AWS Cost Explorer provides you with Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your total cross-account Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS usage. Starting today, linked accounts can also access custom RI purchase recommendations for specific linked accounts directly via AWS Cost Explorer.

Starting today, AWS Secrets Manager allows you to access secrets such as database credentials and API keys across AWS accounts securely, by attaching resource-based policies to secrets. AWS Secrets Manager is a secrets management service that enables you to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets throughout their lifecycle.

Amazon MQ is now available in seven regions with the addition of the US West (N. California) region. Previously launched regions include US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. 

Amazon Inspector now shows you which instances or security checks are not evaluated in an assessment run and provides guidance to fix those issues. Assessment runs can fail to execute or might complete with errors for multiple reasons. With this launch, you can view the reasons and get guidance so you can pinpoint the issues, resolve them, and successfully execute assessment runs.  

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. Starting today, customers have the option to analyze a collection of documents stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using the new asynchronous job service. This is in addition to the single and multiple document synchronous calls to the REST API already available, giving you a variety of options that best fit your applications’ needs.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes.

AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD.

Sleep researcher Dr. Neil Stanley led a 24-hour experiment into the impact of different CCT environments on sleep, alertness, and moods at the Future Designs Technology Hub with surprising results.

Once has acquired iLOX of Germany to form a larger global company focused on lighting for livestock, while Nichia settled its groundbreaking IP action against retailed Lowe’s, and Zemax has been sold in a private-equity deal.