AWS Resilience Hub has added application change capabilities and new APIs to streamline and simplify use of the service and improve the precision of its recommendations. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.

Amazon CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM) adds the ability for customers to define custom metrics that will be sent to CloudWatch Metrics. Customers can define metrics based on data in customer-defined events (Custom Events ), pre-defined RUM events and customer- defined metadata attributes (Custom Attributes ). The customer-defined metrics gives customers flexibility to monitor specific parts of their application, troubleshoot end user impacting issues unique to their application, and get alerted for anomalies. For example, a customer could define a metric on the number of dropped calls in a video application sending customer defined events that capture details like call duration, wi-fi or cellular network, network bandwidth etc of a dropped call.

Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are the first x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth, and 2x higher packet performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. 

Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. 

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. These regions are in addition to the existing Asia Pacific (Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Australia (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), South America (São Paulo) and US (Northern California, N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon) regions.

Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. 

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Europe (Zurich) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

AWS Systems Manager for SAP is now generally available, with initial support for backing up SAP HANA databases using AWS Backup.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (chatbots), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is further enhancing the developer experience by providing eight pre-built bot templates, containing 50+ intents, that can be deployed in minutes. 

Can you imagine how irritating it is when you’re trying to run a dictatorship and someone takes the piss out of you? It’s not so bad if it’s a dissident – they can be jailed, shot or re-educated, but what if it’s a robot ? Getting stroppy with an robot makes you look silly, and …

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