AWS CodePipeline announces integration with AWS AppConfig to enable AWS customers to deliver features and updates safely, rapidly and reliably to their applications. AWS customers can now deploy application configurations using AppConfig in a validated, controlled and monitored way and automate orchestration of these deployments across deploy stages with AWS CodePipeline.  

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Explorer availability to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.  

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters clusters that span three AWS Availability Zones (AZs) in the South America (São Paulo) and Canada (Central) AWS regions. When Apache Kafka topics are replicated across three AZs, customers maximize fault tolerance and Apache Kafka availability.

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for drawing tablets. Drawing tablets, also known as pen tablets, are computer input devices that let users draw with a stylus (pen). With AppStream 2.0, your users can now connect a drawing tablet, such as a Wacom drawing tablet, to their local computer and use it with their streaming applications. AppStream 2.0 supports all of the core capabilities of drawing tablets, including pressure sensitivity.  

AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is a test automation tool for your IoT devices running AWS IoT Greengrass.

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe Medical real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse the Internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network.

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters using kafka.m5.8xlarge and kafka.m5.16xlarge brokers. These new broker types give customers additional options to optimize the cost and performance of high volume streaming workloads on Amazon MSK. All Amazon MSK features apply to clusters with kafka.m5.8xlarge and kafka.m5.16xlarge brokers, including two and three availability zone deployments, encryption in transit and at rest, and each cluster is paired with a highly available, fully managed Apache ZooKeeper cluster at no additional cost.

Amazon Athena has added support for Partition Projection, a new functionality that you can use to speed up query processing of highly partitioned tables and automate partition management.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that you can use to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse the Internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network.

You can now run .NET Core applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the new .NET Core Elastic Beanstalk platform built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System. The .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 platform version comes with nginx as a reverse proxy server and supports .NET Core 3.1 and .NET Core 2.1 frameworks. See Release Notes for additional details. Learn more about using the .NET Core on Linux platform from this blog post .