Authors who publish serverless applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) can now make their applications publicly available from all commercial AWS regions (except China) where the service is available.

AWS Glue now supports the ability to create new tables and update the schema in the Glue Data Catalog from Glue Spark ETL jobs. Previously, you had to run Glue crawlers to create new tables, modify schema or add new partitions to existing tables after running your Glue ETL jobs resulting in additional cost and time.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) now enables you to replicate ongoing changes from any DMS supported sources such as Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible), Oracle, and SQL Server to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka clusters.

Now you can launch your Amazon Neptune RDF/SPARQL or Apache TinkerPop graph application with an db.r5.8xlarge instance type in all regions where Amazon Neptune is available.

Amazon Transcribe Medical is HIPAA eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe Medical has been available as a streaming API whereby users can pass realtime audio for transcription. Starting today, customers of the service can conveniently transcribe recorded medical audio files too.

Starting today, Amazon EBS crash-consistent snapshot ability is available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now take crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes in an EC2 instance with a single API call. Backup data across multiple volumes is in sync and the restore of EBS volumes is accurate. Since snapshots are automatically taken across multiple EBS volumes, you no longer need to stop your instance or coordinate between volumes to ensure crash-consistency.

AWS DeepComposer is now generally available to all AWS customers, with exciting new feature additions. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to learn machine learning. Get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques, designed to expand your ML skills. AWS DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data that can be used to build generative AI models, all without having to write a single line of code.  

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.

AWS IoT Device Defender announces the General Availability (GA) of the Dimensions feature that enables customers to filter the metrics that Device Defender Detect evaluates by MQTT topic. Dimensions supports the following cloud-side metrics: number of messages received, message byte size, number of messages sent, source IP, and number of authorization failures. 

Starting today, Amazon Redshift RA3.4xlarge nodes are generally available. These new node types support up to 64 TB of Redshift managed storage per node. They enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently, allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs.