Today, AWS Global Accelerator introduces TCP termination at the edge, a feature that automatically increases performance for workloads such as API calls, file uploads, or Voice over IP calls. With this feature, customers can get up to a 40% improvement for traffic throughput within the United States, and up to 60% for traffic across continents.

You can now track ‘Bring-your-own-license’ (BYOL) usage by your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle database instances with AWS License Manager. You can leverage License Manager to centrally track usage of your Oracle database licenses based on your license agreement terms and thus reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.

We’ve updated our instructor-led classroom course DevOps Engineering on AWS to incorporate the latest thinking, best practices, and concepts on DevOps. Available virtually or in person, this three-day course teaches you how to use DevOps to improve your organization’s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course is taught by expert AWS instructors using a mix of presentations, discussion, and hands-on labs.

AWS License Manager expands its new, simplified bring-your-own-license (BYOL) experience for software licenses, such as Windows and SQL Server, to Asia Pacific (Mumbai), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo) and US West (N. California) regions, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.

Voicemail for Amazon Connect offers users an add-on voicemail solution that they can associate with their Amazon Connect instance. Customers start by deploying an AWS CloudFormation template to set up the architecture with necessary AWS services to provide Amazon Connect agents with voicemail features such as voicemail recordings and transcripts. The solution offers a visual interface for managers and administrators to configure the voicemail settings for the entire Amazon Connect instance and for each agent.

AWS Data Exchange released multiple enhancements that make it easier for both data providers and subscribers to use the AWS Data Exchange console and interact with data sets. We re-organized the main navigation enabling you to find and easily access frequently used pages with fewer clicks. As a data provider, you can now see the data sets and revisions as they appear to your subscribers. To do so, choose any data set from one of your listed products in the ADX console. As an existing subscriber, you can now use the new “Entitled data sets” page for quickly finding and accessing all of your entitled data sets in a specific AWS region based on your active subscriptions.  

The AWS Deep Learning Containers are available today with the latest framework versions of TensorFlow 2.1.0 & 1.15.2, PyTorch 1.4.0, and MXNet 1.6.0 . The release includes the addition of Amazon SageMaker Python SDK in the containers, and updates to the Amazon SageMaker Experiments  package. Amazon SageMaker Experiments is a feature in Amazon SageMaker that lets you organize, track, compare, and evaluate machine learning (ML) experiments and model versions. The TensorFlow 2.1.0 python3 training containers now also include SageMaker Debugger , which allow data scientists to save and inspect the model tensors during training jobs.

Application developers can now use the Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android to add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing features to their mobile applications. Like the previously released Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript, the mobile SDKs can be used to connect to Amazon Chime SDK meeting resources managed in customers’ AWS accounts and provide methods to manage local audio and video devices and bind media streams to native UI elements.

AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility.

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you automate the creation and management of resources by using AWS CloudFormation.