Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) region. You can create Neptune clusters using r5 instance types. This increases the number of available regions for Neptune to 18, giving you more options for database placement, availability, and scalability.

We’re excited to announce a new learning path that organizes all AWS Training Game Tech courses into one place. Whether you’re an architect, game developer, data engineer, or data analyst, the learning path provides structured guidance on where to begin and next steps to gain Game Tech expertise.

You can now privately share applications stored in the AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) with all AWS accounts within an AWS Organization using a single AWS Organization ID. You can also define separate resource-based policy statements directly from the console, and select the actions permitted under each statement. This update allows you to quickly share serverless applications across organizations simply and at scale.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. AWS PrivateLink is a networking technology designed to enable access to AWS services in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS network.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Amazon RDS on MySQL Version 8.0. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action.  

AWS Certification is excited to announce the new AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification. It is the first certification to validate expertise in recommending, designing, and maintaining the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation. You can now schedule the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam at testing centers worldwide for 300 USD. A practice exam is also available for 40 USD.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers tone mapping technology to perform HDR to SDR color space conversion. With this processing, you can create both HDR and SDR outputs from a single HDR master video, without having parallel mezzanine workflows.  

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the public preview of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based Operating System (OS) that is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket comes with a single-step update mechanism and includes only the essential software to run containers. These properties enable customers to use container orchestrators to manage OS updates with minimal disruptions, enabling better uptime for containerized applications and lower operational cost. Currently, Bottlerocket is supported for use with Amazon EKS. Amazon ECS will also be supported soon .

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.15 for all clusters.

Amazon Aurora Global Database is now available for the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora. Aurora Global Database is designed for applications with a global footprint, allowing a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions with as many as five secondary Regions, with fast replication to enable low-latency global reads and fast disaster recovery from region-wide outages.