Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on 2 monitors and 2K resolution on 4 monitors. For any AppStream 2.0 instance type, you can use up to four monitors, with a maximum display resolution of 2560×1600 per monitor. Graphics instance types support use of up to two 4K monitors. To use this feature, you must start your streaming session with the AppStream 2.0 Windows client. In addition, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses a version of the AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after September 23, 2019.
AWS Deep Learning Containers now support PyTorch
AWS Deep Learning (DL) Containers now support PyTorch. AWS DL Containers are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks to make it easy to setup and deploy custom machine learning environments. Docker images for training and inference with PyTorch are now available through Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) free of charge—you pay only for the resources that you use. You can deploy AWS DL Containers on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
Amazon RDS on VMware is now generally available
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is a service that delivers AWS-managed relational databases in on-premises VMware environments. RDS on VMware automates time-consuming administration tasks such as database provisioning, operating system and database patching, backups, point-in-time restore, and database instance health monitoring. It makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale databases in your on-premises VMware vSphere environments, freeing you to focus on your applications.
Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection is now available in all commercial AWS regions
Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze system and application metrics, determine a normal baseline, and surface anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use Anomaly Detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior, reducing the mean time to detect and resolve operational issues.
Amazon EFS now in the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard
You can now configure Amazon EC2 instances to mount Amazon EFS file systems using the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard. This integration simplifies the process of configuring EC2 instances to mount EFS file systems at launch time with recommended mount options. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Multiple EC2 instances can mount an EFS file system and share file data using standard Linux tools and commands.
Amazon EC2 Hibernation Now Available on Windows
Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Windows Server including: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Windows Server, in addition to Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables administrators to restore activity on files locked by inactive users
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now enables storage administrators to view a list of file system users and of open files, and to restore activity on files locked by inactive users.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.
Amazon Lex Achieves PCI DSS Compliance
AWS IoT Greengrass now Provides Deployment Notifications
AWS IoT Greengrass now emits deployment notifications to Amazon EventBridge. Greengrass sends an event every time a Greengrass group deployment changes state. Customers can create EventBridge rules to take actions based on deployment changes. With this new feature, customers can send notifications, capture event information, take corrective action, or initiate other events for deployments.