Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now supports the new apns-push-type header field for mobile notifications sent through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). You can specify your APNs notification type as either alert or background by setting the content-available field in the JSON payload. Customers already using Amazon SNS for sending APNs alert notifications can continue to do so without making any changes.

The AWS Training and Certification team has launched two updated courses designed to help partners solve real customer issues and provide training content that helps them grow their business. These courses teach APN Partners how to solve technical customer challenges and to have educated, productive discussions with their customers around SAP on AWS, and AWS for Microsoft workloads. AWS Training and Certification creates specific APN Partner courses such as these to help partners understand their customer’s needs and recommend the right AWS solutions at the right time

You can now view and manage your limits for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) using AWS Service Quotas.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon QLDB, which is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a central trusted authority.

Tape Gateway, a member of the AWS Storage Gateway service family, now supports IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) version 7.1.9 running on Linux. Tape Gateway also increases the maximum supported virtual tape size from 2.5 TiB to 5 TiB to help you store more data on a single tape and ease tape management.

AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) customers can now create logical directory structures mapped to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket paths. This feature enables customers to easily lock down SFTP users’ access to designated folders (commonly referred to as ‘chroot’), and simplifies complex folder structures for data distribution through SFTP without replicating files across multiple users. Amazon S3 bucket names and paths can now be hidden from AWS SFTP users, providing an additional level of privacy to meet security requirements. 

AWS App Mesh now supports adding retries to traffic between services. With this feature, you can add resilience to your application with essentially no change to application code. This is useful in applications where failed requests can be retried without any negative consequences, shielding users from transient issues 

Amazon Pinpoint now supports the apns-push-type header field for push notifications that you send using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). Apple recently announced that this new header would be required for all push notifications sent to iOS 13 and watchOS 6 devices. Beginning today, Amazon Pinpoint automatically adds this required header to all APNs messages that it sends. Amazon Pinpoint customers don’t have to perform any additional steps to include the header.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications, now supports the ability to interact with the applications in your simulation job, by connecting to your robot application or simulation application with port forwarding. A RoboMaker simulation job is a pairing of a robot application and a simulation application running in the cloud. When you configure port forwarding, traffic will be forwarded from the simulation job port to the application port. For example, customers can now connect to an HTTP server or ROS bridge running in their robot or simulation application, and debug or interact with their applications from a web browser running on their local laptops.

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 enabled applying an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Role to your image builder and fleet resources. With this launch, you can make AWS API calls from an image builder or fleet streaming instance without having to specify the access key or secret access key. For example, you can download an installer from Amazon S3, execute an AWS Lambda function, or upload logs to an S3 bucket within your account without storing credentials on the image. AppStream 2.0 manages the credentials for you, and periodically rotates them on your behalf. To get started, see Using an IAM Role to Grant Permission to Applications and Scripts Running on AppStream 2.0 Streaming Instances in the AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide .