CloudEndure, an AWS company, now offers CloudEndure Migration to move applications from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure to AWS at no charge. This offer is available to all AWS customers and partners. 

Whether it’s an organization’s first cloud project or part of a larger transformation initiative, the migration of Independent Software Vendor (“ISV”) workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS requires significant domain expertise in planning, execution, and optimization. Such migrations require an understanding of workload dependencies, application customizations, and AWS deployment options.

To address this challenge, we’re excited to introduce the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP). The program helps customers migrate ISV workloads to AWS to achieve business goals and accelerate their cloud journey.

AWS ISV WMP collaborates with AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partners and their APN Consulting Partner communities to create a prescriptive and repeatable migration process for their AWS offering, whether its deployed as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Bring Your Own License (BYOL), or a Managed Service. The program is open to Select, Advanced, and Premier tier APN Partners and provides technical enablement, migration funding to offset costs, and go-to-market support.

With the goals of streamlining migration and lowering the cost of migrating ISV workloads for the customer, this program aligns APN Partners and AWS to support the success of our customers’ cloud journey. With AWS ISV WMP, APN Partners drive and deliver ISV workload migrations, enhancing their cloud practices and customer success on AWS.

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Last month, we announced support for tagging Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them in all standard AWS Regions. Today, we extend tagging support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Tags are labels you can attach to AWS resources to make them easier to manage, search, and filter.

Amazon Chime is now a HIPAA Eligible Service. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Chime for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you do not have a BAA in place with AWS or have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.

AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying data between NFS file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon EFS file systems.

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports cluster cache management, providing a faster path to full performance if there’s a failover. With cluster cache management, you designate a specific reader DB instance in your Aurora PostgreSQL cluster as the failover target. Cluster cache management keeps the data in the designated reader’s cache synchronized with the data in the read-write instance’s cache. If a failover occurs, the designated reader is promoted to be the new read-write instance, and workloads benefit immediately from the data in its cache.

Without cluster cache management, when a read-write instance fails over to a read-only instance and that instance is promoted to be the new read-write instance, the cache in the newly promoted instance doesn’t have the data that was “hot” in the failed instance’s cache right before it failed. This leads to degraded performance while the “hot” data is read into the new instance’s cache from storage.

You can learn more about Aurora PostgreSQL and cluster cache management on the Aurora PostgreSQL documentation pages . Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page .

AWS CodeCommit now supports two additional merge strategies for pull requests: squash merges and three-way merges, and a conflict resolution editor in the console that allows developers to manually resolve conflicts at the time of a merge. A pull request is the primary way developers review, comment on, and merge code changes. Collaboratively reviewing code changes in pull requests helps developers maintain high code quality and better understand each other’s code. 

You can now add dynamic labels to your Amazon CloudWatch charts that provide richer context on your dashboards, helping you to more quickly identify anomalies in system health and performance. Dynamic labels provide data summaries over the time window represented in the chart and update automatically as the chart is refreshed. For example, adding the average and maximum dynamic labels for a CPU utilization metric across multiple EC2 resources can help you identify anomalies at a glance. The initial set of dynamic labels includes AVG, SUM, MIN, MAX and LAST, with more to follow.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Personalize , a machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to create individualized recommendations for users of their applications. Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Personalize allows developers to easily build sophisticated personalization capabilities into their applications, such as personalized product and content recommendations, tailored search results, and targeted marketing promotions.