We reorganized features on the console based on key tasks such as, writing code, testing, monitoring and configuring. With this update, we reduced the amount of scrolling needed to access common configuration options by creating a dedicated configuration tab. In addition, the new navigation design orients your work on the Lambda console towards the tasks you want to complete and focuses your work around relevant features. This change will also help you find new features more easily when they are available in the console.

FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) release 202012.01 now includes the over-the-air update (OTA), AWS IoT Device Defender, and AWS IoT Jobs libraries in the first LTS release (FreeRTOS 202012.00 LTS). With this release, developers can use the FreeRTOS LTS libraries to update firmware, manage device fleets, and monitor fleet metrics for their microcontroller-based IoT devices. In addition, developers can rely on a FreeRTOS version that provides feature stability, and security patches and critical bug fixes for two years.

Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of AWS X-Ray trace context, enabling you to view the end-to-end flow of events through your applications. AWS X-Ray traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It connects and visualizes the data generated by individual services like AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 and the many resources that make up your application, providing you an end-to-end view of how your application is performing.

The Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) console with a new and updated user interface is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Starting today, you can view all operational issues (OpsItems) for an impacted resource in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. OpsCenter allows operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate, diagnose, and resolve operational issues related to AWS resources from a central place. This enables you to understand the greater context while troubleshooting an issue such as an instance failure, and helps you to resolve issues faster.

Driving Digital Transformation with Sitecore is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Slalom, an AWS DevOps Competency and AWS Digital Experience Competency Partner. With the Driving Digital Transformation with Sitecore consulting offer, Slalom leverages Sitecore’s combination of content management, commerce, and customer insights to design and create a complete, customer-centric strategy and solution. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a customized Sitecore configuration and deployment as well as customer experience strategy, training, and support.

FreeRTOS is now certified for the
Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) Assurance Level 2. With this certification, FreeRTOS libraries have demonstrated meeting a
specific set of security criteria for IoT platforms. In addition, embedded developers writing FreeRTOS-based applications can achieve SESIP certification for their own applications more quickly because the underlying libraries have been tested for compliance. According to the technical standards organization
GlobalPlatform , SESIP provides a common and optimized approach for evaluating the security of connected products that meets the specific compliance, security, privacy and scalability challenges of the evolving IoT ecosystem. SESIP is based on the industry-established
Common Criteria framework.

Amazon Connect now allows you to separate historical metrics into 15 minute intervals. Historical metrics reports include data about past, completed activity and performance in your contact center. This 15 minute interval provides a new time range to allow more granular insights into queue, routing profile, and agent performance. These insights can be used in variety of ways, which includes improving the accuracy of contact forecasting and staffing plans.

AWS AppConfig is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS AppConfig helps you deploy application configurations in a managed and monitored way just like you do with code deployments, but without the need to change the code if a configuration value changes. AWS AppConfig is intended for users who want to quickly and safely deploy changes that are used during runtime of an application or platform. AWS AppConfig is a feature of AWS Systems Manager, which helps you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.

Today, we are announcing the launch of Real-Time Contact Lens for Amazon Connect in the Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. This expands support for Real-Time Contact Lens from the US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions that were launched at re:Invent 2020.