Starting today, customers can build and deploy Amazon Lex bots in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region.

AWS CodeBuild now monitors your machines’ resource utilization on your behalf for each build and reports metrics through Amazon CloudWatch. You can now use CloudWatch’s graphed metrics to troubleshoot builds or determine if you are using the right CodeBuild instance type.

Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), is now generally available with MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. RDS Proxy makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.

We’re happy to share that version 1.8 of AWS SDK for C++ is now generally available. AWS SDK for C++ provides platform portability, including Windows, OSX, Linux, and mobile. To learn more, visit the AWS SDK for C++ site. Contribute to or engage on GitHub to help influence the features to be included in the GA candidate.

Starting today, you can use the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript to build audio calling and video calling applications designed for the mobile web. With JavaScript SDK support on Google Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS, you can engage your customers on their mobile devices without requiring a download. When downloading an app is preferred, you can build native mobile apps using the Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android. 

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

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. 

Kernel Live Patching enables customers to patch security vulnerabilities and bugs in the Linux kernel without reboots or disruptions to running applications. As a result, Amazon Linux 2 customers benefit from improved service availability and a better security posture. This feature is now generally available to all Amazon Linux 2 customers, free of charge.

Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an applications’ most expensive lines of code. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru to all AWS customers. 

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create your own Prefix Lists that can be easily audited and applied across all your accounts to have a consistent security posture and routing behavior. A Prefix List is a collection of CIDR blocks that can be used to configure VPC security groups and route tables and shared with other AWS accounts using Resource Access Manager (RAM).