AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to run simulations at cloud scale, now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications. This new capability allows developers to stream their own GUI enabled tools from the AWS RoboMaker console. For example, a developer can stream the interface of a mobile application that configures and controls the robot when their simulation job is running. Developers can take advantage of this new capability by simply bundling their own GUI enabled tools as part of their robot and/or simulation applications and then enabling GUI streaming for the applications.  

Amazon Redshift now supports access control at a column-level for data in Redshift. Customers can use column-level grant and revoke statements to help them meet their security and compliance needs. 

With this release, Amplify Console has made it’s fully managed hosting and continuous deployment service available from the Amplify CLI. The managed hosting offers benefits such as instantly available CDN, instant cache invalidation on code commit, atomic deployments, and easy custom domain setup. CLI users get the additional benefit of storing the Amplify Console resources as infrastructure as code CloudFormation templates so they can replicate their Amplify Console hosting configuration (e.g. redirects, password protection rules) in different accounts or regions.

AWS Backup is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS Control Tower is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 9.6 to 10 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

You can now use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys to provide envelope encryption of Kubernetes secrets stored in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Implementing envelope encryption is considered a security best practice for applications that store sensitive data and is part of a defense in depth security strategy .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) search which can enhance search by similarity use cases like product recommendations, fraud detection, and image, video and semantic document retrieval. Built using the lightweight and efficient Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB), k-NN enables high scale, low latency nearest neighbor search on billions of documents across thousands of dimensions with the same ease as running any regular Elasticsearch query.  

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) today introduced three new enhancements that help you see and proactively manage API usage when pushing and pulling container images. First, you now get up-to-the minute API metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Usage Metrics for the number of times you push and pull images, giving you the operational visibility you need. Second, you can now view approved account-level API quotas (also known as limits) using AWS Service Quotas, making it easier to see and request quota increases from the same place. Third, these new API metrics are automatically tracked against your quotas so you can trend and alarm as usage approaches limits, helping you manage utilization and identify anomalous activity. 

With Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms, you can now combine multiple alarms to reduce alarm noise and focus on critical operational issues. You can easily combine multiple alarms together into alarm hierarchies that only trigger once when multiple alarms fire at the same time. This helps you stay focused on finding the root cause of operational issues to reduce system and application downtime.