You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using .NET Core 3.1. This is the latest LTS release of .NET Core. It has new features like partial class support for razor components, support for shared queues, unwrapping of exceptions, and parameters passing to top-level components. Lambda functions written in .NET Core 3.1 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. You can read the .NET Core programming model in the AWS Lambda documentation to learn more about writing functions in .NET Core 3.1.  

We are excited to announce the launch of The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS, a new four-day, instructor-led classroom course.

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions, making it easier to create and visualize state machine based workflows without leaving your code editor. 

AWS Storage Gateway, now enables logging of end-user operations on files and folders for SMB file shares when using File Gateway. Logging allows you to comply with internal security policies, meet external compliance requirements, such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO27001, GDPR, and HIPAA, troubleshoot access errors, and analyze usage trends of your data.

Today, we announce the AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk, formerly known as the AWS Service Catalog Connector. The AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk enables AWS Service Catalog, AWS Config, and AWS Systems Manager integration features on Jira projects. This capability simplifies cloud provisioning and resource management for Jira Service Desk administrators, and makes it easier for Jira Service Desk users to request AWS products, which can be any IT service that administrators want to make available for deployment on AWS and third-party resources.

Now, you can use Amazon CloudWatch to build dashboards and alarms for key metrics related to the ingest and delivery health of your live streams using AWS Elemental MediaStore as the origin. These metrics include request and response rates, server processing time, and latency across different percentiles. By using object grouping, you can declare a set of folders or paths as a single object group. The metrics within this object group are aggregated, and provide a channel-level view within your container. In addition to CloudWatch metrics, you can also leverage access logging provided by CloudWatch Logs .

AWS Firewall Manager now supports new version of AWS WAF including AWS Managed Rules (AMR). Firewall Manager is a security management tool to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and resources including WAF, AWS Shield and VPC security groups.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 12. PostgreSQL 12 includes better management of indexing, improved partitioning capabilities, JSON path queries per SQL/JSON specifications, nondeterministic collations that support case-insensitive and accent-insensitive comparisons for ICU provided collations, most common-value statistics for improved query plans, creation of generated columns that computes values with an expression, and many additional features. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) General Purpose mode file systems support up to 35,000 read operations per second, a 400% increase from the previous limit of 7,000. Maximum write operations are unchanged at 7,000 per second.

Amazon Chime now supports up to 250 attendees for any meeting hosted by a user with Amazon Chime Pro permissions. IT administrators don’t need to do anything special to let their users host larger meetings and there is no additional host fee for the increased meeting size. Amazon Chime Pro users can host meetings with up to 250 attendees without advanced scheduling or additional permissions, and the new meeting capacity is retroactive so existing meetings don’t need to be updated or rescheduled to support the larger attendee limit.