Beginning today you can start connecting your devices to AWS IoT Core using Persistent Sessions. Persistent Sessions store subscription information and pending Quality of Service (QoS) 1 messages should the devices become disconnected. When a device reconnects and resumes a Persistent Session, its subscriptions will be automatically reinstated and any stored messages will be delivered.

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS EU (Paris) Region.

Consultant David Shiller talks about the regulatory and rebate landscape that will be featured in a Strategies in Light panel discussion.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

AWS OpsWorks Stacks now supports Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu 18.04 for Chef 12 stacks and Amazon Linux 2018.03 for both Chef 11 and Chef 12 stacks. Previously, the latest supported versions of Amazon Linux and Ubuntu were Amazon Linux 2017.09 and Ubuntu 16.04, which required customized AMIs or Chef recipes in order to take advantage of the stability and security of Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu 18.04. Now, you can select Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 18.04, or Amazon Linux 2018.03 as the default operating system for instances created in your stack with a few clicks. Amazon Linux 2 will offer extended availability of software updates for the core operating system through 5 years of long-term support.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Developers can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB and enjoy improved performance, scalability, and availability without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. Customers can easily migrate their MongoDB databases that are on-premises or on Amazon EC2 to Amazon DocumentDB for free (for six months per instance) with virtually no downtime using the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). There are no up-front investments required to use Amazon DocumentDB, and customers only pay for the capacity they use.

Amazon DocumentDB is generally available and you can use Amazon DocumentDB in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland).

To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, visit https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb. 

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target. Using DMS, you can now perform live migrations to Amazon DocumentDB from MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, or any AWS DMS supported source including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SAP ASE and Microsoft SQL Server databases with minimal downtime.

To learn more about migrating data to Amazon DocumentDB with DMS, see the documentation for the Amazon DocumentDB target . The Amazon DocumentDB target in DMS is available in all regions in which Amazon DocumentDB is available. For AWS DMS and Amazon DocumentDB availability, see the AWS Region Table.

AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon EMR , which provides availability guarantees for Amazon EMR.

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (Ireland) regions in addition to the US East (Virginia) region. You can now use Amazon Pinpoint to power your digital user engagement without having to transfer your customer data across regions.

This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in certain regions of the EU, where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for many customers to use Amazon Pinpoint. It also creates a global infrastructure that helps to improve availability and redundancy while reducing latency.

With Amazon Pinpoint, you can engage your customers by sending them marketing campaigns and transactional messages across email, SMS, push notifications, and voice messages. Amazon Pinpoint’s built-in analytics suite helps you monitor and analyze the performance of your engagement efforts and develop a deeper understanding of your users demographics and behaviors. Additionally, the application analytics tools enable you to track the ways that your customers interact with your mobile and web applications.

To learn more about Amazon Pinpoint, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/ .