Starting today, you can link products with their predecessor versions or alternates to improve forecasts. 

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides manager alerts on real-time metrics via email notifications, EventBridge events, or Amazon Connect Tasks. These new alerts enable businesses to notify their managers on unexpected changes in contact center operations that could impact the end-customer experience. With this launch, businesses can now configure alerts that include choosing a metric (e.g., service level), defining a metric threshold (e.g., service level of 90 seconds drops below 75% on a business critical queue), and sending an automated email notification or assigning a task to a manager for follow-up action. 

OpenSearch Service 2.9 now comes with OpenSearch Service Integrations, where customers can take advantage of new schema standards such as Open Telemetry and build dashboards based on an agreed up on schema between your ingestion pipeline and OpenSearch Service.

Amazon Location Service now supports geographical bounding box search for device positions, allowing developers to retrieve the latest position of their devices within a specific polygon. With bounding box search, developers can efficiently find devices within an area of interest to support use cases such as searching for tracked assets near a location, showing device positions on a map at different zoom levels, and personalizing communication to customers within specific geographical areas.

Amazon EventBridge rules now support wildcard filters, which enable you to match any character or sequence of characters within a string in your event payload. For example, you can use wildcards to match against values that end in a specific file type in a directory, such as “dir/*.png”, or contain a specific word, such as “*AcmeCorp*”. Support for wildcards allow you to more precisely specify the types of events you want to consume from an EventBridge Event Bus, opening new use cases and helping to optimize your event consumers.

Introducing AWS Well-Architected Review Templates, designed to eliminate duplication and foster consistency across your workloads. With the Well-Architected Tool’s latest feature, you can effortlessly craft review templates to answer questions, update notes, and even incorporate Custom Lenses across your workloads.

AWS is pleased to announce an update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which will provide customers and partners with more prescriptive guidance on building and operating in the cloud, and enable them to stay up-to-date on the latest architectural best practices in a constantly evolving technological landscape.

Developers using SAM CLI to author their serverless application with Lambda functions can now create and use Lambda test events to test their function code. Test events are JSON objects that mock the structure of requests emitted by AWS services to invoke a Lambda function and return an execution result, serving to validate a successful operation or to identify errors. Previously, Lambda test events were only available in the Lambda console. With this launch, developers using SAM CLI can create and access a test event from their AWS account and share it with other team members.

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