AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current long term support (LTS) version of Puppet Enterprise for its fully managed service. Customers are upgraded automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer.

Today, we are reducing the price of metric samples ingested by up to 84% for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor containerized applications at scale. With AMP, you can use the open source Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) to monitor the performance of containerized workloads on AWS or on-premises. AMP automatically scales the ingestion, storage, and querying of operational metrics (from, for example, your Amazon Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters) as workloads grow or shrink, and is integrated with AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS PrivateLink, and AWS CloudTrail to enable fast and secure access to data.

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, affordable and customizable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate has increased the concurrent API limits for batch translation jobs from 10 to 1000.

Starting May 1st 2021, all data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that stays within an Availability Zone (AZ) is now free. All data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that crosses Availability Zones will continue to be charged at the standard in-region data transfer rates. You can use the Availability Zone-ID  to uniquely and consistently identify an Availability Zone across different AWS accounts.

Now, with AWS Systems Manager, IT administrators can clone runbooks and other Systems Manager documents such as Command documents. Using this feature, you can quickly create a copy of your existing runbooks or publicly available managed documents and update them based on your use case.

DevOps Automation Springboard is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. DevOps Automation Springboard offers customers the ability to address their deployment needs as they move to the AWS Cloud. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a DevOps CI/CD pipeline; static code analysis; application build, testing, and security scanning; and deployment.

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Colombia, Macao, and Puerto Rico.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the ability for customers to pause and resume Journeys — being able to temporarily halt the execution of message sends. Previously, customers needed to stop and recreate their Journey entirely if there was a situation such as: a conflicting campaign, a seasonal event, or an issue. Journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be executed across SMS, email, and push messages. Journeys are intended for customers with user engagement use cases, and want to send targeted messaging to their users to drive high value actions.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. This is now the 9th Ground Station connected to the AWS Global Network.

Today, we are excited to announce support for customer-managed customer master keys to encrypt your code repositories in Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. Customer-managed customer master keys allow you to create, own, and manage your encryption keys, giving you more control over how you manage the security of your CodeGuru Reviewer code.