AWS Perspective is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps you build detailed architecture diagrams of your workloads from live data in your account, that you can customize and share.  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data.

Today, we are announcing the availability of three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC. With this launch, AWS now offers 5 Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G network. Wavelength Zones were previously announced in Boston and San Francisco Bay Area.  

You can now train Custom Named Entity Recognition and Custom Classification models in Amazon Comprehend using training datasets from Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth. You can use Comprehend’s Custom Named Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your industry or organization. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant to you from text data. Similarly, you can use Comprehend’s Custom Classification to assign categories relevant to your use case to text data.

With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains , customers can use federated credentials, MFA and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Using AWS SSO , your organization’s users can sign in to Active Directory , a built-in AWS SSO directory, or another external identity provider (IdP) connected to AWS SSO and get mapped to an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Regardless of which IdP you use, AWS SSO abstracts those distinctions away, and they all work with the AWS Toolkit. For example, you can connect Microsoft Azure AD/Okta as explained in this post .

Today, we launched usability improvements for the AWS Management Console’s navigation header and footer. The improvements include a refreshed and responsive navigation header and footer, an easier way to add or remove services to your favorites list in the navigation header, and an increase in the number of services you see in the “Recently visited” section, from 5 to 15. Depending on your browser support, you can also access the navigation menu items using a keyboard.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can build an Amazon Lex bot in US Spanish. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances, featuring AMD EPYC^TM 2nd generation 7002 Series processors, are available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region. 

AWS CloudFormation has expanded the CloudFormation Registry to include the StackSets resource type. StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and regions in a single operation. You can now model, provision, and manage your stack sets resources alongside other AWS resources through CloudFormation in a predictable and reliable way.

Newer patches 2.5.4 / 2.6.1 / 3.2.4 / 3.3.1 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation . You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation .