AWS License Manager now allows administrators to automate discovery of ‘bring your own license’ (BYOL) usage across their AWS and on-premises environments. With few simple clicks, administrators can now specify product information along with licensing rules for BYOL software. This enables License Manager to automatically track the instances that have the specified software installed and notify the administrator of any licensing rule violations. Administrators thus stay informed of all software installations across their environments, and can prevent usage that is not compliant with your defined licensing rules. 

Today, we are announcing five new features and updated pricing for AWS IoT SiteWise (preview). The new features provide additional capabilities in AWS IoT SiteWise to collect data from your industrial equipment, add context to the data using asset models, use the data in your custom applications, and view the data in near real-time through a fully-managed web application.

Amazon Redshift now provides an efficient and automated way to maintain sort order of the data in Redshift tables to continuously optimize query performance. The new automatic table sort capability offers simplified maintenance and ease of use without compromising performance and access to Redshift tables. Automatic table sort complements Automatic Vacuum Delete and Automatic Analyze and together these capabilities fully automate table maintenance. Automatic table sort is now enabled by default on Redshift tables where a sort key is specified.

Customers can now use Helm charts to install the AWS App Mesh Controller and Inject Webhook for use with Kubernetes services.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployments in the following AWS regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), EU (Stockholm) and China (Beijing).

Today, Grafana Labs introduced an updated metrics data source for Amazon CloudWatch that comes with several new features. With the latest release of Grafana (version 6.5.0 or later) you can use the updated data source to more efficiently query and visualize CloudWatch metrics.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports differential restores and log restores on to an RDS SQL Server db instance. With this enhancement you can now migrate to RDS for SQL Server while significantly increasing the availability of your application during the migration process.

Earlier today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabled you to use your employees’ existing identity attributes such as cost center and department from your directory to create fine-grained permissions in AWS. Your administrators can use these employee attributes in AWS to implement attribute-based access control to AWS resources and simplify permissions management at scale.  

The CDK Explorer, a new preview feature in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, allows developers to visualize CDK applications. AWS CDK, launched GA in July this year, is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. CDK apps are composed of building blocks known as Constructs, which include definitions for your cloud stacks and resources within. Check out the CDK developer guide or the CDK Workshop to learn more about the CDK.  

Amazon Comprehend now supports real time Custom Classification. You can use the real time Custom Classification to understand, label and route information based on your own business rules in real time. For example, you can instantly categorize the content of support requests and route them to the proper support team. Or you can automatically moderate website comments as they’re flowing in. Prior to this launch, customers used Custom Classification with their business-specific labels to categorize documents asynchronously. Now, customers can choose real time or asynchronous Custom Classification depending on their use case.