AWS Backup now provides customers an automated way to receive notifications based on the status of their backup, restore, and recovery point jobs. For customers using SNS notifications to monitor their backups, this functionality will allow customers to directly filter for certain job status types, such as failed backup jobs. Prior to this, customers would have to discern the job status from the message, without the ability to filter on this attribute. This release is a continuation of our commitment to make data protection as seamless and as automated as possible for our customers. See the SNS for AWS Backup for instructions and best practices.

AWS Direct Connect announces support for granular cost allocation and removal of payer ID restriction for Direct Connect gateway association. 

You can now automate the execution and deployment of end to end machine learning workflows using AWS Step Functions’ enhanced integration with Amazon SageMaker.

You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 3 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and Canada (Central).

This Quick Start deploys Solodev DCX Enterprise Edition for Docker, a cloud-first enterprise content management system (CMS) and customer experience platform, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This Quick Start is for IT administrators, DevOps professionals, and similar system architects. 

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. You can now centrally and continuously manage the compliance and security of your AWS accounts in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now lets you configure your domains to require that all traffic be submitted over HTTPS so that you can ensure that communications between your clients and your domain are encrypted. You can also configure the minimum required TLS version to accept. This option is a useful additional security control to ensure your clients are not misconfigured. For information on enabling this feature, see the documentation .

Amazon Lex now supports fallback intent making it easier to handle unexpected user input. Until now, you could use error handling prompts to respond when the bot could not match input to an intent. Starting today, you can add a fallback intent to help your Amazon Lex bot recover gracefully in such situations. It can be used to manage the conversation flow, execute business logic, or handover the conversation to a human agent. The fallback intent can be designed to trigger an AWS Lambda function and provide responses. You can now exercise a more granular control over the conversation flow.

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 Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Thai, and Urdu.

Industrial companies in process and discrete manufacturing leverage highly-specialized software solutions to increase product innovation while decreasing production and operational costs in their value chain.

Last year, we announced AWS Industrial Software Competency Partner solutions for an end-to-end Industrial Software toolchain. These APN Technology Partners provide solutions targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations/IIoT.

Today, we are excited to highlight new APN Premier and Advanced Consulting Partners as part of the AWS Industrial Software Competency Program. These APN Consulting Partners support APN Technology Partners in the AWS Industrial Software Competency by deploying, managing and building on top of these solutions for industrial customers. The AWS Industrial Software Competency for Consulting APN Partners applies to solutions that support the core value generation processes in Discrete/Process Manufacturing, Electricity, Gas & Water Supply, and Construction.

Congratulations to our Inaugural Consulting APN Partners:

• Accenture
• Capgemini
• Deloitte
• Innovations ON GmbH
• Onica
• Siemens
• Storm Reply
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• T-Systems
• Wipro

To learn more, see the APN Blog .