Topic || Analytics
Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
Improve productivity with interactive SQL tools in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Announcing Cross-Cluster Search support for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
EMR Console Access to Persistent YARN Timeline Server and Tez UI
Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
Topic || Business Applications
Alexa for Business now available on Lifesize Icon meeting room systems
Topic || Compute
AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for IMDSv2 and Service Linked Role for Managed Updates
AWS Elastic Beanstalk announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Tomcat platforms
Topic || Cost Management
Detailed Cost Management Data is now available on AWS Console Mobile Application
AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Recommendations to Amazon S3
Topic || Customer Engagement
Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
Amazon Pinpoint adds support for SMS, Push, and Custom Channels for Journeys
Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
Topic || Database
Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports minor version 8.0.19
Announcing new CloudWatch metrics for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
CloudWatch Application Insights now supports MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, custom logs, and more
CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
Topic || Developer Tools
Introducing AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
New Amazon Builders’ Library Article: Automating safe, hands-off deployments
Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
Topic || End User Computing
Amazon WorkDocs refreshes the iOS app mobile UI to provide a new, simplified user experience
Topic || Internet of Things
FreeRTOS over-the-air update (OTA) now supports new job configurations
Topic || Machine Learning
Amazon Fraud Detector Preview now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice
Introducing 3D Point Cloud Labeling Workflows using Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
Topic || Management and Governance
AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
AWS AppConfig announces the launch of hosted configurations
Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
AWS Config adds conformance pack for NIST CSF operational best practices
Topic || Media Services
NexGuard forensic watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaLive improves input switching for live channels
Secure AWS Elemental MediaPackage VOD Endpoints using CDN Authorization
WebM outputs with VP8 and VP9 video now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Topic || Migration and Transfer
Introducing AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution
AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from AWS Snowcone
AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
Topic || Mobile
Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
Topic || Networking and Content Delivery
Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance
Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions
AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
Topic || Storage
Topic || Training and Certification
New digital course on edX: Migrating to the AWS Cloud
Updated digital course: Architecting Serverless Solutions
Digital course now on Coursera: Building Containerized Applications on AWS