When using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can now view detailed billing at the database instance level. This information is available for RDS automated database backups and manual database snapshots, and can be viewed in AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Report (CUR).

Amazon Lex now supports checkpoints in session APIs making it easier to manage conversation flows.  

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC/ML workloads. These instances offer significantly higher network performance across all instance sizes, ranging from 25 Gbps of network bandwidth on smaller instance sizes to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth on the largest instance size, and support automatic encryption of in-transit traffic between instances. These new instances are designed for workloads such as databases, High Performance Computing, analytics, Big Data, and in-memory cache that can take advantage of improved network bandwidth and packet rate performance.

Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) enables you to correlate container images pulled from ECR with scheduled tasks and where it is running, on Amazon EC2 or Fargate. Now you have visibility and an immutable attribute to identify where your container image has been deployed to track application adoption, incident response and lifecycle management.

Starting today, Amazon Textract is a HIPAA eligible service. HIPAA eligibility applies to all AWS Regions where Amazon Textract is available. This means you can use Amazon Textract to help you process protected health information (PHI) extracted from images to power your healthcare applications.

Starting today, you can now use custom certificates in AWS Glue when using JDBC connections to connect to your data sources from Glue ETL jobs and crawlers. You may decide to use custom certificates because you already obtained a certificate from a third-party issuer, or because the default certificates supported by AWS Glue do not meet your requirements. Previously, you were only able to use the default certificates supported by AWS Glue. 

You can now use ElastiCache self-service updates feature to apply updates on Memcached and Redis cache clusters, in addition to Redis replication groups at the time of your choosing and track the progress in real-time.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18 TB and 24 TB of memory are generally available. 

AWS Training and Certification has updated one partner course and added another to its training portfolio. First, we made major updates to our AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations (Business) course. Second, we are introducing a new course, AWS Solutions Training for Partners Foundations – Public Sector – Business. This new course is designed specifically to help new APN Partners identify customer opportunities and build their business on AWS.

We’re excited to announce two new public classroom courses. AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is an updated classroom version of our most widely adopted free digital course and Architecting on AWS – Accelerator is a new course based on our two of our existing architecting courses. These new offerings make it easier for you to build and advance your cloud skills in a hands-on environment.