Today, we are announcing the launch of a net-new track within the AWS Public Safety & Disaster Response (PSDR) Competency to now include AWS Technology Partners. These AWS Competency Partners have deep expertise and proven customer success in designing technology solutions to aid in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from various natural and man-made disasters and emergencies globally.

Today we are excited to announce the preview release of AWS SaaS Boost. AWS SaaS Boost is an open source ready-to-use reference environment that enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to accelerate the move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). From small specialized software businesses to large global solution providers, AWS SaaS Boost helps ISVs rapidly migrate applications to AWS with minimal modifications. ISVs can build, provision, and manage SaaS environments with greater confidence based on AWS best practices and proven patterns from hundreds of successful SaaS companies.

We are excited to announce the launch of AWS SaaS Factory Insights Hub , a growing library of business and technical content to help AWS Partners gain insights, make informed decisions, and enable themselves at any stage of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey on AWS. AWS Partners can search by topics most relevant to their business, content types, or specific business or technical role to find whitepapers, case studies, best practices, videos, and more.

Today, we are announcing availability of APN Navigate’s newest specialization track for all AWS Partners, APN Navigate for Travel and Hospitality. This track enables AWS Partners to build expertise in AWS travel and hospitality solutions including transportation lines, restaurants, accommodation, travel management, and technology services and solution providers.

The travel and hospitality industry is transforming and being faced with unprecedented disruption, and that is why we are excited to announce the launch of the new AWS Travel and Hospitality Competency.

Today we are excited to announce the relaunch of the Amazon RDS Service Delivery Program, part of the AWS Service Delivery Program, to help customers find AWS Partners with specific database engine expertise to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports IOPS and throughput-based EBS volume recommendations. 

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and US West (N. California) regions.

Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. You have access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance changes caused by new function versions.  

Today AWS Batch introduced the ability for customers to specify AWS Fargate as a compute resource for their AWS Batch jobs. With AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers now have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully managed from job submission to completion. Now, you only need to submit your analytics, map reduce, and other batch workloads and let AWS Batch and AWS Fargate handle the rest.