Starting today, you can now specify allocation strategies in AWS Batch, allowing customers to choose two additional methods for AWS Batch to allocate compute resources. These strategies allow customers to factor in throughput as well as price when deciding how AWS Batch should scale instances on their behalf.  

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, a SIP trunking service that lets you save over 50% on voice calling costs from your on-premises phone system, now supports real-time audio streaming. The feature automatically sends audio from your business phone calls to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, where it can be accessed by applications that you build. Previously, you had to integrate and deploy multi-vendor on-premises hardware and software platforms that were expensive and required disruptive changes to your enterprise voice network.

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), regions. Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Amazon FreeRTOS is open source, free to download and use, and provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge locations in Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. With these Edge locations, viewers within these countries will see an average of 60% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition, effective November 1st 2019, CloudFront will reduce the pricing for on-demand data transfer by up to 56% in South America. You can refer to the new South America pricing on the CloudFront pricing page . CloudFront now has 200 Points of Presence in 77 cities across 37 countries. Here is a blog from Jeff Barr about this launch.

Starting today, you can rewind your job bookmarks for your Glue Spark ETL jobs to any previous job run. AWS Glue tracks data that has been processed during a previous run of an ETL job by storing state information from the job run. This persisted state information is called a job bookmark.

Amplify Console now supports Pull-Request Previews, offering development and QA teams a way to preview changes before merging code to a production or integration branch. A pull-request preview deploys every pull request made to your GitHub repository to a unique preview URL; completely different from the one your main site uses. For apps with backend environments provisioned via the Amplify CLI, every pull request (private Git repositories only) spins up an ephemeral backend that is deleted when the PR is closed.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate now supports custom domains. Through the existing interfaces you can now provide a custom fully qualified domain name (FQDN), its matching SSL certificate, and SSL private key and have the OpsWorks server configured accordingly. After you have created a Canonical Name (CNAME) entry in your DNS management service to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint, you will find your Chef Automate Dashboard under a domain of your choice instead of the generic OpsWorks-created one. Also, this will now be the public endpoint of your OpsWorks server. By using a custom domain with an SSL certificate that you manage, you have an endpoint that stays the same regardless of the server being re-created: any node under management by the OpsWorks for Chef Automate server will stay associated through this endpoint.

If you already have an OpsWorks server in use and want to use your own domain, you will first need to create a backup of your OpsWorks server through the CreateBackup API. You then create a new server from the backup through a CreateServer API call, where you provide the backup id together with the three new input parameters: custom domain, custom certificate and custom private key. This will bring your OpsWorks server up with its public endpoint being the custom domain you specified. As with new servers, you will need to create a CNAME entry in your DNS management service of choice to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint. For more details on this process, please see our documentation . Here you will also find information about which types of certificates can be used and what to do when the certificate is about to expire.

Should you be new to OpsWorks for Chef Automate and curious to experience it, it is easy to get started. By following this Getting Started walk-through, you can within 15 minutes be up and running with your first node managed by Chef Automate.

AWS IOT Device Tester v 2.1.0 for AWS Greengrass now supports AWS Greengrass v 1.9.4 . The latest version also supports qualification of AWS Greengrass devices with ARM v6l architecture.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to create Amazon VPC interface endpoints for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. Amazon EFS customers can now use private IP connectivity and security groups to meet their specific compliance requirements.

You can now use Amazon Aurora Cluster tagging to add tags to your Amazon Aurora storage for improved usage categorization and more granular cost reporting. Both the MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Aurora are supported.