Amazon S3 now supports four new features to reduce your storage costs by making it even easier to build archival applications using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage class and by enabling one-click data replication to S3 Glacier in another AWS Region. S3 PUT to Glacier, S3 Cross-Region Replication to Glacier, S3 Restore Notifications, and S3 Restore Speed Upgrade are available using the S3 APIs, AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs), and AWS Management Console for simpler integration with your archival workloads and applications.
AWS Lambda supports Kinesis Data Streams Enhanced Fan-Out and HTTP/2 for faster streaming
AWS Lambda now supports the Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) enhanced fan-out and HTTP/2 data retrieval features for Kinesis event sources. The HTTP/2 data retrieval API improves the data delivery speed between data producers and Lambda functions by more than 65%. Enhanced fan-out allows you to process the same KDS stream with multiple Lambda functions in parallel without performance degradation.
Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Object2Vec and IP Insights Built-in Algorithms
Amazon SageMaker now supports two additional algorithms: Object2Vec and IP Insights.
AWS Config Now Supports Multi-Account, Multi-Region Aggregation of Resource Configuration Data
The multi-account, multi-Region data aggregation capability in AWS Config now supports aggregating the configuration data of AWS resources. Aggregation of resource configuration data complements AWS Config rule compliance data aggregation , which launched earlier this year. With this launch, IT administrators can centrally monitor both configuration and compliance data from multiple accounts and Regions. This helps you reduce the time and overhead needed to gather an enterprise-wide view of your resource inventory and AWS Config rule compliance status.
Amazon CloudWatch Introduces Automatic Dashboards to Monitor all AWS Resources
You can now get aggregated views of the health and performance of all AWS resources through
CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards. This enables you to quickly get started with monitoring, explore account and resource-based view of metrics and alarms, and easily drill-down to understand the root cause of performance issues.
Amazon Neptune Now Supports HTTPS for Encrypted Client Connections
Amazon Neptune now allows you to use HTTPS to encrypt data in transit between your graph database clients and the Neptune service endpoints. This enhancement uses the industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol to encrypt all data sent to and from connected clients.
Analyze live video at scale in real-time using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and Amazon SageMaker
You can now analyze live video at scale in real time using the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Inference Template (KIT) for Amazon SageMaker. The KIT enables you to build scalable, real-time, ML-driven video analytics pipelines without using other libraries or writing custom software. You can attach Kinesis video streams to Amazon SageMaker endpoints in minutes and quickly deploy your machine learning algorithms to analyze live video feeds on the AWS Cloud.
Introducing AWS Systems Manager Distributor
AWS Systems Manager Distributor is a new feature that you can use to securely store and distribute software packages, such as software agents, in your accounts. Distributor integrates with existing Systems Manager features to simplify and scale the package distribution, installation, and update process.
Amazon CloudWatch Launches Ability to Add Alarms on Metric Math Expressions
You can now create alarms on metric math expressions such as +, -, /, *, and mathematical functions such as Sum, Average, Min, Max, and Standard Deviation. This enables you to create thresholds and set automated actions to fix operational issues.
Amazon Translate Adds Eight New Languages and 281 New Language Pairs
Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural-network based machine translation service that delivers high-quality, real-time, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate now supports the following eight new languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Indonesian, Korean, Polish, and Swedish. These languages expand upon the existing 13 languages already available in Amazon Translate. With the new languages and quality improvements across many others, we are adding 280 new language pairs, for a total of 417. For a full list, see the Amazon Translate documentation .