NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, you can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and temporary security credentials to grant users in your AWS account access to your DynamoDB resources from NoSQL Workbench. Previously, you could use only long-term AWS credentials (IAM user access key IDs and secret access keys) with NoSQL Workbench. 

We are thrilled to announce that we have released a new batch of updates just in time for the holidays that enable you to experience updated Identity and Access Management features that are consistent across all other AWS services.  

Amazon CloudFront now offers eight additional real-time metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. These new metrics provide you even more visibility into the performance of your CloudFront traffic. You can use CloudFront’s real-time metrics to monitor, alarm, and receive notifications on the operational performance of your CloudFront distributions. CloudFront already provides six operational metrics , and four Lambda@Edge function metrics , to all CloudFront customers at no additional cost.  

Starting today, Over The Air (OTA) updates to IoT devices running Amazon FreeRTOS can be done over HTTPs. The OTA console has been updated to give users the choice of protocol between MQTT and HTTP to deliver SW updates, leveraging the HTTPS client feature delivered in Amazon FreeRTOS earlier this year. Additional changes in our 201912.00 release can be reviewed in our Changelog . 

Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for the deprecation of product versions. With the release of product version guidance, administrators can prevent new launches of a product version while allowing their use and updates in existing stacks.

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to securely connect to your Amazon EC2 instances directly from the Amazon EC2 console. Session Manager provides a secure browser-based interactive shell to the selected EC2 Linux or Windows instance giving authorized users additional flexibility to quickly connect from either the Amazon EC2 or AWS Systems Manager consoles. 

Amazon EMR is now available through VPC endpoints, allowing you to access Amazon EMR within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet. VPC endpoints for Amazon EMR are powered by AWS PrivateLink, which provides secure, private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services.

Amazon ElastiCache adds support for Redis open source version 5.0.6. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and memory management. This release improves the stability of ElastiCache for Redis when dealing with large number of new concurrent connections and with low memory conditions. Additionally, customers can now monitor replication latency with sub-second granularity.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in two additional AWS regions: Canada (Central) and South America (Sao Paulo). Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in fifteen AWS regions.

AWS Cloud9 is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.