Amazon Pinpoint journeys gives marketing teams the flexibility they need to automate multi-step customer campaigns. Today, Amazon Pinpoint journeys expanded its capabilities to support notifications across SMS, Push, and custom channels. This helps marketers more effectively send the right message, to the right customer, over the best channel. Additionally, Amazon Pinpoint journeys now supports the ability to target a customer across devices using a single unified ID, rather than multiple points of contact (e.g., email address, phone numbers). This enables expanded multi-channel use cases. For example, you could send your customer a push notification when they download your application and after a defined period of time, follow-up with an email dependent on whether they opened the original push notification.

Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports exporting recommendations to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed software artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share packages used in their software development process. CodeArtifact eliminates the need for you to set up, operate, and scale the infrastructure required for artifact management so you can focus on software development. With CodeArtifact, you only pay for what you use and there are no license fees or upfront commitments.

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. 

EC2 Image Builder is now integrated with AWS PrivateLink which enables customers to privately access EC2 Image Builder from Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network.

Support for IMDSv2
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports IMDSv2, an on-instance component to securely access instance metadata. IMDSv2 comes with many enhancements, including support for session-oriented requests. Learn more about the IMDSV2 enhancements in this blog post . For an overview, see the Release Notes . To learn about configuring the instance metadata service in your Elastic Beanstalk environments, see IMDS in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

AWS Backup adds Amazon Aurora database cluster snapshots as its latest protected resource. Starting today, you can use AWS Backup to manage Amazon Aurora database cluster snapshots. AWS Backup can centrally configure backup policies, monitor backup activity, copy a snapshot within and across AWS regions, except for China regions, where snapshots can only be copied from one China region to another. 

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports 3D Point Cloud Labeling Workflows so it’s easy to build highly accurate training datasets for three dimensional (3D) data. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5n instances are available in the AWS Europe (London) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. In addition, Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, R5dn instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

AWS Shield Advanced now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected. When you turn on proactive engagement, the DRT will directly contact you if an Amazon Route 53 health check associated with your protected resource becomes unhealthy during an event that’s detected by Shield Advanced. This allows you to engage with experts more quickly when the availability of your application might be affected by a suspected attack. You can receive proactive engagement for network-layer and transport-layer events on Elastic IP addresses and Global Accelerator accelerators, and for web request floods on CloudFront distributions and Application Load Balancers.