AWS Customers can quickly identify top-tier APN Consulting Partners who identify, build, and implement technology offerings aimed at improving organizational capacity to prepare, respond, and recover from emergencies and disasters, globally. APN Partners who achieve the AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency have demonstrated deep technical experience to implement innovative solutions addressing complex, dynamic, and sensitive operating environments, including leveraging the AWS cloud in areas where Internet access is degraded or completely destroyed.

AWS Immersion Day workshops provide a customizable AWS experience delivered by AWS Solution Architects and Account Managers to AWS customers. In order to help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners provide the same experience to their customers, today, we launched APN Immersion Days. APN Immersion Days provides APN Partners a repeatable model, reusable content, and automated tools for a set of technical workshops that have been shown to be a valuable customer engagement motion with our own commercial teams.

Amazon Neptune now offers a workbench, an in-console experience to query your graph. The workbench lets you quickly and easily query your Neptune databases with Jupyter notebooks – a fully managed, interactive development environment with live code and narrative text.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Windows group Managed Service Account (gMSA), a new capability that allows ECS customers to authenticate and authorize their Windows containers with network resources using an Active Directory (AD). Customers can now easily use Integrated Windows Authentication with their Windows containers on ECS to secure services.

The Amplify Framework  is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and a CLI toolchain.

The Amazon EKS developer preview for Amazon EC2 A1 instances has been updated with support for the latest Kubernetes versions, global AMI availability, and bug fixes. 

AWS Amplify announces Amplify DataStore: a queryable, on-device data store for web, IoT, and mobile developers using iOS, Android, and React Native. Amplify DataStore provides a programming model for leveraging shared and distributed data without writing additional code for offline and online scenarios, which makes working with distributed, cross-user data just as simple as working with local-only data – allowing developers to create rich app experiences.

Amazon API Gateway announced HTTP APIs, enabling customers to quickly build high performance RESTful APIs that are up to 71% cheaper than REST APIs also available from API Gateway. HTTP APIs are optimized for building APIs that proxy to AWS Lambda functions or HTTP backends, making them ideal for serverless workloads.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports real-time media streaming via WebRTC. WebRTC is an open-source project that enables real-time communication between web browsers, mobile applications, and connected devices via simple APIs. Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC enables developers to build applications with real-time two-way media streaming and interactivity between applications and connected devices. Typical uses include interactive video and audio between a video doorbell or baby monitor and your mobile phone, video chat, and peer-to-peer media streaming

Starting today, Slack users can use the Amazon Chime Meetings App for Slack to start and join Amazon Chime online meetings directly from their Slack workspace channels and conversations. With Amazon Chime Basic, users can start one-to-one audio and video calls and join group meetings as an attendee. With an upgrade to Amazon Chime Pro, Slack users can access advanced meeting features from their Slack workspace like hosting group meetings with up to 100 attendees and 16 video streams, guest access from a meeting link, conference dial-ins, and support for SIP in-room video systems. The Amazon Chime Meeting App for Slack automatically registers new users the first time they use the app so they can start using Amazon Chime without having to create or manage a new account.