Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports sort, slice, remove empty and conditional statements. With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your health and performance metrics. The new functions announced today allow you to sort metrics by performance indicators, slice the results to retrieve the highest or lowest values, and apply conditional logic using IF/AND/OR statements. All the new functions can be used to define alarms that take actions like sending notifications and auto scaling your service.  

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports counter metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. With counter metrics, you can customize the RDS Performance Insights dashboard to include up to 10 additional graphs that show a selection from dozens of operating system and database performance metrics. Counter metrics provide additional information that can be correlated with the database load chart to help identify performance issues and analyze performance. 

As of today, you can create 20 global secondary indexes per Amazon DynamoDB table in AWS GovCloud (US) . If you need more than 20 global secondary indexes, you can request an increase .

AWS Cost Explorer helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over a daily or monthly granularity. The solution also lets you dive deeper using granular billing dimensions such as usage type and tags. Starting today, you can access your data with further granularity by enabling hourly and resource level granularity.

Amazon DynamoDB enables you to restore your data to a new DynamoDB table by using a point-in-time or on-demand backup. Now, you can configure table settings when you restore a table from your DynamoDB backups. Specifically, you can exclude some or all of the local and global secondary indexes from being created with the restored table. You also can change the billing mode and provisioned capacity settings. Previously, you could only restore all table data from your backups, and what was restored included all local and global secondary indexes and provisioned capacity settings. 

AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers include Reuters, Foursquare, TransUnion, Change Healthcare, Virtusa, Pitney Bowes, TP ICAP, Vortexa, IMDb, Epsilon, Enigma, TruFactor, ADP, Dun & Bradstreet, Compagnie Financière Tradition, Verisk, Crux Informatics, TSX Inc., Acxiom, Rearc, and many others.  

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and South America (Sao Paulo) in additional to EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), Canada (Central), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. Also starting today, BYOIP will support onboarding of IP addresses registered to Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) in addition to American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE).

AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server is a new service that offers you a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying self-managed Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on AWS without you having to identify and provision individual AWS resources.

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, the AWS SIP trunking service that can save you over 50% on your calling costs, now supports the US West (Oregon) region and redundant call routing across multiple regions for higher availability and disaster recovery. With this feature, companies can continue to place and receive phone calls even if access to an individual AWS region fails or performance degrades. With Voice Connector, customers have the option to enable inbound calling, outbound calling, or both. 

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.