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Week 47 of 2020 (Nov 18 – Nov 24, 2020) · AWS News
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117 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 18 – Nov 24, 2020
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Tuesday, Nov 24
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery
Amazon Lex adds language support for German and Latin American Spanish
Announcing Modules for AWS CloudFormation
Encrypt your data in AWS IoT SiteWise with your own encryption key
AWS App2Container now supports authenticated Windows applications deployment to EKS and Custom AWS Profiles
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs Announces new features for SQS and CloudWatch Logs Insights
Amazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotas
Introducing Location-Based Notifications Using Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Transcribe now supports Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean and 3 corresponding AWS regions for streaming transcription
Amazon Cognito is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) and US West (N. California) Regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU), and allows setting database system events
Amazon Translate now adds support for sixteen more languages and variants
Amazon Transcribe Medical adds streaming transcription support for medical specialties: cardiology, oncology, neurology, radiology, and urology
Amazon Braket now supports manual qubit allocation
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python with Selenium framework
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.9
Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Amazon Elasticsearch Service revamps Kibana security user interface while integrating with other features
AWS Storage Gateway now supports IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 on Tape Gateway
AWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
AWS Single Sign-On enables attribute-based access control for workforce users to simplify permissions in AWS
Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button
AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications
Introducing Amazon Pinpoint Preference Center
Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds Gantt charts for visualizing events, steps and tasks
AWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation
Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button
AWS Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account
AWS Step Functions now supports Synchronous Express Workflows
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Remote Reindex
AWS announces the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports anomaly detection for high cardinality datasets
Amazon Connect Chat now supports interactive messages
Amazon Elasticsearch Service introduces Piped Processing Language (PPL)
AWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source
Amazon ECS adds support for P4d instance types
Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports an additional dimension to segment performance data on Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports additional dimensions to segment performance data on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility
Amazon Transcribe announces support for Ogg opus and FLAC encoded audio for streaming transcription
Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scaling
AWS Marketplace launches self-service tool for sellers to update their AMI products
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Business Intelligence Suite on SQL Server 2019
AWS Storage Gateway achieves FedRAMP compliance
Monday, Nov 23
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target
Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
AWS Single Sign-On enables administrators to require users to set up MFA devices during sign-in
Third-party software built for Amazon S3 is now available in the Amazon S3 Management Console, powered by AWS Marketplace
Amazon AppFlow expands integrations with ServiceNow
Friday, Nov 20
Amazon Connect adds additional call attributes to improve fraud detection and routing
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Java Application Monitoring
Amazon EventBridge announces improved resource policies for event buses
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces tag support to better organize resources
AWS IoT SiteWise now allows ingestion of data that is up to 7 days old
Thursday, Nov 19
Control the evolution of data streams using the AWS Glue Schema Registry
Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Europe(London) and Canada(Central) regions
Introducing the AWS Network Firewall - a new managed service to deploy network security across your Amazon VPCs with just a few clicks
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports the Apache Flink Dashboard
Announcing context management on Amazon Lex
Wednesday, Nov 18
Amazon Connect launches API to configure user hierarchies programmatically
AWS IQ launches new functionality to support firms
AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region
AWS Database Migration Service now supports C5, R5 and T3 instance types
Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
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AWS CodeArtifact now supports NuGet
AWS Client VPN adds support in additional Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches enhancements for API monitoring
AWS Snowball is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Organizations for simplified security posture management
AWS License Manager allows enforcing licensing rules with shared AMIs across multiple AWS accounts
Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now integrate with Amazon EventBridge for easier operations and monitoring
AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports attaching multiple network interfaces at launch
AWS Copilot CLI is now Generally Available
Amazon SageMaker Studio is now expanded to AWS regions worldwide
You now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
Now you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture item-level changes in your Amazon DynamoDB tables
You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption
Announcing Code Signing, a trust and integrity control for AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
The AWS Architecture Center now features industries and more domains
AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Translate announces the General Availability of Active Custom Translation - ACT
Amazon MSK now offers consumer lag metrics and select topic-level metrics for free
Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on Android
AWS Cloud Map now supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region
NICE EnginFrame releases version 2020.0 with refreshed UI and support for DCV session manager
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink v1.11
AWS Single Sign-On adds Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for user authentication with security keys and built-in biometric authenticators
AWS Announcing Windows Server version 20H2 AMIs for Amazon EC2
Amazon QuickSight launches persistence and cross dataset filters
AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup feature
Introducing Real-Time Live Sports Updates Using AWS AppSync
Amazon Chime SDK now supports enhanced audio and video features including Amazon Voice Focus
AWS Managed Microsoft AD adds automated multi-region replication
Amazon Honeycode supports single sign-on with popular identity providers
Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in 6 additional regions
Amazon Cognito is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) and Europe (Paris) Regions
Amazon Textract now supports AWS Key Management Service
AWS Identity and Access Management introduces new policy defaults for IAM user passwords
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling announces support for multiple launch templates for Auto Scaling groups
Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports deleting instant type fleets
Amazon Connect now supports Amazon Lex chatbots for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French
AWS IoT Greengrass is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
AWS ParallelCluster 2.10
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports custom browser launch settings
AWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacks
Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Cross-Custom-Availability-Zone Read Replicas
Amazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audio
AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of AWS Network Firewall
Amazon MSK customers can now use Cruise Control to more easily scale and balance resource utilization within clusters
Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers organization-wide visibility into object storage usage and activity trends
Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary files
Now customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session Manager