AWS DeepLens is a deep learning enabled wireless video camera specifically designed to help developers of all skill levels grow their machine learning skills through hands-on computer vision tutorials, example code, and pre-built models. DeepLens includes an HD video camera with on-board compute optimized for deep learning, which is fully programmable using AWS Lambda. Developers are free to focus on their machine learning skills, while DeepLens automatically optimizes and deploys models to the device and connects to the cloud for more advanced capabilities. DeepLens integrates with Amazon SageMaker giving developers an end-to-end solution to learn, develop, and test machine learning applications both in the cloud and at the edge, for the very first time.

Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and maintain. Amazon FreeRTOS extends the FreeRTOS kernel, a popular open source real-time operating system for microcontrollers, and includes software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability. Amazon FreeRTOS provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. Amazon FreeRTOS is free of charge, open source, and available to all today. To learn more and get stared, click here.

Amazon EC2 now allows peering relationships to be established between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different AWS regions. Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases and Lambda functions running in different AWS regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, without requiring gateways, VPN connections or separate network appliances.

AWS Systems Manager provides a unified user interface that allows you to view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.

The Amazon Time Sync Service provides a highly accurate and reliable time reference that is natively accessible from Amazon EC2 instances.

Launch Templates is a new capability that enables a new way to templatize your launch requests. Launch Templates streamline and simplify the launch process for Auto Scaling, Spot Fleet, Spot, and On-Demand instances.

Amazon EC2 T2 instances can now deliver high CPU performance for as long as a workload needs it. T2 instances have previously enabled customers to optimize costs for their workloads with a generous baseline CPU performance and the ability to burst above baseline for short periods. With T2 Unlimited, workloads can now burst beyond the baseline for as long as required. This enables customers to enjoy the low T2 instance hourly price for a wide variety of general purpose applications, and ensure that their instances are never constrained to the baseline. Common general-purpose workloads on T2 instances include micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development, build and stage environments, code repositories, and product prototypes.

Amazon Lightsail has added load balancers to its easy-to-use cloud platform, enabling developers to build scalable, highly available websites and applications easily and quickly. Load balancers can be launched in minutes, fully configured and ready to route traffic to Lightsail instances for a low, predictable price of $18 per month. Lightsail load balancers also allow customers to easily build and maintain secure applications that accept HTTPS traffic with free SSL/TLS certificates and intuitive, built-in certificate management. 

Managed Rules for AWS WAF , available today, enable you to easily protect your web applications and APIs from Internet threats. Choose from preconfigured RuleGroups provided in the AWS Marketplace by industry leading security experts: Alert Logic, Fortinet, Imperva, Trend Micro and TrustWave. Rules are automatically updated as new threats emerge and offer a wide range of protections, including OWASP Top 10 mitigations, bad-bot defenses, and virtual patching against recent CVE’s. Other, more specialized managed RuleGroups protect application platforms including content management systems like WordPress or Drupal. Each RuleGroup is the product of a Seller’s unique expertise, made available to you at an affordable pay-as-you-go price. Managed Rules for AWS WAF are designed to help you spend less time writing security rules and maintaining servers, and more time building applications for your customers.