AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise now supports custom domains. Through the existing interfaces you can now provide a custom fully qualified domain name (FQDN), its matching SSL certificate, and SSL private key and have the OpsWorks server configured accordingly. After you have created a Canonical Name (CNAME) entry in your DNS management service to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint, you will find your Puppet Enterprise Dashboard under a domain of your choice instead of the generic OpsWorks-created one. Also, this will now be the public endpoint of your OpsWorks server. By using a custom domain with an SSL certificate that you manage, you have an endpoint that stays the same regardless of the server being re-created: any node under management by the OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise server will stay associated through this endpoint. 

Starting today, contact center admins can improve their Amazon Lex chatbots by configuring timeouts for each customer response in a conversation. The timeout determines how long the chatbot waits for the customer to finish speaking. For example, you might configure a short timeout for a yes/no question, but a longer timeout when asking for an address or credit card number, to give the customer more time to finish speaking.

We are pleased to announce the release of NICE DCV version 2020.0 with the following new features:

• Stylus and touch support on Linux server
• Surround sound 7.1 playback on Windows server to Windows native client
• Hardware acceleration and stylus support on Linux native client
• New API command to set display layout on server side
• Multi-monitor web client support on the new Microsoft Edge browser (version 79.0.309 or higher)

AWS Security Hub has released a new API action called BatchUpdateFindings, and we plan to deprecate the current UpdateFindings API. The UpdateFindings API only supported a few fields in the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF), and wasn’t integrated with CloudWatch Events. The BatchUpdateFindings API fixes those issues and supports a much larger set of fields that can now be updated, such as severity, criticality, confidence, user defined fields, notes, and workflow status. Also, the fields that BatchUpdateFindings can update cannot be updated by finding providers. Those fields can only be updated by the customer or by SIEM/ticketing/SOAR tools that have access to this API action. This prevents finding providers from overwriting your updates. You can use the BatchUpdateFindings API to complete actions such as creating your own suppression rules, changing severity scores, and adding notes to findings. To learn more about this API, please visit our documentation .

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles to easily delegate cluster management permissions to EKS.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available, enabling Go developers to get an end to end view of requests as they travel through their applications.  

CloudWatch Logs integration in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, Rider and WebStorm)  — allows developers to easily view and search for specific error codes or patterns from log streams. The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains is an open source plugin for the integrated development environments (IDEs) from JetBrains. The toolkit makes it easier to create, debug, and deploy Java, Python, JavaScript or .NET applications on Amazon Web Services using JetBrains IDEs. You can get started faster and be more productive with an integrated experience for developing serverless applications, including assistance for getting started, step-through debugging, building, and deploying from the IDE.

Starting today, you can customize the message in any action triggered by an event or a state change using the new AWS IoT Events expression syntax. This allows you to add custom text and remove irrelevant data from the messages sent by AWS IoT Events. With this launch, you can also define timer durations and MQTT topic names unique to each device (or detector instance). 

Amazon Redshift enables you to query data across your operational databases, your data warehouse, and your data lake. With Amazon Redshift Federated Query, you can query live data in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and integrate it with the data in your Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 environments.