AWS Amplify announces an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct for building GraphQL APIs backed by data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB tables or AWS Lambda functions using a single GraphQL schema definition. Launching an API for application frontends requires developers to author thousands of lines of repetitive, undifferentiated code to build and wire together API endpoints, custom business logic, and data sources. AWS Amplify removes this heavy-lifting by allowing developers to define their application data model in a single definition file and automatically generate the required AWS cloud resources to support common API operations like create, update, list, read, subscribe, and delete for their data sources. Today, we’re extending this capability, previously only available using the Amplify CLI to AWS CDK. 

Today, we are announcing the availability of the AWS Mainframe Modernization service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. The AWS Mainframe Modernization service allows customers and partners to modernize and migrate on-premise mainframe applications to AWS Cloud native fully-managed runtimes. For the modernization, it enables modernization patterns like refactor and replatform, as well as augmentation patterns supported by data replication and file transfer.

Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now allows you to register machine learning (ML) models that are stored in private Docker repositories. This capability enables you to track all your ML models across multiple private AWS and non-AWS model repositories in one central service to simplify ML operations (MLOps) and ML governance at scale.

OpenSearch Service 2.9 now supports the ability for customers to manage and overlay alerts and anomalies onto dashboard visualization line charts. Customers can create new, or associate existing, alerting monitors and anomaly detectors from dashboard line charts. For example, if a customer opts to create a new monitor or detector, the new monitor will inherit the setting of the line chart and prepopulate the creation form. If customers have existing monitors or detectors present that they want to use, they can associate them with the line chart visualization on the dashboard.

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Lagos (Nigeria). With the addition of the new edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 109 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 28 AWS Regions.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon DataZone. This data management service is designed to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. It provides data visibility and helps data producers and consumers across business units more securely share data.

You can now use source repositories from GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server, Bitbucket Cloud, and GitLab.com with AWS CodePipeline in Europe (Milan) and the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, to build, test, and deploy code changes. Connect your source provider account using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository. 

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of security groups as part of its security group common policies. With this feature, customers can update the inbound or outbound rules for the Firewall Manager primary security groups to reference security groups in the peered VPC. This allows traffic to flow to and from instances that are associated with the referenced security group in the peered VPC. 

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R7a bare metal instances. R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6a instances.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) binding extension support in the CoreWCF open source project. As you modernize your Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) based service-oriented applications using MSMQ bindings to cross-platform CoreWCF, you can now use Amazon SQS as one of the bindings.