Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, a new feature that supports monitoring your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24×7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This lets you discover issues before your customers do and react quickly to fix them.  

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I), a new service that makes it easy to implement human reviews of machine learning (ML) predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review capabilities to all developers by removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building and managing human review systems.

AWS Storage Gateway automates creating new virtual tapes on Tape Gateway, helping you eliminate manual management of new tapes, easily manage large deployments, and efficiently scale growing on-premises backup and archive storage needs. With this enhancement, Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes you configure and then makes these new tapes available for import by the backup application, enabling your backup jobs to run without interruption. Automatic tape creation removes the need for custom scripting as well as the manual process to create new virtual tapes. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now generally available. 

When using AWS DataSync, you can now enable detailed logging for files and objects copied between your NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. Logging of individual files enables you to identify what was transferred at a given time, as well as the results of the content integrity verification performed by DataSync. This simplifies monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting, and enables you to provide timely updates to stakeholders.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports running containers on AWS Fargate in four additional AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Following the November 26, 2019 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in six AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to all commercial AWS Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.

AWS Config Conformance packs are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Conformance packs help you manage configuration compliance of your AWS resources at scale–from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting–using a common framework and packaging model. 

AWS Chatbot is now generally available for all customers. AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent for “ChatOps” that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases. Previously, AWS Chatbot was in public preview.

Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at nearly any scale at the frequency you choose – on a schedule, in response to a business event, or on demand. AppFlow includes powerful data transformation capabilities like mapping, merging, masking, filtering, and validation so you can generate rich, ready-to-use data as part of the flow itself, without additional steps. AppFlow automatically encrypts data in motion, and allows users to restrict data from flowing over the public Internet for SaaS applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink, reducing exposure to security threats.