Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) is a cloud-native streaming protocol that enables a consistent user experience when accessing your WorkSpaces across global distances and unreliable networks. WSP also enables additional features such as bi-directional video. As a cloud-native protocol, WSP delivers feature and performance enhancements without manual updates on your WorkSpaces. 

AWS Elemental MediaLive video processing now lets you prepare multi-program transport streams (MPTS) for broadcast distribution over satellite, cable or terrestrial networks with support for Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) outputs. This enables easy-to-use, fully managed cloud services for broadcast distribution, so you can deliver live content more flexibly and efficiently, reduce infrastructure and management costs, and distribute high-quality video with built-in reliability.

The AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ, PyCharm, Rider, and WebStorm now support Cloud Debugging (beta), which enables you to debug your cloud applications by directly accessing code running in the cloud. Previously, when you wanted to step-through debug your applications in your integrated development environment (IDE), you had to rely on features such as local emulation, which attempt to replicate complex cloud architectures on your local machine. Emulated environments cannot consistently maintain fidelity with your cloud environment, resulting in more errors found at deployment time and longer development cycles.

An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s launch, the feature is supported on the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Aurora. You can create a new Global Database cluster by adding a region to an existing MySQL 5.7 cluster.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 18.  

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge location in Rome, Italy and two additional Edge locations in in Milan, Italy – more than doubling CloudFront’s total capacity within the Italian Peninsula. Furthermore, CloudFront announces additional Edge locations in Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Philadelphia, Newark, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Hillsboro bringing CloudFront’s global network to 210 Points of Presence in 78 cities across 37 countries. For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features .

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications. The Amplify CLI (part of the Amplify Framework) is a toolchain to create, integrate, and manage the AWS cloud services for your application.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now provides additional protection of sensitive data through customer-provided keys for server-side encryption (SSE) of delivery streams. This feature is integrated with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), which allows you to centrally manage keys that protect Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams along with keys that protect your other AWS resources.

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor metrics related to VPC Traffic Mirroring. You can collect information such as amount of traffic mirrored or not mirrored on your network interface that is part of a traffic mirror session. You can also set up CloudWatch Alarms to receive notifications on any metrics crossing pre-defined thresholds. To get started with these metrics, see Monitoring Mirrored Traffic Using Amazon CloudWatch .

Amazon Neptune now supports full-text search integration with Elasticsearch clusters. This allows customers to use search indexing capabilities within an Elasticsearch cluster, such as provided by the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, with their graph data stored in Amazon Neptune.