AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo).

Workflow Studio is a new visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions that makes it faster and easier to build workflows using a drag and drop interface in the AWS console.

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra web crawler to index and search webpages.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, R6g, and T4g instances are available in EU (Paris, Milan) regions. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6g instances are also available in Middle East (Bahrain) regions.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 5. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running OMS 13.5 can now manage databases by installing OMA 13.5.

AWS customers can now compare any two application configuration versions side by side within AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager. This new functionality highlights the differences between the changed configuration values in the two versions, and helps Developers and Devops professionals to understand how their configuration data has changed over time. This adds additional safety features when deploying the intended configuration values to mitigate the risk of any application outages.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Starting today, developers can capture the contents of their Amazon Chime SDK meeting and save them to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice with media capture pipelines. This new feature captures meeting audio, video, and content share streams in 5 second segments and directly delivers them, along with meeting events and data messages, to developer’s designated S3 bucket.

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Dallas and Philadelphia metro areas.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ  as an event source, allowing customers to quickly and easily build applications that are triggered from messages in their RabbitMQ queue. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers.

Arm CEO Simon Segars has put up a rather weasel-worded defence on the Arm blog page of his company’s ownership by Softbank and, potentially, Nvidia. “Under our current owner, SoftBank, we have invested heavily in new chip technologies which allowed us to enter new markets such as 5G networks and cloud computing,” writes Segars. Can …

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