With AWS Elemental MediaPackage , you can now create Amazon CloudFront distributions for live channels from the AWS Management Console. MediaPackage reliably prepares and protects video for delivery over the Internet. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams with DVR-like features and digital rights management (DRM) that are formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. You can now pair these benefits with the secure, high-performance, and cost-effective global distribution of Amazon CloudFront for delivering live video to viewers.

AWS Personal Health Dashboard now supports fine-grained access control so that you can setup permissions based on event metadata. This allows you to grant or deny access to an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user based on such attributes as event types, event types of a particular service, or other role-based attributes.

Amazon Rekognition has launched improvements for Text-in-Image to increase the accuracy of text detection and to provide expanded support for text rotated -90 to +90 degrees from the horizontal axis.

Amazon Connect now enables you to automatically transfer calls from one queue to another in your contact flow. This lets you minimize call wait times in your contact center, adjust to changing call patterns dynamically, or to assign calls to more qualified agents. You can use metrics, such as agent availability or the number of calls in the queue, to determine which queue to route the call to.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports delayed replication, which allows you to set a configurable time period for which a read replica lags behind the source database. In a standard MySQL replication configuration, there is minimal replication delay between the source and the replica. With delayed replication, you can introduce an intentional delay as a strategy for disaster recovery.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve performance challenges on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, is now available for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.6.40 and 5.7.22 in all AWS Regions. These new versions include a number of fixes and functionality improvements for the MySQL database engine.

You can now use AWS Glue in the Canada (Central) AWS region.

We are happy to announce the release of NICE DCV (Desktop Cloud Visualization) version 2017.1.

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