AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch our updated one-day classroom course, AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials. Learn from an accredited AWS expert instructor with deep technical knowledge to explore the AWS Cloud via a mix of presentations, peer discussion, and interactive activities. Whether you’re in a technical or non-technical role, this course helps develop the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints to help you run highly regulated workloads more easily.

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create Amazon Connect Customer Profiles resources. This feature helps you to use CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Connect Customer Profiles resources — along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure — in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. You can use CloudFormation templates to specify Amazon Connect Customer Profiles domains and pre-built connectors to bring in customer data from your applications to create customer profiles.

AWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure simulation tools to diagnose or interact with RoboMaker simulation jobs. This simulation tool configuration feature provides developers flexibility to use custom simulation tools in place of, or in addition to the default simulation tools (Gazebo, rqt, rviz and terminal access tools) provided by default in RoboMaker.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support SQL Server extended events, a performance monitoring system that can be used to monitor and troubleshoot performance problems in SQL Server.  

AWS Step Functions now features a data flow simulator in the Step Functions console, making it easier to evaluate the input and output processing for your state machines, allowing you to build workflows faster.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Connect Customer Profiles directly as a private endpoint within your secure, virtual network using a new interface VPC endpoint in your Virtual Private Cloud. This extends the functionality of existing gateway endpoints by enabling you to access Amazon Connect Customer Profiles using private IP addresses. API requests and HTTPS requests to Amazon Connect Customer Profiles from your on-premises applications are automatically directed through interface endpoints, which connect to Customer Profiles securely and privately through PrivateLink.

AWS Control Tower is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). AWS Control Tower is also available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is now available in 13 AWS Regions.

AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service that makes it easy to collect, pre-process, enrich, store and analyze IoT data at scale to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data and gain insights into how IoT devices are operating without having to worry about the complexity typically required to build an analytics platform.

Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Deloitte, an AWS Mainframe Migration Competency Partner. Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud, powered by innoWake™, is a comprehensive solution for enterprises’ mainframe migration and modernization journeys. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers roadmaps, transformation of legacy code and data, testing, and go-live support.