Amazon SageMaker now supports AWS PrivateLink for notebook instances. Earlier this year, we announced support for AWS PrivateLink for API operations and runtime with Amazon SageMaker. With this enhancement, you can use AWS PrivateLink to secure your connection to notebook instances as well.

You can now use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) lifecycle policies as a resource in your AWS CloudFormation templates, stacks, and stacksets.

Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With VPC support, your model containers and the AWS resources they access, such as the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets can be made private within your network and not connected to the internet. This enhancement also enables you to monitor all network traffic in and out of your model containers using VPC Flow Logs.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce additional Italian and Spanish voice options.

AWS Secrets Manager makes it easier to securely automate the provisioning of your AWS resources by integrating with AWS CloudFormation . You can use this integration to provision secrets, such as database credentials, required to create and access your AWS resources.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports custom Domain Name Services (DNS) servers which are used for name resolution during outbound network access. This is in addition to the existing support for the Amazon Route 53 domain service in your VPC.

You can configure a custom DNS Server in the DHCP Options Set for the Amazon VPC that contains your RDS instance. For more information, see DHCP Options Sets in the Amazon VPC documentation, and DHCP Options Set in the AWS Directory Service documentation.

You can enable the configured custom DNS server with a new database parameter for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases to communicate with other services within your VPC. This works by using either private or custom DNS names, keeping outbound network traffic within the boundaries of your VPC.

Your RDS for PostgreSQL database instance needs to be in a VPC to be able to use this feature. To move your non-VPC RDS databases to a VPC, follow the instructions in the documentation .

For using custom DNS server for outbound network access for RDS for PostgreSQL, please visit the documentation page.

AWS Batch now supports enhanced Identity and Access Management (IAM)-based fine-grained access controls. IAM-based controls enable administrators to match Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) controls with their IAM users in AWS Batch. In addition to POSIX support, administrators can write IAM policies that control access to Job Definitions and Job Queues when submitting Jobs to AWS Batch.

Your real-time applications can now benefit from Amazon ElastiCache for Redis support of Redis 5.0. Now you can take advantage of new Redis 5.0 features such as Redis Streams , enhanced sorted sets with pop operations, improved HyperLogLog algorithm, and better memory management.

AWS Batch now supports EC2 Launch Templates, allowing you to build customized templates for your compute resources, and enabling Batch to scale instances with those requirements. You can specify your EC2 Launch Template to add storage volumes, specify network interfaces, or configure permissions, among other capabilities. EC2 Launch Templates reduce the number of steps required to configure Batch environments by capturing launch parameters within one resource.

AWS CodePipeline now makes it easier to perform actions such as deployments, builds, or tests in multiple regions from a single pipeline. Previously, you needed to set-up a pipeline in a region in order for CodePipeline to perform actions in that region. Now, you can add cross-region actions such as additional region deployments to help improve your application’s latency and availability.