AWS CodeBuild adds support for Test Reporting giving you an effective and consistent view of your test executions in CodeBuild. Previously, you couldn’t visualize your test results on CodeBuild, making it harder for you to troubleshoot test failures. 

New features of AWS IoT Core, including Configurable Endpoints and Custom Domains, as well as enhancement to AWS IoT Core Custom Authentication, Custom Authorizer for MQTT Connections, make it easy to transition from self-managed infrastructure to fully managed AWS IoT services so you can improve scalability and reliability with few changes to your application code and minimal to no impact to devices already using your services. 

Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Integration is a new feature of AWS IoT Core that enables Alexa Voice to be produced on any type of connected device. AVS Integration for IoT Core reduces the cost of producing Alexa Built-in devices by up to 50% by offloading compute and memory intensive audio workloads to the cloud. With this reduction in production cost, customers can now cost-effectively build new categories of differentiated voice-enabled products such as light switches, thermostats, and small appliances. This allows consumers to talk directly to Alexa in new parts of their home, office, or hotel rooms for a truly ambient experience. 

You can now send data from AWS IoT Core directly to your own web services for processing without writing a single line of code. To do so, simply configure the new HTTP action by providing the HTTPS endpoint of your web service (e.g. https://example.com). After validating your ownership of the endpoint, AWS IoT Core will deliver the data via HTTP POST method.

AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. Starting today, developers using AWS IoT Greengrass can now package applications into Docker container images and deploy these seamlessly to edge devices. In addition, developers can collect, process, and export data streams, and manage the life cycle of data streams locally on devices.

AWS IoT Device Management now enables customers to securely access remote devices using Secure Tunneling. Customers can troubleshoot misbehaving devices remotely to diagnose device issues, deploy a fix, and validate the device is working properly using remote shell or remote desktop operations.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1e instances are available in the Canada (Central) AWS region. 

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) launched a new feature that helps customers avoid sending emails to addresses that previously resulted in a bounce or complaint event. Customers can use this feature to protect their sender reputations and to improve the delivery rates for their messages.

Least outstanding requests (LOR) algorithm is now available for Application Load Balancer. This is in addition to the round-robin algorithm that the Application Load Balancer already supports. Customers have the flexibility to choose either algorithm depending on their workload needs. 

AWS Lambda now supports four failure-handling features for processing Kinesis and DynamoDB streams: Bisect on Function Error, Maximum Record Age, Maximum Retry Attempts, and Destination on Failure. These new features allow you to customize responses to data processing failures and build more resilient stream processing applications.