Amazon Elasticsearch Service Reserved Instances (RIs) offer significant discounts compared to standard On-Demand Instances. Starting today, you can use AWS Budgets to set custom utilization and coverage budgets based on your Amazon Elasticsearch RIs that alert you when you fall below the threshold you define.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) First-in, First-out (FIFO) queues are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions, in addition to existing availability in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions.

Resource tags allow you to add metadata and apply access policies to your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) resources. Starting today, you can allow resource tags set on your EBS volumes to be automatically copied to any EBS snapshots that are created using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). This allows you to easily set snapshot metadata, such as access policies, to match the parent volume. You may enable this functionality on new or existing lifecycle policies. You may also choose to disable it at a future date.

Xilinx Zynq-7000 Programmable system-on-chip (SoC) is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using the Avnet MicroZed Industrial IoT Bundle, a development board powered by Xilinx.

Now you can use AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to manage SSO access to more pre-integrated business applications such as Evernote, DataDog, and JFrog Artifactory. This expands the list of already pre-integrated business applications, such as Salesforce, Google Suite, and Microsoft Office 365. For full list of business applications pre-integrated with AWS SSO, see Cloud Applications .

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Always On Availability Groups for the Multi-AZ configuration in all AWS Regions. This new high availability option meets the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads on SQL Server. 

The new AWS CloudFormation console is now generally available. The new console makes it easier for you to use AWS CloudFormation and simplifies the management of CloudFormation Stacks and StackSets. You can opt-in to the new experience by visiting the CloudFormation console . Send us your comments and suggestions using the feedback link in the new console.

The CloudFormation console is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), EU (London), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. To learn more about CloudFormation, visit our product page .
 

AWS IoT Core now supports Basic Ingest, a new feature that allows AWS IoT Core customers to securely send large amounts of data to over 10 AWS services such as Kinesis and S3 via AWS IoT Rule Actions , without incurring additional messaging charges.  

Amazon SageMaker is now available in 5 additional AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. With this announcement, SageMaker is available in the US West (N. California), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions.

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