AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. 

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, released a new Git remote helper that supports customers using CodeCommit with multiple accounts, or with short-lived credentials. This remote helper, git-remote-codecommit, uses the profile information configured for the AWS CLI. It also introduces a new protocol (codecommit://) that enables a URL pattern that uniquely identifies CodeCommit repositories.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint launched a new feature that helps customers to personalize their email, SMS and push messaging templates using dynamic message variables. Customers can add dynamic message variables as placeholders within their templates and then populate them with content specific to each user. Content can come from either user attributes stored in Pinpoint or a machine learning model created with Amazon Personalize. Customers wanting to deliver relevant product recommendations or targeted marketing promotions can now use machine learning to select the right content for each of their users.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application, available for Windows and macOS, that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing.  

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility to support PostgreSQL minor version 10.7. This release fixes PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in the 10.7 minor release by the PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to automate recurring index management activities. In the past you had to use additional tools to manage the data lifecycle inside Elasticsearch. For example, customers often setup daily indexes for their operational logs, roll them over nightly, and after 30 days delete the oldest index. With Index State Management, you can now create a policy that will automate these operations based on index age, size, and other conditions, all from within your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver version 0.3 is now available for use by Kubernetes clusters running on AWS. 

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger secret size of up to 64 Kb, making it easier for customers to manage secrets such as certificates with a long chain of trust. Secrets Manager also supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 2000 requests per second. These increased service quotas will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end. 

We are excited to announce the launch of Media Essentials for IT Business Decision Makers , a two-day classroom course built by the experts at AWS. This course covers the media and cloud fundamentals that can empower you to develop a cloud migration strategy for media workflows.

Amazon Neptune has refreshed the console experience, which simplifies managing a cluster and its instances as well as navigating through the properties.