Topic || Analytics
Elasticsearch Audit Logs now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink Kinesis Data Firehose Producer v2.0.0
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Java-based Apache Beam streaming workloads
Amazon Redshift announces spatial functionality enhancements
Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
Orchestrate and parameterize EMR Notebook Executions without graphical user interface access
Topic || Application Integration
AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB
Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB
Amazon AppFlow now supports Amazon EventBridge as a destination
Topic || Blockchain
Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Hyperledger Fabric v1.4
New digital training course for Amazon Managed Blockchain
Topic || Business Applications
Build Amazon Chime SDK web applications with the React user interface framework
Topic || Compute
Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2
AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points
Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts
Announcing AWS Outposts Ready Partners
Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods
EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation
API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options
Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints
Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run
Pause and Resume Workloads on M5a and R5a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
Seamlessly join an Amazon EC2 for Linux instance to AWS Directory Service
AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop
Topic || Cost Management
AWS Budgets now offers Daily Granularity for Cost & Usage Budgets
AWS Cost & Usage Report now offers Monthly Granularity
Topic || Customer Engagement
Amazon Pinpoint now supports up to 250 attributes per endpoint
Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
Topic || Database
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on SQL Server 2016
Announcing Aurora Parallel Query region expansion and MySQL 5.7 compatibility
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports More Time Zones
PostgreSQL 13 Beta 3 now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 3.2.3/2.5.3/1.7.3 now generally available
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports rdkit extension
Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 11.8, 10.13 and 9.6.18
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports Trace Flag 692
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019
Topic || Developer Tools
Paginators in AWS SDK for .NET V3.5
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview
AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java
AWS X-Ray now supports controlling access to X-Ray resources using tags
Amazon Corretto 15 Release Candidate
Introducing the Amazon AppFlow APIs and SDK
Amazon CloudWatch Logs features now available in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
Topic || End User Computing
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
Amazon WorkDocs supports auto provisioning for all directory users
Amazon WorkSpaces enables AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor
Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor
Topic || Game Tech
AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift feature update
Topic || Internet of Things
FreeRTOS kernel v10.4.0 now available with new features and enhanced ports
New AWS Solutions consulting offer – Rubix IoT Fleet Management
AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator
AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options
Topic || Machine Learning
Amazon Kendra now supports custom tags for FAQs
Amazon Kendra now supports CloudFormation
Amazon Kendra launches confidence scores
Amazon Comprehend now helps you mask personally identifiable information from text documents
Amazon Transcribe announces Channel Identification support for streaming audio
Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatic language identification
Amazon Lex launches support for British English
Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English
Announcing the express testing capability in Amazon Lex
Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
Topic || Management and Governance
Amazon AppFlow now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks
AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
AWS Organizations now supports tagging, tag-on-create and Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments
Amazon CloudWatch releases a Java client library for Embedded Metric Format
Service Catalog simplifies product discovery, provisioning, and search
Topic || Media Services
Introducing AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) and input support in AWS Elemental MediaLive
AWS Elemental MediaLive adds AVC UHD outputs
WebM DASH outputs now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Topic || Mobile
Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
Amplify JavaScript adds server-side rendering (SSR) support for frameworks like Next.js and Nuxt.js
Amplify CLI now supports tagging resources at a project level
Announcing RxJava Support in Amplify Android
Topic || Networking and Content Delivery
Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections
Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs
AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation
Amazon Route 53 Resolver Now Supports VPC DNS Query Logging
Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance
Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
AWS Secrets Manager has been OSPAR assessed and approved
Topic || Storage
AWS announces General Availability of new Provisioned IOPS Volume (io2) for Amazon EBS
Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
Amazon AppFlow now supports new data formats for ingesting files into Amazon S3
Amazon S3 bucket owner condition helps to validate correct bucket ownership
New digital training course: Amazon FSx for Lustre Primer
AWS Storage Gateway increases performance by 4x for File Gateway
Topic || Training and Certification