Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) CSI driver.  

You can now pay your AISPL invoices using your Netbanking enabled bank account. AISPL supports Netbanking for 55 banks in India.

AWS CodePipeline, a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates, is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region.

Amazon QuickSight announces new features that improve organizing assets, send email alerts on anomalies, other improvements with anomaly detection capabilities and introduces Word Cloud chart type to represent categorical fields.  

EMR 6.0.0 (Beta) allows users to define application and library dependencies using Docker images from Docker Hub and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) using Spark 2.4.3 and Hadoop 3.1.0.

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones and across On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase options. With a single API call, now you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and across purchase options to achieve desired scale, performance and cost. 

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you provision and automatically scale instances across purchase options, Availability Zones (AZ), and instance families in a single Auto Scaling group (ASG), to optimize scale, performance, and cost. Now you can include Spot Instances with On-Demand and RIs in a single ASG, to save up to 90% on compute in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached adds support for the latest Memcached open source version 1.5.16. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and includes the fixes from engine versions 1.5.14 and 1.5.15.

For the full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached 1.5.16 click here . Memcached 1.5.16 support is available in all AWS regions.

To get started on ElastiCache for Memcached cluster with engine version 1.5.16 log on to AWS Management Console . 

Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Amazon Linux 2. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Amazon Linux 2, in addition to Amazon Linux and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.  

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now allows you to measure and track the throughput and efficiency of your own private workers performing data labeling. During the course of a labeling job, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth logs all private worker events (for example, when a labeler starts and submits a task) to Amazon CloudWatch. In addition, you can also use the built-in metrics feature of CloudWatch to measure and track throughput across a work team or for individual workers.