With server-side composition in Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), you can combine audio and video from stage participants into a composited view. This composited view can then be broadcast to an Amazon IVS channel (e.g., to reach a larger audience) or stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for video on-demand (VOD) viewing.

AWS Systems Manager now publishes status updates for operational issues and change requests to Amazon EventBridge. This enables customers to leverage Amazon EventBridge to respond to operational issues and change requests in real-time. With this integration, customers can now listen for changes in operational issues or change requests and trigger workflows in real-time, such as calling a Lambda function or sending notification to Slack and Pager Duty.

Amazon MSK now automatically sends you alerts when you are at risk of exhausting your storage capacity. The alerts also provide recommendations on the best steps to take to manage your storage. This feature makes it easier for you to identify and quickly resolve storage capacity issues before they become critical. Amazon MSK automatically sends these alerts to the Amazon MSK Console, AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon EventBridge, and email contacts for your AWS account. You can also configure Amazon EventBridge to deliver these alerts via Slack or to tools such as New Relic and Datadog. 

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, and T3 instance types in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy. This capability allows you to take advantage of the most recent performance improvements, bug fixes, and any new security fixes or patches from the latest minor versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL with minimal interruption to your application.

AWS Lambda announces advanced logging controls that enable you to natively capture logs in JSON structured format, adjust log levels, and select the Amazon CloudWatch log group for your Lambda functions.

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports throughput scaling. This capability enables you to adjust the throughput tier of your file systems to meet changing performance requirements with greater agility and lower cost.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the US West (N. California) region. Customers can also now create Multi-AZ file systems in the Canada (Central) region.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new Amazon CloudWatch metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs.

Today, AWS announces the launch of Policy Assistant for AWS Verified Access, which makes it easier to express, troubleshoot, and simulate application access policies. Verified Access enables you to provide VPN-less secure access to corporate applications using Zero-Trust principles. Using policy assistant, you can accelerate the validation, troubleshooting and authoring of your application access policies.