July 2021

CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline. With CDK Pipelines, development teams can define and share “pipelines-as-code” patterns for deploying their applications. Teams can easily add stages to their pipeline to deploy their applications across multiple AWS accounts or additional AWS Regions.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_proctab extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_proctab is a collection of stored functions that can access the operating systems process table so that system statistics can be queried through the database. pg_proctab functions make it easier to collect data on your PostgreSQL database including up-to-date information on processor and I/O statistics on SQL queries which makes troubleshooting easier.

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) now supports customer managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt data at rest. Starting today, customers can encrypt QLDB Ledgers with keys created and controlled exclusively in their account, with key policy, audits, and key lifecycle managed by the customer. With this feature, QLDB customers can meet data security standards that require encryption using customer managed keys. New ledgers with customer managed KMS key support can be easily created with a single click in the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or an API call in AWS CloudFormation. 

You can now create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that follow your organization’s best practices with a new pipeline configuration capability for serverless applications. AWS Serverless Application Model Pipelines (AWS SAM Pipelines) is a new feature of AWS SAM CLI that gives you access to benefits of CI/CD in minutes, such as accelerating deployment frequency, shortening lead time for changes, and reducing deployment errors. AWS SAM Pipelines comes with a set of default pipeline templates for popular CI/CD systems such as CloudBees CI/Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline that follow AWS’ deployment best practices. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications.

Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager allows you to optimize, secure, monitor, and maintain machine learning (ML) models on fleets of smart cameras, robots, personal computers, and mobile devices. With SageMaker Edge Manager, you can use your own model deployment mechanism to bring model packages to edge devices. Starting today, SageMaker Edge Manager also integrates with AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2, allowing you to deploy your ML model packages and Edge Manager agent (the on-device inference engine of Edge Manager) to fleets of edge devices easily.

The AWS App Mesh constructs module for AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available. The new AWS App Mesh service construct for AWS CDK simplifies provisioning of AWS App Mesh resources into your CDK infrastructure stacks. Strongly typed interfaces make it easy to select the appropriate configurations for your mesh, as well as integrate with other supported AWS Services.

Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for Amazon DevOps Guru, enabling you to set up Amazon DevOps Guru across the accounts and Regions in your organization with a few clicks. By setting up Amazon DevOps Guru across your organization, you can identify any operational issue long before it impacts your customers.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now supports timed ID3 metadata passthrough for live and VOD streams in HLS, CMAF, and DASH formats. ID3 metadata tags enable data to be embedded into video streams at specified timecodes and used by downstream systems or clients to enhance the playback experience. By dynamically adding metadata to a stream, you can enable use cases such as ad-insertion beaconing, client-side dynamic graphical overlays, content chapters, and audio track listing.