You can now develop your Elastic Beanstalk applications using Go 1.12. The latest Go 1.12 comes with numerous performance improvements and new features such as opt-in support for TLS 1.3 and improved modules support. For the complete list of Go 1.12 features, visit the official Go 1.12 release announcement . You can upgrade your existing Elastic Beanstalk Go environment to Go 1.12 using the Elastic Beanstalk console or through the EB CLI and Elastic Beanstalk API. See Updating Your Elastic Beanstalk Environment’s Platform Version for additional details.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

Amazon DocumentDB continues to increase compatibility with MongoDB and today added support for additional aggregation pipeline operators that allow you to compose powerful aggregations your documents. The new capabilities include seven aggregation string operators ($indexOfCP, $indexOfBytes, $strLenCP, $strLenBytes, $toLower, $toUpper, $split), nine date time operators ($dayOfYear, $dayOfMonth, $dayOfWeek, $year, $month, $hour, $minute, $second, and $millisecond), and the $sample aggregation pipeline stage.

To use the new features, you can create a new Amazon DocumentDB cluster with just a few clicks in the Amazon DocumentDB Management Console or you can upgrade your existing cluster .

For more information, please see the AWS Database Blog: Using new aggregation pipeline capabilities in Amazon DocumentDB to build powerful aggregation queries

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions in addition to AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.

AWS RoboMaker makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale. Today we have added support for the Gazebo 9 engine, a leading robotics simulator. Running simulation jobs on Gazebo 9 provides new features and benefits such as .obj mesh support, GUI plotting utility, improved actor animation, and improved shadow. For a full list of Gazebo 9 features, visit the Gazebo home page .

AWS RoboMaker is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions. To get started, run a sample simulation job in the RoboMaker console or explore the RoboMaker webpage .
 

Ingy, smart lighting’s newest startup, launches with a two-step plan for commercial users.

The powerline communications specialist is now a one-stop shop for controls, data analysis, and lights, in a new “one throat to choke” strategy.

The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and Amazon FSx for Lustre Container Storage Interface (CSI) Drivers are now available as open-source alpha projects. These CSI drivers make it easy for developers to use AWS managed file system services with their Kubernetes services running on Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) or on EC2.

AWS Secrets Manager support to specify sensitive information

You can now reference sensitive information in AWS Secrets Manager when using AWS Fargate PV 1.3. This means you can store sensitive information in either AWS Secrets manager or AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. You can learn more about about it here: Specifying sensitive information to containers .

As you build applications, you need to reference sensitive information such as database credentials, tokens, configuration variables or SSH keys. Previously, you had to directly reference this sensitive information in the task definition or manage your own run-time secrets with custom solutions to decouple secrets from core application logic stored in container images. AWS Fargate now supports task definition conventions for accessing sensitive information stored in either AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) has increased the limits for a set of KMS resources, including Customer Master Keys (CMKs), Aliases, and Grants per CMK. The limits have been increased from 1,000 to 10,000 for customer-managed CMKs, from 1,100 to 10,000 for Aliases, and from 2,500 to 10,000 for Grants per CMK in all regions where KMS is available. These limit increases make it easier for you to scale your KMS operations.

This Quick Start deploys an example Linux architecture for visual effects (VFX) burst rendering on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, using content security recommendations from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) and AWS.