Customers use AWS Glue workflows tocreate and visualize complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) activities involving multiple crawlers, jobs, and triggers. AWS Glue now supports event-driven workflows, a new capability that lets customers start AWS Glue workflows based on events delivered by Amazon EventBridge. With this new integration, you can trigger a data integration workflow using events generated from your applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. For example, customers can trigger a data integration workflow as soon as a hundred files land in an S3 bucket.

FreeRTOS AWS reference integrations are pre-integrated FreeRTOS projects ported to microcontroller-based evaluation boards that demonstrate end-to-end connectivity to AWS IoT Core. This helps developers save months of development effort and accelerate time to market. FreeRTOS AWS reference integrations now include the new managed AWS IoT Over-the-Air  update (OTA) library, AWS IoT Jobs  library, and the AWS IoT Device Defender  custom metrics feature from the FreeRTOS 202012.01 LTS release, and the coreMQTT Agent  library from the FreeRTOS 202104.00 release.

The AWS App Mesh constructs module for AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available. The new AWS App Mesh service construct for AWS CDK simplifies provisioning of AWS App Mesh resources into your CDK infrastructure stacks. Strongly typed interfaces make it easy to select the appropriate configurations for your mesh, as well as integrate with other supported AWS Services.

AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a more secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. cert-manager is a widely-adopted solution for TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. Customers who use cert-manager for application certificate lifecycle management can now use this solution to improve security over the default cert-manager CA, which stores keys in plaintext in server memory. Customers with regulatory requirements for controlling access to and auditing their CA operations can use this solution to improve auditability and support compliance.

AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions.

We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Indian English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Indian English, you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that accurately understands Indian dialects. You can also respond to users with natural sounding Amazon Polly Indian voices to provide a fully localized conversational experience.

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) now offers a new console experience that makes it easier for you to create, modify and manage your DLM policies. The new console allows you to create policies and modify existing policies in a more streamlined manner and provides you more information and easier access to additional resources.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.

Forty-four new or updated datasets from the National Library of Medicine, Digital Earth Africa, Amazon, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories.

Amazon EC2 now provides customers the flexibility to specify weekly recurring time window(s) for Scheduled Events that reboot, stop or terminate EC2 instances. AWS schedules infrequent events, such as a reboot, stop, or termination, for EC2 instances when it detects irreparable failure of the underlying host or when it must perform tasks such as maintaining the underlying host. With the flexibility to specify event windows, customers can set up Scheduled Events for their EC2 instances to occur during off-peak periods. Customers can also align these time windows with their internal maintenance schedules. Software vendors can leverage this capability to customize time windows for scheduled events based on their customers’ preferences.