AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports failover between two live sources into a flow. If one source fails, MediaConnect can failover to the second source, increasing the resiliency of live video transport. This provides uninterrupted ingest and transport of live video streams by adding resilience and automatic failover. The SMPTE-2022-7 standard (seamless protection switching at the packet level) is used if the two sources are compliant, otherwise active/active failover is used. To learn more, please visit the MediaConnect User Guide .

You can now launch the T3 instance type with Amazon Neptune for development and test scenarios. Amazon T3 instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are ideal for database workloads with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.

Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple, providing another social identity provider for customers who use Cognito for receiving temporary AWS credentials. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito Identity Pools with no additional cost. 

Amazon Managed Blockchain now has support to publish Hyperledger Fabric peer node, chaincode, and certificate authority (CA) logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use these logs to troubleshoot during chaincode development and maintain visibility into network activity and errors. CloudWatch Logs enables you to monitor, store and access log files from all your applications and AWS services in a single, highly scalable service. Additionally, you can set up and take actions on Amazon CloudWatch alarms triggered from logging events.

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you coordinate increments and decrements to column values by using counters. 

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce content updates to our Learn the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials “trail” on Trailhead by Salesforce. Built by the experts at AWS, this trail is recommended for those who are new to the AWS Cloud or who are looking to build their AWS Cloud skills. It can help learners further explore cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. This trail also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, which validates overall understanding of the AWS Cloud with an industry-recognized credential that can help grow your career.  

We are excited to announce the launch of AWS Security Essentials, a new one-day, instructor-led classroom course.

You can now run license included Windows Server instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, which enables you to use fully compliant Windows Server software licenses from AWS with a pay-as-you-go model. This new capability helps in scenarios where you have eligible SQL Server licenses to use on Dedicated Hosts but do not have accompanying Windows Server licenses to run the SQL Server workloads. 

Support for transporting live video over a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConnect. You can simplify hybrid cloud-based transport workflows by sending video to and from MediaConnect using a VPC. The new VPC feature is also compatible with AWS Direct Connect infrastructure configured with private virtual interfaces (VIF), supporting the ingest and egress of content via private networking. To learn more, please visit the documentation pages .

We are pleased to launch a new website with curated tutorials for AWS DeepLens. In addition to our existing tutorials (Worker Safety and Coffee Counter), we added a new tutorial (Trash Sorter) that walks you through how to train a custom image classification model on your own data and deploy it to DeepLens. We will continue adding tutorials to show you how to use a variety of computer vision and machine learning (ML) techniques to level up your ML skills with DeepLens.