Today, Amazon Athena released a new ODBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your favorite SQL development and business intelligence applications.

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to server products with certain pricing types, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. 

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces a new applications manager feature to help you package and mobilize your Windows applications between different environments without affecting the underlying base image or operating system. To achieve this, you can launch an app block builder instance, install your application(s) and create a self-contained and sharable application image. You can share these application images across multiple AppStream 2.0 elastic fleets provisioned across different AWS regions. 

AWS Lambda console code editor now includes a read file listing all the environment variables associated with the function, making it easier for developers to discover the variables and reference them in their code. Environment variables are key-value pairs that developers use to extend a function’s configuration outside of their code. When referencing the environment variables in their code, developers need the keys.

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions.

Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.

Now you can export key deliverability metrics in Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) through Virtual Deliverability Manager’s (VDM) dashboard. This makes it easier to export performance indicators such as delivery volume, complaint rate, and click rate into analysis tools such as spreadsheets for custom analysis.

Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations.