Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports monitoring of flow runs using Amazon Cloudwatch metrics. With this launch AppFlow customers can now use CloudWatch metrics to observe and respond to their Amazon AppFlow flow runs and associated performance and throughput in near real time. Amazon AppFlow flow run metrics available in CloudWatch metrics include number of flow runs started, succeeded and failed, as well as the time taken and the records processed by each run.

Amazon Athena data connector for AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available to all customers. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service using standard SQL. The Amazon Athena data connector enables you to connect your tabular data from the Amazon Athena data store to AWS IoT TwinMaker, adding context and discrete information to your digital twins.

Starting today, AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer will support two new features, Camera View and Sub-model Selection, which make it easier for customers to navigate complex 3D models in digital twins.

AWS Organizations tag policies are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The tag policies feature is available to customers through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs.

Today, Amazon Personalize  launches the ability for customers to measure the business impact of their Personalize recommendations. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning service that allows customers to deliver personalized experiences to their users, no ML experience required. Customers can now evaluate the sum or count of any user interaction with a Personalize recommendation such as click, view, purchase, video start, add to cart, or download. Prior to this launch, customers could not evaluate the results of Personalize recommendations unless they built their own pipelines or workflows. Personalize has removed the need for this operational overhead by allowing customers to define the metrics they want to track, and automatically sending event data to the customer’s Amazon CloudWatch account for visualization and monitoring. The data can also be sent to an S3 bucket for download and integration into another business intelligence tool.

Cross-account sharing version 3 in AWS Lake Formation is now generally available. Version 3 includes features to improve ease of use in granting cross-account permissions using Lake Formation. You can now share AWS Glue Data Catalog resources such as, databases and tables from one account directly to another account’s IAM principals, namely, IAM roles and IAM users. Version 3 eliminates the additional manual step of writing Data Catalog resource policies while using LF-tags based cross-account sharing. Finally, you can share Data Catalog resources with an AWS Organization/Org unit using LF-tags based sharing.

With Amazon Forecast you can now generate forecasts that are more accurate than before for new products with no history. Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts for inventory planning, supply-chain management, and workforce planning – without requiring any machine learning experience. 

We are announcing the general availability of the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads .

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces that AWS Proton is now available in 6 new AWS regions:  Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central).

AWS Transfer Family has successfully completed the Drummond Group pre-certification testing for its Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) managed file transfer capabilities. The pre-certification issued by Drummond Group verifies that the AWS Transfer Family AS2 capabilities have been thoroughly vetted for security and file exchange compatibility with two third-party AS2 solutions. Customers across verticals such as healthcare, retail, financial services, and others that use AWS Transfer Family AS2 endpoints can now have confidence in their ability to successfully exchange AS2 messages with other third-party solutions.