Amazon Aurora Serverless (MySQL-compatible edition) is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

This integration configures a set of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to seamlessly use ChoiceView from Radish Systems with Amazon Connect. ChoiceView can transform ordinary phone calls into “voice with visual” calls while maintaining compatibility with existing phones, dialing plans, business phone systems, and contact centers. 

AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to – or edit or delete tags of – multiple AWS resources at once. Starting today, AWS Resource Groups, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) AWS Region.

You can now launch M5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now use more playout-style features for your live channels with file-based inputs. These features allow you to effectively configure unlimited file inputs and start and stop anywhere, at an exact time reference, within the file being used as the input. With a dynamic input , you can define the location of the file source when scheduling the switch to the input, rather than having to define it before the channel is started. You can also define which part of the file to play, with IN and OUT parameters , and request the change to be made immediately rather than scheduled in the future.

CloudWatch Logs Insights is an interactive log analytics service in CloudWatch that helps developers, engineers, and operators easily explore, analyze, and visualize logs when debugging applications or when troubleshooting operational problems. Users can get answers in seconds from system and application logs using a log query language , whether they are searching for specific errors across millions of log events, summarizing values across log events to better understand a system or application, or visualizing log data as time series to better understand behavior over time.

Starting today, you can maintain job bookmarks for Parquet and ORC formats in Glue ETL jobs (using Glue Version 1.0 ). AWS Glue tracks data that has been processed during a previous run of an ETL job by storing state information from the job run. This persisted state information is called a job bookmark. Job bookmarks help AWS Glue maintain state information and prevent the reprocessing of old data.  

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. PCI DSS is a security standard for organizations that process credit card information. For additional information about PCI DSS, visit AWS Compliance.  

AWS is expanding the Extras catalog in Amazon Linux 2 to include AWS-optimized variants of new Linux Kernel releases. Starting today, an AWS-optimized Linux Kernel 4.19 is now available in Amazon Linux 2 in the Extras channel. The new kernel includes enhancements such as improved performance on A1 instances and higher bandwidth with lower latency on smaller instance types. The Linux Kernel 4.14 continues to be available as the pre-installed and default kernel in Amazon Linux 2 and receives long-term support. 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports immutable tags, a capability that prevents image tags from being overwritten. Previously, tags could be overwritten requiring manual methodologies to uniquely identify an image, but now with tag immutability you can use a common, intuitive approach which easily integrates with your CI/CD build options.