To help support customers working from home, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing a special, limited-time version of NICE DCV with an automatic 90-day evaluation license. This limited-time release of NICE DCV with the 90-day evaluation license will be available for download and activation until May 31, 2020. All activations of the software after this date will default to the standard 30-day automatic evaluation license.

Amazon QuickSight now supports cascading filter actions. You can use filter actions to select multiple data points in a dashboard and view the cumulative impacts of filtering those data points, across multiple datasets used to build the dashboard. For example, on a business dashboard revenue data and bar charts representing ‘revenue by industry’ and ‘revenue by category’, you can choose ‘Technology’ as industry from the first bar chart and Hardware as category from the second bar chart to filter the entire dashboard to show contributions for Hardware category within the Technology industry. See here to learn more .  

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and an interactive CLI toolchain.  

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows customers to replicate the network traffic from an EC2 instance within their VPC and forward that traffic to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting. 

Throughout a migration, you will want to compare on-premises infrastructure costs to AWS costs, so that you can track spend and adjust your plans to maximize the ROI of your migration project. Migration Hub’s automatic tagging helps you track costs of migrated resources and compare that to on-premises costs using Cost Allocation Tagging and AWS Cost Explorer. For migrations tracked using the Migration Hub, an AWS system tag is automatically applied to each migrated EC2 instance or AMI. AWS resources are tagged with the key aws:migrationhub:source-id and the tag value is the discovery server ID corresponding to the originating server. Migration Hub can be used to track migrations from CloudEndure, Server Migration Service, or other tooling using the AWS SDK/CLI. 

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to manage access to resources based on tags. 

AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, launches new platform version 1.4.0. This latest version enables several new Fargate features of which some are highlighted below. Unless otherwise noted, the new features discussed in this post are relevant to the native Fargate platform and are directly consumable by the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestrator.

Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in the AWS US West (N. California) region.

AWS Data Exchange is now one of the AWS services under ISO Compliance for the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. 

With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now use Manifest Filtering to customize video streams presented to specific devices based on their capabilities, or presented to specific end-user groups based on their subscriber status or language preferences. You can configure up to four filters that select tracks depending on audio language, audio sample rate, video codec, and video bitrate criteria. Filters can be combined to create highly targeted variants of the manifests in all supported formats, for live and VOD endpoints. This capability improves the overall viewing experience with customized and targeted video content tailored to specific audiences. For instructions on how to configure Manifest Filtering, please refer to the documentation page .