Amazon Lightsail now supports automatic snapshots, allowing you to schedule daily snapshots of your Lightsail Linux/Unix instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) can now use IntelliSense to write Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) task definitions. This can save you lots of time by avoiding manual typing and catching easy to miss errors. These changes are already available in the VS Code toolkit for AWS so current users who have auto updates enabled don’t need to install anything to get this functionality.  

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory.

Amazon SageMaker customers can now select G4 and R5 instances when deploying their machine learning models for real-time inferences. Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. G4 instances are optimized for machine learning application deployments such as image classification, object detection, recommendation engines, automated speech recognition and language translation that need access to low level GPU software libraries. R5 instances are memory optimized instances with EBS-optimized burst support, enabling customers to reduce costs by right-sizing instances based on their memory and compute requirements. 

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce a set of quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate. 

Amplify Console now provides developers a test phase as part of their continuous deployment pipeline to catch regressions and bugs before pushing code to production. The test phase can be configured in the build specification YML and can be used to run any testing framework of your choice during a build. 

DynamoDBMapper , the higher-level Java interface for Amazon DynamoDB , now helps developers ensure that transactional writes are being performed on the most recent version of an item by using optimistic locking.  

AWS IoT Things Graph is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. 

Starting today, you can create video on-demand clips or programs from an AWS Elemental MediaPackage live channel. By making a live-to-VOD request with an IN and OUT time reference along with a Channel endpoint ID, MediaPackage will create a segment accurate asset and export it to your Amazon S3 bucket. You can then ingest that asset into a MediaPackage VOD packaging group to have it available in all the same formats as the live channel. For more details, please refer to the relevant Live-to-VOD and VOD packaging documention pages.

This Quick Start automatically deploys a Boomi Molecule cluster in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who are looking for an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that can be hosted on AWS.