Starting today, you can use AWS Cost Explorer to quickly identify the savings associated with your Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon ElastiCache reservations.

Amazon Rekognition Video Analysis and FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud. With CloudHSM, you can manage your own encryption keys using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs. CloudHSM offers you the flexibility to integrate with your applications using industry-standard APIs, such as PKCS#11 and Java Cryptography Extensions (JCE). CloudHSM is also standards-compliant and enables you to export all of your keys to most other commercially-available HSMs. It is a fully-managed service that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for you, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, high-availability, and backups. CloudHSM also enables you to scale quickly by adding and removing HSM capacity on-demand, with no up-front costs.

With this launch, AWS CloudHSM is now available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

To learn more, see AWS CloudHSM .

 

You can now set default application settings for your users. This includes application connection profiles, browser settings, and plugins. For example you can set the default connection profiles for your users’ SQL clients so they always have the exact settings they need, without having to configure their application.

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports the ability to perform bulk transformations of metrics in a single expression. You can now also calculate a metrics rate of change over time. This makes it easier for you to perform calculations across multiple metrics for real-time analysis.

Starting today you can provision Amazon MQ message brokers using AWS CloudFormation. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ. AWS CloudFormation automates the process of creating and managing Amazon MQ message brokers. 

Your users can now configure their streaming sessions to use regional settings. They can set the time zone, locale, and input method used by their applications in their streaming sessions. Each user’s settings persist across all future sessions in the same AWS Region.

You can now create Private APIs in Amazon API Gateway. Private APIs can only be accessed from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using VPC Endpoints. 

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, so you can host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and all types of regulated workloads and export-controlled data.

Starting today, Amazon GameLift emits 18 new metrics that will give you deeper insight into what is happening with your Queue placements. These new metrics track information such as how often your lowest latency regions and lowest priced fleets are selected by Amazon GameLift Queues. With this data, you can optimize to lower latency for players on a global scale and reduce your server hosting costs.