We are excited to announce the update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK to include support for Go and .NET 6 to integrate with your Windows or Linux game servers. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Server SDK now supports Unity 2020.3, Unreal 4.26, Go language, and custom C++ and C# engines. 

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that allows data engineers to process and analyze large datasets using popular open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without having to configure, manage, and scale clusters. 

Today AWS Control Tower is launching Landing Zone 3.1. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is a starting point from which you can deploy workloads and applications. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using AWS best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, monitoring, and account structure. Landing Zone 3.1 includes security best practice updates for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) access logging and updates to exceptions in the Region Deny control. 

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports active tracing with AWS X-Ray. Customers can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS topics to destination services, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, in addition to traversing the application topology in Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens . Customers can enable AWS X-Ray active tracing using the Amazon SNS SetTopicAttributes API , Amazon SNS Management Console , or via AWS CloudFormation.

AWS Config now supports 20 more resource types for services, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Glue, AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Amazon CloudFront enhanced its Origin Access Control (OAC) feature by adding support for AWS Elemental MediaStore. This enables customers to secure MediaStore origins with improved security, allowing only authorized CloudFront distributions to access them. Customers can now enable AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) on CloudFront requests for MediaStore origins and set when and if CloudFront should sign the requests.

AWS Lambda has launched three new metrics AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing. Until now, Lambda customers had little visibility into the processing of asynchronous requests and had to rely on Lambda service teams to resolve any processing delays leading to inefficiencies in asynchronous event processing. With these new metrics customers have better visibility into their asynchronous invocations and can track the events sent to Lambda, monitor delays in event processing and take corrective actions if required.

Today, we are introducing a new capability for Amazon EMR on EKS to increase job execution resiliency. Until now, users had to build their own custom job execution retry mechanism outside of Amazon EMR on EKS, to make sure their Spark jobs keep running in case of failure. With this feature, users can now save time and keep their business-critical and long-running streaming workloads running, by having Amazon EMR on EKS automatically re-submit jobs in case of failure.

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