Starting today, Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can now index your thing groups within your AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Index, allowing you to quickly find your thing groups based upon name, attribute, description, and/or parent group name. For example, you can query your fleet index to find your groups that have a firmware version attribute between V1 – V4, or find all child groups under your “TestDevices” parent group.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the US West (N. California) and EU (London) Regions. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to an Amazon DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You also can use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability.

Global tables build upon the global footprint of DynamoDB to deliver a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database. Global tables enable you to replicate table updates automatically across the AWS Regions you select, and you can set them up with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK . There are no upfront costs or long-term commitments required. You pay only for the resources you provision.

With this launch, DynamoDB global tables are now available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), and EU (London) Regions.

For global tables pricing in the EU (London) and US West (N. California) Regions, see Global Tables Pricing .

Bodil Sonesson will bring her IoT savvy to Swedish lighting company Fagerhult starting Oct. 8.

You can now containerize your custom analysis code, automate its execution on a set schedule, and analyze only the incremental data you need when you need it.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now supports running containers on GPU-enabled EC2 instances.

Today, Amazon Lightsail announces a significant price drop of up to 50% for all of its virtual server plans. Now, you can run a full virtual server, including SSD disk and a healthy allowance of free data transfer, starting at $3.50/month. As a Lightsail customer, you’ll automatically benefit from the new, lower prices, with no action required. The new prices apply to all Lightsail instances starting August 1, 2018.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now has an updated EKS-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and CloudFormation template that make it easier to provision worker nodes for your Amazon EKS cluster on AWS.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Amazon Rekognition now includes a DescribeCollection API that allows you to discover information about your face collections, such as the number of faces stored or the face model version you are currently using, to make it easier to manage collections. Given a face collection identifier known as a CollectionId, the DescribeCollection API returns the following information:

The AWS Quick Start team and solutions architects, in collaboration with AWS partners, have published three new Amazon Connect integrations that offer contact center solutions.