ElastiCache-accessible endpoint and port of your Redis cluster, ElastiCache will replicate the data from your cluster in real-time to your ElastiCache cluster. Once the data sync is complete, you can update your client applications to start using the newly-populated ElastiCache cluster. 

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports using Amazon RDS procedures to run certain EMCTL commands on the Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control.  

Amazon SageMaker is now available in Middle East (Bahrain) Region.  

Today, AWS is announcing general availability of Image Scanning for Amazon Elastic Container Registry. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. Image Scanning is an automated vulnerability assessment feature in ECR that helps improve the security of your application’s container images by scanning them for a broad range of operating system vulnerabilities.

AWS Single Sign-on (AWS SSO) now enables you to increase security by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) with authenticator applications, such as Authy and Google Authenticator that generate time-based one-time passcodes (TOTP). You can now configure AWS SSO to require users to enter an authenticator-generated TOTP code in addition to their password. MFA improves security by requiring people to know something (their password) and have something (their authenticator) before they can sign in.

AWS License Manager has enhanced the application search experience, allowing you to easily identify Microsoft Windows and SQL Server instances that are using Amazon provided software licenses. With the new capability, AWS License Manager enables you to filter your search results based on whether you are using bring-your-own-license (BYOL) instances or the License Included instances provided by Amazon. This capability is available for Windows Server Datacenter Edition, SQL Server Enterprise Edition, SQL Server Standard Edition, and SQL Server Web Edition products.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. The real-time transcription service now supports Australian English, which expands upon the existing support for US English, British English, French, Canadian French, and US Spanish languages. The new language support expands the markets served by Amazon Transcribe to enable use cases in contact centers, media and entertainment, education, and gaming, to reach a broader global audience.

Alexa users can now inform meeting participants that they are running late to a meeting or event on the calendar, by saying “Alexa, I’m running late.” Customers can also specify how late they expect to be by saying “Alexa, I’ll be 10 min late for my next meeting.” Alexa will send a short email to all meeting participants, informing them of the delay after confirming the meeting the customer is referring to.

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in the Middle Eastern (Bahrain) region. Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Amazon Elastic Inference has introduced new Elastic Inference Accelerators called EIA2, with up to 8GB of GPU memory. Customers can now use Amazon Elastic Inference on larger models or models that have larger input sizes for image processing, object detection, image classification, automated speech processing and natural language processing and other deep learning use cases.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) customers can now use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to configure and deploy ECS patterns into their CloudFormation stacks. This allows users to quickly create highly integrated applications while abstracting away details of how the infrastructure is stitched together. Leaving the infrastructure configuration details to AWS, customers can focus more on building their applications.  

Today, we’re excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2 and new Instance Types. With this update, it’s easier and more cost efficient to:

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), regions. Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Amazon FreeRTOS is open source, free to download and use, and provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 z1d instances are available in AWS US East (Ohio), and AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul) regions 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge locations in Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. With these Edge locations, viewers within these countries will see an average of 60% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition, effective November 1st 2019, CloudFront will reduce the pricing for on-demand data transfer by up to 56% in South America. You can refer to the new South America pricing on the CloudFront pricing page. CloudFront now has 200 Points of Presence in 77 cities across 37 countries. Here is a blog from Jeff Barr about this launch.

AWS Managed Services (AMS) announces support for AWS Landing Zone (ALZ), a multi-account architecture recommended for enterprises looking for a scalable design for the configurations of their AWS accounts. With this release, new AMS customers will be able to choose either ALZ or the current AMS landing zone design based on their needs.

Amazon Connect now provides new APIs that enable you to programmatically list resources such as queues, phone numbers, contact flows, and hours of operations in an Amazon Connect instance. For example, now you can use the List Queues API to retrieve queue IDs at run time and use them with the queue metrics API to filter the data returned.

Starting today, you can now specify allocation strategies in AWS Batch, allowing customers to choose two additional methods for AWS Batch to allocate compute resources. These strategies allow customers to factor in throughput as well as price when deciding how AWS Batch should scale instances on their behalf.  

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, a SIP trunking service that lets you save over 50% on voice calling costs from your on-premises phone system, now supports real-time audio streaming. The feature automatically sends audio from your business phone calls to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, where it can be accessed by applications that you build. Previously, you had to integrate and deploy multi-vendor on-premises hardware and software platforms that were expensive and required disruptive changes to your enterprise voice network.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

AWS has updated the Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. The solution now supports equipment that uses the Mitsubishi Seamless Messaging Protocol (SLMP). SLMP is a unified protocol for achieving seamless communication between applications without awareness of network hierarchy or boundaries and general-purpose Ethernet devices.

AWS Backup is now available in six more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

You can now use Amazon Aurora Cluster tagging to add tags to your Amazon Aurora storage for improved usage categorization and more granular cost reporting. Both the MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Aurora are supported.

AWS Managed Services is excited to announce support for 29 new AWS services. With this release, the total number of services supported by AMS is almost doubled to 61, including AWS Lambda, a much requested service. In addition to running these services within secure and operated AMS managed accounts, several can be self provisioned and configured directly in the AWS Console or the APIs. With this release, AMS is also introducing a second pricing tier that is lower for certain groups of AWS services where more of the day-to-day operations is handled by the service itself. Contact your sales representative for more details on AMS pricing.

Amazon EC2 G4 instances which provide industry’s most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Canada (Central), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 15. 

Native AWS API access is now Available in AWS Managed Services (AMS) accounts. AWS Managed Services (AMS) operates AWS on your behalf, providing a secure and compliant AWS Landing Zone, a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimization, and day-to-day infrastructure management. With the availability of Developer Mode you can now leverage native AWS API access to accelerate your ability to design and implement infrastructure and applications in your AMS Managed Environment without sacrificing the security, compliance, and operational benefits AMS provides. 

Customers in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.  

AWS IOT Device Tester v 2.1.0 for AWS Greengrass now supports AWS Greengrass v 1.9.4. The latest version also supports qualification of AWS Greengrass devices with ARM v6l architecture.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Following the July 30th launch of 8 US English and 3 UK English voices, we are excited to announce the general availability of the first US Spanish (Lupe) and Brazilian Portuguese (Camila) NTTS voices. Both the voices are now available as Neural TTS voices, as well as Standard TTS voices.

Customers can now create wildcard custom domain names for their Amazon API Gateway EDGE, Regional, and WebSocket APIs. This enhancement extends API Gateway’s existing support for invoking APIs via custom domain names backed by certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics for peer nodes. You can view CPU and memory utilization of your peer nodes which gives insight into peer node performance. You can also view the transaction rate for each network channel on a peer node. Transaction rate can help you optimize network performance and transaction configuration settings. Additionally, CloudWatch metrics enable you to set alarms or automate actions based on predefined thresholds and easily build dashboards that overlay different metrics. 

We are excited to announce the launch of Practical Data Science with Amazon SageMaker, a new one-day, instructor-led classroom course.

Starting today, you can rewind your job bookmarks for your Glue Spark ETL jobs to any previous job run. AWS Glue tracks data that has been processed during a previous run of an ETL job by storing state information from the job run. This persisted state information is called a job bookmark.

Amplify Console now supports Pull-Request Previews, offering development and QA teams a way to preview changes before merging code to a production or integration branch. A pull-request preview deploys every pull request made to your GitHub repository to a unique preview URL; completely different from the one your main site uses. For apps with backend environments provisioned via the Amplify CLI, every pull request (private Git repositories only) spins up an ephemeral backend that is deleted when the PR is closed.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to create Amazon VPC interface endpoints for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. Amazon EFS customers can now use private IP connectivity and security groups to meet their specific compliance requirements.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate now supports custom domains. Through the existing interfaces you can now provide a custom fully qualified domain name (FQDN), its matching SSL certificate, and SSL private key and have the OpsWorks server configured accordingly. After you have created a Canonical Name (CNAME) entry in your DNS management service to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint, you will find your Chef Automate Dashboard under a domain of your choice instead of the generic OpsWorks-created one. Also, this will now be the public endpoint of your OpsWorks server. By using a custom domain with an SSL certificate that you manage, you have an endpoint that stays the same regardless of the server being re-created: any node under management by the OpsWorks for Chef Automate server will stay associated through this endpoint.

If you already have an OpsWorks server in use and want to use your own domain, you will first need to create a backup of your OpsWorks server through the CreateBackup API. You then create a new server from the backup through a CreateServer API call, where you provide the backup id together with the three new input parameters: custom domain, custom certificate and custom private key. This will bring your OpsWorks server up with its public endpoint being the custom domain you specified. As with new servers, you will need to create a CNAME entry in your DNS management service of choice to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint. For more details on this process, please see our documentation. Here you will also find information about which types of certificates can be used and what to do when the certificate is about to expire.

Should you be new to OpsWorks for Chef Automate and curious to experience it, it is easy to get started. By following this Getting Started walk-through, you can within 15 minutes be up and running with your first node managed by Chef Automate.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Location in Brussels, Belgium. With this new Edge location, viewers in Belgium will now see up to a 28% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition to Belgium, CloudFront also added four additional Edge locations in Tokyo, Japan and one Edge location in Frankfurt, Germany. CloudFront now has 197 Points of Presence in 74 cities across 34 countries.

For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features.

The AWS Managed Services (AMS) ServiceNow Connector V2.0 application is now available in the ServiceNow app store. ServiceNow an IT service management (ITSM) platform built around activities, tasks, processes, and workflows. You can now use ServiceNow change requests to rapidly deploy infrastructure from over 30 different AWS services into your AMS environment, and receive support from the AMS operations team through incidents and service requests. You no longer need to log into the AMS Console to perform these activities, and the application works across multiple AMS accounts simultaneously.

AWS CloudHSM is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region.  

You can now monitor your AWS IoT Things Graph workflows using AWS CloudWatch metrics. You can collect metrics for workflow steps that are executed by AWS IoT Things Graph, including success count, failure count, and total count and then set alarm thresholds for each of these metrics within AWS CloudWatch.  For example, you can set alarms that watch for the number of flows that have failed, and send notifications to a downstream application or to an operator.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now supports additional mobile push notification headers from Amazon Device Messaging (ADM), Apple Push Notification service (APNs), Baidu Cloud Push, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS), and Windows Push Notification Services (WNS). The additional reserved message attributes provide you with more configuration options when structuring your push notification messages. 

Amazon EventBridge now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch so that when CloudWatch alarms are triggered, a matching EventBridge rule can execute targets.

You can now configure Amazon EC2 instances to mount Amazon EFS file systems using the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard. This integration simplifies the process of configuring EC2 instances to mount EFS file systems at launch time with recommended mount options. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Multiple EC2 instances can mount an EFS file system and share file data using standard Linux tools and commands.

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze system and application metrics, determine a normal baseline, and surface anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use Anomaly Detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior, reducing the mean time to detect and resolve operational issues.

Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Windows Server including: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Windows Server, in addition to Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now enables storage administrators to view a list of file system users and of open files, and to restore activity on files locked by inactive users.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.  

AWS IoT Greengrass now emits deployment notifications to Amazon EventBridge. Greengrass sends an event every time a Greengrass group deployment changes state. Customers can create EventBridge rules to take actions based on deployment changes. With this new feature, customers can send notifications, capture event information, take corrective action, or initiate other events for deployments.  

Amazon Chime users can now screen share from Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without installing any extensions or downloading a plug-in on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS desktop devices. Chime now leverages the Web APIs available in Mozilla Firefox version 66 and higher or Google Chrome version 72 and higher to deliver native screen share capabilities. In three clicks, any attendee using these browsers can join a Chime meeting and start sharing an application window or the entire screen with other participants. There is no need for pre-meeting testing or setup as all attendees, even those that work in highly regulated environments and are blocked from making changes to their devices, can now share content during Chime meetings without the need for IT intervention. 

You can now view visualizations of past pipeline executions in AWS CodePipeline. Previously, you were only able to see information about actions that ran in a failed pipeline execution. Now, when an execution fails, you will also see the actions that did not run enabling easier debugging of pipeline failures. When your pipeline has concurrent executions, you are now able to view visualizations of the individual executions making understanding the status of an execution much simpler.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS São Paulo region (sa-east-1). 

Amazon Neptune now supports SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query, a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation. Using Neptune customers can execute a portion of their query across different SPARQL endpoints within their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), combine the result, and return to the user. Now customers can distribute their data across multiple Neptune clusters and using a single query to access that data across those clusters. Customers can also use federation to combine data in Neptune with data from external SPARQL endpoints.

Amazon Neptune now supports Streams, an easy way to capture changes in your graph. When enabled, Neptune Streams logs changes to your graph (change-log data) as they happen. Neptune Streams are useful when you want to notify processes (e.g. trigger a lambda) as changes occur in your graph. Streams can also be useful to maintain a current version of your graph in a different region or service such as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache, or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections. Two of the detections are related to Amazon S3, and the third to potential EC2 instance metadata exfiltration via DNS rebinding.  

Customers can now configure Amazon API Gateway to send API access logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. It's easy to configure Kinesis Data Firehose as a log destination by enabling access logging on an API and specifying the Firehose stream. 

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. 

With Amazon EMR release 5.27.0, you can now reconfigure your multi-master clusters on the fly, without needing to recreate your cluster. EMR 5.23 added the capability to run multiple master nodes, helping you protect your long running clusters that run important data pipelines, streaming applications, or HBase clusters from the potential loss of a master node. EMR also gives you the ability to reconfigure running clusters, giving you the ability to change configuration using the EMR console, CLI, and SDK. With EMR release 5.27.0, you can now reconfigure your running multiple master node clusters, allowing you to easily change the EMR application configuration in your running cluster without having to recreate it.

You can now dynamically expand your Amazon MSK clusters as your business grows. Also, you now have the option to create clusters spanning two Availability Zones (AZs), in addition to the default three AZ deployment, in all regions where Amazon MSK is available.  

AWS Deep Learning (DL) Containers now support PyTorch. AWS DL Containers are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks to make it easy to setup and deploy custom machine learning environments. Docker images for training and inference with PyTorch are now available through Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) free of charge—you pay only for the resources that you use. You can deploy AWS DL Containers on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).  

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM PrivateCA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 19.

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. 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. 

AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), extending its footprint to 17 AWS regions. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully-managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy for customers to manage the end-to-end security of their IoT fleet.

AWS RoboMaker now supports Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) feature in beta release. ROS2 expands ROS’s use cases with increased security, quality of service, support for embedded systems and real-time scenarios.

Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on 2 monitors and 2K resolution on 4 monitors. For any AppStream 2.0 instance type, you can use up to four monitors, with a maximum display resolution of 2560x1600 per monitor. Graphics instance types support use of up to two 4K monitors. To use this feature, you must start your streaming session with the AppStream 2.0 Windows client. In addition, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses a version of the AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after September 23, 2019. 

This Quick Start deploys TIBCO JasperReports Server, a reporting and analytics server, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 35 minutes. This Quick Start is for developers, IT professionals, architects, and other technical users who plan to implement or extend their deployment of JasperReports Server to the AWS Cloud.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is a service that delivers AWS-managed relational databases in on-premises VMware environments. RDS on VMware automates time-consuming administration tasks such as database provisioning, operating system and database patching, backups, point-in-time restore, and database instance health monitoring. It makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale databases in your on-premises VMware vSphere environments, freeing you to focus on your applications.

AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Fundamentals: Migrating to the Cloud, a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Coursera. This course introduces you to migration to the AWS Cloud using AWS products and services.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, M5a, M5ad, R5, R5d, R5a, R5ad, T3, T3a, I3 instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. In addition, C5 will now also be available in new 12xlarge, 24xlarge, and Bare Metal sizes and M5 instances will now be available as Bare Metal in South America (Sao Paulo) region.

The PSoC 62 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using this prototyping kit available from Cypress.

Starting today, you can use AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to, edit, or delete tags on multiple AWS resources at once. AWS Resource Groups supports over 140 resource types, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor supports over 50 AWS resource types. To learn more about AWS Resource Groups, visit our documentation.