AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,800 software listings from more than 1,400 software sellers now gives you the ability to read additional reviews by verified and authenticated users from G2. G2 is a software review platform that will provide verified and authenticated reviews from users of the software sold on AWS Marketplace. All reviews, written on AWS Marketplace or sourced from G2 will be displayed on individual software seller detail pages with star-ratings.

AWS Migration Hub available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. 

You can now better integrate your application CICD process with Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) by using events that ECR emits to Amazon EventBridge. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. Amazon EventBridge (formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events) is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources. Using ECR events, you can trigger actions such as starting a pipeline or posting a message when your image is successfully pushed.

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), US West (N. California), and Canada (Central) AWS regions. 

Starting today, you can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region.

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of web and mobile chat for Amazon Connect, giving businesses an omnichannel cloud contact center service based on the same technology used by Amazon customer service associates worldwide. Amazon Connect now makes it easy for you to offer your customers the ability to reach you by chat or by phone. By using the same routing, configuration, analytics, and management tools across voice and chat, Amazon Connect gives you a single unified contact center service across channels, simplifying contact center operations, improving agent efficiency, and lowering costs.

Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens is a new feature that enables you to visualize and analyze the health, performance, and availability of your applications in a single place. CloudWatch ServiceLens ties together CloudWatch metrics and logs, as well as traces from AWS X-Ray to give you a complete view of your applications and their dependencies. This enables you to quickly pinpoint performance bottlenecks, isolate root causes of application issues, and determine users impacted.  

AWS Tools for PowerShell now has a new modular variant AWS.Tools with a separate module for each AWS service. Previously you had to install support for all AWS services in a single large module using AWSPowerShell.NetCore . Going forward, you can download and install the modules only relevant to your application (e.g. AWS.Tools.S3), reducing download time and memory footprint.

Today, AWS announces CloudTrail Insights, a new CloudTrail feature that helps customers identify unusual operational activity in their AWS accounts such as spikes in resource provisioning, bursts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions, or gaps in periodic maintenance activity.  

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports outbound network access removing the dependency for linked servers to be joined within a VPC. Linked servers can now have traffic configured from an RDS for SQL Server instance in AWS directing traffic to an on-premise or EC2 SQL Server instance.