Amazon Connect is now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to six. The expansion into a new AWS Region provides you more options to provision your Amazon Connect cloud contact center with the other AWS services you use. You can now claim toll free and direct inward dial (DID) telephone numbers from twelve new countries.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, Amazon Lex is available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now includes a feature called Bring Your Own DKIM (BYODKIM), which allows you to use your own public-private key pair to configure DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for your email-sending domains.

The Windows Web Application Migration Assistant for AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an interactive PowerShell utility that migrates ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core applications from on-premises IIS Windows servers to Elastic Beanstalk.

Medical ontologies, such as ICD-10, make it possible to classify unstructured medical information into standardized codes that downstream healthcare applications, such as revenue cycle management tools (medical coding) can read. Amazon Comprehend Medical ICD-10-CM RXNorm Ontology Linking extracts medical condition and medication entities from medical text and links them to the relevant ICD-10-CM and RXNorm concepts respectively.  

AWS Security Hub now integrates with Amazon Detective (preview). Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to help you visualize and conduct faster and more efficient security investigations. The initial AWS Security Hub integration with Amazon Detective allows you to pivot from Amazon GuardDuty findings in Security Hub directly into Amazon Detective to investigate them. DNS-related findings are not supported in this initial integration release. AWS Security Hub automatically enables this integration for customers that are whitelisted in Amazon Detective’s gated public preview, but you first need to sign up and get access for Amazon Detective’s preview. To learn more, visit the Integration page in the Security Hub console and click on the “Configuration” link for Amazon Detective.

As part of both re:invent related launches, as well as community-prioritized requests from our public coverage roadmap , we are pleased to announce support for over two dozen new and updated CloudFormation resource types. You can now use CloudFormation templates to configure and provision additional features for AWS CodePipeline, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and more AWS resources. CloudFormation periodically releases additional support, making it easier for developers to configure and provision AWS services. 

Amazon MQ supports throughput-optimized message brokers, backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store. Throughput-optimized brokers reduce the number of required brokers and the cost of operating high-volume applications.

Now, you can use Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB (Preview) in 15 additional AWS Regions around the world.  

Starting today, launch events for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances will be available via Amazon CloudWatch Events CLI.