We’re excited to announce a free new digital course: Configuring and Deploying VPCs with Multiple Subnets. The course covers how to create a secure AWS network environment with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) service. This intermediate, one-hour course includes reading modules, video demonstrations, a quiz, and an optional self-paced lab. The course is designed for network engineers, solutions architects, and cloud architects.

Learn how to define and provision cloud infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with our new digital course AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Primer. This intermediate course is designed for developers that are familiar with AWS services, including AWS CloudFormation.

Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now enables you to use attributes from social and corporate identity providers to make access control decisions and simplify permissions management to AWS resources.

With the recent Amplify Library release, Amplify DataStore gains the ability to selectively sync a subset of your app data and to sort your app data. DataStore provides frontend web and mobile developers a persistent on-device storage repository for you to write, read, and observe changes to data even if you are online or offline, and seamlessly sync to the cloud as well as across devices.  

Amazon EMR Release 5.32 now supports Amazon EMR on EKS. For more details on getting started with EMR on EKS, please see our documentation .

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports the use of smart cards such as Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) smart cards for authentication to AppStream 2.0 streaming instances. Smart cards are also supported for in-session authentication for streaming applications. With this launch, your users can use a smart card reader and smart card connected to their local computer to sign in to an AppStream 2.0 streaming instance that is joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain. They can also use their local smart card reader and smart card to sign in to applications within their streaming session.  

Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud, using customized machine learning (ML) models. In just a few clicks you can create and train a fraud detection model, with no prior machine learning experience required.

The AWS Snow Family console has been enhanced to make it easier for you to create and monitor your Snow data transfer and compute jobs. In addition to an improved user experience, the AWS Snow Family console will enable you to more easily understand which Snow device is more suitable for your use case depending on the size and type of your workloads. You can also now order an AWS Snow Family device with just a few clicks in the AWS Snow Family console.

You can now grant the privilege to run COPY and UNLOAD commands to specific users and groups in your Amazon Redshift cluster to create more fine-grained access control policy.

Today we are delighted to announce the global expansion of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions powered by AWS AI Services and made available through the AWS Partner Network. With our partners, you can quickly implement AWS CCI solutions to add AWS machine learning (ML) capabilities into your current contact center infrastructure to increase operational efficiencies and deliver a better customer experience with no machine learning expertise required. AWS CCI provides solutions comprised of AWS AI-powered services such as Amazon Transcribe for call transcriptions, Amazon Translate for translation, Amazon Kendra for intelligent search, Amazon Lex for conversational AI, and Amazon Comprehend for language comprehension functionalities.