You can now enable AWS X-Ray for your messages passing through Amazon SNS, making it easier to trace and analyze messages as they travel through to the downstream services. AWS X-Ray provides more insights to developers troubleshooting performance issues and errors for their distributed applications and microservices. 

AWS Systems Manager Distributor provides simplified package creation, enabling you to deploy your software packages across instances quickly. Distributor will package your installers so they can be easily used to install and update your software across multiple operating systems.

AI-Driven Social Media Dashboard is a solution that monitors and ingests specified tweets using stream processing and leverages a serverless architecture and machine learning services to translate and extract insights from those tweets. The solution is easy to deploy and contains a data lake you can use to quickly and easily perform additional analytics on tweet data.

Customers can now use Amazon EC2 P3 and P3dn instances for graphics applications such as remote workstations and 3D visualization using NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstation software made available using new Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) accessible on the AWS Marketplace.

We’ve updated the default configuration for the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) mount helper package when using encryption of data in transit. Starting today, use of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is not enabled by default. 

Starting today, you can create custom usage forecasts using AWS Cost Explorer to gain a line of sight into your future usage patterns. Cost Explorer’s usage forecasts use a machine learning algorithm that learns your historical usage trends and uses that information to provide a forecast of your future usage. Using these forecasts, you can better understand your expected cost trends and monitor your key usage patterns (for example, storage, data transfer, or running hours). Please note that you can generate your usage forecasts and explore your cost and usage data programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer API .

When creating or updating an ECS task definition in the ECS console, you now have the ability to add the task to a mesh in AWS App Mesh. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure.

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS EU (Ireland) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.  

AWS IoT Device Tester, a Windows/Linux/Mac test automation tool for connected devices, is now available for Amazon FreeRTOS 201906.00 Major.

Amazon MQ now supports the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create and manage keys for at-rest encryption of customer data in Amazon MQ. Amazon MQ handles the encryption and decryption seamlessly, so you don’t have to change your applications to access your data. When you create a broker, you can now select the KMS key used to encrypt your data from the following three options: a KMS key in the Amazon MQ service account, a KMS key in your account that Amazon MQ creates and manages, or a KMS key in your account that you create and manage. In addition to encryption at rest, all data transferred between Amazon MQ and client applications is securely transmitted using TLS/SSL.