AWS Deep Learning (DL) Containers now come with libraries and packages required for model training and inference in Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables you to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale. You can now use DL Containers seamlessly across Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This release of DL Containers also updates Apache MXNet images to 1.4.1 with support for CUDA 10.0.  

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region.

AWS License Manager is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. AWS License Manager is offered at no additional charges. To learn more about this service, visit the product documentation , and FAQ page.

You can now use CloudWatch Logs to store, monitor, and analyze CloudWatch Events that are triggered in your environment.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.

Today, AWS Marketplace announced Procurement System Integration, a new feature that enables enterprises to integrate AWS Marketplace with procurement systems. Builders can now use Coupa, a leader in Business Spend Management, to find, buy, deploy, and manage thousands of curated third-party software listings in AWS Marketplace. When a builder is ready to purchase the software they need, they click subscribe to complete a requisition request directly in Coupa. Once their request is approved, builders are automatically notified that their subscription is ready to deploy. With Procurement System Integration, builders can quickly get the software they need while ensuring the software they deploy meets their organization’s procurement policies. Procurement System Integration also helps procurement teams gain centralized governance and visibility for their approval workflows and purchase order tracking.

Customers can now replicate the network traffic from an EC2 instance within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and forward that traffic to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting. These appliances can be deployed on an individual Amazon EC2 instance or a fleet of instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) with a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) listener. Amazon VPC traffic mirroring also supports traffic filtering and packet truncation, allowing customers to extract only traffic they are interested in monitoring.

Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority and APN Partners offer hundreds of industry-leading products that are equivalent, identical to, or integrate with existing controls in on-premises environments. The APN Security Navigate track provides a prescriptive journey for APN Partners who want to build expertise in cloud security solutions on AWS.

Through this APN Navigate track, APN Partners will be introduced to the AWS approach to security in the cloud, the demand for AWS security services and talent in the current market, common use cases, and best practices for developing a security capability that paves the way for your organization to differentiate and become an AWS Security Competency Partner.

Learn more about the importance of learning security best practices, and how to do that with the APN Navigate Security track here. 

AWS Direct Connect is now live at CDLAN srl Via Caldera 21, Milano. This is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Italy. Customers in Milan can now locally establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. This location can be found in the Management Console. With global access for AWS Direct Connect, you can reach AWS resources in any global AWS region from any of the above locations using global public VIFs and Direct Connect Gateway. When connecting to any AWS region, your data will not hairpin via the home region if it is not in the shortest path to your desired AWS region.