AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports increased certificate issuance rate limits and support for encryption of Amazon S3 buckets used for certificate revocation lists and audit reports.

Amazon SageMaker customers can now select ml.g4dn and ml.c5n instances for training machine learning models. Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance, accelerating the process of moving terabytes to petabytes of data to AWS. Edge compute capabilities in the new device increased to 40 vCPUs and 80 GiB of memory, supporting sbe-c instance types for running applications at the edge. Network port options have expanded with the addition of 100 GbE ports. To improve unlocking, monitoring, and operation, AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized is fully compatible with the new AWS OpsHub application that provides a graphical user interface for these tasks.

30 new or updated AWS Public Datasets from Ford, the Allen Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia, the National Cancer Institute, and others are now available in the following categories:

AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager, simplifying common maintenance and deployment tasks on instances and other resources on your Snowball device. You can write scripts in Python or PowerShell directly in AWS OpsHub , a graphical user interface for managing Snow Family devices. The scripts can include any operations supported on the device. When these scripts are executed, AWS OpsHub will automatically execute the defined operations. These automated scripts can also be presented as actions listed in customizable drop-down menus.

AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball devices at your fingertips; you can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.  

AWS Snowball now supports local AWS Identity and Access Management  (IAM), allowing you to securely manage access to AWS services and resources running on your Snowball device by controlling what actions users can take, and what AWS resources on the device users can take those actions on.

Customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor their private endpoints that run in a virtual private cloud (VPC). Microservices, APIs, or internal web tools inside a private network often power customer-facing websites and applications. Further, there are several critical internal applications such as for accounting, collaboration tools, corporate email, and payroll that have a direct impact on increased productivity for your organization. Continuously monitoring both internal and external endpoints using synthetic monitoring is vital to ensure smooth operations on a consistent basis. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports Multifile Native Backups. With this feature, you can back up data from a single database across multiple files, uploading each of them in parallel directly to Amazon S3. This improves the overall backup experience. 

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of US Spanish Newscaster speaking style voice. The Newscaster speaking style was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech technology, and imitates the voice of a news anchor. The US Spanish voice is the second language launched by Polly in the Newscaster speaking style, following the release of Newscaster speaking style voices in US English in July 2019. To hear an audio sample of the US Spanish Newscaster voice click here .