This Quick Start deploys Spotinst Ocean for Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to scale Amazon EKS clusters efficiently while optimizing for performance and cost by leveraging a variety of instance types and sizes running as Spot Instances.

You can now use the Splunk log driver to ship container logs from AWS Fargate tasks to a Splunk endpoint. By specifying the endpoint and other log configuration while authoring task definitions, you can ingest logs generated by containers running in Fargate to Splunk. Learn more in the API Configuration documentation .

Amazon SageMaker now includes enhancements to the built-in Object2Vec algorithm making it faster to train deep learning models. You can access the new features as hyperparameters from the Amazon SageMaker console or using the Amazon SageMaker Python API .

Today, AWS Amplify launched a community site to provide developers building fullstack serverless web or mobile applications an easy way to access community-generated content. The community site is fully open source allowing developers to contribute blog posts, videos, sample projects, and tutorials through GitHub pull requests. Developers interested in hosting an Amplify event or meetup will get an event starter pack that includes presentation templates, AWS credits, and free swag. Join our community today at https://amplify.aws/community .

The new SunTrac A19 LED lamp ratchets the blue up or down depending on the time of day. Meanwhile, a lively discussion is brewing over the impact of spectrum versus the amount of light.

At AWS re:Invent 2018 we announced preview availability for S3 Batch Operations and today we are announcing general availability. S3 Batch Operations is a new feature that makes it simple for customers to manage billions of objects stored in Amazon S3, with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. Now, all AWS customers can make changes to object properties and metadata, and perform other storage management tasks – such as copying objects between buckets, replacing tag sets, modifying access controls, and restoring archived objects from Amazon S3 Glacier – for any number of S3 objects in minutes instead of months.

AWS IoT Greengrass Core 1.9.0 is now available. With this release , IoT Greengrass adds two new supported language versions for AWS Lambda functions and adds elliptic-curve cryptography support for attached devices.

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. The AWS Well-Architected Tool was introduced in Nov 2018 to help you review your workloads against the latest AWS architectural best practices, and get guidance on how to improve your cloud architectures.  

Today, we are announcing AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway. 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. Until today, AWS Transit Gateway only supported AWS Site-to-Site VPN and Amazon VPC attachments. You can now use Direct Connect gateway as an attachment with your Transit Gateways.

We are excited to announce AWS Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections can now be moved from a virtual private gateway to an AWS Transit Gateway without having to make any changes on your customer gateway. Transit Gateways enable you to easily scale connectivity across thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), AWS accounts, and on-premises networks.