Streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue can now automatically detect the schema of incoming records and gracefully handle schema changes on a per-record basis. Previously, you needed to specify the schema of incoming data using the AWS Glue Data Catalog and update ETL scripts to handle schema changes. The AWS Glue job can now do both for you, saving time on reworking code and increasing the flexibility of your ETL jobs.

Amazon EventBridge now supports Dead Letter Queues (DLQs), which make event-driven applications more resilient and durable by storing your events in queues when the events can’t be delivered, or the target is unavailable.

AWS Lake Formation now supports cross account database sharing. You can now create cross account data lakes to access data across your organization and eliminate data silos.

Amazon ElastiCache is now available on AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. You can deploy Amazon ElastiCache on Outposts to set up, operate, and use cache on-premises, just as you would in the cloud. Amazon ElastiCache provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity for caching in Outposts, while automating time-consuming administration tasks including infrastructure provisioning, cluster setup, patching, and backups, freeing you to focus on your applications.

AWS CodeArtifact now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling customers to create and manage CodeArtifact repositories with CloudFormation.

AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in the Sydney and Singapore AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 6 AWS Regions. 

You can now run multi-container applications in AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the Docker platform built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System. The Elastic Beanstalk Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform now supports docker-compose.yml format to define and run multiple containers. For more information about Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide .  

AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Cloud for Technical Professionals, a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Trailhead, the Salesforce learning platform. Recommended for technical learners who are new to the AWS Cloud or are interested in building their AWS Cloud skills, this course covers AWS fundamental concepts such as Regions, Availability Zones, and Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Today we are announcing a price reduction of up to 18% on all ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances in Amazon SageMaker, making them an even more cost-effective solution to meet your machine learning needs. The new price reductions will be effective Oct 1st 2020 and will apply to ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks, On-Demand Notebooks, Processing, Training, Real-Time Inference, and Batch Transform.

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the new version of Chef Automate for its fully managed service. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer.