Amazon Translate is a fully managed, neural machine translation service that delivers high quality and affordable language translation in seventy-one languages. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Active Custom Translation (ACT). ACT gives you greater control and enables you to customize the machine translation output to your needs and preferences. For example, you can influence whether the machine translation output should be “How are you?” or “How do you do?” To use ACT, simply provide translation examples called parallel data (PD) along with your batch translation job  request and Amazon Translate will use these examples to customize the translation output during runtime.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you attach multiple network interfaces when launching EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Previously, customers had to write custom scripts and run lifecycle hooks to attach multiple network interfaces. You can now define multiple network interfaces in a launch template and your Auto Scaling group will automatically attach them to instances as they launch. 

Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new self-service experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) that enables AWS Marketplace Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to add new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) versions, restrict versions, and update product information on their AMI software listings quickly and easily. AWS Marketplace is consistently improving the way that sellers can keep their AMI products up-to-date. With this release, AWS Marketplace has automated the steps to publish changes to the thousands of AMI product listings in AWS Marketplace, enabling ISVs to rapidly update and adjust their listings on their own.  

Setting up monitoring for your enterprise applications got even easier with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights new ability to automatically detect applications and setup monitoring based on the detected applications. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability for their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature automatically populates the applications detected into the setup process for a simple and efficient configuration of application monitoring 

Customers can now deploy compute-intensive applications such as machine learning inferencing, multimedia processing, scientific simulations, HPC, and financial modeling that leverage Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to meet their performance requirements on AWS Lambda.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in the Middle East where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES. 

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Gantt charts, a new visualization in Kibana. Users can now embed Gantt charts into dashboards to enable visualization of events, steps and tasks as horizontal bars. The length of the bars shows the amount of time associated with an event, step or a task. Gantt charts are used to represent a series of events that contain a parent-child relationship. This can be particularly useful in trace analytics, telemetry, and monitoring use cases, in which the users need to understand the overall interaction between traces or events. Gantt charts help users manage their resources by getting an overview of the events or tasks and understanding the relationships between them. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite on SQL Server 2019. You can now run SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services on DB instances using the latest major version. 

Amazon Pinpoint Preference Center is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps Amazon Pinpoint customers quickly deploy a ready-to-use mobile-optimized preference center allowing end users to manage their communication preferences and attributes. Previously, customers had no mechanism to collect end user preferences. As a result, they would develop their own preference centers or work to extract preference data from other systems, which resulted in costly custom development. Reducing the heavy-lifting, this solution allows Amazon Pinpoint customers to send highly targeted communications to their end users based on their preferred channel and interests.

AWS Storage Gateway has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. FedRAMP compliance enables you to use AWS Storage Gateway to store and manage your critical workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region’s authorization boundary with data up to the high impact level.