Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 10.3, which is the latest major version release of the popular open source database from the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB 10.3 offers improved Oracle compatibility, support for querying historical states of the database, features that increase flexibility for developers and DBAs, and improved manageability. Highlights in MariaDB 10.3 include:

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition major version 8.0 in all AWS Regions. MySQL 8.0 is the latest major version release and offers new query functionality and enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, manageability, and international and mobile support. Highlights in MySQL 8.0 include:

Signify provides most of the lighting at Bayern Munich’s iconic Allianz Arena. But fan excitement strips and a sponsorship deal certify Zumtobel as the team’s best buddy.

The Luxeon 2835 HE mid-power LED family enables 2-step MacAdam ellipse developments, while Lumileds Matrix modules will be offered alongside Legrand drivers and controllers for turnkey tunable-white SSL product development.

You can now specify an organization to easily setup sharing of CloudWatch Events across all accounts in an organization. This removes the maintenance burden of specifying multiple accounts in the event bus policy statements. 

The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Command Line Interface (Amazon ECS CLI) now supports service discovery.

Amazon ECS service discovery makes it easy for your containerized services to discover and connect with each other. Amazon ECS creates and manages a registry of service names using the Route53 Auto Naming API so you can refer to a service by name in your code and write DNS queries to have the service name resolve to the service’s endpoint at runtime.

Service discovery is available for all networking modes for EC2 launch type or with AWS Fargate.

To learn more about Amazon ECS CLI, visit the Amazon ECS CLI documentation .

Today we are announcing Amazon WorkSpaces PowerPro bundles that provide customers even more powerful cloud desktops to run resource-intensive Linux and Windows desktop workloads. PowerPro bundles come with 8 vCPUs and 32 GiB RAM. PowerPro bundles are available with flexible volume storage ranging from an 80 GB root and 100 GB user volume configuration to 1 TB volumes each.

Today we are announcing Amazon WorkSpaces GraphicsPro bundles for high-end graphics applications. GraphicsPro bundles come with a dedicated NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU and 8 GB of GPU memory with flexible storage ranging from a 100 GB root and 100 GB user volume sizes to 1 TB volumes each.

AWS Config now allows you to record and retrieve the history of changes to resource compliance as evaluated by AWS Config rules. This can help you collect useful historical data for compliance auditing.

You can now use an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) optimized for Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2).

Previously, the latest version of the ECS-optimized AMI was based on Amazon Linux 2018.03, which is the previous generation of Amazon Linux. Therefore, ECS customers had to customize their own AMIs in order to take advantage of the stability and security of AL2.

Now, with the new ECS-optimized AL2 AMI, ECS customers can automatically provision and run ECS AL2 instances with no additional work. The AMI includes all of the software and configuration necessary to run ECS, including the ECS Agent, which runs on all ECS instances and is used to manage ECS tasks and services.

To learn more about the the ECS-optimized AL2 AMI, read our documentation .