WorkSpaces Manager for Amazon WorkSpaces (WSM) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Nuvens Consulting, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. WSM is ideal for customers looking to optimize, automate, and reduce the day-to-day management of their Amazon WorkSpaces estate. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers automation of the administration, integration into existing support mechanisms, and right-sizing the Amazon WorkSpaces estate to ensure cost efficiency.

Starting today, you are now offered additional file and folder sharing controls on your Amazon WorkDocs Android application. With this release, you can now share a folder as well as edit sharing permissions such as adding or removing members of the shared folder. You can also share a link as well as manage shared links for files and folders such as removing your shared link, adding a password to your shared link, or setting expiration dates for your shared link. In addition, you can now manage sharing permissions directly from the Folder List page for documents. These additional controls make it quicker than ever to share with colleagues and partners from your mobile application while also providing full control to manage the sharing workflow securely throughout the Android application.

You can now use IAM condition keys as part of IAM and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to centrally govern endpoint, authorization, and logging configurations for your APIs in API Gateway.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), enabling applications to achieve the performance of an on-premises machine learning training cluster, with the scalability, flexibility, and elasticity provided by Kubernetes clusters managed by EKS.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports adding Amazon EC2 P4d instances as worker nodes to clusters in regions where P4d is available.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports streaming applications built using Python version 3.7. This enables you to write streaming applications in the Python language and run them using Apache Flink v1.11 on Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Apache Flink v1.11 offers support for Python through the Table API, which is a unified, relational API for data processing.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can now synthesize all NTTS voices in this Region, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you can continue to synthesize over 60 standard voices available in 29 languages in the Amazon Polly portfolio.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports running clusters with high availability across multiple AWS Local Zones. AWS Local Zones are an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency-sensitive applications using AWS services in geographic proximity to end-users. Previously, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis only supported launching a cluster in a single AWS Local Zone.

AWS IoT Core now enables customers to customize the behavior of their data endpoints, making it simpler to onboard IoT applications with existing devices in the field. Customers can now configure their data endpoints with custom domain names and associated server certificates stored in AWS Certificate Manager. They can also attach custom authorizers , and create multiple data endpoints for their account.

AWS License Manager automated discovery now allows customers to exclude instances that do not need license payment per a customer’s licensing agreements. AWS License Manager automatically tracks instances across AWS and on-premises environments based on customer defined rules. While configuring automated discovery, administrators can now define exclusion rules using custom defined tags or AWS Account IDs to identify instances that should not count towards license usage. It helps automated discovery exclude instances that matches these rules and thus further simplifies the management of software licenses.