The odyssey ends, as the company closes the sale of its Current division to private equity firm American Industrial Partners, which will continue to use the GE brand but will change the name of the company.

AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon EC2 development environments that use Ubuntu Server 18.04. AWS Cloud9 also supports Amazon Linux development environments. 

Today, we are excited to announce the new AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Navigate Track. The AWS MSP Partner Program is designed for AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners who are skilled at cloud infrastructure and application migration, and deliver value to customers by offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customer’s environment.

The new AWS MSP Navigate track creates a prescriptive journey for APN Partners who want to build expertise in delivering full life cycle solutions from planning and designing to building and optimizing workloads for AWS customers.  

Learn more about the AWS Navigate Program, and all the AWS Navigate tracks available on the APN blog . 

AWS has updated Video on Demand on AWS, a solution that automatically provisions the AWS services necessary to build a scalable, distributed video-on-demand workflow. The solution now leverages AWS Elemental MediaConvert Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) encoding mode which ensures consistent, high-quality video transcoding with the smallest file size for any type of source video content. With QVBR, the encoder determines the right number of bits to use for each part of the video to maintain the video quality that you specify.

You can now use search expressions to define Amazon CloudWatch dashboards. This enables you to create dashboards that update automatically as new resources are created that match the search query, providing up-to-the-minute visibility with reduced operational overhead.

The search function is an enhancement of Amazon CloudWatch metric math and can be combined within math functions like SUM, AVG, MIN, and MAX. For example, you can combine SUM with SEARCH to track the count of failed health checks across all EC2 instances in an account.

It’s easy to get started with search expressions through the Amazon CloudWatch console, or the GetMetricData API. From the metrics tab, just search for metrics then click the Graph Search button and a search expression will be automatically generated on your chart.

Search expressions are now available in all AWS public regions, including AWS GovCloud. Learn more about how to use search expressions in graphs . 

Scenario-based learning on Coursera, from the experts at AWS, develops skills in building and deploying serverless solutions.Using real-world examples of a serverless website and chat bot, the learner builds on their knowledge of the cloud to take advantage of the benefits of modern architectures for greater agility, innovation, and lower total cost of ownership across a range of AWS services, including AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. On-demand and digital, the courses are convenient and available to audit for free with a completion certificate available for $49. 

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We are excited to announce a new python script that makes it easy to get started with Amazon Elastic Inference.

Amazon DynamoDB has reduced the price of global tables by eliminating associated charges for DynamoDB Streams. Previously, cross-region replication performed by global tables incurred charges for streams. Now, you are no longer billed for streams resources used by global tables for replicating changes from one replica table to all other replicas. You still are billed for any streams usage performed by your applications that read from a replica table’s stream.

This Quick Start automatically deploys SUSE Cloud Application Platform, which is a fully containerized implementation of Cloud Foundry, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. 

You can now restore an encrypted Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility cluster from an unencrypted snapshot. You can choose any existing Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) key or create a new key to encrypt your new database.