Amazon FSx, a service that provides fully managed Windows (Amazon FSx for Windows File Server) and high-performance Linux (Amazon FSx for Lustre) file systems, has added several enhancements to the AWS Management Console, including the ability to view Amazon FSx CloudWatch metrics and the ability to add and update tags directly from within the Amazon FSx Console .

The Amazon Builders’ Library is a collection of living articles that take readers under the hood of how Amazon architects, releases, and operates the software underpinning Amazon.com and AWS. The Builders’ Library articles are written by Amazon’s senior technical leaders and engineers, covering topics across architecture, software delivery, and operations. For example, readers can see how Amazon automates software delivery to achieve over 150 million deployments a year or how Amazon’s engineers implement principles such as shuffle sharding to build resilient systems that are highly available and fault tolerant.

Starting today, all registered sellers with a public listing in AWS Marketplace can extend a custom contract through Seller Private Offers. Additionally, starting in Q1 2020, sellers will have a simplified fee structure and reduced listing fees when an offer is extended through Seller Private Offers.

AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with over 7,000 software listings and data products, has announced Discovery API, a new API created for select partners.  

Today, the AWS Partner Network (APN) announced the APN Global Startup Program , a dedicated go-to-market (GTM) program for eligible Startup APN Technology Partners. This program is tailored for fast-scaling global startups to provide the resources they need to grow their cloud-based businesses.

Today, we announced the AWS Retail Competency for retail customers looking for highly specialized APN Partners offering retail technology on AWS. The AWS Retail Competency saves our customers time and takes the validation process out of the equation as it takes care of the heavy lifting of identifying, vetting, and highlighting industry specialized APN Partners who have proven success and deep technical capabilities when it comes to retail.

Today, the AWS Partner Network (APN) announced AWS Service Ready Program, a new way for AWS customers to identify if a tool or application will integrate with AWS services running in their cloud environment. The AWS Service Ready Program identifies and validates products from APN Technology Partners that integrate with specific AWS services to help companies find products compatible with specific AWS services. AWS Service Ready provides a way for companies globally to identify and adopt AWS service integrated tools.

AWS Customers can quickly identify top-tier APN Consulting Partners who identify, build, and implement technology offerings aimed at improving organizational capacity to prepare, respond, and recover from emergencies and disasters, globally. APN Partners who achieve the AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency have demonstrated deep technical experience to implement innovative solutions addressing complex, dynamic, and sensitive operating environments, including leveraging the AWS cloud in areas where Internet access is degraded or completely destroyed.

AWS Immersion Day workshops provide a customizable AWS experience delivered by AWS Solution Architects and Account Managers to AWS customers. In order to help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners provide the same experience to their customers, today, we launched APN Immersion Days. APN Immersion Days provides APN Partners a repeatable model, reusable content, and automated tools for a set of technical workshops that have been shown to be a valuable customer engagement motion with our own commercial teams.

Amazon Neptune now offers a workbench, an in-console experience to query your graph. The workbench lets you quickly and easily query your Neptune databases with Jupyter notebooks – a fully managed, interactive development environment with live code and narrative text.