AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. In June 2019 we also announced that DataSync is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates and accelerates copying data between Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. Customers use DataSync to migrate data to AWS, to transfer data to the cloud for analysis and processing, and to replicate data to AWS for archiving or business continuity.  

Starting today, a number of Amazon Aurora features like invoking an AWS Lambda function synchronously, hot row contention, Backtrack, and hash joins, will now be available on the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Aurora to improve performance and manageability. The MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora already offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns. 

Today, AWS Service Catalog announces the AWS Service Catalog Connector for Jira Service Desk (JSD) version 1.0.4. With this connector, administrators can use existing AWS Service Catalog configurations, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose them to JSD administrators and users. This new connector simplifies AWS product provisioning and provides administrators with governance and oversight over their AWS resources. 

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in five additional AWS regions: EU (Paris, Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Amazon QuickSight now allows you to add themes and customizations to match your corporate branding or application look and feel. Themes allow authors of QuickSight dashboards to customize their preferred background, text, data, and gradient colors as well as spacing and borders of visuals. See here to learn more.

You can now programmatically create, manage, deploy, and audit resources in Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight supports APIs for dashboards, data, SPICE, and permissions. Dashboard APIs enable dashboard creation from pre-configured templates and management of existing dashboards. Data APIs provide capabilities related to data sources and datasets and SPICE APIs facilitate triggering and monitoring of data ingestions. Fine-grained permissions APIs enable addition and management of AWS Identity and Management (IAM) policy mappings that control access to AWS resources such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena for specific users or groups within Amazon QuickSight.

Beginning today, you can associate private hosted zones with the same Virtual Private Cloud even if they have overlapping namespaces (for example, if one of those hosted zones is a subdomain of the other, such as acme.example.com and example.com). Support for overlapping namespaces makes it easy to manage permissions across your organization. For example, it lets a central team in your organization manage a parent hosted zone (such as example.com) while allowing independent teams to manage their own subdomains of that zone (such as acme.example.com and zenith.example.com).  

Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. Customers now have additional ways to easily discover and compare instance types based on CPU, memory, storage, networking performance, regional presence, pricing, and more. The new “Instance Types” section of the EC2 Console allows customers to filter, search, and compare instance types. In addition, customers can programmically access instance type specifications using new APIs: DescribeInstanceTypes and DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings . Starting today, these APIs and Console features are available in all commercial AWS regions. Read the documentation to learn more.

The Amazon Chime SDK makes it easy for developers to add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their applications. Developers can manage and control access to Amazon Chime SDK meeting resources in their AWS account using the AWS SDK. Adding the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript to their applications helps developers build customized calling experiences with methods to connect the client applications to cloud meeting resources, manage microphone and camera selection, and control meeting features.

Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) now supports the ListShards API to make it easier for your producer applications to publish data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams at any scale. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. The Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high write throughput to a Kinesis data stream.