Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now offers customers the flexibility to choose json, comma-separated values (CSV), or parquet as the file format when transferring data from a source application to Amazon S3. This feature is supported for all source applications except Google Analytics, and Amplitude at this time. These options enable customers to easily integrate data ingested through AppFlow into their analytics pipelines without having to perform additional data format translation steps.  

Amazon EC2 is now available through VPC endpoints in three availability zones in South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central), and four Availability Zones in US West (Oregon), allowing you to access Amazon EC2 from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet.

AWS CloudWatch Synthetics makes it easy to proactively monitor critical graphical user interface (GUI) workflows and broken or ‘dead’ links in your web application. Starting today, you can individually debug each step of the GUI workflow and hone in on a specific broken or ‘dead’ link when you are alerted that something does not behave as expected. Screenshots and latencies for each step of the workflow helps identify if the failure was because of issues related to the web application or its underlying infrastructure.

FreeRTOS kernel v10.4.0 is now available for download . The new version brings numerous new features such as improved direct to task notification capabilities, improved memory protection unit (MPU) support, and a new Linux port.

Amazon S3 now provides bucket owner condition, allowing you to validate the AWS Account ID of the owner of an S3 bucket. Bucket owner condition helps you to easily verify that the S3 buckets that you interact with are owned by expected AWS Accounts. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports more time zones including South Africa Standard Time, Sri Lanka Standard Time, and UTC+13. This feature enables our customers to match their DB instance time zone to their chosen time zone.

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can increase customer engagement by sending marketing campaigns and transactional messages across multiple channels: email, SMS, and push notifications. 

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of two new courses for Media Services: AWS Elemental MediaLive Primer and AWS Elemental MediaConvert Primer. These 60-minute digital courses are designed for new and experienced media operators who are responsible for the day-to-day operations and monitoring of video workflows. Both courses will help you learn more about the operational elements of AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaConvert.  

AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility.  

Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in these regions.