Artist Jim Campbell designed the “Day for Night” façade lighting project to provide a visual diary of the city of San Francisco that’s visible from as far as 20 miles away in all directions.

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 MySQL Compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, which allows you to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and all types of regulated workloads and export-controlled data.

With the addition of MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora to the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, customers with sensitive data and regulatory compliance requirements have a new option for relational database placement, availability, and scalability. You can launch an Aurora instance with just a few clicks in the RDS Management Console .

Aurora is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases. For more information, please visit the Aurora product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability.

You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets for applications that are subject to U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS has made it easier for you to use the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information that is subject to HIPAA.

The Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress can now automatically translate text to different languages, and convert the written content into multilingual audio formats. This new feature is powered by Amazon Translate, a neural machine translation service.

Amazon EC2 M5d instances deliver M5 instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block level instance storage physically connected to the host server. M5d instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low latency local block storage including data logging and media processing. M5d will be beneficial for applications including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. With the option of NVMe-based SSD instance storage, M5 customers now have additional storage choices for their general-purpose workloads.

With AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can now create Common Media Application Format (CMAF) fragmented MP4 (fMP4) HLS and DASH video outputs. With CMAF support on AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can create a single file format using the AVC (Advanced Video Coding) or High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) codecs and fMP4 segments that are then packaged and delivered as multiple adaptive streaming technologies to serve different devices. Support for CMAF lets you realize video quality improvements and benefit from simplification of content creation and storage. You can also now create HEVC content for Apple devices with improved video quality and better compression efficiency over AVC, and use High Dynamic Range (HDR) for premium video experiences.

Starting today, you can use your own custom domain for the hosted Login UI — offering your users a unified login experience into user directories managed by Amazon Cognito. To add a custom domain, from the service console enter your domain name, and link it with a security certificate obtained from AWS Certificate Manager. With the newly announced feature, users can now stay within your application’s domain, and thus enjoy a consistent branding experience.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is now generally available and supported for production use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain the Kubernetes management infrastructure.

Amazon Polly now offers a choice of a second female French voice, Léa, in addition to the current female voice, Celine. Amazon Polly also has a French male voice, Mathieu. Léa is a warm and natural-sounding voice with Parisian accent. Listen to the spoken introduction from Lea.