You can now use ElastiCache self-service updates feature to apply updates on Memcached and Redis cache clusters, in addition to Redis replication groups at the time of your choosing and track the progress in real-time.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18 TB and 24 TB of memory are generally available. 

AWS Training and Certification has updated one partner course and added another to its training portfolio. First, we made major updates to our AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations (Business) course. Second, we are introducing a new course, AWS Solutions Training for Partners Foundations – Public Sector – Business. This new course is designed specifically to help new APN Partners identify customer opportunities and build their business on AWS.

We’re excited to announce two new public classroom courses. AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is an updated classroom version of our most widely adopted free digital course and Architecting on AWS – Accelerator is a new course based on our two of our existing architecting courses. These new offerings make it easier for you to build and advance your cloud skills in a hands-on environment. 

Windows worker nodes are now fully supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Previously, EKS supported running Windows nodes as part of a public preview.

AWS Snowball Edge now allows you to perform an offline update to the software of your Snowball Edge device when your device is not connected to the internet.

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support new PostgreSQL minor versions. This release contains security fixes, bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

You can now retrieve additional data from DynamoDB tables as part of the rule processing in AWS IoT Core. To do so, simply use the get_dynamodb() function in the SQL statement of your rule, either in the SELECT clause to enrich message payload or in the WHERE clause to evaluate a condition with context from a DynamoDB table of your choice.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports delivery to Amazon Elasticsearch Service across accounts. Now your delivery stream and your Elasticsearch clusters can reside in different accounts. This makes it easier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service customers with multiple accounts to ingest streaming data and analyze it in near real time. 

You can now compare and view differences between two notebooks that are version controlled with Git in SageMaker. Jupyter notebooks (which SageMaker notebooks are built upon) are stored as JSON documents which include tags and metadata, making it difficult to diff with traditional line-by-line text diffing tools.