Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application. Amazon Chime enterprise account administrators can now set custom retention policies on chat data in the Amazon Chime application. Retention policies can be set in daily increments with a minimum of one day, and a maximum of 15 years. These policies are applied to chat rooms created by users in the enterprise account and to conversations where all participants are users in the enterprise account. When a retention policy is set, all messages that have met the retention period will be deleted from Amazon Chime, and new messages will be deleted as they reach the end of the retention period.

AWS Marketplace has launched data feeds that enable software vendors, data providers, and consulting partners to access accurate, timely insights from their AWS Marketplace business and that integrate directly with their favorite reporting and visualization tools. Independent software vendors, data providers, and consulting partners (sellers) can sell their software and data products to over 260,000 AWS customers worldwide through AWS Marketplace. For sellers to grow their business in AWS Marketplace, they require prompt visibility to key financial and operational data to streamline sales, finance, tax and accounting workflows. AWS Marketplace now offers sellers fast delivery of reports containing information such as product and offer listings, billing events, tax items, and transactional data securely into their AWS accounts.  

You can now emit data stored in Amazon QLDB directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. This new QLDB streaming capability allows you to react quickly to new events (e.g., a change in account balance for a banking ledger application) and easily integrate with downstream services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon QLDB customers can use the streaming capability to develop event-driven workflows, real-time analytics, and to replicate journal data to other AWS services in support of advanced analytical processing. 

We’re proud to announce the release of Getting Started with AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance , a new three-hour fundamental digital course developed by the experts at AWS. This free, on-demand course will teach you about the security pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. It also covers key services used in identity and access management, detective controls, infrastructure protection, and data protection categories.

Customers in the AWS Europe (Milan) region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). 

Amazon Neptune has refreshed the console experience, which includes a single page to create a database, the ability to add Tags during cluster creation, and the ability to choose instance type for Workbench.

Starting today, you can use AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions.

Starting today, application developers building on the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript can use data messages to send signals between clients connected to an Amazon Chime SDK meeting. Messages can be any small data payload in any format that a developer wants to transmit in real-time between meeting attendees. Developers can use data messages to indicate changes to meeting state, power custom-built collaborative features such as emoji reactions or shared whiteboards, or for other purposes appropriate to their application. 

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 20.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, when transcribing audio streams, you can instruct Amazon Transcribe to automatically mask, remove, or tag specific terms in the transcription results based on a vocabulary that you specify. For example, you can use a vocabulary filter to automatically remove profane words from the transcription results for content moderation or generating family-friendly captions. You can create a vocabulary filter once and use it when processing multiple audio streams. You can also create multiple vocabulary filters and choose which one should be used for a particular audio stream. With this launch, vocabulary filtering is now available for both Amazon Transcribe’s batch and streaming transcription APIs.