EMR Notebooks is a managed Jupyter-based notebook environment that allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to prepare and visualize data, collaborate with peers, and build applications using EMR clusters. You can now associate Git repositories , such as GitHub and Bitbucket, with your Amazon EMR Notebooks. Associating a repository with a notebook allows you to add versions to your notebook. It also simplifies collaborating with peers by allowing you to share code through remote Git repositories. You can clone or merge code from remote Git repositories and push changes back to those remote repositories directly from your notebook. To make it easier to compare and merge two different notebooks, the nbdime utility is now available in EMR Notebooks.

Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of the AWS for WordPress plugin. Previously known as the Amazon Polly and Amazon AI plugin, the new AWS for WordPress plugin now provides a workflow to configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution that is highly optimized for WordPress websites.

This Quick Start deploys an Autodesk BIM 360 integration environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes.

You can now create CodeStar projects using the publicly available CodeCommit and GitHub CloudFormation resources. You can also create the initial commit for your repository through CloudFormation. Previously, customers could not easily replicate CodeStar’s resource provisioning. Now you can provision toolchain resources simply by using the CloudFormation template CodeStar configures for you. You can customize your CodeStar templates to setup a more complex continuous integration and deployment process, so you no longer need to start from scratch.

Amazon Chime now provides users an integrated room experience on Dolby Voice Room. Amazon Chime now lets you join meetings with a single tap or by saying “Alexa, start the meeting” when using Amazon Chime with Alexa for Business on Dolby Voice Room. You can easily share content, get a visual roster with attendee information, and use enhanced whiteboard features during your meeting.  

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now allows you to modify authentication tokens by setting and rotating new tokens. Redis authentication tokens enable Redis to require a token (password) before allowing clients to execute commands. You can now modify active tokens while in use, or add brand-new tokens to existing encryption-in-transit enabled clusters that were previously setup without authentication tokens. ElastiCache for Redis provides a two-step process that allows you to set and rotate the token without interrupting client requests. 

AWS App Mesh is now available in Europe Paris Region. This is the fourth region with App Mesh availability in EU, in addition to Ireland, Frankfurt and London regions. 

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. CodeCommit makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. 

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. You can create Neptune clusters using r5 instance types.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. You can create Neptune clusters using r5 instance types.