Today, AWS Marketplace announced that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can now add a reseller contract and leverage standard Reseller Contract for AWS Marketplace (RCMP) template when authorizing channel partners to resell ISV products to AWS Marketplace buyers. This launch will help reduce redundancy in legal contract reviews when the two parties (ISVs and channel partners/consulting partners) onboard with each other. ISVs and channel partners can now further optimize their resell operations with this self-service feature of reseller contracts that defines a Consulting Partner Private Offer  (CPPO) transaction.

Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, makes it easier for customers to conduct scientific research and software development with quantum computers. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new cost tracking function in our Braket SDK , providing customers the ability to monitor their quantum computing costs more easily and quickly. Rather than waiting for an AWS bill, by adding only a few lines of code, estimated costs are now available immediately after each quantum task is processed, either on a quantum processing unit (QPU) or on-demand simulator.

The AI Use Case Explorer  is a business outcome centric web search tool that enables users to easily find the right artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, discover relevant customer success stories, and mobilize their teams towards AI deployments. The user friendly tool takes business problem descriptions as inputs and provides relevant, practical use cases and success stories as outputs.

Amazon QuickSight now supports Bookmarks in dashboards. Bookmarks allow QuickSight readers to save customized dashboard preferences into a list of Bookmarks for easy one-click access to specific views of the dashboard without having to manually make multiple filter and parameter changes every time. Combined with QuickSight’s “Share this view” functionality, readers can also now share their Bookmark views with other readers for easy collaboration and discussion. Bookmarks are available to all users of the QuickSight console interface. For further details, visit here .

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces APIs from your virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. Starting today, you can manage your Refactor Spaces resources using AWS PrivateLink and meet your organization’s security and compliance requirements. To use AWS PrivateLink, create an interface VPC endpoint for Refactor Spaces in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, SDK, or CLI. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering.

On July 19th, 2022 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 18.0.2, 17.0.4, 11.0.16, 8u342 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

AWS Lambda announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions that use Lambda function as the required resource. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources, like Lambda functions, to simplify permission management.

AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm using Graviton2 is now available in: South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm).

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R6a instances. Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which delivers almost all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz. These memory-optimized instances, which are SAP certified, deliver up to 35% better compute price performance compared to R5a instances for a wide variety of workloads and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances.

Changes to AWS CloudFormation-based stacks and resources are now available as event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. Customers can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. With this feature, customers can trigger actions in real-time after they create, update, or delete either their CloudFormation stacks or resources in their CloudFormation stacks without having to write single-use custom code or develop new software.