Amazon Sumerian, the AWS service that makes it easy to create and run browser-based 3D, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) applications, now supports physically-based rendering (PBR) , enabling you to create scenes that appear more realistic, accurate, and consistent with their real-world counterparts.  

AWS CodeBuild is now available to customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service in the cloud. CodeBuild compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. For more information, visit the CodeBuild product page .

To learn more about AWS CodeBuild, visit our documentation . To see all regions where AWS CodeBuild is available, see the AWS region table . 

You can now use Spark 2.4.3, Presto 0.220, Apache Hive 2.3.5, and Apache Tez 0.9.2 on Amazon EMR release 5.25.0.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS region.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

AWS CloudFormation has increased two limits on CloudFormation StackSets to allow you to provision resources across even more accounts and regions with a single operation. The number of stack sets you can have in your administrator account has increased from 20 to 100. The number of stack instances you can have per stack set has increased from 500 to 2000.

Starting today, you can use the Python programming language to develop your functions in Lambda@Edge, in addition to currently supported Node.js. This gives you the flexibility of opting for the programming language of your choice as you author your functions.

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications.  

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to specify AWS IoT Events resources. This improvement enables you to use CloudFormation to deploy AWS IoT Events resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. You can use CloudFormation templates to specify IoT Events Inputs and Detector Models.

You can now view pipeline status from the pipeline listing in AWS CodePipeline. Previously, you had to look at the detail page of a pipeline to obtain its status. Now, you can see the status of the most recent execution for each pipeline directly on the pipeline listing. You are now able to monitor status across multiple pipelines in a unified interface.