AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is a test automation tool for your IoT devices running AWS IoT Greengrass.

Starting today, telephony used in conjunction with Amazon Connect is billed on a per-second basis, after the first minute. This makes your telephony bill more precise resulting in savings of up to 5%.

AWS IoT Greengrass now offers a new option for installing the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software using Advanced Package Tool (APT) package management. 

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Amazon RDS on MariaDB Version 10.3. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Previously, gathering performance data on a database required configuration and maintenance of monitoring applications and related resources. Correlating performance data took hours without specialized expertise. 

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to retrieve service quota information through Service Quotas . 

AWS Service Catalog is new available to customers in the AWS Bahrain and Hong Kong regions. AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. Enterprises can centrally curate and share IT services with teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. Users can self-service discover and deploy only the approved IT services they need. 

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Stockholm, Paris, and Mumbai Regions. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.

This Quick Start implements Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 1.5 hours. This Quick Start is for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to implement Microsoft Windows file systems on AWS. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service that you can use to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Starting today, you can instruct Amazon Transcribe to automatically remove sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) from your transcription results. Amazon Transcribe uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to accurately identify and remove PII. PII removed includes social security number, credit card/bank account information and contact information such as name, email address, phone number and mailing address. PII redaction enables contact centers to review and share transcripts to improve the customer service experience, coach agents, and discover new business opportunities while maintaining their standards for handling PII. 

The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for the latest generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, further reduce cost for our customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. On December 3rd 2019, we had announced a 36% increase in Amazon EBS-Optimized performance on the EC2 C5/C5d/C5n, M5/M5d/M5n/M5dn, R5/R5d/R5n/R5dn, P3dn , and High Memory instances (6, 9, 12 TB) instances. Today we are excited to extend this performance benefit to additional Amazon EC2 instances including EC2 G4dn, I3en, Inf1, M5a/M5ad, R5a/R5ad, T3/T3a and z1d instances.