Updates to your containers orchestrated by Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now be performed using canary or linear deployment strategies by using AWS CodeDeploy.

This Quick Start automatically deploys Provectus Streaming Data Platform in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who are interested in enabling real-time analytics and want to explore capabilities of a streaming-first data platform.

You can now use the DescribeImages  API to determine the billing product information associated with an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). By making it easier to obtain the platform details and billing information of AMIs, this release reduces the chances of erroneously launching instances from incorrect AMIs, and assists with inventory planning and reporting. Starting today, this capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions from API and CLI. Visit our documentation page to learn more.

Amazon Lex now supports Alphanumeric slot type allowing you to easily define slots such as flight confirmation code that contain combination of letters and numbers. Up until now, you had to create a custom slot type with a large range of sample values. By using the Alphanumeric slot type you can quickly set up a slot to capture alphanumeric information. Further, you can extend this slot type to restrict the user input to a fixed format by specifying a regular expression. 

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon RDS Data API for Aurora Serverless from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. You can now submit your SQL statements to Amazon RDS Data API without requiring an Internet Gateway in your VPC. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. Amazon RDS Data API customers can now use private IP connectivity and security groups to meet their specific compliance requirements.  

Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to a DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You also can use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability and disaster recovery.

You can now capture and aggregate your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs at shorter intervals of up to 1 minute, giving you quicker visibility into your network traffic flows. With a 1-minute configuration, your VPC flow logs arrive in an expedited manner and provide more granular visibility into the sequence of events in a flow, thereby enabling you to accurately investigate and rapidly respond to security incidents, or troubleshoot connectivity issues faster.

Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 18 regions, with the addition of the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions.  

Amazon Cognito User Pools now supports logging for all of the actions listed on the User Pool Actions page as events in CloudTrail log files, making it easier for developers to record all actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service. The enhanced CloudTrail logging improves governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing capabilities. Hosted UI and Federation calls are currently not included in CloudTrail logging events. Developers can create a trail and enable continuous delivery of Cognito API calls captured as CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket. Without configuring a trail, developers can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in the Event history. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito User Pools at no additional cost.  

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon RDS for MySQL databases so you can identify high-frequency, long-running, and stuck SQL queries in seconds.