November 2019

Starting today, Amazon Redshift adds support for materialized views in preview. Materialized views provide significantly faster query performance for repeated and predictable analytical workloads such as dashboarding, queries from business intelligence (BI) tools, and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) data processing.

Customers can now connect Azure Active Directory to AWS Single Sign-on (SSO) once, manage permissions to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable users to sign in using Azure AD to access assigned AWS accounts and applications. This makes it easier for administrators to grant access to their existing users and groups, and provides users the convenience of the sign-in experience they know from Office 365 with single-click access to assigned AWS accounts.  

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB (Preview) is a new diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of the traffic trends of your DynamoDB table and helps you identify the most frequently accessed keys. Now, you can monitor a table’s item access patterns continuously and also use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to provide graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. You can use this information to better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.  

AWS Managed Services (AMS) launched support for AWS CloudFormation (CFN) Stack Update. You can now make changes to your stack’s configurations or change it’s resources, such as new input parameter values or updated template, through the AMS request for change (RFC) process. Changes submitted are validated for safety and only nondestructive changes are automatically executed. For destructive changes, a change set is provided to you for approval before automated execution.  

You can now assign AWS resource tags to Amazon Elastic Inference accelerators. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value, both of which you define. You can use tags to easily organize and identify your resources and create cost allocation reports, among other benefits. You can add or remove resource tags from Elastic Inference accelerators using API, CLI, or SDK. 

The AWS Management Console now makes it quicker for you to access your favorite AWS Regions, because you can find the right Region by its code (e.g. us-east-1), and not just by its name (e.g. US East (N. Virginia)). You save time and effort because you no longer have to refer to AWS documentation to get this information.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now provides additional protection of sensitive data through customer-provided keys for server-side encryption (SSE) of delivery streams. This feature is integrated with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), which allows you to centrally manage keys that protect Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams along with keys that protect your other AWS resources.

Amazon Athena now enables users to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. With federated querying, customers can submit a single SQL query that scans data from multiple sources running on-premises or hosted in the cloud.

Amazon EMR release 6.0.0 (Beta 2) is now available with Hive 3.1.2, Hadoop 3.2.1, Spark 2.4.4, and Scala 2.12. In this release, Hive LLAP is enabled by default, allowing you to benefit from improved query performance and new features such as materialized views, and workload management. Additionally, Scala has been upgraded, allowing you to start testing your Spark applications with Scala 2.12. 

Amazon Athena now supports user-defined functions (UDFs), a feature that enables customers to write custom scalar functions and invoke them in SQL queries. While Athena provides built-in functions, UDFs enable customers to perform custom processing such as compressing and decompressing data, redacting sensitive data, or applying customized decryption.

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor metrics related to VPC Traffic Mirroring. You can collect information such as amount of traffic mirrored or not mirrored on your network interface that is part of a traffic mirror session. You can also set up CloudWatch Alarms to receive notifications on any metrics crossing pre-defined thresholds. To get started with these metrics, see Monitoring Mirrored Traffic Using Amazon CloudWatch.

Today, Amazon Athena has released a new feature that allows you to connect Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. 

Today, we publish additional query metrics that can help customers understand Amazon Athena performance. Athena publishes query-related metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. With this release, Athena will publish four additional query metrics. They are:

• Query Planning Time, the time taken to plan the query. This includes the time spent retrieving table partitions from the data source,
• Query Queuing Time, the time that the query was in a queue waiting for resources,
• Service Processing Time, the time taken to write results after the query engine finished its execution,
• Total Execution Time, time Athena took to run the query.

Today, Amazon Athena released a new feature that allows users to easily invoke machine learning models for inference directly from their SQL queries. The ability to use machine learning models in SQL queries makes complex tasks such anomaly detection, customer cohort analysis, and sales predictions as simple as invoking a function in a SQL query.  

Amazon Neptune now supports full-text search integration with Elasticsearch clusters. This allows customers to use search indexing capabilities within an Elasticsearch cluster, such as provided by the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, with their graph data stored in Amazon Neptune.

The AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ, PyCharm, Rider, and WebStorm now support Cloud Debugging (beta), which enables you to debug your cloud applications by directly accessing code running in the cloud. Previously, when you wanted to step-through debug your applications in your integrated development environment (IDE), you had to rely on features such as local emulation, which attempt to replicate complex cloud architectures on your local machine. Emulated environments cannot consistently maintain fidelity with your cloud environment, resulting in more errors found at deployment time and longer development cycles.

An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s launch, the feature is supported on the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Aurora. You can create a new Global Database cluster by adding a region to an existing MySQL 5.7 cluster.

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, nonrelational database that delivers reliable performance at any scale. DynamoDB encrypts all your data at rest by default with an AWS owned customer master key (CMK), unless you opt to use a AWS managed CMK. Starting today, you also can use customer managed CMKs, which means you can have full control over how you encrypt and manage the security of your DynamoDB data. 

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, can now encrypt Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) communications between AWS applications, such as Amazon Workspaces and Amazon Chime, and your self-managed AD. This allows you to better protect your organization’s identity data and meet your security requirements by enabling AWS Managed Microsoft AD as your Secure LDAP (LDAPS) client.  

Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) is a cloud-native streaming protocol that enables a consistent user experience when accessing your WorkSpaces across global distances and unreliable networks. WSP also enables additional features such as bi-directional video. As a cloud-native protocol, WSP delivers feature and performance enhancements without manual updates on your WorkSpaces. 

You can now use Amazon Aurora to add machine learning (ML) based predictions to your applications, using a simple, optimized, and secure integration with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Comprehend. Aurora machine learning is based on the familiar SQL programming language, so you don’t need to build custom integrations, move data around, learn separate tools, or have prior machine learning experience.  

With AWS for Fluent Bit version 2.0.0, customers can now send container logs from Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS or AWS Fargate to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The AWS for Fluent Bit container image is a lightweight log collector and shipper for containerized environments. It is the recommended logging agent for Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate. The container image is available on Docker Hub, as well as regionalized Amazon ECR repositories provided by AWS.  

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge location in Rome, Italy and two additional Edge locations in in Milan, Italy – more than doubling CloudFront’s total capacity within the Italian Peninsula. Furthermore, CloudFront announces additional Edge locations in Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Philadelphia, Newark, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Hillsboro bringing CloudFront’s global network to 210 Points of Presence in 78 cities across 37 countries. For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 18.  

You can use the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API Client Library with support for Java, now available in preview, to quickly and easily build applications for Amazon Aurora Serverless.  

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.  

Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline, which includes over 400 security controls. 

AWS Lambda now supports Destinations for asynchronous invocations, a new feature that allows you to gain visibility to asynchronous invocation result and route the result to an AWS service without writing code

Amazon Cognito now supports recovery method prioritization, making it easier for developers to customize the flow users experience when they forget their passwords. Developers can specify whether they prefer that users receive a recovery code via SMS or email, and whether they would like to fall back to SMS or email if a verified phone number or email address is not available. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito User Pools at no additional cost. 

We are excited to introduce the Amazon WorkSpaces 3.0 client for Linux (Ubuntu Linux 18.04). This 3.0 client also contains some new enhancements including friendly naming for registration codes (directories) and a new UI. 

The Amazon Redshift cluster elastic resize operation can now be automated using a scheduler that allows you to automatically resize clusters to accommodate changes in workloads that occur on a regular basis. For example, you can now automatically expand a cluster to accommodate heavier workloads as well as shrink a cluster to accommodate lighter workloads at specific times of day. This will allow you to automate cluster resizing to balance price and performance when using Redshift.

You can now preview Amazon QuickSight’s integration with Amazon SageMaker: a new feature that makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective for customers to augment their business data with ML predictions. With just a few clicks, business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists can perform machine learning inferencing in QuickSight to make decisions on new data. Using SageMaker models, popular use cases include predicting likelihood of customer churn, scoring leads conversion, and assessing credit risk for loan applications.

Tag Policies is a new feature that allows you to define rules on how tags can be used on AWS resources in your accounts in AWS Organizations. You can use Tag Policies to easily adopt a standardized approach for tagging AWS resources.

You can now visualize and alarm on a custom percentile of the AWS Lambda metric for invocation duration.

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility to support PostgreSQL version 11.4. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.

An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s launch, you can convert an existing single-region Aurora database to a global one, simply by adding another region to it.

Authors who publish serverless applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) and share them publicly can now receive Verified Author badges, enabling consumers to quickly and reliably know who you are. The Verified Author badge will appear next to your author name on your application’s detail card and detail page, and will deep-link to your Github profile.  

AWS Managed Services (AMS) launched support for Windows 2019. You can now launch a standard and security enhanced Windows 2019 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in your AMS managed landing zones. Windows 2019 support has expanded the addressable inventory of customer applications that can be migrated to AMS for ongoing operations with minimal refactoring.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now publishes ECS Service Action events to Amazon CloudWatch Events. CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources. Using simple rules that you can quickly set up, you can match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams, including AWS Lambda for event processing with custom business logic, Amazon Simple Notification Service for automated notifications, or CloudWatch Logs for event logging. 

Amazon Aurora zero-downtime patching (ZDP), which attempts to preserve client connections through an engine patch, is now supported on Aurora MySQL engine release 2.07 and above. When ZDP executes successfully, application sessions are preserved and the database engine restarts while patching. Read the Aurora documentation to learn more. 

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports Cross-region Read Replicas with Oracle Active Data Guard. Amazon RDS for Oracle makes it easy to create physical standby DB instances in different AWS Regions from the primary DB instance. It fully manages the configuration of Active Data Guard, and replicates data over secured network connections between a primary DB instance and its replicas running across regions. 

An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s launch, you can add as many as five secondary regions to your global cluster, expanding the reach of your database worldwide.

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 11.5 and 10.10 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.5 and 10.10. This release contains cumulative fixes including an important security fix, bug fixes, and other improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

Developers using the Amplify CLI can now view backend environment information in the Amplify Console on project initialization. The Amplify Console offers a single location for the entire team to view and manage the AWS cloud resources required for their fullstack apps.  

Amazon EMR now supports running multiple EMR steps at the same time, the ability to cancel running steps, and AWS Step Functions. Running steps in parallel allows you to run more advanced workloads, increase cluster resource utilization, and reduce the amount of time taken to complete your workload. The number of steps allowed to run at once is configurable and can be set when a cluster is launched and at any time after the cluster has started. With the ability to cancel running steps, you now have more control over step execution, including the ability to forcefully cancel steps. Running steps in parallel is also supported with AWS Step Functions, allowing you to create and scale clusters, and orchestrate step execution using Step Functions workflows.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports creating and managing Network Load Balancers (NLB) in shared VPCs. Using NLBs with VPC sharing, you can now route traffic across subnets in VPCs owned by a centrally managed account in the same AWS Organization.

Amazon CloudWatch has added three new features to the Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server capability to further enhance observability for your .NET and SQL Server based applications.

AWS Chatbot now supports running AWS commands and actions from Slack. You can retrieve diagnostic information, invoke Lambda functions and create AWS Support cases right from your Slack channels, so your team can collaborate and respond to events faster. AWS Chatbot supports commands using the already familiar AWS Command Line Interface syntax that you can use from Slack on desktop or mobile devices. In addition to running commands, you can also retrieve Amazon CloudWatch logs by simply clicking the “Show logs” button on CloudWatch Alarms notifications in Slack. AWS Chatbot supports actions for displaying logs for AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

Application Auto Scaling target tracking can now be used to scale your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. Target tracking allows you to dynamically scale your applications to automatically maintain a target metric. Using target tracking, AppStream 2.0 customers can simply specify a target capacity utilization metric for a fleet, and target tracking automatically increases or decreases the fleet capacity to maintain the target capacity utilization. Customers can configure target tracking policies for their AppStream 2.0 fleets via the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. To learn more, see Managing Fleet Scaling Using the AWS CLI.

AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. Starting today, developers using AWS IoT Greengrass can now package applications into Docker container images and deploy these seamlessly to edge devices. In addition, developers can collect, process, and export data streams, and manage the life cycle of data streams locally on devices.

You can now publish logs from your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database to CloudWatch Logs. Supported logs include both agent logs and error Logs. Publishing these logs to CloudWatch allows you to maintain continuous visibility into database errors and activity. For example, Customers can set up CloudWatch Alarms to notify them on frequent restarts that are recorded in the error log. Similarly, Customers can create alarms for errors or warnings recorded in SQL Server Agent logs related to their SQL agent jobs.

You can now enable your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java applications to access resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This feature enables you to use your streaming applications to read and write data from resources within your VPCs like Amazon Elasticsearch Service clusters, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters, and more.  

AWS IoT Device Management now enables customers to securely access remote devices using Secure Tunneling. Customers can troubleshoot misbehaving devices remotely to diagnose device issues, deploy a fix, and validate the device is working properly using remote shell or remote desktop operations.

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) launched a new feature that helps customers avoid sending emails to addresses that previously resulted in a bounce or complaint event. Customers can use this feature to protect their sender reputations and to improve the delivery rates for their messages.

You can now access Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Application Auto Scaling, and AWS Auto Scaling (scaling plans) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as these Auto Scaling services now support AWS PrivateLink. With AWS PrivateLink support, you can now privately access auto scaling services from your VPC, without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the internet.

AWS CodeBuild adds support for Test Reporting giving you an effective and consistent view of your test executions in CodeBuild. Previously, you couldn't visualize your test results on CodeBuild, making it harder for you to troubleshoot test failures. 

Today, AWS Secrets Manager announced two changes that make it easier to rotate secrets automatically. First, customers can set up automatic rotation for Redshift clusters and DocumentDB instances via AWS CloudFormation easily. Customers can do this by using the SecretTargetAttachment resource to associate a Redshift cluster or Document DB instance with the corresponding secret created in Secrets Manager. Second, customers can set up rotation easily by specifying a serverless application. AWS will automatically create the Lambda function, IAM role, and IAM permissions needed to execute the rotation. To get started, view the CloudFormation examples to schedule secrets for rotation.

AWS Security Hub now supports integrations with Aqua Security Cloud Native Security Platform, AttackIQ Platform, BigID Enterprise, Capitis Solutions C2VS, Caveonix RiskForesight, and DisruptOps are now available. Each of these integrations sends findings from their respective product to Security Hub using the AWS Security Finding Format. Customers can view findings from these products in Security Hub and take action on them.  

Least outstanding requests (LOR) algorithm is now available for Application Load Balancer. This is in addition to the round-robin algorithm that the Application Load Balancer already supports. Customers have the flexibility to choose either algorithm depending on their workload needs. 

Amazon EC2 Instance Connect is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. 

AWS Lambda now supports four failure-handling features for processing Kinesis and DynamoDB streams: Bisect on Function Error, Maximum Record Age, Maximum Retry Attempts, and Destination on Failure. These new features allow you to customize responses to data processing failures and build more resilient stream processing applications.

Starting today you can now launch X1 and X1e instance types using Amazon RDS for SQL Server. 

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights, now available in preview, analyzes time-series data to provide a view of the top contributors influencing system performance. Once set up, Contributor Insights runs continuously without needing additional user intervention. This helps developers and operators more quickly isolate, diagnose, and remediate issues during an operational event.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1e instances are available in the Canada (Central) AWS region. 

Starting today, customers can access AWS Cost Categories to map their cost and usage information to their unique internal business structures.  

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor application endpoints more easily. With this new feature, CloudWatch now collects canary traffic, which can continually verify your customer experience even when you don’t have any customer traffic on your applications, enabling you to discover issues before your customers do. CloudWatch Synthetics supports monitoring of your REST APIs, URLs, and website content, checking for unauthorized changes from phishing, code injection and cross-site scripting. CloudWatch Synthetics runs tests on your endpoints every minute, 24x7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. These tests can be customized to check for availability, latency, transactions, broken or dead links, step by step task completions, page load errors, load latencies for UI assets, complex wizard flows, or checkout flows in your applications. You can also use CloudWatch Synthetics to isolate alarming application endpoints and map them back to underlying infrastructure issues to reduce mean time to resolution.  

You can now use AWS IoT Device Defender Audit to check for devices in your fleet that: (1) have overly permissive permissions (e.g., admin permissions, access to metadata actions, data plane actions, or security auditing services); (2) have access to services that haven't been used in over 365 days; (3) use OpenSSL versions on Debian-based operating systems that have been identified as having predictable cryptographic keys making them susceptible to brute force attacks; or (4) use Infineon RSA library versions that have been identified to mishandle RSA key generation making them susceptible to hacking. 

You can now run your applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. You can add Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to your environment’s capacity in both single instance and load balanced environments. Previously, Elastic Beanstalk supported only On-Demand and Reserved Instances.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 is introducing the ability for customers to choose an Unlimited mode preference using CLI and SDK at the account level for T3, T3a, and T2 instance types. The new API will enable customers to perform a one time action of setting Unlimited or Standard mode as the default preference for all T3, T3a, and T2 instance launches.

The AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface, SAM CLI, now allows you to deploy applications with a single command: sam deploy. SAM CLI is a deployment toolkit that also allows you to locally build, test, and debug serverless applications.  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers support for 8K UHD video encoding, which gives video providers the ability to create and monetize premium experiences for viewers and to support the latest consumer display devices. 8K encoding is available in the MediaConvert on-demand, professional tier, in resolutions up to 8192 x 4320 with HEVC encoding, 10-bit, including HDR. This capability also allows for the creation of square video at resolutions up to 4320 x 4320, a format commonly used for VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Augmented Reality) content. For detailed information on 8K encoding pricing, please visit the MediaConvert pricing page.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployments in the following AWS regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), EU (Stockholm) and China (Beijing).

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports differential restores and log restores on to an RDS SQL Server db instance. With this enhancement you can now migrate to RDS for SQL Server while significantly increasing the availability of your application during the migration process.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now enables you to create and use asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs) and data key pairs. With this feature, you can perform digital signing operations using RSA and Elliptic Curve (ECC) keys. You can also perform public key encryption operations using RSA keys. The public portion of the key pairs can be used outside of the service. You can share public keys with your customers and partners so they can encrypt data or verify signatures without making a request to AWS KMS. As with all other AWS KMS APIs, asymmetric key usage is logged in AWS CloudTrail to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

You can now send data from AWS IoT Core directly to your own web services for processing without writing a single line of code. To do so, simply configure the new HTTP action by providing the HTTPS endpoint of your web service (e.g. https://example.com). After validating your ownership of the endpoint, AWS IoT Core will deliver the data via HTTP POST method.

Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Integration is a new feature of AWS IoT Core that enables Alexa Voice to be produced on any type of connected device. AVS Integration for IoT Core reduces the cost of producing Alexa Built-in devices by up to 50% by offloading compute and memory intensive audio workloads to the cloud. With this reduction in production cost, customers can now cost-effectively build new categories of differentiated voice-enabled products such as light switches, thermostats, and small appliances. This allows consumers to talk directly to Alexa in new parts of their home, office, or hotel rooms for a truly ambient experience. 

New features of AWS IoT Core, including Configurable Endpoints and Custom Domains, as well as enhancement to AWS IoT Core Custom Authentication, Custom Authorizer for MQTT Connections, make it easy to transition from self-managed infrastructure to fully managed AWS IoT services so you can improve scalability and reliability with few changes to your application code and minimal to no impact to devices already using your services. 

Amazon Redshift now provides an efficient and automated way to maintain sort order of the data in Redshift tables to continuously optimize query performance. The new automatic table sort capability offers simplified maintenance and ease of use without compromising performance and access to Redshift tables. Automatic table sort complements Automatic Vacuum Delete and Automatic Analyze and together these capabilities fully automate table maintenance. Automatic table sort is now enabled by default on Redshift tables where a sort key is specified.

AWS Lambda now supports Parallelization Factor, a feature that allows you to process one shard of a Kinesis or DynamoDB data stream with more than one Lambda invocation simultaneously. This new feature allows you to build more agile stream processing applications on volatile data traffic.  

You can now run your Java applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Corretto 8 on Amazon Linux 2, and Corretto 11 on Amazon Linux 2 beta platforms.

Customers can now use Helm charts to install the AWS App Mesh Controller and Inject Webhook for use with Kubernetes services.

Today, Grafana Labs introduced an updated metrics data source for Amazon CloudWatch that comes with several new features. With the latest release of Grafana (version 6.5.0 or later) you can use the updated data source to more efficiently query and visualize CloudWatch metrics.

You can now set time based retention policies on Data Lifecycle Manager. With this launch, DLM allows you to set snapshot retention period in the following interval units: days, weeks, months and years.

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate now supports the following more languages and dialects - Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Canadian French, Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, and Tamil.

AWS Lambda now supports two new features to provide developers additional controls on how to process asynchronous invocations: Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts. When you invoke a function asynchronously, Lambda sends the event to a queue. A separate process reads events from the queue and runs your function. These two new features provide ways to control how events are retried and how long they can remain in the queue.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate is now available in six new regions - US West (Northern California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Until today, when using AutoML in Forecast customers could only determine the winning algorithm. Although useful, this did not give customers transparency into all the model runs.  

Earlier today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabled you to use your employees’ existing identity attributes such as cost center and department from your directory to create fine-grained permissions in AWS. Your administrators can use these employee attributes in AWS to implement attribute-based access control to AWS resources and simplify permissions management at scale.  

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions.

The CDK Explorer, a new preview feature in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, allows developers to visualize CDK applications. AWS CDK, launched GA in July this year, is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. CDK apps are composed of building blocks known as Constructs, which include definitions for your cloud stacks and resources within. Check out the CDK developer guide or the CDK Workshop to learn more about the CDK.  

AWS WAF announces AWS Managed Rules (AMRs), a set of AWS WAF rules curated and maintained by the AWS Threat Research Team. With just a few clicks, AMRs can help protect your web applications from new and emerging threats, so you don’t need to spend time researching and writing your own rules. AMRs are based on common Internet threats, including security risks referenced in the OWASP Top 10 publication. AMRs also include IP reputation lists based on Amazon threat intelligence that can help reduce your exposure to bot traffic.

Amazon Forecast can now support generating forecasts in any quantile between 1% and 99% (including the mean forecast). Until today, the service only generated probabilistic forecasts at three default quantiles i.e. 10%/50%/90%.

Starting today, you can now bring your own JDBC drivers to your Glue Spark ETL jobs. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easier to prepare and load your data for analytics. AWS Glue has native connectors to connect to supported data sources either on AWS or elsewhere using JDBC drivers. This feature enables you to connect to data sources with custom drivers that were not natively supported in AWS Glue such as MySQL 8 and Oracle 18. You can also use multiple JDBC driver versions in the same Glue job enabling you to migrate data between source and target databases with different versions. To learn more, please visit our documentation.

Amazon Comprehend now supports real time Custom Classification. You can use the real time Custom Classification to understand, label and route information based on your own business rules in real time. For example, you can instantly categorize the content of support requests and route them to the proper support team. Or you can automatically moderate website comments as they’re flowing in. Prior to this launch, customers used Custom Classification with their business-specific labels to categorize documents asynchronously. Now, customers can choose real time or asynchronous Custom Classification depending on their use case. 

Amazon QuickSight now allows you to add themes and customizations to match your corporate branding or application look and feel. Themes allow authors of QuickSight dashboards to customize their preferred background, text, data, and gradient colors as well as spacing and borders of visuals. See here to learn more.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon RDS for Oracle so you can identify high-frequency, long-running, and stuck SQL queries in seconds.

You can now run Apache Flink and Apache Kafka together using fully managed services on AWS. AWS provides a fully managed service for Apache Flink through Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, enabling you to quickly build and easily run sophisticated streaming applications. You can use these fully managed Apache Flink applications to process streaming data stored in Apache Kafka running within Amazon VPC or on Amazon MSK, a fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service.

To enable access to customers’ Amazon VPCs, AWS Direct Connect is announcing Direct Connect gateway, a new feature to allow customers using any AWS Direct Connect location in China to use their Direct Connect connections to access any Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) deployed in any AWS Regions in China. In addition, each Direct Connect gateway will enable association with one or more Amazon VPCs. Using Direct Connect gateway, you do not need to have AWS Direct Connect connections in multiple AWS Regions to access your Amazon VPCs in those AWS Regions. Rather, you can use one (or more) private virtual interface to communicate with multiple Amazon VPCs across any AWS China Regions. 

Today, AWS X-Ray is launching support for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics (preview), enabling developers and DevOps engineers to trace end-to-end requests for canaries that monitor web application endpoints, and URLs.

Amazon Chime Voice Connector now supports audio streaming with SIP-based Media Recording (SIPREC). This makes it easy for you to build machine learning, analytics, and processing applications using real-time call audio from your on-premises phone systems. Previously, you had to integrate and deploy expensive on-premises hardware and software, or make disruptive changes to your enterprise voice network.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibility, a relational database built for the cloud. With RDS Performance Insights SQL-level metrics, you can identify high-frequency, long-running, and stuck SQL queries in seconds.

Today, AWS announces a High Reliability Architectures portfolio available in AWS Service Catalog. This new portfolio contains 7 blueprints for building high reliability applications on AWS. The Getting Started Library in AWS Service Catalog provides well-architected blueprints for using AWS services.

The MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora has added support for db.r5.8xl, db.r5.16xl, and db.r5.24xl instance sizes.

AWS IoT is announcing a new feature for AWS IoT Core called Fleet Provisioning, which makes it easy for customers to onboard large volumes of manufactured devices, like vacuum cleaners or construction excavators, to the cloud. For many customers, particularly those manufacturing large volumes of devices like OEM’s, the process of uniquely configuring and connecting IoT devices to the cloud (e.g. bootstrapping and provisioning) remains manual and time-consuming step in their IoT implementation process.

AWS IoT Device Tester v2.2.0 now supports AWS IoT Greengrass v1.10. This latest version of device tester includes tests to qualify AWS IoT Greengrass devices that support newly introduced capabilities - Stream manager and Docker application deployments using Docker containers. The latest version also adds supports for AWS China (Beijing) Region for testing AWS IoT Greengrass devices.

All Amazon WorkSpaces Public APIs are now fully supported on AWS PrivateLink, which increases the security of data shared with cloud-based applications by reducing the exposure of data to the public Internet. Now, WorkSpaces API traffic can be secured inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) when administering your Amazon WorkSpaces fleet.

You can now create up to 100 Amazon EKS clusters per region per account, an increase from the previous limit of 50 clusters per region per account. 

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of our first Conversational speaking style voices. This speaking style was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech technology, and the voices were designed to sound natural, friendly, and approachable in a dialog. The Conversational speaking style can be used with the US English voices Matthew and Joanna, and is the second speaking style launched by Polly, following the release of Newscaster Speaking Style voices in US English in July 2019.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports IPv6 traffic over Inter-Region VPC Peering. With this launch, your resources in different AWS regions, can communicate with each other using IPv6 addresses without requiring gateways, VPN connections, or separate physical hardware. Inter-Region VPC Peering encrypts inter-region traffic with no single point of failure or bandwidth bottleneck. Traffic using Inter-Region VPC Peering always stays on the AWS global network and never traverses the public internet. 

Starting today, Customer Voice Stream enables you to stream all audio to and from your end-customer in real-time. Now in addition to the audio coming from the customer, a second stream includes the audio the customer hears, which might include agent speech or audio played as prompt in a contact flow or from an Amazon Lex bot. 

Today, AWS announces AppConfig, a new capability within AWS Systems Manager that makes it easy for customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on EC2 instances, containers, Lambdas, mobile apps, IoT devices, and on-premise servers in a validated, controlled and monitored way. System administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers now have the ability to manage configuration changes, similar to the way they manage code, but without the need for deploying code or taking their application out of service when a configuration value changes, thus mitigating risk of potential outages.

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available in Java and C# in addition to TypeScript and Python. AWS CDK is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. With AWS CDK, you can define your infrastructure as code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. AWS CDK is available to use in all regions. 

AWS Glue now supports running the FindMatches ML Transform in ETL scripts running on Spark 2.4.3 (Glue version 1.0). Previously, you were only able to use the FindMatches ML Transform in Spark 2.2.1 (Glue Version 0.9). 

Beginning today, you can associate private hosted zones with the same Virtual Private Cloud even if they have overlapping namespaces (for example, if one of those hosted zones is a subdomain of the other, such as acme.example.com and example.com). Support for overlapping namespaces makes it easy to manage permissions across your organization. For example, it lets a central team in your organization manage a parent hosted zone (such as example.com) while allowing independent teams to manage their own subdomains of that zone (such as acme.example.com and zenith.example.com).  

Today, AWS Service Catalog announces the AWS Service Catalog Connector for Jira Service Desk (JSD) version 1.0.4. With this connector, administrators can use existing AWS Service Catalog configurations, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose them to JSD administrators and users. This new connector simplifies AWS product provisioning and provides administrators with governance and oversight over their AWS resources. 

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in five additional AWS regions: EU (Paris, Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can now programmatically create, manage, deploy, and audit resources in Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight supports APIs for dashboards, data, SPICE, and permissions. Dashboard APIs enable dashboard creation from pre-configured templates and management of existing dashboards. Data APIs provide capabilities related to data sources and datasets and SPICE APIs facilitate triggering and monitoring of data ingestions. Fine-grained permissions APIs enable addition and management of AWS Identity and Management (IAM) policy mappings that control access to AWS resources such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena for specific users or groups within Amazon QuickSight.

Starting today, a number of Amazon Aurora features like invoking an AWS Lambda function synchronously, hot row contention, Backtrack, and hash joins, will now be available on the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Aurora to improve performance and manageability. The MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora already offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns. 

AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. In June 2019 we also announced that DataSync is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates and accelerates copying data between Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. Customers use DataSync to migrate data to AWS, to transfer data to the cloud for analysis and processing, and to replicate data to AWS for archiving or business continuity.  

Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. Customers now have additional ways to easily discover and compare instance types based on CPU, memory, storage, networking performance, regional presence, pricing, and more. The new “Instance Types” section of the EC2 Console allows customers to filter, search, and compare instance types. In addition, customers can programmatically access instance type specifications using new APIs: DescribeInstanceTypes and DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings. Starting today, these APIs and Console features are available in all commercial AWS regions. Read the documentation to learn more.

Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) now supports the ListShards API to make it easier for your producer applications to publish data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams at any scale. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. The Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high write throughput to a Kinesis data stream.

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces new streaming instances based on the EC2 z1d family. EC2 z1d instances deliver high single-thread performance using custom Intel® Xeon® processors with a sustained all-core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz, the fastest of any cloud instance. Z1d provides both high compute and high memory performance, which is ideal for electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, and software with high per-core licensing costs. Z1D instances are also built on the new AWS Nitro System, which offloads many traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware to improve performance, availability, and security.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports outbound network access removing the dependency for linked servers to be joined within a VPC. Linked servers can now have traffic configured from an RDS for SQL Server instance in AWS directing traffic to an on-premise or EC2 SQL Server instance.

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), US West (N. California), and Canada (Central) AWS regions. 

Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video in Gulf Arabic, Swiss German, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Telugu, and Turkish languages. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capability to applications. Organizations can use Amazon Transcribe to create text transcripts of audio and video files quickly.

Amazon Lex now supports sentiment analysis by natively integrating with Amazon Comprehend. Up until now, you had to implement custom logic using Amazon Comprehend APIs to assess user sentiment. Starting today, you can enable sentiment analysis for your bot with a single-click in the Amazon Lex Console. Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing to detect the overall sentiment in text and returns value as positive, negative, neutral, or mixed. 

Today, AWS announces CloudTrail Insights, a new CloudTrail feature that helps customers identify unusual operational activity in their AWS accounts such as spikes in resource provisioning, bursts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions, or gaps in periodic maintenance activity.  

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of web and mobile chat for Amazon Connect, giving businesses an omnichannel cloud contact center service based on the same technology used by Amazon customer service associates worldwide. Amazon Connect now makes it easy for you to offer your customers the ability to reach you by chat or by phone. By using the same routing, configuration, analytics, and management tools across voice and chat, Amazon Connect gives you a single unified contact center service across channels, simplifying contact center operations, improving agent efficiency, and lowering costs.

Today, AWS X-Ray is launching trace maps, which enables you to visually map the end to end path of a single request.  

AWS Tools for PowerShell now has a new modular variant AWS.Tools with a separate module for each AWS service. Previously you had to install support for all AWS services in a single large module using AWSPowerShell.NetCore. Going forward, you can download and install the modules only relevant to your application (e.g. AWS.Tools.S3), reducing download time and memory footprint.

Starting today, you can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region.

Tag-on create is now available for AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and Private Certificate Authority (CA). Upon creation, you can tag your ACM certificates and private certificate authorities (CAs). By tagging resources at time of creation you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation. 

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 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 19. 

With the addition of a new polymorphic data type, GEOMETRY, Amazon Redshift now provides the ability to natively process spatial data. This capability enables customers to store, retrieve, and process spatial data so you can enhance your business insights by integrating spatial data into your analytical queries.

This Quick Start deploys Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) VPX on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to build and test a proof of concept or to create a production-ready solution with a highly available deployment of Citrix ADC VPX as a front end for their web applications. 

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. Today we’re releasing two important features to improve performance and consistency for applications using AppSync APIs. 

You can now better integrate your application CICD process with Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) by using events that ECR emits to Amazon EventBridge. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. Amazon EventBridge (formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events) is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources. Using ECR events, you can trigger actions such as starting a pipeline or posting a message when your image is successfully pushed.

AWS Migration Hub available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. 

Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens is a new feature that enables you to visualize and analyze the health, performance, and availability of your applications in a single place. CloudWatch ServiceLens ties together CloudWatch metrics and logs, as well as traces from AWS X-Ray to give you a complete view of your applications and their dependencies. This enables you to quickly pinpoint performance bottlenecks, isolate root causes of application issues, and determine users impacted.  

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,800 software listings from more than 1,400 software sellers now gives you the ability to read additional reviews by verified and authenticated users from G2. G2 is a software review platform that will provide verified and authenticated reviews from users of the software sold on AWS Marketplace. All reviews, written on AWS Marketplace or sourced from G2 will be displayed on individual software seller detail pages with star-ratings.

The Amazon Chime SDK makes it easy for developers to add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their applications. Developers can manage and control access to Amazon Chime SDK meeting resources in their AWS account using the AWS SDK. Adding the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript to their applications helps developers build customized calling experiences with methods to connect the client applications to cloud meeting resources, manage microphone and camera selection, and control meeting features.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS Canada (ca-central-1) region.

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add a speech-to-text capability to applications. Organizations can use Amazon Transcribe to create text transcripts of audio and video files quickly.

You now can benefit from the 99.999% DynamoDB availability SLA more easily by adding global tables replicas to your existing, single-region tables with a few clicks in the DynamoDB console. Previously, you could only create new DynamoDB global tables. For existing tables, you can now easily create a hot standby for disaster recovery, or you can extend your existing tables to additional AWS Regions to support latency-sensitive applications, without taking any downtime on your table. In addition, you benefit from efficiency improvements that can reduce replicated writes consumed by up to 50 percent.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 A1 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. A1 instances, introduced at re:Invent 2018, are the first EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. A1 instances deliver up to 45% cost savings for scale-out and Arm-based workloads. These include applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, and distributed data stores that are supported by the extensive Arm ecosystem. These instances will also appeal to developers, enthusiasts, and educators across the Arm developer community. 

Today, AWS X-Ray is launching trace maps, which enables you to visually map the end to end path of a single request.  

This Quick Start deploys a model environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud that can help organizations with workloads that fall within the scope of the Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST-CSF). Its architecture maps to certain technical requirements imposed by HITRUST controls.

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the South America (Sao Paulo) region to securely share your AWS resources across AWS accounts or within your AWS organization. You can centrally create resources in a multi-account environment, and use AWS RAM to share those resources across your accounts. This reduces operational overhead while maintaining the benefits of a multi-account strategy. At this time you can use AWS RAM to share Amazon VPC subnets and traffic mirror targets in South America (Sao Paulo) region, eliminating the need to create duplicate resources in each of your accounts and driving down costs. To learn more see AWS Resource Access Manager.

We are pleased to announce Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption at rest through AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and node-to-node encryption, enabling organizations to host sensitive workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. 

You can now reference Organizational Units (OUs), which are groups of AWS accounts in AWS Organizations, in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, making it easier to define access for your IAM principals (users and roles) to the AWS resources in your organization. AWS Organizations lets you organize your accounts into OUs to align them with their business or security purpose.  

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you include instance weights in Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that are configured to provision and scale across multiple instance types. Instance weights define the capacity units that each instance type would contribute to your application's performance, providing greater flexibility for instance type selection that can be included in your ASG. 

You can now schedule AWS DataSync transfers between NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). DataSync task scheduling enables you to periodically execute a transfer task to detect and copy changes from your source storage system to the destination. Customers use DataSync to migrate data to AWS, to transfer data to the cloud for analysis and processing, and to replicate data to AWS for archiving or business continuity. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports Data Deduplication, reducing storage costs by 50-60% for general file shares.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports user storage quotas, enabling storage administrators to monitor and control user-level storage consumption on their file systems.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now enables storage administrators to enforce in-transit encryption on all connections to a file system.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Middle East (Bahrain) region. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in all commercial AWS regions except China regions. With this launch, Amazon EFS is now also available in the regions below:

• Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
• Europe (Stockholm)
• Middle East (Bahrain)
• South America (São Paulo)  

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports managing file shares via PowerShell, enabling storage administrators to automate migration, synchronization, and ongoing management of file shares on Amazon FSx file systems.

Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC) is a new feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA). S3 RTC helps customers meet compliance or business requirements for data replication, and provides visibility into the replication process with new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics.

You can now block merging pull requests until specified rules are met. Previously, you could only block merging a pull request through custom IAM permissions. You can now create an approval rule specifically for a pull request, or create approval rule templates to be applied to all future pull requests in a repository. You can specify rule requirements, such as the total number of approvals or approval from a specific user, that must be met before code is merged. Approval rules and approval rule templates help ensure that only high quality code changes are merged into your codebase.

Amazon FSx is announcing two new features that make it easier to deploy shared Windows storage for High Availability (HA) Microsoft SQL Server deployments: support for Continuously Available (CA) file shares and support for smaller file systems.

This Quick Start deploys a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) endpoint for downloading and managing updates on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes. This Quick Start is for system administrators and IT engineers who need to use WSUS as the endpoint where Windows servers and other Microsoft applications are authorized to acquire updates.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe returned transcriptions with the highest confidence score only. Starting today, you can specify that Amazon Transcribe return additional transcriptions as well. You can use these alternative transcriptions to see different interpretations of the transcribed audio, giving you added optionality and flexibility to select the most suitable text results for your application. For example, in media asset management (MAM) applications that enable users to review and splice together subtitles, users can now select from up to ten alternative transcriptions. Alternative transcripts are available across all languages supported by Amazon Transcribe.

Amazon Cognito now supports Sign in with Apple, making it easier for customers who use Cognito for identity and authentication to reach a broad base of Apple users. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito User Pools at the same cost as other social identity providers.

Today, we’re reducing the price for AWS DataSync by 68% to $0.0125 per-gigabyte transferred by the service. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates and accelerates copying data between Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now allows you to create file systems as small as 32 GBs.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you safely and securely recycle instances in an Auto Scaling group (ASG) at a regular cadence. The Maximum Instance Lifetime parameter helps you ensure that instances are recycled before reaching the specified lifetime, giving you an automated way to adhere to your security, compliance, and performance requirements. You can either create a new ASG or update an existing one to include the Maximum Instance Lifetime value of your choice between seven and 365 days.

You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 5 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and AWS GovCloud (US-East). 

AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from AWS for Tape Gateway, and for reading data and listing directories for File Gateway, providing you faster access to data managed through these gateways. 

You can now enable Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots, ensuring that EBS volumes restored from FSR-enabled snapshots instantly receive full provisioned performance. You can enable FSR for an additional hourly charge to your regular snapshot cost for each Availability Zone (AZ) in which FSR is enabled. This new capability enables you to restore multiple volumes from a snapshot without the need to initialize volumes yourself. Improved and predictable performance helps with use cases such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), backup & restore, test/dev volume copies, and booting from custom AMIs.

You can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems that span AWS Availability Zones (AZs), making it easy to deploy Windows file storage in AWS with high availability and redundancy across multiple AZs. Multi-AZ file systems are designed to provide continuous availability to data, even in the event that an AZ is unavailable—supporting business-critical workloads such as business applications, web serving environments, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Starting today, customers that use AWS Support services (Developer, Business, and Enterprise levels) will now have these expected costs included in their monthly cost forecasts when using AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets. With this enhancement, customers no longer need to manually adjust their expected monthly costs to include premium support costs.

AWS Config announces the launch of conformance packs. Conformance packs help you manage configuration compliance of your AWS resources at scale--from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting--using a common framework and packaging model.

AWS Config announces the launch of a new feature that enables you to perform configuration audit and compliance verification for third-party resources. You can now publish the configuration of third-party resources, such as GitHub repositories, Microsoft Active Directory resources, or any on-premises server into AWS Config using our new API.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports new customer modifiable sqlnet.ora parameters - ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER and ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT.  

AWS Storage Gateway launched high availability (HA) for VMware environments, new reports on gateway performance, and additional options to manage gateway software updates.  

This Quick Start automatically deploys DataSunrise with Amazon Redshift on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon SQS FIFO as an event source. This allows you to use Lambda for building event-driven applications where ordered events and operations are critical. For example, you can build an application that displays the correct product price by sending price modifications in the right order.  

You can now add tags while copying snapshots. Previously, a user had to first copy the snapshot and then add tags to the copied snapshot manually. Moving forward, you can specify the list of tags you wish to be applied to the copied snapshot as a parameter on the Copy Snapshot API. 

AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EMR, making it faster to build and easier to monitor EMR big data processing workflows.

Amazon QLDB is now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul, Sydney) regions.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes are available in 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using either m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.  

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Explorer, an operations dashboard providing you with an at-a-glance graphical view of relevant operations data, such as EC2 instance summaries and their patch compliance. With Explorer, you can view your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions to see where attention, investigation, and remediation may be required. 

You can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose performance impacting your Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container instances. This new feature available with CloudWatch Container Insights, automates the collection of fifteen new CloudWatch custom metrics such as CPU, memory, and file system and network utilization of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The feature also summarizes these metrics in an ECS Instances dashboard to improve cluster performance, improve app resilience and availability, and troubleshoot issues from your ECS clusters faster.

Application Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups routing. With this launch you will be able to do weighted routing of the traffic forwarded by a rule to multiple target groups. This enables various use cases like blue-green, canary and hybrid deployments without the need for multiple load balancers. It even enables zero-downtime migration between on-premises and cloud or between different compute types like EC2 and Lambda.  

We're excited to announce three new courses specifically designed to help APN Partners use AWS solutions to better help their customers and differentiate their organizations. These courses provide a technical understanding of how machine learning (ML), VMware and containers work in the AWS Cloud.

You can now use Amazon Lex for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon Lex is SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS controls. These audits ensure that the appropriate safeguards and procedures are in place to protect against security risks that may affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer and company data. The results of these third-party audits are made available on the AWS SOC Compliance site, where auditors can view the published reports to get more information about the controls established to support AWS operations and compliance.

We’re excited to announce a free new digital training series on AWS Snowball Edge, a petabyte-scale data transport device with on-board storage and compute capabilities. This three-course series is designed to teach you how to use the device and help you decide if it’s appropriate for your data transport needs.

You can now use Environment Variables with your AWS Lambda functions in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Today, AWS announces a new Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow (version 2.3.3). Administrators now have budget, actual, and forecast spend visibility within the connector. Using Service Catalog Budgets Visibility, administrators can create and associate budgets with portfolios and products to track spend. The new ServiceNow connector also supports FIPS endpoints, enabling enterprises and government entities operating in GovCloud West to use the connector.

AWS CloudFormation StackSets supports drift detection, which means that you can now view aggregated drift results for your StackSets and their stack instances from one view in one account. Drift detection lets you check that the actual configuration of application resources matches their configuration intent. StackSets extend CloudFormation stacks by allowing you to manage stack operations across multiple regions and accounts in one operation.  

To help you identify unused roles in your AWS accounts, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now reports the latest timestamp when role credentials were used to make an AWS request. This information makes it easier for you or your security teams to identify and analyze unused roles and remove them confidently.  

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now enables better control and access with condition keys specific to Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. You can use these condition keys in the Condition element of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. 

Starting today, you can launch builds on three new compute types, ARM, GPU and X-Large, when using AWS CodeBuild.

AWS CodeBuild's support for ARM-based workload allows you to build and test your software updates natively, without needing to emulate or cross-compile. You can get started by creating or updating a CodeBuild Project, and selecting "ARM_CONTAINER" as the environment type and "BUILD_GENERAL1_LARGE" as the compute type. A new managed image, "aws/codebuild/amazonlinux2-aarch64-standard", based on Amazon Linux is now available for you to use as the build environment for these builds.

We’ve introduced an enhancement for instance metadata access requests that adds defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. You can configure the instance metadata service to require this feature on both new and running instances. Additionally, you can choose to turn off access to instance metadata altogether.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the October 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and October 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c and 19c.

You can now proactively manage your quotas with Amazon CloudWatch Usage Metrics and Service Quotas Integration. Usage Metrics provide visibility into resource and API utilization for your AWS services. A new Metric Math function allows you to retrieve your most up-to-date quotas from Service Quotas. With these capabilities you have greater visibility into your service usage, and you can start to proactively manage your quotas.

Amazon Chime now provides application program interfaces (APIs) that you can use to create integrations between your business processes, tools, and Amazon Chime chat rooms. For example, you can automatically sync chat rooms members with Active Directory groups, or create and populate chat rooms automatically for tickets created in your issue management tool.

You can now author your AWS Lambda functions in Node.js 12, and use its new features such as the performance improvements in the V8 engine, private class fields, and enhanced stack tracing. Lambda functions written in Node.js 12 run on the latest generation of Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2. You can read the Node.js programming model in the AWS Lambda documentation to learn more about writing functions in Node.js 12. 

FireLens is a container log router for Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate that gives you extensibility to use the breadth of services at AWS or partner solutions for log analytics and storage. FireLens works with Fluentd and Fluent Bit. This means you can use one of the many plugins, including AWS for Fluent Bit or bring your own Fluentd output plugin.  

You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using Java 11. You can use Java 11 features such as its improved HTTP Client API and new methods for reading and writing strings when authoring your functions. Lambda functions written in Java 11 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux, and Amazon Corretto 11, a no-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 11 that comes with long-term support. 

CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format enables you to ingest complex high-cardinality application data in the form of logs and easily generate actionable metrics from them. It has traditionally been hard to generate actionable custom metrics from your ephemeral resources such as Lambda functions, and containers. With this launch, you do not have to rely on complex architecture or multiple third party tools to gain insights into these environments. By sending your logs in the new Embedded Metric Format, you can now easily create custom metrics without having to instrument or maintain separate code, while gaining powerful analytical capabilities on your log data.  

You can now easily provision managed worker nodes for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters and keep them up to date using the Amazon EKS management console, APIs, or CLI.

Today, AWS CloudFormation is introducing a set of capabilities that make it easy to model and automate the management of third party resources such as SaaS monitoring or incident management tools with the benefits of infrastructure-as-code. With this launch, you can use AWS CloudFormation as a single tool to automate provisioning of your infrastructure and application resources, whether AWS or third party, without the need for custom scripts or manual processes. You can now create your own private AWS CloudFormation resource providers, share them with the open source community, and leverage third party providers developed by others.  

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Python 3.8. This is the newest major release of the Python language, and contains many new features such as assignment expressions, positional-only arguments, and typing improvements. Lambda functions written in Python 3.8 run on the latest generation of Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2. You can read the Python programming model in the AWS Lambda documentation to learn more about writing functions in Python 3.8. 

Starting today, AWS customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can opt in to using longer IDs using APIs or the AWS Management Console.

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads.

Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service which enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, with custom machine learning models which can be created in Amazon Personalize, with no prior machine learning experience.  

We are happy to announce the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark – A performance optimized runtime environment for Apache Spark, available and turned on by default on Amazon EMR clusters. EMR runtime for Spark is up to 32x faster with 100% API compatibility with open source Spark. The runtime is on by default starting in EMR release 5.28. 

We are thrilled to announce that we have also released another requested feature - improved CloudFormation support. With this update, you can leverage improved CloudFormation support to quickly take resources from development into production, or replicate existing configurations into new regions. Check out the documentation for more details.

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is now compatible with Intel® MPI Library 2019 Update 6. Intel® MPI Library is a multi-fabric message passing library that implements the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Customers can use the library to create, maintain, and test applications that perform better on HPC clusters based on Intel® processors.

AWS Managed Services (AMS) launched support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4. You can now run business critical applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in your AMS Managed landing zones. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support has expanded the addressable inventory of customer applications that can be migrated to AMS for ongoing operations with minimal refactoring.

Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity now handles imbalanced workloads better by isolating frequently accessed items automatically. If your application drives disproportionately high traffic to one or more items, DynamoDB will rebalance your partitions such that frequently accessed items do not reside on the same partition. This latest enhancement helps you maintain uninterrupted performance for your workloads. In addition, it helps you reduce costs by enabling you to provision throughput capacity more efficiently, instead of overprovisioning to accommodate uneven data access patterns. 

AWS App Mesh has increased the default limits for a set of App Mesh resources - virtual nodes, backends, routers, and routes. These limit increases make it easier for you to manage larger applications with App Mesh. The number of virtual nodes per mesh, which map to your services, tasksets, or deployments that can be connected to the mesh, increased from 20 to 200. The number of backends per node; the number of dependent services that a specific service can connect with, increased from 25 to 50. The number of virtual routers per mesh increased from 20 to 200, to enable routing on all mesh connected services. The number of routes per virtual router increased from 20 to 50, to enable matching on multiple parameters for routing decisions.  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers support for Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) video encoding for better color, contrast, and brightness on consumer display devices and support for Dolby Atmos audio encoding for immersive surround sound. MediaConvert used in combination with these technologies from Dolby Laboratories give video providers the ability to create premium experiences for consumers.

Amazon EMR release 5.28.0 now supports Apache Hudi (Incubating). Data engineers using Amazon EMR for data pipeline development and data processing can now use Apache Hudi to simplify incremental data management and data privacy use cases requiring record-level insert, updates, and delete operations. Apache Hudi enables Amazon S3-based data lakes to comply with data privacy laws, consume real time streams and change data capture logs, reinstate late arriving data, and track change history and rollback. Apache Hudi is open-source and supports storing data on Amazon S3 in vendor neutral, open source formats such as Apache Parquet and Apache Avro.

Today, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store launched enhanced search capability to enable you to search for parameters easily by parameter name. The new search experience enables easy discovery of parameters when you have large number of parameters in your account or when you do not remember the exact name of a parameter.  

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync allows you to easily make any of its supported data sources real time, with connection management handled automatically between the client and the service. With today’s launch we’re releasing enhancements to AppSync that will further optimize access to applications requiring real-time updates, such as gaming leaderboards, social media apps, sports scores, live streaming, interactive chatrooms, IoT dashboards, and many others, by enabling a new protocol option with support to metrics and larger payloads.

Amazon GuardDuty customers can now export findings to Amazon S3 using the GuardDuty management console and API. With findings export, aggregating findings from across regions is simplified. When configured from the GuardDuty master account, customers can export findings from all associated member accounts and all AWS regions to a single customer owned S3 bucket. The S3 bucket used can be in the same account in which GuardDuty is enabled, or in a different AWS account. Once Findings export is configured in each Region, Amazon GuardDuty findings are automatically exported from GuardDuty to the configured Amazon S3 bucket. This feature enhancement gives customers a simplified way to aggregate all findings to a single customer owned Amazon S3 bucket across all accounts and regions for integration with other AWS services, third-party applications, or for long-term retention.  

You can now use Amazon WorkSpaces APIs to register your directories with WorkSpaces and to modify directory details. The new APIs enable you to automate your workflows that require registering a directory with WorkSpaces or modifying directory level WorkSpaces properties including default WorkSpace creation settings, self-service permissions, and access controls.

Amazon Redshift now offers a new console for Redshift users. The new user interface and new features simplify management and improve insights into the health and performance of your Redshift clusters and workloads .

Amazon Redshift now supports cross-instance restore to allow you to restore Redshift snapshots to clusters that are different sizes or running different node types. This simplifies snapshot restore workflows to support your evolving use cases. You can change instance type and count based on compute resources, storage capacity and cost requirements of your specific workloads. For example, you can cross-instance restore a snapshot of your production dense-compute cluster with small instances into a cluster with powerful large instances to serve more demanding workloads, or to a lower-cost development cluster. Once a cluster is restored, you can resize it as your performance and capacity needs change over time.

You can now set a dead-letter queue (DLQ) to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) subscription to capture undeliverable messages. Amazon SNS DLQs make your application more resilient and durable by storing messages in case your subscription endpoint becomes unreachable.

Customers can now deploy to ECS from within a GitHub repository through the new ECS starter workflow on GitHub Actions. Whenever new code is pushed into a repository, the workflow builds and deploys it to AWS using 4 new GitHub Actions from the GitHub Marketplace. This speeds up the deployment process by automating each step and allows developers to push and test code in the cloud more efficiently.

You can now use Systems Manager Automation to build and share standardized operational playbooks to ensure consistency across users, accounts, and AWS Regions. With the ability to now execute scripts and add wiki-style documentation, you can reduce errors and eliminate manual steps such as navigating written procedures in wikis and running terminal commands. 

You can now use Amazon WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can pay either monthly or hourly, just for the WorkSpaces you launch, which helps you save money when compared to traditional desktops and on-premises VDI solutions. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information.

You can now assign tags to Amazon Connect users to better organize or manage access to them via API. Tags are key value pairs which enable you to control access to Amazon Connect users who are tagged by team, role, or other criteria. For example, you can grant API access to all agents, to only agents tagged to a given line of business (LOB), or if you use third-party outsources, to only agents tagged as their employees.

You can now pass variables from one action to another in your pipeline. Previously, there was no first-class support for passing metadata between actions during an execution. You can now dynamically configure your actions with variables that will be evaluated at execution time.

AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server is a new service that offers you a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying self-managed Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on AWS without you having to identify and provision individual AWS resources.

Amazon DynamoDB enables you to restore your data to a new DynamoDB table by using a point-in-time or on-demand backup. Now, you can configure table settings when you restore a table from your DynamoDB backups. Specifically, you can exclude some or all of the local and global secondary indexes from being created with the restored table. You also can change the billing mode and provisioned capacity settings. Previously, you could only restore all table data from your backups, and what was restored included all local and global secondary indexes and provisioned capacity settings. 

AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers include Reuters, Foursquare, TransUnion, Change Healthcare, Virtusa, Pitney Bowes, TP ICAP, Vortexa, IMDb, Epsilon, Enigma, TruFactor, ADP, Dun & Bradstreet, Compagnie Financière Tradition, Verisk, Crux Informatics, TSX Inc., Acxiom, Rearc, and many others.  

AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the total to 16 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

You can now launch the next generation general-purpose burstable T3-Standard cache nodes in Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon EC2’s T3-Standard instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time till the accrued credits are exhausted. They offer generational advances in CPU performance that enable a higher overall baseline performance threshold over T2 cache nodes. 

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports counter metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. With counter metrics, you can customize the RDS Performance Insights dashboard to include up to 10 additional graphs that show a selection from dozens of operating system and database performance metrics. Counter metrics provide additional information that can be correlated with the database load chart to help identify performance issues and analyze performance. 

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can create DAX clusters in this AWS Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. 

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.

You can now add tags to a lifecycle policy in Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). Tags allow you to categorize your policies in different ways, such as by department, purpose or owner. You can also enable resource level permissions based on tags to set access control on ability to modify or delete a tagged policy.

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and South America (Sao Paulo) in additional to EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), Canada (Central), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. Also starting today, BYOIP will support onboarding of IP addresses registered to Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) in addition to American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE).

Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video in Irish English, Scottish English, Welsh English, Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Tamil languages.

As of today, you can create 20 global secondary indexes per Amazon DynamoDB table in AWS GovCloud (US). If you need more than 20 global secondary indexes, you can request an increase.

Amazon CloudSearch now lets you configure your domains to require that all traffic be submitted over HTTPS so that you can ensure that communications between your clients and your domain are encrypted. You can also configure the minimum required TLS version to accept, with TLS 1.0 as the default. This option helps ensure that your clients are configured correctly. For information on enabling this feature, see the documentation.

Today, AWS CloudFormation is announcing resource import which allows you to bring existing AWS application resources into CloudFormation. With this launch, you can start managing existing resources such as Amazon S3 Buckets or DynamoDB Tables with all the benefits of CloudFormation, regardless of how they were created or managed previously. You can now leverage automation at scale with these resources instead of relying on manual processes or maintaining custom scripts. 

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports sort, slice, remove empty and conditional statements. With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your health and performance metrics. The new functions announced today allow you to sort metrics by performance indicators, slice the results to retrieve the highest or lowest values, and apply conditional logic using IF/AND/OR statements. All the new functions can be used to define alarms that take actions like sending notifications and auto scaling your service.  

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, the AWS SIP trunking service that can save you over 50% on your calling costs, now supports the US West (Oregon) region and redundant call routing across multiple regions for higher availability and disaster recovery. With this feature, companies can continue to place and receive phone calls even if access to an individual AWS region fails or performance degrades. With Voice Connector, customers have the option to enable inbound calling, outbound calling, or both. 

AWS Cost Explorer helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over a daily or monthly granularity. The solution also lets you dive deeper using granular billing dimensions such as usage type and tags. Starting today, you can access your data with further granularity by enabling hourly and resource level granularity.

AWS IoT Device Management now provides enhanced fleet-level metrics and insights with simple statistics, percentiles, and cardinality.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, T3a instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Both M5a and R5a instances were first introduced in November of 2018. M5ad and R5ad instances were launched in March of 2019, followed by T3a in April of 2019. All the AMD instances feature 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors, and are variants of Amazon EC2’s general purpose (M5), memory optimized (R5), and burstable general-purpose (T3) instance families.  

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, you can connect to your DynamoDB local instance, the downloadable version of DynamoDB, directly from NoSQL Workbench. 

Starting today, you can now launch Amazon RDS for Oracle Z1d instances in the following additional AWS regions:

• US East (Ohio), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai).