We are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent. This feature offers a simple, efficient, and cost-effective way to connect to IP cameras on customer premises, locally record and store video from those cameras, and stream videos to the cloud on a customer-defined schedule for long term storage, playback, and analytical processing. 

Amazon S3 now provides the restore status of objects stored in Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive using the S3 LIST API. This new information in S3 LIST API responses can be integrated into your applications, helping you identify and access restored objects from S3 Glacier. For example, S3 Glacier restore status is now integrated into Amazon Athena, so you can run queries against your restored data from low-cost S3 Glacier storage classes.

AWS Batch now supports specifying a minimum number of vCPUs (Min vCPUs) for Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) Jobs. MNP jobs allow users to run large-scale tightly coupled workloads, such as ML training, across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. With this launch, customers can now retain a specified number of vCPUs on a compute environment (CE) even when there are no jobs running. This feature enables customers to maintain a warm pool of healthy instances for MNP jobs, helping prevent situations where capacity is returned to EC2 due to rapid scale down.

Today, Amazon Athena released a new ODBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your favorite SQL development and business intelligence applications.

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to server products with certain pricing types, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. 

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces a new applications manager feature to help you package and mobilize your Windows applications between different environments without affecting the underlying base image or operating system. To achieve this, you can launch an app block builder instance, install your application(s) and create a self-contained and sharable application image. You can share these application images across multiple AppStream 2.0 elastic fleets provisioned across different AWS regions. 

AWS Lambda console code editor now includes a read file listing all the environment variables associated with the function, making it easier for developers to discover the variables and reference them in their code. Environment variables are key-value pairs that developers use to extend a function’s configuration outside of their code. When referencing the environment variables in their code, developers need the keys.

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions.