Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculations that allow you to derive advanced analytical insights independent of aggregations and filters applied on your charts. These are calculations that can be computed at a desired level in the overall query evaluation order of QuickSight. You can answer questions such as “How many customers have made one, two, three orders?”, “What is the contribution of each industry to the entire company’s profit irrespective of the filters applied?”. See the blog here to get started with Level Aware Aggregations.  

Three new development boards from NXP are now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using development kits available from NXP.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the Middle East (Bahrain) region to help protect your AWS accounts and workloads. 

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the Americas (São Paulo), Americas (Montreal), Americas (Northern California), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) regions.

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 4,800 software solutions, has announced that customers can now deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Lambda functions together using AWS CloudFormation with just a few clicks.

You can now monetize live HLS video streams without SCTE infrastructure with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. Using MediaTailor, content owners can insert pre-roll advertisements before stream start, overwriting the beginning of their live streams with personalized ads to monetize every stream start to support a low-investment, high-return monetization strategy.

This Quick Start builds a clickstream analytics solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in about 30 minutes. It integrates AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight.  

You can now include additional metadata in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs to better understand network flows. VPC flow logs enable you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. You can use VPC flow logs to troubleshoot network connectivity issues, monitor VPC traffic, and identify network threats.

Amazon SageMaker now enables better control and access using Amazon SageMaker-specific condition keys. You can use these new keys in the Condition element of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies.