Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is a diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of your DynamoDB tables’ traffic trends and helps you identify your tables’ most frequently accessed keys (also known as hot keys). You can monitor each table’s item access patterns continuously and use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to generate graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. Using this information, you can better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.

Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). 

Customers can now receive and view notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and/or AWS CodePipeline directly in Slack with a few clicks in the AWS console. This includes notifications such as CodeBuild build completions, CodeCommit source changes, completed CodeDeploy deployments, and successful CodePipeline executions.

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is a feature of Amazon Rekognition, that allows customers with no machine learning (ML) expertise, to build their own ML-based image analysis capabilities to identify the unique objects and scenes that are relevant to their business need.  

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available. Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to help you understand who or what is impacting your system and application performance by pinpointing outliers, finding the heaviest traffic patterns, and ranking the top system processes. This helps developers and operators more quickly isolate, diagnose, and remediate issues during an operational event.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 for new clusters. Apache Kafka 2.4.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that reduce latency and improve performance. Support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 is offered in all regions where Amazon MSK is available . For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.4.1 and 2.4.0 .

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler has added support for AWS CloudFormation, allowing customers to create profiling groups when they provision new resources. This makes it easier to monitor and manage the performance of applications without having to configure Amazon CodeGuru Profiler separately through the console.

We are excited to announce that Amazon CodeGuru Profiler has introduced an improved flame graph interface that enhances overall usability. You can now navigate more easily with improved scrolling functionality. There is also a new visual tool that shows the part of a graph that you are currently viewing. This allows you to move around the graph more easily and focus on the areas you are interested in.

AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Australia and New Zealand ISVs and Consulting Partners, adding to the 7,000+ software listings and data products from 1,500+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers can find their local solution providers and leverage their trusted relationships with consulting partners in the region, making it easier than ever to migrate to and build operations in the cloud. 

Amazon WorkSpaces now allows customers to bring their own licenses (BYOL) to WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With BYOL, you can now add your own Windows 10 licenses to WorkSpaces and use the Windows Desktop operating system on your Amazon WorkSpaces running on hardware that is dedicated to you. This option entitles you to a discount per month per WorkSpace, and also allows you to use a single Windows 10 Desktop golden image on-premises and for your Amazon WorkSpaces.