AWS Step Functions now supports dynamic parallelism, so you can optimize the performance and efficiency of application workflows such as data processing and task automation. By running identical tasks in parallel, you can achieve consistent execution durations and improve utilization of resources to save on operating costs. Step Functions automatically scales resources in response to your input. 

We are excited to introduce the Amazon WorkSpaces restore feature that enables you to rollback your WorkSpace to its last known healthy state. The new feature can serve as an easy recovery option to mitigate the impact of inaccessible WorkSpaces caused by incompatible 3rd party updates on Workspaces.

AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Amazon API Gateway simplifies accessing private APIs by allowing you to associate one or more Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints to a private API. API Gateway will create and manage Route53 alias records necessary for easily invoking the Private APIs. With this feature, you can leverage Private APIs in web applications hosted within your VPCs.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. I3en global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio, AWS GovCloud), and US West (Oregon, N. California, AWS GovCloud) regions. 

Amazon ECS supports attaching Amazon Elastic Inference accelerators to your containers to make running deep learning inference workloads more cost-effective. Amazon Elastic Inference allows you to attach just the right amount of GPU-powered acceleration to any Amazon EC2 or Amazon SageMaker instance, or ECS task, to reduce the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75%.

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 4,800 solutions, announced a feature that makes it easier for you to find relevant third-party solutions directly in the AWS console. Now, third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace are automatically filtered and listed in the left hand navigation panel based on the AWS service console you’re in. This means that you see only Machine Learning models and algorithms in the Amazon SageMaker console. You can also use the new search bar or filtering options to look for specific solutions without leaving the console.  

You can now add AWS tags to your Amazon EKS clusters. This makes it easy to control access to the EKS API for managing your clusters.

Today, AWS introduced NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB to help developers build scalable, high-performance data models and to simplify query development and testing. NoSQL Workbench is a free, client-side application available for Windows and macOS.

When using AWS Elemental MediaStore as your live streaming origin, you can now configure a Transient Data Policy on your container via the Object Lifecycle Policy API, which will remove an HLS manifest if it has not been recently updated. This enables players to automatically switch from a primary origin to a backup origin with no additional coding or setup. Customers with redundant encoding pipelines previously had to perform complicated configuration downstream of the origin to ensure manifest freshness. With Transient Data Policy, customers can leverage native HLS behavior to perform origin switch-over.