Amazon QuickSight introduces the ability to add contextual row subtotals in pivot tables for easier understanding and improved presentation. Authors can now customize subtotal labels by appending the group name, enabling clearer association and understanding. For instance, if the current group is “North America,” users can rename their subtotals as ‘North America Total,’ ‘Total for North America,’ or ‘Total North America.’

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints used to create and manage meetings are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions.

Amazon Braket, is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to get started with quantum computing. Starting today, customers can have real-time visibility into device queue lengths and the individual queue positions for their Quantum Tasks and Hybrid Jobs, providing greater transparency into when their workloads will run.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in four additional AWS Regions – Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-eight. 

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.5.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.5.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key features include the introduction of new rack-aware partition assignment for consumers. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.5.1 . 

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to maintain consistent settings for all Spark and Hive jobs submitted under the same application.

Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes to terabytes with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, an API call, or the AWS Command Line Interface. Choose a DynamoDB table that has point-in-time-recovery enabled, specify an export time period for which you want incremental data, choose your target Amazon S3 bucket, and export.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With this launch, agents can securely search for their own contacts and review their recordings and transcripts alongside performance evaluations submitted by managers.

AWS Glue now supports custom icons for custom visual transforms. Custom visual transforms let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS.