AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers support for 8K UHD video encoding, which gives video providers the ability to create and monetize premium experiences for viewers and to support the latest consumer display devices. 8K encoding is available in the MediaConvert on-demand, professional tier, in resolutions up to 8192 x 4320 with HEVC encoding, 10-bit, including HDR. This capability also allows for the creation of square video at resolutions up to 4320 x 4320, a format commonly used for VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Augmented Reality) content. For detailed information on 8K encoding pricing, please visit the MediaConvert pricing page.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now enables you to create and use asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs) and data key pairs. With this feature, you can perform digital signing operations using RSA and Elliptic Curve (ECC) keys. You can also perform public key encryption operations using RSA keys. The public portion of the key pairs can be used outside of the service. You can share public keys with your customers and partners so they can encrypt data or verify signatures without making a request to AWS KMS. As with all other AWS KMS APIs, asymmetric key usage is logged in AWS CloudTrail to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

AWS Lambda now supports Parallelization Factor , a feature that allows you to process one shard of a Kinesis or DynamoDB data stream with more than one Lambda invocation simultaneously. This new feature allows you to build more agile stream processing applications on volatile data traffic.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 is introducing the ability for customers to choose an Unlimited mode preference using CLI and SDK at the account level for T3, T3a, and T2 instance types. The new API will enable customers to perform a one time action of setting Unlimited or Standard mode as the default preference for all T3, T3a, and T2 instance launches.

AWS Lambda now supports two new features to provide developers additional controls on how to process asynchronous invocations: Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts . When you invoke a function asynchronously, Lambda sends the event to a queue. A separate process reads events from the queue and runs your function. These two new features provide ways to control how events are retried and how long they can remain in the queue.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate is now available in six new regions – US West (Northern California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate now supports the following more languages and dialects – Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Canadian French, Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, and Tamil.

You can now run your Java applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Corretto 8 on Amazon Linux 2, and Corretto 11 on Amazon Linux 2 beta platforms.

To enable access to customers’ Amazon VPCs, AWS Direct Connect is announcing Direct Connect gateway, a new feature to allow customers using any AWS Direct Connect location in China to use their Direct Connect connections to access any Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) deployed in any AWS Regions in China. In addition, each Direct Connect gateway will enable association with one or more Amazon VPCs. Using Direct Connect gateway, you do not need to have AWS Direct Connect connections in multiple AWS Regions to access your Amazon VPCs in those AWS Regions. Rather, you can use one (or more) private virtual interface to communicate with multiple Amazon VPCs across any AWS China Regions. 

The AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface, SAM CLI, now allows you to deploy applications with a single command: sam deploy. SAM CLI is a deployment toolkit that also allows you to locally build, test, and debug serverless applications.