Amazon now supports the latest Java Feature Release JDK 15 by introducing Amazon Corretto 15 RC (Release Candidate). Corretto 15 is available on Linux, Windows and macOS. Download Corretto 15 RC directly here .

Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company and an AWS IoT and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. The Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator solves common problems in implementation around data ingestion, storage, and monitoring of IoT devices. With this accelerator, customers can gain intelligence from their IoT data within minutes of deploying the cloud-native platform. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers IoT device connectivity, customized app features, data visualization, notifications, and device controls in a user-friendly interface, which leads to device data insights.

EMR Notebooks is a service that provides a fully managed, Jupyter-based notebook to data scientists and engineers who write ad-hoc jobs and experiment with them. Now you can orchestrate EMR Notebooks in a non-interactive manner to run ETL workloads especially in production. Before this feature, executing notebooks required the Jupyter User Interface access through the AWS Management Console.  

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the General Availability of Bottlerocket , a new open source Linux-based Operating System (OS) purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket includes only the software needed to run containers and comes with a transactional update mechanism. These properties enable customers to use container orchestrators to manage OS updates with minimal disruptions, enabling improved security and lower operational costs for containerized applications. AWS-provided Bottlerocket images are available for Amazon EKS (GA) and Amazon ECS (Preview). Bottlerocket is developed as an open source project on GitHub .

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add, edit, or delete AWS tags from your image builders, fleets, and stacks along with your other AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Tag Editor allows to you search for AWS resources that you want to tag across multiple services and apply common tags for those resources. 

Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add, edit, or delete AWS tags from your WorkSpaces along with your other AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate the tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Tag Editor allows you to search for AWS resources that you want to tag across multiple services and apply common tags for those resources. 

You now have an option to modify instance types and weights for a running EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet (referred to further as fleet). You can replace an entire launch template configuration specifying new instance types, weights, and other parameters without deleting and re-creating a fleet. 

Today, we are announcing first-class support for RxJava as of Amplify Android 1.3.0. RxJava is a Java VM implementation of Reactive Extensions . RxJava is widely used by Android developers as a means to simplify asynchronous programming. Amplify Android is part of the open source Amplify Framework. Amplify makes it easy for developers to build Android apps with AWS-powered functionality, such as auth, data modeling, storage, and analytics. 

AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is a secure, rugged device that brings AWS computing and storage capabilities, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS IAM to your edge environments for machine learning, data analytics, processing, and local storage. You can use Snowball Edge devices in environments with intermittent connectivity (like manufacturing, industrial, and transportation) or in extremely remote locations (like military or maritime operations). These devices may also be rack mounted and clustered together to build larger installations.

AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized and compute capabilities for the Storage Optimized device are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is a secure, rugged device that brings AWS computing and storage capabilities, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS IAM to your edge environments for machine learning, data analytics, processing, and local storage. You can use Snowball Edge devices in environments with intermittent connectivity (like manufacturing, industrial, and transportation) or in extremely remote locations (like military or maritime operations). These devices may also be rack mounted and clustered together to build larger installations.