Starting today, Amazon EC2 is introducing the ability for customers to choose an Unlimited mode preference using CLI and SDK at the account level for T3, T3a, and T2 instance types. The new API will enable customers to perform a one time action of setting Unlimited or Standard mode as the default preference for all T3, T3a, and T2 instance launches.

AWS Lambda now supports two new features to provide developers additional controls on how to process asynchronous invocations: Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts . When you invoke a function asynchronously, Lambda sends the event to a queue. A separate process reads events from the queue and runs your function. These two new features provide ways to control how events are retried and how long they can remain in the queue.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate is now available in six new regions – US West (Northern California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate now supports the following more languages and dialects – Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Canadian French, Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, and Tamil.

You can now run your Java applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Corretto 8 on Amazon Linux 2, and Corretto 11 on Amazon Linux 2 beta platforms.

To enable access to customers’ Amazon VPCs, AWS Direct Connect is announcing Direct Connect gateway, a new feature to allow customers using any AWS Direct Connect location in China to use their Direct Connect connections to access any Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) deployed in any AWS Regions in China. In addition, each Direct Connect gateway will enable association with one or more Amazon VPCs. Using Direct Connect gateway, you do not need to have AWS Direct Connect connections in multiple AWS Regions to access your Amazon VPCs in those AWS Regions. Rather, you can use one (or more) private virtual interface to communicate with multiple Amazon VPCs across any AWS China Regions. 

The AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface, SAM CLI, now allows you to deploy applications with a single command: sam deploy. SAM CLI is a deployment toolkit that also allows you to locally build, test, and debug serverless applications.  

You can now run your applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. You can add Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to your environment’s capacity in both single instance and load balanced environments. Previously, Elastic Beanstalk supported only On-Demand and Reserved Instances.  

AWS WAF announces AWS Managed Rules (AMRs), a set of AWS WAF rules curated and maintained by the AWS Threat Research Team. With just a few clicks, AMRs can help protect your web applications from new and emerging threats, so you don’t need to spend time researching and writing your own rules. AMRs are based on common Internet threats, including security risks referenced in the OWASP Top 10 publication. AMRs also include IP reputation lists based on Amazon threat intelligence that can help reduce your exposure to bot traffic.

You can now run Apache Flink and Apache Kafka together using fully managed services on AWS. AWS provides a fully managed service for Apache Flink through Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, enabling you to quickly build and easily run sophisticated streaming applications. You can use these fully managed Apache Flink applications to process streaming data stored in Apache Kafka running within Amazon VPC or on Amazon MSK, a fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service.