Starting today, you can use three new capabilities with Lambda@Edge that can further help you build personalized content for your viewers while improving latency and simplifying your origin infrastructure. First, with content-based dynamic origin selection, you can route requests to different backend origin servers based on request attributes such as viewer location, viewer device type, HTTP headers, URL path, query string or cookies. Second, you can make remote network calls from Amazon CloudFront viewer-facing events. Third, you can generate binary data from your Lambda@Edge functions which lets you deliver richer, more customized content using Amazon CloudFront. We have also increased the limits for Lambda@Edge functions. You can choose up to 1536MB of memory, deploy larger packages up to 50MB, and implement Lambda@Edge functions with longer timeouts – up to 30 seconds.  

Amazon Lex is now available in the EU (Ireland) AWS region. 

This Quick Start builds an enterprise-class security and analytics environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, using the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series next-generation firewall, Splunk Enterprise, and the Palo Alto Networks App for Splunk, along with complementary services from AWS. 

You can now generate access logs in Amazon API Gateway. This is in addition to the detailed execution logs already provided by Amazon CloudWatch for API requests made to your APIs. The access logging feature lets you generate access logs in different formats such as CLF (Common Log Format), JSON, XML, and CSV. The access logs can be fed into your existing analytics or log processing tools so you can perform more in-depth analysis or take action in response to the log data. Any context variable can be used in the access log format.

Starting today, Amazon Chime, a service that simplifies video conferencing, online meetings, calls and chat, now supports incoming webhooks. Developers can configure their applications to use incoming webhooks to post messages into Amazon Chime chat rooms as soon as updates occur. This enables Amazon Chime chat rooms to become a central hub for real-time team collaboration where participants can be more responsive to messages from important applications, as well as respond to messages from each other. 

You can now customize the timeout value for API integrations in Amazon API Gateway. You can set the maximum amount of time an integration will run before it returns without a response. This gives you the flexibility to create better error-handling strategies for your APIs, such as using automatic retries with your APIs. You can set a timeout value starting at 50 milliseconds up to 29 seconds. Visit the documentation for more information about API Gateway integrations. 

The new Amazon Kinesis management console (see screenshot below) makes it easy for you to learn about real-time analytics and simplifies the console user experience. You can use the new visual learning tools in the console to understand how Kinesis Streams, Kinesis Firehose, and Kinesis Analytics can help you stream real-time data from various data sources to AWS, and then process, analyze, and load the data to data stores. The new console experience also includes a dashboard showing all your Kinesis resources on one screen when you log in. To get started, visit the Amazon Kinesis management console . 

We are excited to announce a significant change to AWS IoT pricing that will go into effect January 1, 2018. Previously, AWS IoT charged for the use of connectivity, messaging, Device Shadow, Registry, and Rules Engine under a bundled pricing plan. The new plan unbundles pricing by charging for these components independently. This allows you to tailor costs around your specific workload, and ensures you only pay for what you use.

Starting today, AWS Mobile adds first class support for Web and React Native, allowing JavaScript (JS) developers to easily develop cloud enabled apps. Previously, web and react native developers needed to manually configure services in the AWS console, download base SDKs, and read documentation just to start interacting with the platform. With today’s launch, JS developers can very easily configure core app features like user sign-in, storage and serverless APIs using the redesigned console and the new AWS Mobile CLI.

AWS CloudFormation now allows you to override parameter values by account and region in stack instances. Previously, you could only make changes to StackSets from your original CloudFormation templates. Now, you can override template parameter values when you first create the stack instances, and you can override parameter values for existing stack instances allowing you to specify and customize stack instances based on your requirements.