Amazon WorkSpaces users can now use Amazon WorkDocs Drive, a new way to access your files. With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, all of your Amazon WorkDocs files are streamed to your WorkSpace desktop on demand. You can easily access any file on Amazon WorkDocs through Windows File Explorer without needing to keep a local copy.  

The Amazon WorkDocs SDK now supports OAuth 2.0 for user authorization in third-party applications. OAuth 2.0 allows users to access content and feedback on Amazon WorkDocs through third-party applications. Using the Amazon WorkDocs API, these applications can programmatically manage user content, feedback, metadata, labels, permission, activity tracking, and notifications at a user level. You can easily build or integrate security, enterprise content management systems, productivity, project management, and other applications with Amazon WorkDocs.  

The AWS Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance program has been expanded to include Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. All Amazon RDS database engines are now HIPAA-eligible. 

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 is introducing a new GPU instance type, called Graphics Design. This new Graphics Design instance type allows you to run graphics applications at a fraction of the cost of using graphics workstations, and reduces the cost of streaming graphics applications with AppStream 2.0 by up to 50%. Graphics Design instances are ideal for delivering applications that rely on hardware acceleration of DirectX, OpenGL, or OpenCL, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Revit, and Siemens NX. With this launch, AppStream 2.0 now offers three graphics instance types – Graphics Design, Graphics Desktop, and Graphics Pro – optimized to support a broad selection of graphics workloads.

You can now export your Amazon Lex chatbot schema into the Alexa Skills Kit to simplify the process of creating an Alexa skill. 

We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support minor versions 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12 and 9.3.17 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains other bug fixes and improvements.

We’re excited about the availability of Apache MXNet version 0.11. With this release, MXNet hit major milestones, both in terms of community development and as an incubating Apache project. Contributors—including developers from Apple, Samsung and Microsoft—committed code to this release. There are over 400 contributors on the project so far. The project has now fully migrated its codebase to Apache and has made its first official release as an incubating project. This post covers some of the key features included with this release.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager now supports the Raspbian operating system. Customers can now manage Raspberry Pi devices just like any other Linux server.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys HTTPS endpoints and AWS Lambda functions for implementing webhooks, to enable event-driven integration between Git services and Amazon Web Services (AWS) services on the AWS Cloud. 

AWS has expanded its HIPAA Compliance Program to include AWS Batch. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Batch to build HIPAA-compliant applications and run batch processing workloads that contain protected health information (PHI). AWS Batch is a fully-managed service that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. With AWS Batch, there is no need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters that you use to run your jobs, allowing you to focus on analyzing results and solving problems. Information about HIPAA eligible services on AWS can be found at our HIPAA Compliance page.