Starting today you can enable the SPATIAL option for your Amazon RDS instances for Oracle running Standard Edition 2 (SE2). 

AWS Systems Manager now integrates with AWS Config to track configuration changes to inventory files on managed instances collected by AWS Systems Manager Inventory. A managed instance is a virtual machine that is configured for use with AWS Systems Manager. You can now track changes to file type inventory data from managed instances with the file attributes, such as name, version, installation directory, description, and so on. For example, you can now track changes to a license version file for an installed application on a managed instance. 

Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE engine now supports data sets up to 250M rows and 500GB. Customers love using SPICE to accelerate their dashboards, and this increase—from 100M rows and 200GB—is the most frequent request we get. Today we’re happy to announce support for larger data sets, letting you accelerate dashboards with more data.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5n and I3en instances are available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions.  

The latest update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework is now available and reflects the latest best practice guidance for designing and deploying cloud workloads. An integral part of the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been a guide for building secure, efficient, reliable, cost-effective, and high-performance workloads on AWS since 2015. It continues to evolve and improve as new cloud services and capabilities are introduced. 

You can now use the new Amazon Redshift console Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new user interface and new features simplify management and improve insights into the health and performance of your Amazon Redshift clusters and workloads.  

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Starting today, SageMaker Ground Truth now supports common video labeling use cases with new built-in workflows.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface (Amazon RDS API) for Amazon RDS from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet.  

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced AWS Copilot, a command line interface tool that helps customers develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, AWS Copilot creates all infrastructure and artifacts required to run production-ready service on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, including task definitions, image repositories, and AWS resources like load balancers, deployment pipelines. With AWS Copilot, users can focus on developing their applications rather than setting up infrastructure.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to simulate and deploy robotics applications at cloud scale, today announced the S3 rosbag cloud extension for ROS Kinetic and Melodic distributions. This new cloud extension enables customers to easily configure and record data from robots as rosbags, and upload them to Amazon S3, which they can later use to analyze events, troubleshoot existing applications, and provide as inputs to AWS RoboMaker log-based simulation for regression testing.