Starting today, customers of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection will be able to define percentage-based thresholds when configuring their alerting preferences. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly take action to avoid runaway spend and bill shocks. The percentage-based alerting configuration enables customers to capture the anomalous spend dynamically rather than having to estimate an absolute dollar amount.

The AWS Pricing Calculator now offers a redesigned user interface that allows you to generate price estimates for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the shared tenancy model, the dedicated tenancy model, and Amazon EC2 dedicated hosts. The calculator makes it easier for you to switch among the three tenancy options with a single click, by providing a common user interface to enter input parameters for cost estimation. The calculator will also pre-populate costs across the available pricing models (e.g. Savings Plans, Reserved Instances), removing the need to view costs for each price model separately and allowing you to do quick cost comparison. 

We are excited to announce support for concurrent account factory actions in AWS Control Tower, allowing you to create, update, or enroll up to five accounts at a time. AWS Control Tower account factory makes it easy for you to provision accounts and automate deployment of AWS resources, roles and policies within those accounts to support a range of business functions across your organization. With this new feature enhancement, you now have the autonomy to create and manage your accounts on-demand, supporting greater automation and decreased operational workload. 

Today, AWS Marketplace launched automated emails to communicate relevant details to buyers and sellers once a private offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers can now directly receive a private offer deep link from a seller, allowing them to promptly review and accept a private offer. ISVs and channel partners can now receive details like the offer ID when an offer is created, enabling them to initiate procurement workflows, internal order creation, and deal tracking. 

The AWS Pricing Calculator now supports the ability to bulk estimate costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Dedicated hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes using a structured Excel template.

Amazon Location Service expands support to four more regions, Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). Developers in these regions can easily add maps, search for addresses and points of interest, calculate routes, track their assets, and geofence regions of interest, while experiencing the lowest latency response. By using local regions to store sensitive tracking and geofencing data, developers can ensure that their data remains in the country where it is collected and that it adheres to data residency restrictions.

Amazon Location Service adds a new data option to the Maps feature, Open Data, based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment or specialized geospatial knowledge. In addition to the high-quality data provider options from Esri and HERE, Open Data Maps now provides developers with more choices to integrate maps into their applications, enabling developers to leverage OSM’s flexible licensing terms and continuously improving data quality.  

Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors for HubSpot, LinkedIn Pages, Productboard, and Recharge provide customers with even more data access capability for use cases such as data lake hydration, analytics and machine learning, and data retention.

Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Stockholm or Paris as their primary region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing users can switch regions with the region switcher and create SPICE datasets in those regions.

AWS Trusted Advisor now helps customers improve fault tolerance with new checks for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, and AWS CloudHSM. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas. You can find more information about the checks here .