AWS Snowball Edge now supports the ability to import virtual machine (VM) images as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) into your Snowball Edge device after it has been deployed to your edge location, reducing the time it takes to add or update AMIs at the edge from days to minutes. This feature is available for the Snowball Edge Compute Optimized and Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device types and is available in all AWS Regions where these device types are available, and at no additional cost.
AWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilities
Now you can control connection pool configuration in your mesh and leverage outlier detection functionality that simplifies implementing circuit breaker capabilities and helps to build applications resilient to connection errors. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to provide high availability for your applications.
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotas
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, now supports storage quotas. With storage quotas, you can monitor and control user- and group-level storage consumption on your file systems to ensure that no user or group consumes excessive amounts of capacity. Storage quotas are ideal for storage administrators who manage multi-user file systems such as user shares for data scientists, computational engineers, and genomics researchers.
AWS Transfer Family now supports shared services VPC environments
AWS Transfer Family now supports creating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) hosted server endpoints in centrally managed and shared Amazon VPC environments, helping you meet your compliance requirements as you segment your AWS environment using tools such as AWS Landing Zone for security, cost monitoring, and scalability.
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functions
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers improve application performance and reduce costs by pinpointing an application’s most expensive line of code, and providing recommendations on how to improve code to save money.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.
Amazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notifications
Amazon S3 Replication now provides detailed metrics and notifications to monitor the status of object replication between buckets. You can monitor replication progress by tracking bytes pending, operations pending, and replication latency between your source and destination buckets using the S3 management console or Amazon CloudWatch. You can also set up S3 Event Notifications to receive replication failure notifications to quickly diagnose and correct configuration issues. S3 Replication metrics and notifications help you closely monitor replication progress. Previously, S3 Replication metrics and notifications were available with S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC). Beginning now, they can be enabled for all replication rules.
Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
Amazon EventBridge now supports Event Replay, which makes event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing developers an easy way to replay past events. Event replay enables developers using Amazon EventBridge to build applications with the confidence that they can quickly recover from errors in their code, and the ability to easily extend their existing applications to add new functionality.
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL versions 10.12 and 9.6.17 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 10.12 and 9.6.17 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These releases contains bug fixes and improvements from the PostgreSQL community, as well as bug fixes and improvements specific to Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL .
Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce now supports nine new languages
The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce v5.7 that enables you to easily integrate Amazon Connect with Salesforce Service Cloud to build innovative customer experiences is now localized in nine new languages: Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, German, (Simplified/Traditional) Chinese, and Japanese. This means contact center agents and supervisors can now use the Amazon Connect Contact Control Panel (CCP) within Salesforce Service Cloud to receive calls, chat with contacts, transfer them to other agents, and perform other key tasks using their native language.