You can now configure ad break personalization for live streams with DVR-like time-shift windows using the Ad Break Suppression feature in AWS Elemental MediaTailor. For long-running events, or linear streams that have time-shift features enabled, viewers can start watching at the live edge, or at the start of the event or time-shift window. Using this feature, you can optimize the personalization of the time-shift window to increase the chance that only ad breaks that are viewed are personalized. For viewers joining live, you can choose to only insert personalized ads after the live point. For those joining from the start of the event, you can personalize all the ads within the manifest.

AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS Config, making it easier for you to track configuration changes to the secrets you manage in Secrets Manager. You can now track change to your secrets’ metadata (e.g. rotation configuration), attributes (e.g. tags), and encryption key. You can also use two managed AWS Config rules to evaluate whether secrets are configured in compliance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can identify secrets that don’t conform to these requirements and receive notifications about these via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) or Amazon CloudWatch Events .

Amazon QuickSight now supports stacked area charts, allowing display of cumulative totals of metrics over time with breakdown by specific categories. Authors can create a stacked area chart by selecting this new visual type from the the visuals menu, configuring the X-axis, metric and group-by dimensions. See here to learn more.

AWS customers want a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2, AWS customers get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem.

Starting today, PyTorch customers can use TorchServe , a new model serving framework for PyTorch, to deploy trained models at scale without having to write custom code.

With AWS Cost Categories (GA), you can now categorize your cost and usage information precisely to your organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, and more. Using Cost Categories, you can create these unique categories and then write rules on which costs belong to each group. After defining your unique category, you can view, track, and optimize costs using Cost Categories in the AWS Cost Management suite of products such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Report (‘CUR’).

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) directly on RDS DB instances. You can run SSAS in the Tabular mode. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS DB instance. 

Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Link, a device that connects a live video source, like a camera or other video production equipment, to AWS Elemental MediaLive for video encoding in the cloud. To learn more and to place an order, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/medialive/features/link/.

Amazon Redshift now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Customers can use MFA to provide additional security when authenticating to their Amazon Redshift cluster. 

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.