The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. It features secure connectivity, fast and robust data ingestion and highly reliable and durable storage of factory equipment data. This solution is easy to deploy, can help reduce machine downtime and increase factory efficiency. 

AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) enabling customers to view end-to-end requests when using Amazon S3. AWS X-Ray traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It aggregates the data generated by the individual services like AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 and the many resources that make up your application, providing you an end-to-end view of how your application is performing.

This new on-demand digital course provides a deep dive into AWS IAM and best practices for using IAM policies. The advanced course is designed for security professionals with a working knowledge of AWS and it includes five learning modules, video demonstrations, assessments, and three optional self-paced labs.

CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the use of environment variables with canaries. This allows you to save time by using a single canary script to create different canaries that have a similar task. 

AWS Training and Certification has launched a major update to the classroom course AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS (Business). This four-hour, intermediate-level course is designed for account owners and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner organizations.

Amazon CloudFront announces its first two edge locations in Thailand. These new edge locations in Bangkok will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s Asia Pacific geographic region. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure .

AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions.

Starting today, you can use the console to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations across all accounts in your organization with AWS Organizations. The new Organizational View feature in Trusted Advisor allows you to generate reports with detailed check results across multiple accounts in your AWS organization. In addition, you can view a high level summary of check status within the console.  

You can now hibernate newly-launched EBS-backed Amazon EC2 T3 and T3a instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your workloads and resuming them later from the saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid — your application will start right from where it left off. 

AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon API Gateway REST and HTTP APIs, making it faster and easier to build application workflows including microservices created by API Gateway. You can use the API Gateway integration to create a workflow that orchestrates HTTP and REST APIs acting as the ‘front door’ for business logic running on AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service or Amazon Elastic Container Service, fully managed container orchestration service.