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

Demand AI is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Peak, an AWS Retail and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Demand AI makes it possible to predict demand in granular detail at scale, enabling retailers to make smarter buying decisions, optimize stock, and execute the perfect pricing strategy. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in activities that include AI opportunity identification, data analysis, business case creation to operationalize AI, and custom configuration of the Demand AI system.

Rubix IoT Fleet Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from TensorIoT, an AWS IoT, AWS Machine Learning, and AWS Industrial Software Competency Partner. Rubix IoT Fleet Management provides a streamlined management system for IoT devices, as well as a single pane of glass for operational metrics and alerting. Customers that request this Consulting Offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an initial workshop, dashboard design, and hardware evaluation as well as deployment and configuration.  

Newer patches 3.2.3/2.5.3/1.7.3 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. These patches include critically important stability, reliability and security fixes which will improve the operation of your Aurora PostgreSQL instances and workloads. We strongly encourage you to update to the latest patch at your earliest convenience. We advise customers take manual snapshots before upgrading. For detailed release notes visit our version update . To upgrade visit our technical documentation .

CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format enables you to ingest complex high-cardinality application data in the form of logs and easily generate actionable metrics from them. It has traditionally been hard to generate actionable custom metrics from your ephemeral resources such as Lambda functions, and containers. By sending your logs in the Embedded Metric Format, you can now easily create custom metrics without having to instrument or maintain separate code, while gaining powerful analytical capabilities on your log data.  

You can now use AWS Glue in the Europe (Milan) AWS region.  

You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Containers (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes clusters, now publicly available. With this new feature, DevOps teams can automatically discover services for containerized workloads such as AWS App Mesh and Java/JMX. They can also expose custom metrics on those services, and ingest the Prometheus metrics in CloudWatch. By curating the collection and aggregation of Prometheus metrics, CloudWatch users can monitor, troubleshoot, and alarm on application performance degradation and failures faster while reducing the number of monitoring tools required. 

Supply AI is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Peak, an AWS Retail and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Supply AI helps businesses fulfill demand at the lowest cost by leveraging data from across the value chain to automatically understand the fulfillment requirements of individual products. It allows retailers to optimize their warehouses and increase logistics efficiency. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in activities that include AI opportunity identification, data analysis, business case creation to operationalize AI, and custom configuration of the Supply AI system. 

We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Australian English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. 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. With Australian English, you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that accurately understands the Australian dialect. You can also respond to users with natural sounding Amazon Polly Australian voices to provide a fully localized conversational experience.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to create and manage EKS Fargate profiles using AWS CloudFormation. This makes it easy to template and configure EKS clusters to use AWS Fargate in a single step, or to add Fargate support to existing EKS clusters managed via CloudFormation.