Starting today you can monitor the traffic processed by AWS Global Accelerator via Amazon CloudWatch metrics. You can now view the total number of incoming and outgoing bytes processed by your accelerator. In addition, you can view the total number of new TCP or UDP flows from clients to your application endpoints every minute. This allows you, for example, to view the geographical distribution of your user traffic and monitor how much of it is local (e.g., North America to North America) or global (e.g., Australia or India to North America). Amazon CloudWatch metrics enable you to set alarms or automate actions based on predefined thresholds and to easily build dashboards that overlay different metrics.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a major update to the SharePoint Server on AWS Quick Start. This Quick Start automatically deploys SharePoint Server 2019 on the AWS Cloud in your choice of a multiple-server or single-server topology in approximately 1-2 hours.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is now available in nine additional AWS regions: US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS OpsWorks CM now supports assigning tags to OpsWorks CM servers and backups for both OpsWorks for Chef Automate and OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise. You can define access controls using tags and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to resources and actions. Tags are key value pairs you can use to organize resources, search, create cost allocation reports and control access. For example you can allow your development team full access to your staging OpsWorks CM server but restrict access to your production server. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. 

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and ACM Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints in US Regions to protect sensitive information.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now emits Amazon CloudWatch Events. CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, enabling you to react selectively to events in the cloud. With this feature you can configure alerts, build event-driven workflows, and trigger custom logic based on events that are sent for certificate issuance, revocation, and other CA operations. For example, you can send a CloudWatch Event to notify you that something unexpected occurred, such as if a certificate is issued from a protected root CA with limited access or if your certificate revocation list (CRL) fails to update. With this feature, AWS publishes CloudWatch events for CA creation, certificate issuance, certificate revocation, audit report generation , and CRL generation.

Amazon Elastic Container Service released a new command line interface (CLI) with an emphasis on usability and developer productivity to quickly launch and easily manage applications on ECS powered by AWS Fargate. The new ECS CLI in preview provides a simple declarative set of commands including examples and guided experiences built in to help customers deploy quickly. The CLI creates all resources and artifacts required to deploy to ECS and configures best practices on behalf of the user, allowing them to focus on writing application code.

Customers in the AWS China (Beijing) region operated by SINNET and the AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.