AWS Data Exchange now enables customers exporting data assets to their Amazon S3 buckets to specify the encryption configuration they would like to apply to the destination S3 objects. Starting today, customers can configure Amazon S3 server-side encryption parameters in their export Job details and choose whether to encrypt the data using an Amazon S3-managed key (S3-SSE) or using an AWS KMS Customer Master Key (CMK). This new feature allows customers to benefit from Amazon S3’s object-level encryption for their third-party data.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can now deliver streaming data to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon VPC. You can now easily ingest, transform, and reliably deliver streaming data in to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain running in a VPC without building and managing your own data ingestion and delivery infrastructure.

AWS IQ is waiving both the 3% buyer fee and 15% expert fee from April 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020. AWS IQ is waiving these fees to support you in setting up and scaling remote work initiatives, and to support the highly skilled consultants who provide their services.

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity (OAI). By using OAI, you can restrict your viewers from accessing content from your Amazon S3 buckets directly by requiring them to retrieve the content through Amazon CloudFront’s distributed edge network in China. To learn more about OAI with Amazon CloudFront in China, read CloudFront’s documentation on Configuring Secure Access and Restricting Access to Content . To get started with Amazon CloudFront in China, visit our webpage .

AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading from and writing to virtual tapes on Tape Gateway by 2x, enabling you to perform faster backup and recovery than before.  

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announced general availability of Custom Channels, enabling businesses to engage their customers on additional channels such as in-product messaging or social media. Marketers no longer need to learn multiple tools in order to reach their customers over a variety of applications. Using Custom Channels they can leverage the already familiar Amazon Pinpoint targeting and campaign features to reach their customers on their channel of choice – adding new ones as needed. 

The AWS Transfer Family announces AWS Transfer for FTPS and AWS Transfer for FTP, which makes it easy to migrate File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS) and FTP workloads to AWS.

Starting today, Amazon RDS is available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zone. With Amazon RDS on Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive portions of your database workloads local to end-users and resources in a specific geography. 

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync allows to easily make any of its supported data sources real-time, with connection management, scaling, fan-out and data broadcasting handled automatically between the service and the clients, enabling developers to focus on the business differentiators for their real-time applications instead of WebSockets operations and infrastructure management.

Amazon Lex is now available in Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions.