Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in open preview in seven AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and AP (Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo).

AWS Device Farm’s Remote Access feature allows developers to swipe, gesture, and interact with a real device through their web browser to test the functionality and usability of their mobile applications.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) now enables you to customize the certificate it uses when you access applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Office 365. AWS SSO uses a certificate to sign and send an authentication token to the applications you access. Through the AWS SSO console, you can now customize the certificate validity period, signing algorithm type, and the key size to match your corporate security policies. To learn more, see Manage AWS SSO Certificates . 

You can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) to run containers on Amazon EC2 A1 Instances as part of a public developer preview. This preview lets you take advantage of the latest EC2 functionality and start validating performance and stability of containerized applications running on the Arm processor architecture.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports the latest C5 (compute-optimized), M5 (general-purpose), and R5 (memory-optimized) instances, all of which offer superior performance at lower costs compared to previous-generation instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 T3a instances. T3a instances are variants of T3 instances and feature AMD EPYC processors with an all core turbo clock speed of up to 2.5 GHz. T3a instances provide additional options for customers who are looking to achieve a 10% cost savings on their Amazon EC2 compute environment for applications with moderate CPU usage that may experience temporary spikes in use.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports importing of data stored in a Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket into a PostgreSQL table. A new extension aws_s3 has been added and will be used to perform the import operations. You can import any data format that is supported by the PostgreSQL COPY command using ARN role association method or using Amazon S3 credentials.

PostgreSQL versions 11.1 and above are supported with this feature. To learn more, please visit the documentation page .

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.

Nichia asserts that optimized crystal growth technology is enabling the company to offer superior UV-C LEDs for sterilization while RayVio has a new UV-B SSL product for skin treatment, and Lumileds targets the other end of the spectrum with an IR LED for applications such as machine vision.

You can now restore MySQL 5.7 backups stored in Amazon S3 to Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon RDS for MySQL.