January 2020

AWS Backup is now available to protect Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) workloads in four more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong),EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports ordering clauses in Cassandra Query Language (CQL) queries and AWS CloudTrail logging for control-plane operations.

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Learn to “think serverless” with this free training course from AWS. In this intermediate, three-hour digital course, you will learn how to combine AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in event-driven patterns to power scalable and secure serverless applications.

We’re excited to announce a free training course that demonstrates how to create and configure an AWS Transit Gateway. In this digital course, you will learn about setting up a basic Transit Gateway, creating a Transit Gateway with shared domains and route tables, and routing and propagation. Demonstrations will help teach you about connecting VPN and direct connect to AWS Transit Gateway.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Amazon CloudFormation resources. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications (called “stacks”). You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed. For example, you can use CloudFormation to build and activate an issuing CA and then issue a private certificate from that CA. This feature offers templates for CAs, CA activation and private certificates. 

You can now perform an in-place upgrade of your Chef Automate server to Chef Automate 2 from the AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate console or the AWS CLI.

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including inventory planning, energy demand forecasting, financial planning, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure usage forecasting, and traffic forecasting.

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now available to launch as dedicated instances. T3 instances are a low cost burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use. T3 dedicated instances run in a VPC on hardware that's dedicated to a single customer. This means that your T3 dedicated instances will be physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other AWS accounts. Dedicated instances may help customers meet their specific compliance goals or run software with specific licensing restrictions.  

AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, providing you with a simple and automated way to accelerate the migration of your self-managed file systems to fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems in AWS. With this new capability you can easily and securely transfer datasets containing hundreds of terabytes and millions of files to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. This simplifies and accelerates the migration of home directories and Windows-based workloads that require file storage, such as CRM, ERP, and .NET applications.  

AWS Cloud Map now allows you to view service instance details and edit custom service instance attributes in the AWS Console. This feature, which was previously available only through the AWS CLI, SDK, or API, provides better visibility into the composition of your services and simplifies updating the metadata associated with cloud resources registered in AWS Cloud Map.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Using MediaConnect, you can now ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the AWS Cloud in more locations globally.

This month, Amazon GuardDuty launched enhancements to several existing threat detections that will result in many customers seeing a 50% reduction in findings generated for port probes, SSH brute force attempts, and indications of DNS data exfiltration. These enhancements are now included in Amazon GuardDuty across all supported AWS regions globally.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region.  

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

The AWS Deep Learning Containers are available today with bug fixes to the SageMaker integration with Tensorflow Server and the latest version of SageMaker Debugger. You can launch the new versions of Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning Containers, see release notes. 

With the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy simulator, administrators can now simulate permissions boundary policies along with other permissions policies to better understand the effective permissions for IAM principals (users and roles) in their AWS environment. Additionally, developers can now use the policy simulator to debug issues related to permissions boundary policies.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2019, Windows Server Core 2019, and .NET Core 3.1.  

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.10 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.9. 

AWS Auto Scaling is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) customers can now use AWS Auto Scaling to manage dynamic scaling configuration for multiple resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora read replicas with a single scaling plan. 

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports authentication of database users using AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory Service.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

HashiCorp and AWS are pleased to release a major update to the HashiCorp Consul Quick Start, which deploys HashiCorp Consul on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. HashiCorp Consul is a tool that provides a foundation for cloud networking automation by using a central registry for service-based networking. 

AWS Control Tower announces the availability of lifecycle event notifications. A lifecycle event marks the completion of a Control Tower action that can change the state of resources such as organizational units (OUs), accounts and guardrails that are created and managed by Control Tower. Lifecycle events are recorded as AWS CloudTrail events and delivered to Amazon EventBridge as events, and the event log states if the Control Tower action completed successfully or not.

EBS direct APIs for Snapshots are now available in ten additional regions: US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (São Paulo).

6 new AWS Public Datasets are now available in the following categories: 

Today, we’re reducing the price for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) by 50% to $0.10 per hour for each Kubernetes cluster that you run.  

You can now enable deletion protection for your Amazon Neptune database clusters. When a database cluster is configured with deletion protection, the database cannot be deleted by any user.

You can now create AWS CloudFormation templates to provision and configure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) ingress routing infrastructures predictably and repeatedly. Amazon VPC ingress routing allows you to route ingress and egress traffic to and from internet gateways and virtual private gateways through networking and security virtual appliances in your VPCs. 

AWS IoT Greengrass released an AWS IoT Greengrass Core SDK for Node.js v1.6.0, which provides support for Greengrass Stream Manager.

AWS Outposts is now available in the following seven new regions:

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in 13 additional regions - US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (Sao Paulo). Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to create canaries to monitor your endpoints and APIs. 

We’re excited to announce the launch of Building Containerized Applications on AWS, a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on edX. Using video lectures, hands-on exercise guides, demonstrations, and quizzes, the course explains what containers are, as well as the differences between containers and virtual machines. It also covers how to use AWS services to build and deploy microservices-based applications, and which AWS services to use to simplify container management.

We are excited to announce the launch of Planning and Designing Databases on AWS, a new three-day, instructor-led classroom course.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new AWS Game Tech Starter Pack. This digital training curriculum covers key features of Amazon GameLift and Amazon Lumberyard, as well as how AWS analytics solutions, such as Amazon Kinesis and Amazon EMR, can lead to insights to solve real-world problems with games. The curriculum features four courses: Amazon GameLift Primer, Amazon Lumberyard Primer, Data Analytics Fundamentals, and Why Analytics for Games. They feature a combined eight hours of digital video content intended for back-end game developers, operation engineers, architects, designers, producers, artists, data scientists, analysts, and business leaders.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now enables customers to create asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs) and generate data key pairs in all regions where AWS KMS is available, except in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.  

Amazon SageMaker now supports Tensorflow 2.0 as a pre-built deep learning container. This latest version provides significant updates to the existing API, simplifies eager execution, offers a new dataset manager, and more.  

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in 13 additional regions - US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (Sao Paulo). Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to create canaries to monitor your endpoints and APIs.  

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to see query volume metrics for Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints, including the aggregate number of queries that are handled by an outbound Resolver endpoint. This aggregate metric combines query counts from all accounts that are using shared conditional forwarding rules associated with the outbound Resolver endpoint. Additionally, you can view query volume metrics for each IP address that is associated with an inbound or outbound Resolver endpoint. This gives you an even more granular view of how query traffic is flowing amongst the IP addresses that are associated with a given Resolver endpoint. With these metrics, you can see at a glance the activity level for inbound and outbound queries going to and coming from your on-premises networks. 

Amazon Personalize is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. 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.  

You can now easily stop a pipeline execution in CodePipeline. Previously, you had to either (a) disable transitions between stages and wait for a new pipeline execution to supersede the current pipeline execution; or (b) wait for active action executions to time out.  

Today, AWS announced plans to open a full AWS Region in Osaka, Japan. Expected in early 2021, the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will be launched by expanding the existing AWS (Osaka) Local Region with the addition of two new Availability Zones and an increased service portfolio. 

Today, we are reducing the price of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery by 80% to $0.028 per hour per server, or an estimated $20 per month per server. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers to AWS. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers expanded support for audio-only workflows with the ability to create MP3 audio files. With MediaConvert, you can easily produce MP3 audio for devices and services that use this format with a simple selection from the console. Create MP3 files in standalone audio conversion jobs, extracted from video files, or as supplementary outputs produced during the video transcoding process. To learn more about supported audio formats, please see the documentation pages.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Amazon Elastic Filesystem (EFS) filesystems in ECS task definitions (in preview). When using ECS task definitions compatible with the EC2 launch type, customers can add EFS filesystems to their task definitions. This enables persistent, shared storage to be defined and used at the task and container level in ECS. 

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.  

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.  

You can now centrally aggregate your AWS Health events from all accounts in your organization. AWS Organizations enables you to centrally govern and manage across multiple AWS accounts. The new AWS Health Organizational View provides centralized and real-time access to all AWS Health events posted to individual accounts in your organization, including operational issues, scheduled maintenance, and account notifications. You can start using Organizational View today via the AWS Health API.

Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility supports the ANSI READ COMMITTED isolation level on read replicas. This isolation level enables long-running queries on an Aurora read replica to execute without impacting the throughput of writes on the writer node.

You can now access the source code of AWS Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EBCLI) on Github. You can contribute to the development of EBCLI by making suggestions, reporting issues, and submitting pull requests. Visit the EBCLI source code in the Github repository to find more details. For more information about the EB CLI, see Using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI) in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

AWS Glue now supports three new transforms - Purge, Transition, Merge - that can help you extend your extract, transform, and load (ETL) logic in Apache Spark applications. You can use the Purge transform to remove files, partitions or tables, and quickly refine your datasets on S3.

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now gives you the option to defer rebooting after patch installation to a later time. You can choose this option if you have applications or processes running on the instance that cannot be disrupted during the patching operation. 

You can now configure your AWS Client VPN endpoint to use either the port 443 or the port 1194, with support for both TCP and UDP transmissions. New and existing endpoints are defaulted to use the port 443. However, you can now modify these endpoints to use the port 1194. If you cannot use the port 443, such as for security reasons, using the port 1194 gives you more flexibility. 

Amazon ElastiCache now offers R5 nodes, the next generation memory and performance optimized nodes to maximize network performance and CPU utilization in the South America (São Paulo) AWS Region. R5 nodes feature the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers nearly all of the compute and memory resources to the guest VMs.

You can now use Amazon Lex chatbots in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region. Amazon Lex allows you to create intelligent conversational chatbots that turn your Amazon Connect contact flows into natural conversations. These can be used to automate high volume interactions without compromising customer experience. Customers connecting to your Amazon Connect contact center can interact with an Amazon Lex chatbot to perform tasks such as changing a password, requesting a balance on an account, or scheduling an appointment using natural conversational language. Customers can say things like “I need help with my device” instead of having to listen through and remember a list of options like 1 for sales, or 2 for appointments.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in two additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in seventeen AWS regions.  

AWS Security Hub now allows you to disable specific compliance controls, if they are not relevant for you. For example, if the control 2.3 from the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark (“Ensure that the S3 bucket used to store CloudTrail logs is not publicly accessible”) is not relevant in a particular account or region because you have a centralized logging bucket set up in another account or region, you can disable that control either via the Security Hub console or via the API. Disabled controls are not counted against your compliance readiness score for that standard, and they have a mandatory field to explain why the control has been disabled. Disablement actions are logged to AWS CloudTrail. Security Hub’s documentation provides specific examples of controls that you may want to disable depending on your account setup.  

Amazon Neptune is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5 instance types in this AWS Region for your graph applications.

This Quick Start automatically deploys a production-ready instance of IBM FileNet Content Manager version 5.5.3 on the AWS Cloud into a virtual private cloud (VPC) that spans multiple Availability Zones.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Polly standard voices in the Middle East (BAH) and Asia Pacific (HKG) region. Customers in these regions can now synthesize 60+ standard voices available in 29 languages in the Polly portfolio.

AWS Security Hub has added 4 new external partner integrations bringing its total 47 integrations, including 41 external partner integrations and 6 AWS service integrations. AWS Security Hub now supports integrations with IBM QRadar (a Security Information and Event Management or SIEM platform), Slack (a chat and instant messaging product), ServiceNow ITSM (a ticketing system), and ServiceNow SecOps (a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response or SOAR system). Each of these integrations helps Security Hub customers take action on findings and provides a simple way to send findings from Security Hub to the partner’s product. Setting up the integration only requires deployment of a AWS CloudFormation template. The IBM QRadar integration with AWS Security Hub also supports sending findings from QRadar to Security Hub. To learn more, visit the Integration pages in the Security Hub console and click on the "Configuration" link for the partner to learn more about the integration and how to set it up.  

We are pleased to announce that customers who require the world’s most powerful professional graphics can now use EC2 G4 instances to setup NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstations (Quadro vWS) at no additional cost.

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region along with the support for AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. As you grow the number of workloads across multiple AWS accounts, you need to scale your networks, better control your policies, and effectively monitor your resources.

AWS Device Farm now lets you test your web applications against different desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers that are hosted in the AWS Cloud.  

This Quick Start deploys Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in either a single instance with an Amazon Aurora database or a high availability (HA) cluster in about 20 minutes, following AWS best practices.

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 230,000 active customers, has announced more pricing options for Container-based software. Starting today, you can find software that is billed on-demand based on new consumption units, such as the number of worker nodes managed. You can also purchase contracts for 1 year or longer to secure the best price for your commitment.

Amazon Lightsail now offers Ghost and Django blueprints. With these additions, Amazon Lightsail expands its selection of blueprints and makes it easier to create blogs and web applications with just a few clicks. Lightsail offers a curated selection of preconfigured application stacks so you can easily find the software you need for your project.  

AWS Backup now provides a streamlined experience for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Item-Level Recovery. You can now use AWS Backup to perform granular recovery of individual files or folders from Amazon EFS backups using a centralized console, for a simplified and fast restore experience, to meet more stringent Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements. To get started, choose the “Item-level Restore” restore type and provide one or more paths you want to recover using the AWS Backup console, SDK or CLI. This release is a continuation of our commitment to make data protection as streamlined and scalable as possible for our customers.

AWS Backup now supports cross-region backup, enabling AWS customers to copy backups across multiple services to different regions. Cross-region backup offers a centralized solution to store a copy of backup data more than a region away from production data, helping you to more easily meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.  

You can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage Network File System (NFS) access for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). You can use IAM roles to identify NFS clients with cryptographic security and use IAM policies to manage client-specific permissions. This new capability provides a simplified way to manage access at scale in NFS environments and is complementary to network-based security controls. With IAM for NFS clients you can use the same tools and processes you use today for managing access to other AWS resources. Permission checks are logged to AWS CloudTrail so you can audit client access to your file system. 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Access Points is a new EFS feature that simplifies providing applications access to shared data sets in an EFS file system. EFS Access Points work together with AWS IAM and enforce an operating system user and group, and a directory for every file system request made through the access point.  

You can now stop your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances backed by Amazon EBS and start them at will, instead of relying on the “Stop” interruption behavior to stop your Spot Instances when interrupted. Earlier, you could only terminate your Spot Instances but now you can stop your Spot Instances and start them from the user initiated stop state provided Spot capacity is available within your maximum price requirements.  

AWS Backup automates backup and recovery jobs for Amazon EC2 instances without the need for custom scripts or third-party solutions, saving time and simplifying the backup process. Customers that use EC2 instances will now be able to perform their data protection requirements at the EC2 level, backing up both the Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) and the attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. You can now select an EC2 instance from the AWS Backup console, take an on-demand backup, or assign EC2 instances to a backup plan.  

Amazon Cognito now supports CloudWatch Usage Metrics, making it easier for administrators to monitor, report and take automatic actions in case of an event in near real time. AWS customers can create CloudWatch dashboards for Amazon Cognito sign in and sign up metrics, and they can create CloudWatch alarms to watch specific metrics. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito User Pools at no additional cost. 

The AWS Well-Architected Tool now offers you a simple way to share workloads with other AWS accounts. Many customers use multiple AWS accounts to provide administrative autonomy for their teams. With Workload Shares, you can now create workloads in the AWS account of your choice and share them with AWS accounts used by other members of your review team or with a centralized AWS account. This feature enables shared visibility into High Risk Issues (HRIs) identified in workloads and streamlines collaboration with other workload reviewers, such as a Cloud Center of Excellence Lead, a member of your AWS account team or an AWS Well-Architected Partner Program member. The Workload Shares feature can help you manage and drive down HRIs over time without requiring direct access to the AWS account where the workload is defined. 

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region and the tool has been localized into Korean. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures. 

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Locations in five new countries: Sofia (Bulgaria), Athens (Greece), Budapest (Hungary), Nairobi (Kenya), and Bucharest (Romania). Viewers in these countries will now see, on average, up to a 50% reduction in first-byte latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition to these new countries, CloudFront also launched its first Edge location in Dusseldorf, Germany. With these new locations, CloudFront now has 216 Points of Presence in 84 cities across 42 countries. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure.

AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) customers can now whitelist client IP addresses using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Security Groups, providing an additional layer of security to their SFTP servers. Customers can also associate Elastic IP addresses with their server’s endpoint, enabling end users behind firewalls to whitelist access to the endpoint. 

You can now read The Amazon Builders’ Library in 16 different languages: Arabic, Indonesian, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and the original English. To change to your preferred language, select the language in the upper right hand corner of your screen. 

We are excited to introduce the Amazon WorkSpaces migrate feature that enables you to bring your user volume data to a new bundle. You can leverage this feature to migrate your WorkSpaces from the Windows 7 Experience to the Windows 10 Desktop Experience, as well as from a PCoIP WorkSpace to a WSP-powered WorkSpace (WSP, WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol, is currently available in beta).

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Region. 

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre is making it even easier to access high-performance FSx for Lustre file systems from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Ubuntu with Lustre clients that are distributed from AWS repositories.

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 was previously announced in four regions on November 25th, 2019 and is now available in all regions where Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is available. For a list of where Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is available, please see the AWS Region Table.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) launched support for 1-minute Amazon CloudWatch metrics on Dec 11, 2019 in US East (Ohio), EU (Ireland), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. Starting today, you can set up Amazon CloudWatch metrics at 1-minute interval at no additional cost in all commercial regions.  

You can now follow the public AWS Elastic Beanstalk roadmap on GitHub to get updates on recently launched features, upcoming features, and to provide feedback on what you want us to support. You can create new issues to propose features or changes you would like to see, or comment on existing issues with feedback and suggestions. Visit Elastic Beanstalk roadmap to see several upcoming and just shipped features of Elastic Beanstalk. 

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-four languages – is now introducing Batch Translation. Starting today, customers have the option to translate a large collection of text or HTML documents stored in a folder in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket using the new asynchronous Batch Translation service. This is in addition to the real-time (synchronous) translation service that is already available, giving you options that best fit your needs.

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now enables you to target all instances in an account. Now, with a single click you can enable operational actions, like patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection, across all instances in an account within an AWS Region.  

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are pleased to release a major update to the IBM Cloud Pak for Data on AWS Quick Start. This updated Quick Start automatically deploys a multi-master, production instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 cluster on the AWS Cloud. The cluster is created in a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 instances, using the Red Hat OpenShift on AWS Quick Start.

This Quick Start deploys iBASEt Solumina Manufacturing Execution System (MES) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 1.5–2 hours. 

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Change Calendar, a new capability that helps you prevent changes to your AWS resources during important business events. Using Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control the changes made to your AWS resources during events, such as public marketing promotions, when you expect high demand on your resources. 

Amazon Comprehend now supports multi-label custom classification. With multi-label classification you can train models and classify your documents with more than one label. Prior to this launch, custom classification supported multi-class classification, which is used to assign a single unique label to your documents. You now have additional options to meet the needs of your application. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now includes a feature called Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP), which makes it possible to use Amazon SES to send email through publicly-routable IP addresses that you already own.

You can now access AWS PrivateLink based services privately from within your VPC using Private DNS names like ‘myinternalservice.mycompany.com’. With this announcement, you can access your internal / 3rd party AWS PrivateLink based services, without making changes in your application to use the AWS specified public DNS Name or managing private DNS Names your own Route 53 Private Hosted Zones.

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.

Amazon QuickSight makes available new math functions to perform advanced statistical calculations. These functions include logarithms (log()), natural logarithm (ln()), expotent (exp()), square root (sqrt()) and absolute (abs()). Additionally, QuickSight now supports level aware aggregations on RANK, DENSE RANK and PERCENTILE RANK functions. With this, you can compute these functions on your business metrics irrespective of the filters applied and aggregations performed on your visuals. To learn more, see here.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, has now made Data Deduplication, user storage quotas, and other administration features launched on November 20, 2019 available to all file systems. Until today, these features were available only on file systems created since November 20. Now, storage administrators can use these features on any existing Amazon FSx file system.

You can now restrict direct access to AWS Elemental MediaPackage by securing requests for live content using CDN authorization. With CDN authorization, content requests require a specific HTTP origin header and authorization code. MediaPackage verifies this code before it serves any content. For instructions on how to configure CDN authorization for live endpoints, please refer to the documentation pages.