AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy robotics applications, now supports conditional over-the-air (OTA) deployment for fleet management. This new feature allows developers to specify a pre-check condition during deployment so that you can have more granular control over the deployment process. For example, you can specify a condition to be a certain level of battery. The deployment will only be triggered if the battery level on a robot meets the specified condition.  

You can now stream your desktop applications to an IFrame within your webpages. You can also customize the user experience using the AppStream 2.0 Embed JS SDK. For example, you can show or hide the AppStream 2.0 menu options within the session toolbar, or the entire session toolbar itself. And, you can register event callbacks to session state changes, and end sessions programmatically. To learn more, visit our documentation .

Customers can now use Amazon S3 Inventory to report the access tier of objects stored in the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a new storage class that makes it easy for developers and IT infrastructure managers to reduce costs on storage when access patterns change without sacrificing performance or availability. It works by storing objects in one of two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for Frequent access, and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for Infrequent access. You can now use S3 Inventory to view the access tier of your Intelligent-Tiering objects in all AWS Regions.  

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for AWS CloudFormation templates and Amazon CloudWatch real-time metrics. With this launch, customers in China can now use CloudFormation templates to create CloudFront distributions with Amazon S3 origins or custom origins. CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on AWS. Customers can create templates for their desired service or application architectures and use those templates for reliable and repeatable provisioning. Customers can find sample templates and template snippets on the AWS CloudFormation Templates page. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions, in addition to the US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger secret size of up to 10 Kb, making it easier for customers to manage secrets such as certificates with a long chain of trust. Secrets Manager now also supports larger size resource policies of up to 20 Kb enabling customers to allow multiple users and applications access a single secret. Secrets Manager also supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 1,500 requests per second. These increased service quotas will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end.

AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS now supports Amazon FreeRTOS 201910.00. With this release, silicon vendors can qualify their development boards with secure elements to AWS device catalog using the latest Amazon FreeRTOS. The latest AWS IoT Device Tester also brings improvements for SecureSockets and WiFi test groups by providing an ability to configure the preferred port for Echo server.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available on Ubuntu 18.04, in addition to Ubuntu 16.04, Amazon Linux 2, and Amazon Linux. AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with PyTorch 1.2, MXNet 1.5.0, and add support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables Deep Learning AMI customers to run training jobs that require high levels of inter-node communications at scale. To get started with distributed training using EFA, see this tutorial in the AWS Deep Learning AMI developer guide.  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Europe (Paris) region.  

AWS Client VPN is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), EU (Stockholm), North America (Northern California) regions. The addition of these regions increases availability of AWS Client VPN, which offers region support in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), North America (N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon) With this launch, AWS Client VPN is now available in a total of 14 regions.