AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync allows to easily make any of its supported data sources real-time, with connection management, scaling, fan-out and data broadcasting handled automatically between the service and the clients, enabling developers to focus on the business differentiators for their real-time applications instead of WebSockets operations and infrastructure management.

Amazon Lex is now available in Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions.  

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, a new feature that supports monitoring your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24×7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This lets you discover issues before your customers do and react quickly to fix them.  

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I), a new service that makes it easy to implement human reviews of machine learning (ML) predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review capabilities to all developers by removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building and managing human review systems.

AWS Storage Gateway automates creating new virtual tapes on Tape Gateway, helping you eliminate manual management of new tapes, easily manage large deployments, and efficiently scale growing on-premises backup and archive storage needs. With this enhancement, Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes you configure and then makes these new tapes available for import by the backup application, enabling your backup jobs to run without interruption. Automatic tape creation removes the need for custom scripting as well as the manual process to create new virtual tapes. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now generally available. 

When using AWS DataSync, you can now enable detailed logging for files and objects copied between your NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. Logging of individual files enables you to identify what was transferred at a given time, as well as the results of the content integrity verification performed by DataSync. This simplifies monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting, and enables you to provide timely updates to stakeholders.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports running containers on AWS Fargate in four additional AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Following the November 26, 2019 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in six AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to all commercial AWS Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.

AWS Config Conformance packs are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Conformance packs help you manage configuration compliance of your AWS resources at scale–from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting–using a common framework and packaging model.