Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Audit! SQL Server Audit lets you create server audits, which can contain server audit specifications for server level events, and database audit specifications for database level events. 

The AWS Encryption SDK for C is now available to encrypt and decrypt your data in C and C++ applications. You can also use it as the foundation for bindings in other languages. The AWS Encryption SDK for C is highly performant and fully interoperable with the Java , Python , and CLI implementations.

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to automate the deployment of solutions that use AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) servers. You can now also upload and associate an RSA host key with your AWS SFTP server.  

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotic applications, now supports over-the-air (OTA) deployment job cancellation in fleet management. This new feature allows developers and system engineers to easily limit the impact of a problematic application update by cancelling a running deployment job.  

Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region.

Starting today, Amazon Connect pricing for US Inbound Direct Inward Dial (DID) has decreased from $0.0030 to $0.0022 per minute, and US Outbound has decreased from $0.0065 to $0.0048 per minute.

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use, self-service, cloud contact center service you can use to deliver more engaging customer service experiences. The self-service graphical interface makes it easy to design contact flows, manage agent utilization, and track performance metrics. You can create an Amazon Connect cloud contact center with just a few clicks in the Amazon Connect console , allowing your agents to be up and ready to take calls within minutes.

For a list of regions where Amazon Connect is available, see the AWS Region table . First time Amazon Connect customers can try the service by using the AWS Free Tier . Visit the Amazon Connect website to learn more about Amazon Connect.

Amazon DynamoDB  now applies adaptive capacity in real time in response to changing application traffic patterns, which helps you maintain uninterrupted performance indefinitely, even for imbalanced workloads. In addition, instant adaptive capacity helps you provision read and write throughput more efficiently instead of overprovisioning to accommodate uneven data access patterns. Instant adaptive capacity is on by default at no additional cost for all DynamoDB tables and global secondary indexes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of AWS Ground Station, a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, uplink, downlink, process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations. Ground stations are facilities that use antennas to provide communications between the earth and your satellite.  

This Quick Start automatically deploys an Aviatrix Controller to enable Aviatrix Orchestrator for AWS Transit Gateway on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10 minutes.

Metric filters in CloudWatch Logs allow you to turn log data into numerical CloudWatch metrics that you can graph or set an alarm on. With metric filters, you can, for example, create CloudWatch metrics that count the number of errors in your logs, or that represent a latency value from your web servers. You can then visualize those metrics in CloudWatch Dashboards or use them to define alarm thresholds in CloudWatch Alarms.