AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink allowing you to access AWS License Manager’s capabilities from an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and other AWS services without traversing the public Internet. To get started, you need to create and interface endpoint in your VPC for AWS License Manager using the CLI, SDK or VPC Console. AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your existing software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM to AWS and centrally manage them across AWS and your on-premises environments. AWS PrivateLink allows you to access License Manager while keeping your network traffic within the Amazon network using interface VPC endpoints.

We are excited to announce Route Analyzer, a new feature available through AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager that enables you to perform route analysis on Transit Gateways in your global networks. With Route Analyzer, you can easily verify routing configurations of Transit Gateways across your global network by simply running network connectivity analysis on transit gateways between the given source and the destination.

AWS Transit Gateway now supports the ability to establish peering connections between Transit Gateways in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Transit Gateway is a service that enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. With AWS Transit Gateway, customers only have to create and manage a single connection from a central regional gateway to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data center, or remote office across their networks.  

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, NoSQL Workbench is available for Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8, and any newer versions of these Linux distributions, in addition to Windows and macOS. 

You can now perform S3 Object Lock operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to apply or change legal holds or retention periods across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying or updating tag sets across billions of objects. S3 Batch Operations handles all the manual work, including managing retries and displaying progress.  

AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers an Enhanced VQ AVC mode for live channel outputs. Selecting this option for an AVC output lets you improve video quality for a live channel or reduce bitrate while maintaining the same level of quality. By reducing output bitrate for your live video, you can reduce the costs of distributing and storing content.

Today, we are reducing the price of the Device Jobs feature of AWS IoT Device Management by 90%+. AWS IoT Device Management is a service that enables customers to register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage their devices connected to AWS IoT Core. Device Jobs is a fully managed feature that enables customers to trigger remote actions on their connected IoT devices, such as OTA firmware updates, device reboots, factory resets, content delivery, and configuration changes.

The Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available for all customers. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure – or schema – in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript so it’s easy to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus are automatically added to the registry when you turn on the schema discovery feature. You can connect to and interact with the schema registry from the AWS console, APIs, or through the SDK Toolkits for Jetbrains (Intellij, PyCharm, Webstorm, Rider) and VS Code. 

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.16 for all clusters. 

The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core and Mono has been updated to include the MATE Desktop Environment. The AMI comes pre-configured with .NET Core 3.1 (with Long Term Support), Mono 6.8, PowerShell Core 6.2, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and the MATE Desktop Environment.