Amazon QuickSight now includes cross-sheet filters and controls. This enables authors to create and manage filters and controls across an entire analysis or dashboard.

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP (Chinese NLP) language analyzer plugins. These are now available as optional plugins that you can associate with your Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters.

Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announced the expansion of the public network support in the Spain region. With this expansion, Internet of Things (IoT) customers that offer LoRaWAN-based systems and solutions in Spain can seamlessly connect their LoRaWAN-powered devices to AWS over a public network infrastructure. This public infrastructure is provided as a service and supported by Everynet – a global LoRaWAN network operator offering networks in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. Thanks to the publicly available network infrastructure, customers in Spain can realize improved savings in time and costs associated with managing a private network infrastructure for LoRaWAN-based solutions. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign-on and centralized authentication of Oracle Database users. Keeping all of your user credentials in the same Active Directory will save you time and effort as you will now have a centralized place for storing and managing them for multiple DB instances.

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS Regions starting today: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).

Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich).

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query.

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