Amazon QuickSight now supports stacked area charts, allowing display of cumulative totals of metrics over time with breakdown by specific categories. Authors can create a stacked area chart by selecting this new visual type from the the visuals menu, configuring the X-axis, metric and group-by dimensions. See here to learn more.

AWS customers want a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2, AWS customers get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem.

Starting today, PyTorch customers can use TorchServe , a new model serving framework for PyTorch, to deploy trained models at scale without having to write custom code.

With AWS Cost Categories (GA), you can now categorize your cost and usage information precisely to your organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, and more. Using Cost Categories, you can create these unique categories and then write rules on which costs belong to each group. After defining your unique category, you can view, track, and optimize costs using Cost Categories in the AWS Cost Management suite of products such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Report (‘CUR’).

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) directly on RDS DB instances. You can run SSAS in the Tabular mode. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS DB instance. 

Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Link, a device that connects a live video source, like a camera or other video production equipment, to AWS Elemental MediaLive for video encoding in the cloud. To learn more and to place an order, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/medialive/features/link/.

Amazon Redshift now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Customers can use MFA to provide additional security when authenticating to their Amazon Redshift cluster. 

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.

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise now supports custom domains. Through the existing interfaces you can now provide a custom fully qualified domain name (FQDN), its matching SSL certificate, and SSL private key and have the OpsWorks server configured accordingly. After you have created a Canonical Name (CNAME) entry in your DNS management service to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint, you will find your Puppet Enterprise Dashboard under a domain of your choice instead of the generic OpsWorks-created one. Also, this will now be the public endpoint of your OpsWorks server. By using a custom domain with an SSL certificate that you manage, you have an endpoint that stays the same regardless of the server being re-created: any node under management by the OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise server will stay associated through this endpoint. 

Starting today, contact center admins can improve their Amazon Lex chatbots by configuring timeouts for each customer response in a conversation. The timeout determines how long the chatbot waits for the customer to finish speaking. For example, you might configure a short timeout for a yes/no question, but a longer timeout when asking for an address or credit card number, to give the customer more time to finish speaking.