AWS CodePipeline is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.

The new AWS Elastic Beanstalk console is now generally available. The new console makes it easier for you to use Elastic Beanstalk and simplifies the management of Applications and Environments. Send us your comments and suggestions using the feedback link in the new console. See Release Notes for additional details.

You can now launch Amazon EMR clusters in the AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California. Amazon EMR helps customers process vast amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink , Apache Hudi (Incubating), and Presto, coupled with the dynamic scalability of Amazon EC2, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis for a fraction of the cost of traditional on-premises clusters. With support for AWS Local Zones, customers can now deploy their latency-sensitive big data applications close to their users in Los Angeles. The LA Local Zone is a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, and other select services closer to customers, giving developers the ability to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in LA.  

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate. 

AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources on HANA based SAP systems without the need to manually identify and provision individual AWS resources. You input your application requirements, including HANA settings, SAP landscape settings, and deployment details on the service console, and Launch Wizard identifies the AWS resources to deploy and run your application. Launch Wizard provides an estimated cost of deployment, and lets you modify your resources and instantly view the updated cost assessment. When you approve your settings, Launch Wizard provisions and configures the selected resources in a few hours to create a fully-functioning production-ready SAP application.

We’re excited to announce Amazon EMR release 6.0.0 with support for new major versions of Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Amazon Linux 2 and support for packaging Spark environment dependencies with Docker.  

To help support customers working from home, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing a special, limited-time version of NICE DCV with an automatic 90-day evaluation license. This limited-time release of NICE DCV with the 90-day evaluation license will be available for download and activation until May 31, 2020. All activations of the software after this date will default to the standard 30-day automatic evaluation license.

Amazon QuickSight now supports cascading filter actions. You can use filter actions to select multiple data points in a dashboard and view the cumulative impacts of filtering those data points, across multiple datasets used to build the dashboard. For example, on a business dashboard revenue data and bar charts representing ‘revenue by industry’ and ‘revenue by category’, you can choose ‘Technology’ as industry from the first bar chart and Hardware as category from the second bar chart to filter the entire dashboard to show contributions for Hardware category within the Technology industry. See here to learn more .  

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and an interactive CLI toolchain.  

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows customers to replicate the network traffic from an EC2 instance within their VPC and forward that traffic to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.