AWS Compute Optimizer, a recommendation service that helps you identify optimal resource configurations for your AWS workloads, now delivers memory size recommendations for AWS Lambda Functions.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports additional production ready versions of MySQL (8.0.19, 8.0.20, 8.0.21) and PostgreSQL (12.3, 12.4) for deployment. 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.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on SK Telecom (SKT)’s 5G network, allowing developers to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users throughout South Korea.  

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is a service that delivers AWS-managed relational databases in on-premises VMware environments. RDS on VMware customers running SQL Server can now recover their databases using point-in-time recovery for database recovery and duplication.

You can now use Host Resource Groups application programming interfaces (APIs) to onboard to the simplified bring your own license (BYOL) experience for software licenses, such as Windows Server and SQL Server, which require a dedicated physical server. This allows you to specify your management preferences for Dedicated Host, such as host allocation, host capacity utilization, and instance placement at the time of onboarding. You can then launch instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts just as you would launch an Amazon EC2 instance with AWS-provided licenses. This new capability also allows you to add existing Dedicated Hosts to Host Resource Groups so that you can let AWS manage them on your behalf.

AWS Service Catalog now supports referencing Service Catalog provisioned product outputs in new provisioned products or AWS CloudFormation stacks. Provisioned product outputs, such as a VPC identifier, can now be made available as inputs to dependent provisioned products and stacks. This saves time building applications that have dependencies on existing infrastructure, such as a VPC, S3 bucket, or RDS database.

You can now launch your Amazon Neptune RDF/SPARQL or Apache TinkerPop graph application with a db.r5.24xlarge instance type for improved loading performance in all regions where Amazon Neptune is available.

AWS Systems Manager now lets you perform a side-by-side comparison between different versions of your runbooks and other Systems Manager documents such as Run Command documents. Using this feature, you can quickly troubleshoot issues by visually comparing what changed in your runbook across versions.

AWS Config advanced queries feature adds ability to save your queries in your AWS Config account. Now, when you customize a sample query or write your query, you can save it with a name, description, and tags. This eliminates the need to save a query in a separate repository or rewrite it every time you want to run it. After you save the query, you can search it, copy it to the query editor, edit it, or delete it.

Starting today, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) source and target database credentials. Rotating credentials is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice that helps you meet your security and compliance requirements.