AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202009.00 is now available with refactored MQTT, JSON, and AWS IoT Device Shadow libraries optimized for memory usage and modularity, and it includes dependent libraries added via GitHub submoduling. The refactored libraries have gone through code quality checks including for GNU Complexity , MISRA coding standard , Coverity static analysis , and C Bounded Model Checker (CBMC) automated reasoning tool to ensure memory safety and functional correctness proof. This release also includes updates to C-SDK versioning. For more details on the updated versioning and 202009.00 release, see README and Changelog .

AWS Budgets allows you to monitor your cloud costs and usage, as well as utilization and coverage for your purchased Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. You can receive notifications when costs and usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted thresholds, and/or when your utilization or coverage falls under your target thresholds.

Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Vertical Trail, an AWS Data & Analytics Competency Partner. Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub includes everything you need to get an effective data science environment up and running. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers immersion workshops, design, customizations, and deployment of your custom Troodon Analytics Hub on AWS.  

Today we are excited to announce AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI), a network technology for reliably transporting uncompressed live video between applications. AWS CDI uses advanced, high-performance features available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types that support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Using AWS CDI, you can send video reliably between applications with network latency as low as 8 milliseconds, which is less than one frame of video in duration. In addition, AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports AWS CDI inputs, enabling higher-quality and lower latency inputs for live cloud transcoding. Please visit the MediaLive pricing page for detailed pricing when using an AWS CDI input for video ingest into MediaLive.

The AWS Snowcone service is now available for order for customers in the EU (Ireland) Region. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcone to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline (by shipping the device to AWS) or online (by using AWS DataSync) on Snowcone to send the data to AWS over the network.

AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ experts can now easily share their public profiles via a custom, short URL. Public profiles showcase an expert’s AWS Certifications and professional experience. 

We’re excited to announce the launch of Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Database – Specialty and Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty , two new one-day, advanced-level instructor-led training courses. Built by AWS experts, these courses are designed for candidates preparing to take the AWS Certified Database – Specialty or AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty exams.

You can now use tags to manage your Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) resources in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances, featuring AMD EPYC™ 2nd generation 7002 Series (Rome) processors, are available in AWS Govcloud (US) Regions.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Europe (Milan) AWS region.