Amazon API Gateway now supports WebSocket APIs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to build APIs with real-time bi-directional communication.

AWS customers can now pre-book purchases and setup renewals in AWS Marketplace using the future dated agreements feature. With this feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can specify a future ‘start date’ as part of the SaaS private offer creation process. When an offer is accepted, a ‘future dated’ agreement is created, where the customer’s entitlement (or ability to use the product) starts at the specified future start date. 

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 29 AWS Regions globally.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now provides 14% higher levels of I/O operations per second (IOPS) for throughput capacity levels of 4 GB/s through 12 GB/s at no additional cost, bringing the new maximum IOPS level to 400,000. The increased IOPS levels enable you to improve price-performance for IOPS-intensive workloads like SQL Server databases and optimize costs for workloads like periodic reporting jobs with IOPS requirements that vary over time. 

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Canvas is now generally available in the US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) AWS regions.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports delivering mobile push notifications via Google Firebase’s HTTP V1 API. When creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS console or API, you can choose token-based authentication to enable Amazon SNS to deliver mobile push notifications on your behalf, using the new Google FCM HTTP v1 API. You can also upgrade your existing platform application to use token-based authentication. Once you provide a valid key file, Amazon SNS will switch your application from the legacy FCM API to the new HTTP v1 API.

AWS CodeBuild now supports reserved capacity, to enable building and testing of software packages with latency sensitive workloads. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Amazon Connect now supports barge-in for chat, a capability that enables contact center managers to join and participate in ongoing customer service chats to help ensure that even the most complex customer issues are resolved quickly and accurately.

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