The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) management console has been redesigned to make it easier to deploy and manage EKS clusters. 

AWS Service Catalog has added three new portfolios to the Getting Started Library that enable customers to build faster on AWS. These new portfolios include AWS Quick Starts, AWS Solutions, and AWS Config Conformance Packs, with a total of 30 new well-architected implementations and blueprints for solving common enterprise cloud needs. Service Catalog Administrators can share these implementations and blueprints with their teams, providing developer self-service while staying compliant with organizational best practices and policies.

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that simplifies software discovery, procurement, and provisioning and helps AWS customers maintain transparency and governance, control costs, and innovate faster. AWS Marketplace now offers two standardized license agreement options , Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace and Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to alleviate lengthy negotiations, decrease time to contract, and build at the speed of cloud.

AWS CodeCommit , a fully-managed source control service, is now available to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. CodeCommit makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.  

Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch is an AWS Solution that creates a scalable environment on AWS to develop, build, deploy, and run genomics secondary analysis pipelines – e.g., processing raw whole genome sequences into variant calls. Customers can deploy this solution for their genomics analysis and research projects.

You can now use Amazon EMR with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce the cost of your big data workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Notebooks and the availability of Amazon SageMaker Studio in additional AWS regions. Amazon SageMaker Notebooks provide a collaborative and quick-start experience. These Jupyter notebooks can be accessed via Amazon SageMaker Studio, a fully integrated development environment for the complete machine learning workflow.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2, enabling customers to patch security vulnerabilities and bugs in the Linux kernel without reboots and disruptions to running applications. As a result, Amazon Linux 2 customers benefit from improved service availability and better security posture, while keeping their infrastructure secure and up-to-date with ease. This feature is offered to Amazon Linux 2 users at no cost. 

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, users can give Amazon Transcribe Medical more information about how to process speech from audio content by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe Medical to recognize. These can be domain-specific words and phrases, such as medicine names, healthcare brands, or even terms related to procedures that aren’t already recognized out of the box.  

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds a new GetClip API that makes it easy for developers to retrieve media stored in their Kinesis video streams. Developers can use the API to synchronously generate MP4 clips for offline playback, sharing playable clips, long term archival of interesting events, file based processing via Machine Learning applications, and other use cases.