With this release, Amplify CLI makes it easy to create Lambda functions running on Java, Go, .NET and Python runtimes with sample code and a guided creation, update and deployment process. Refer to a full guide for how to create functions with the new runtimes in our documentation .

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB version 10.4 in all AWS Regions. 10.4 is the latest major version release of MariaDB offering new functionality and enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, and manageability.  

Amazon Personalize  enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, using the same machine learning technology as used by Amazon.com, without requiring any prior machine learning experience. Using Amazon Personalize, you can generate personalized recommendations for your users through a simple API interface. We are pleased to announce that Amazon Personalize now provides recommendations scores with each personalized recommendation. These scores can help you understand the relative difference in the relevancy of recommendations, and help you apply additional business logic on the recommendations, such as filtering out recommendations below a threshold or balancing relevancy with other business objectives such as displaying sponsored content. You can retrieve the scores along with the recommendations through the GetRecommendations or the GetPersonalizedRanking APIs, the Personalize console, or through a Batch Inference job. To learn more about this feature, visit our blog .

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS Elastic Beanstalk APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. This includes the ability to receive Enhanced Health monitoring metrics from your application.  

AWS now offers the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows. MAP for Windows provides services, best practices, and tools to help our customers save costs, accelerate their migrations and modernize their Windows workloads on AWS. 

AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass now support automatic updates for test suites.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replicas using Distributed Availability Groups within an AWS Region. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easy to create replicas in the same AWS Region as the primary DB instance by fully managing the configuration of the Distributed Availability Group and maintaining secure network connections between a primary DB instance and its replicas. 

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to run robotics simulations at cloud scale, now supports configurable Simulation Unit limit, to help control robotics application testing costs. With AWS RoboMaker simulation, you only pay for the time your simulation job takes to run, and you are charged an hourly rate based on the number of Simulation Units (or SUs) required to run your simulation job – which you can now limit.

AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully managed service that helps you secure your fleet of IoT devices. It continuously audits device configurations for security vulnerabilities. It also continuously monitors security metrics from devices and AWS IoT Core for deviations from what you have defined as appropriate behaviors for each device. AWS IoT Device Defender publishes alerts to AWS IoT Console, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon SNS when an audit fails or when behavior anomalies are detected. AWS IoT Device Defender also supports the ability for customers to use predefined mitigation actions to respond to audit findings and apply them at scale.  

Starting today, you can use Glue Spark ETL jobs to read, transform, and load data from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections into services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift for downstream analytics.