AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports additional templates that allow CA administrators and PKI operators a way to control and specify X.509 certificate extensions for the certificates they issue with ACM Private CA. 

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.  

Amazon MQ now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints in US commercial regions to protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, enabling you to use Amazon MQ for certain regulated workloads.  

We are pleased to announce the general availability for the latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.1. Based on customer requests and trends, this release reflects our ongoing investment in performance and scale, providing the ability to scale bigger and faster than ever to complete your projects.

Amazon Lightsail now supports automatic snapshots, allowing you to schedule daily snapshots of your Lightsail Linux/Unix instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) can now use IntelliSense to write Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) task definitions. This can save you lots of time by avoiding manual typing and catching easy to miss errors. These changes are already available in the VS Code toolkit for AWS so current users who have auto updates enabled don’t need to install anything to get this functionality.  

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory.

Amazon SageMaker customers can now select G4 and R5 instances when deploying their machine learning models for real-time inferences. Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. G4 instances are optimized for machine learning application deployments such as image classification, object detection, recommendation engines, automated speech recognition and language translation that need access to low level GPU software libraries. R5 instances are memory optimized instances with EBS-optimized burst support, enabling customers to reduce costs by right-sizing instances based on their memory and compute requirements. 

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce a set of quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate. 

Amplify Console now provides developers a test phase as part of their continuous deployment pipeline to catch regressions and bugs before pushing code to production. The test phase can be configured in the build specification YML and can be used to run any testing framework of your choice during a build.