AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS now supports Amazon FreeRTOS 201910.00. With this release, silicon vendors can qualify their development boards with secure elements to AWS device catalog using the latest Amazon FreeRTOS. The latest AWS IoT Device Tester also brings improvements for SecureSockets and WiFi test groups by providing an ability to configure the preferred port for Echo server.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available on Ubuntu 18.04, in addition to Ubuntu 16.04, Amazon Linux 2, and Amazon Linux. AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with PyTorch 1.2, MXNet 1.5.0, and add support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables Deep Learning AMI customers to run training jobs that require high levels of inter-node communications at scale. To get started with distributed training using EFA, see this tutorial in the AWS Deep Learning AMI developer guide.  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Europe (Paris) region.  

AWS Client VPN is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), EU (Stockholm), North America (Northern California) regions. The addition of these regions increases availability of AWS Client VPN, which offers region support in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), North America (N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon) With this launch, AWS Client VPN is now available in a total of 14 regions. 

You can now easily adopt best practices, such as infrastructure as code and continuous delivery, when you create a serverless application from the AWS Lambda console.  

AWS Service Catalog now enables administrators and team members to change the ownership of their provisioned products. With this feature, when team members or responsibilities change, ownership of their provisioned products can easily be transferred to a new team member or role. 

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications. The Amplify CLI (part of the Amplify Framework) is a toolchain to create, integrate, and manage the AWS cloud services for your application.  

Starting today, enhanced support for Secure Elements in Amazon FreeRTOS is available. We have provided two qualifications that support secure elements. In the first, the Amazon FreeRTOS windows simulator implementation is connected to the Microchip ATECC608A secure element and the second is the Infineon XMC4800 IoT Connectivity Kit with OPTIGA Trust-X . Both reference integrations have been qualified using AWS IoT Device Tester for Amazon FreeRTOS. Additional changes in our 201910.00 release can be reviewed in our Changelog .

EMR Notebooks is a managed Jupyter-based notebook environment that allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to prepare and visualize data, collaborate with peers, and build applications using EMR clusters. You can now associate Git repositories , such as GitHub and Bitbucket, with your Amazon EMR Notebooks. Associating a repository with a notebook allows you to add versions to your notebook. It also simplifies collaborating with peers by allowing you to share code through remote Git repositories. You can clone or merge code from remote Git repositories and push changes back to those remote repositories directly from your notebook. To make it easier to compare and merge two different notebooks, the nbdime utility is now available in EMR Notebooks.

Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of the AWS for WordPress plugin. Previously known as the Amazon Polly and Amazon AI plugin, the new AWS for WordPress plugin now provides a workflow to configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution that is highly optimized for WordPress websites.