Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now allows you to customize thresholds for when to trigger a health event for the internet-facing traffic between your end users and your applications hosted on AWS. The default threshold for overall availability and performance scores to trigger a health event is 95%. Now, you can set a custom threshold for the availability score, performance score, or both. If your application is at or below the performance or availability threshold, you receive a notification of a health event that includes the impacted location and network provider (ASN). 

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks that supports open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, with no provisioning or configuration effort required.

AWS open sourced the Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark to help Apache Spark developers seamlessly build and run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Redshift data. With this release, Amazon Redshift open-sources the Amazon Redshift contributions and integration for Apache Spark, empowering Spark developers to review the source code, extend it, contribute features and/or make modifications that meet their Spark application needs.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and up to 21% improved P99 latency, compared to running on R6g.4xlarge. In addition, these nodes deliver up to 25% higher networking bandwidth. 

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Jakarta region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, incident detection and management, security, patch, backup, and cost optimization.

Today, AWS announced the availability of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Amazon WorkSpaces cloud-based virtual desktop services. Your end users can now benefit from Microsoft 365 apps on WorkSpaces services along with their other devices. 

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Isabelle – new Belgian French Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. 

Starting today, you can use Amazon CloudWatch alarms to trigger an instance refresh rollback. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh allows you to perform a rolling replacement of instances in an Auto Scaling group, and instance refresh rollback can undo changes an instance refresh made if the instance refresh cannot complete as desired. With this launch, you can configure Auto Scaling to monitor CloudWatch alarms during an instance refresh, and automatically revert any changes made if the alarms are triggered.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. Today, in addition to supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL, this feature now supports MariaDB. Built-in native database tooling with homogeneous data migrations provides simple and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime.