Amazon Connect now supports claiming phone numbers in Puerto Rico. This enables you to provide local telephony support to end-customers in Puerto Rico. Additionally, outbound dialing rates to Puerto Rico have been reduced by 59% in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.

Today AWS Elemental MediaLive adds the option to create “Single-pipeline” channels, a lower cost alternative to “Standard” channels. MediaLive Single-pipeline channels have one input and a single encoding pipeline delivering a single channel output, rather than the redundant dual Availability Zone (AZ) pipelines that MediaLive provides with a Standard channel. The rates for inputs, outputs, and add-on functionality used for Single-pipeline channels are significantly lower than the rates for Standard channels.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds tagging and tag-based access control for four Elastic Beanstalk resources: applications, application versions, saved configurations, and custom platform versions.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage and AWS Elemental MediaTailor now support a broad range of variant DASH outputs and features. This added functionality enables support for live streams on more devices. It also continues to allow personalized, dynamic ad insertion to monetize live streams.

You can now specify a worker type for Apache Spark jobs in AWS Glue for memory intensive workloads.

AWS Backup is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs (VPC Flow Logs) can now be delivered directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or through your Amazon EC2 or VPC console in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now deliver VPC Flow Logs to both S3 and CloudWatch Logs.

You can now develop your Elastic Beanstalk applications using Go 1.12. The latest Go 1.12 comes with numerous performance improvements and new features such as opt-in support for TLS 1.3 and improved modules support. For the complete list of Go 1.12 features, visit the official Go 1.12 release announcement . You can upgrade your existing Elastic Beanstalk Go environment to Go 1.12 using the Elastic Beanstalk console or through the EB CLI and Elastic Beanstalk API. See Updating Your Elastic Beanstalk Environment’s Platform Version for additional details.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

Amazon DocumentDB continues to increase compatibility with MongoDB and today added support for additional aggregation pipeline operators that allow you to compose powerful aggregations your documents. The new capabilities include seven aggregation string operators ($indexOfCP, $indexOfBytes, $strLenCP, $strLenBytes, $toLower, $toUpper, $split), nine date time operators ($dayOfYear, $dayOfMonth, $dayOfWeek, $year, $month, $hour, $minute, $second, and $millisecond), and the $sample aggregation pipeline stage.

To use the new features, you can create a new Amazon DocumentDB cluster with just a few clicks in the Amazon DocumentDB Management Console or you can upgrade your existing cluster .

For more information, please see the AWS Database Blog: Using new aggregation pipeline capabilities in Amazon DocumentDB to build powerful aggregation queries

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions in addition to AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.