Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.7.0 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.7.0 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some key features include the ability to throttle create topic, create partition, and delete topic operations (KIP-599 ) and configurable TCP connection timeout (KIP-601 ). For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.7.0 .

Amazon QuickSight is now available two new regions – Canada (Central) and South America (Sao Paulo). New users can sign up for QuickSight with either of these regions as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in these regions and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premise data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to Canada (Central) or South America (Sao Paulo) via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and to enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in this region. With this launch, QuickSight is now available in 14 regions globally, US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland and London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central) or South America (Sao Paulo). Learn more about available regions here .  

Today, we are announcing the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Denver and Seattle. Wavelength Zones are now available in 10 cities, including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions. As more users work from home, they rely heavily on video conferencing applications for collaboration. With real-time AV support, you can make video conferencing and other streaming applications available to your users, to enhance the ability for teams to collaborate from anywhere. Your users can collaborate by using familiar video conferencing applications without having to leave their AppStream 2.0 session.

Today, AWS Service Catalog is releasing TagOption sharing, which enables administrators to distribute TagOptions when sharing portfolios to AWS accounts. TagOptions are key-value pairs used by administrators to define and enforce their tagging taxonomy. In their central account, administrators can define TagOptions and associate them to products and portfolios.

Customer owned IP (CoIP) addresses are now available for use with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts. CoIP allows you to assign addresses from your local network to services running on your AWS Outposts. Support for CoIP makes it easier to access your Amazon RDS databases from your local network using your own IPs. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. You can deploy Amazon RDS on Outposts to set up, operate, and scale MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases on premises, just as you would in the cloud. 

Service Workbench on AWS is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that enables IT teams to provide secure, repeatable, and federated control of access to data, tools, and compute power that researchers need. With Service Workbench on AWS, researchers no longer have to worry about configuring and managing cloud infrastructure. Instead, they can focus on achieving research missions and completing essential work in minutes, not months. Researchers can use Service Workbench on AWS to quickly and securely stand up research environments and share data with peers inside and across institutions. By automating the creation of baseline research environments, simplifying data access, and providing cost transparency, researchers and IT departments save time and achieve research reproducibility.

The Video on Demand on AWS solution cost-effectively delivers video-on-demand (VOD) content to global audiences using the AWS Cloud. It provisions the AWS services required to build scalable, distributed VOD processing, and delivery workflows and provides several features including:

• Amazon Step Functions orchestration of the ingest, transcoding (including pre-and post-processing steps), and publishing steps of the workflow.
• Choice of video file or metadata file trigger.
• Delivery of videos to viewers with Amazon CloudFront, formatted for playback on a wide range of devices.
• Input file metadata, job settings, and output details storage in a DynamoDB table for easy access by downstream consumers.
• Optional automated archive of video inputs to help reduce storage costs

Starting today, AWS CodePipeline is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

We’ve added support for tagging and attribute-based access control (ABAC ) for Service Quotas in your AWS account. You can now attach tags, or user-defined attributes, to applied quotas, enabling you to easily identify, classify, or categorize applied quotas in your AWS account. Applied quotas, or account-specific quotas, are overrides that are specific to your account and that have been granted to you in the past. Additionally, you can now leverage these tags for attribute-based access control (ABAC ). ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on tags attached to users and AWS resources. ABAC simplifies permissions management — you can author a single permission policy that you won’t need to update as new resources are added to your AWS environment. You can also improve your security posture by authoring granular permission rules based on the tags you define.