The Amazon Chime SDK enables developers to add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Today, the Amazon Chime SDK announces the launch of Alexa skill calling, a new feature that enables placing calls from custom Alexa skills to destinations including existing contact centers, CRMs, or telephone systems. Skill users place calls using simple voice commands. For example, a skill user can open a skill and use a command like “Call customer support” and be connected to an existing support process. 

Amazon QuickSight now supports adding Textbox objects to your Analysis. You can use text boxes for common use cases but not limited to title, subtitles, annotations, adding additional information or description for KPIs etc. You can reposition, resize and make your text stand out with various rich text formatting options like font styling, text alignment and text box styling options. Dynamic text values can be added with the help of user defined parameters and system defined parameters like date and page number. See here for more details. 

AWS Service Catalog now supports the sharing of principal names when sharing a portfolio, which simplifies the workflow for granting access to portfolios shared across multiple accounts in an AWS Organization. Administrators often use portfolios in a central account to regroup and organize their AWS Service Catalog products and then share those portfolios with different accounts in their AWS Organization. Previously, to grant end users access to a shared portfolio, administrators had to associate IAM principals (groups, roles or users) with the portfolio in each recipient account.

Amazon QuickSight announced the availability of Small Multiples, a powerful data visualization feature when it comes to comparative analysis. Small Multiples creates multiple versions of the base visual, presented side-by-side, with its data partitioned across these versions by a dimension. It provides an easier way to get a holistic view of your business instead of looking at data in silos.

Amazon QuickSight launches a new capability for authors to style their line charts using the new line and marker customization options. With the new styling options you can make line charts more readable and drive readers’ attention towards the line series you want to emphasize. 

AI-powered automated refactoring recommendations are now available in AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET, an assistive tool that simplifies the process of refactoring monolithic .NET applications into independent microservices. With automated recommendations, developers can start refactoring an older monolithic application even if they are not intimately familiar with the application’s original architecture or features retrofitted over the years. The prescriptive guidance provided by automated recommendations in Microservice Extractor enables developers to cut down the time in half to identify and extract microservices from legacy applications, and speed up the overall transformation of enterprise applications for running in the cloud.

The Amazon Chime SDK now supports voice features in eight additional regions, including Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul).

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers a new console that provides a more intuitive way to manage resources with rich contextual information. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers embed intelligent real-time communication capabilities into their applications. The new console provides a consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles.

AWS Amplify is announcing a developer preview to expand Flutter support to Web and Desktop for the API, Analytics, and Storage use cases. Developers can now build cross-platform Flutter apps with Amplify that target iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux) using a single codebase. Combined with the Authentication preview that was previously released, developers can now build cross-platform Flutter applications that include REST API or GraphQL API to interact with backend data, analytics to understand user behavior, and storage for saving and retrieving files and media.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 22.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 22.1, please refer to Oracle’s documentation .