Today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager added support for AWS CloudFormation with templates for building global networks across the cloud and on-premises. This improvement enables you to automate the creation of global networks, register transit gateways, associate customer gateways, and define your on-premises resources within global network such as devices, sites, and links in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.  

Starting today, you can use the UpdateShardCount API in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to scale up to 10,000 shards for a single data stream. You can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture, store, and analyze terabytes of data per hour from clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, and more. The UpdateShardCount API enables you to rapidly scale the capacity of data streams up or down to handle changes in data volumes without any disruption to the producing or the consuming applications.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.  

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now lets you attach IAM resource policies to your VPC endpoints. VPC Endpoint policies can help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements by granularly controlling access to Amazon EC2 APIs.

Today, AWS Global Accelerator introduces TCP termination at the edge, a feature that automatically increases performance for workloads such as API calls, file uploads, or Voice over IP calls. With this feature, customers can get up to a 40% improvement for traffic throughput within the United States, and up to 60% for traffic across continents.

You can now track ‘Bring-your-own-license’ (BYOL) usage by your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle database instances with AWS License Manager. You can leverage License Manager to centrally track usage of your Oracle database licenses based on your license agreement terms and thus reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.

We’ve updated our instructor-led classroom course DevOps Engineering on AWS to incorporate the latest thinking, best practices, and concepts on DevOps. Available virtually or in person, this three-day course teaches you how to use DevOps to improve your organization’s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course is taught by expert AWS instructors using a mix of presentations, discussion, and hands-on labs.

AWS License Manager expands its new, simplified bring-your-own-license (BYOL) experience for software licenses, such as Windows and SQL Server, to Asia Pacific (Mumbai), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo) and US West (N. California) regions, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.

Voicemail for Amazon Connect offers users an add-on voicemail solution that they can associate with their Amazon Connect instance. Customers start by deploying an AWS CloudFormation template to set up the architecture with necessary AWS services to provide Amazon Connect agents with voicemail features such as voicemail recordings and transcripts. The solution offers a visual interface for managers and administrators to configure the voicemail settings for the entire Amazon Connect instance and for each agent.

AWS Data Exchange released multiple enhancements that make it easier for both data providers and subscribers to use the AWS Data Exchange console and interact with data sets. We re-organized the main navigation enabling you to find and easily access frequently used pages with fewer clicks. As a data provider, you can now see the data sets and revisions as they appear to your subscribers. To do so, choose any data set from one of your listed products in the ADX console. As an existing subscriber, you can now use the new “Entitled data sets” page for quickly finding and accessing all of your entitled data sets in a specific AWS region based on your active subscriptions.