Amazon SageMaker now supports ml.p3dn.24xlarge, the most powerful P3 instance optimized for machine learning applications. This instance provides faster networking, which helps remove data transfer bottlenecks and optimizes the utilization of GPUs to deliver maximum performance for training deep learning models.

This Quick Start deploys an Amazon Managed Blockchain network on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to build and participate in decentralized applications shared across a consortium of members using Managed Blockchain.

AWS Backup now provides customers an automated way to receive notifications based on the status of their backup, restore, and recovery point jobs. For customers using SNS notifications to monitor their backups, this functionality will allow customers to directly filter for certain job status types, such as failed backup jobs. Prior to this, customers would have to discern the job status from the message, without the ability to filter on this attribute. This release is a continuation of our commitment to make data protection as seamless and as automated as possible for our customers. See the SNS for AWS Backup for instructions and best practices.

AWS Direct Connect announces support for granular cost allocation and removal of payer ID restriction for Direct Connect gateway association. 

You can now automate the execution and deployment of end to end machine learning workflows using AWS Step Functions’ enhanced integration with Amazon SageMaker.

You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 3 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and Canada (Central).

This Quick Start deploys Solodev DCX Enterprise Edition for Docker, a cloud-first enterprise content management system (CMS) and customer experience platform, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This Quick Start is for IT administrators, DevOps professionals, and similar system architects. 

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. You can now centrally and continuously manage the compliance and security of your AWS accounts in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region.

Amazon Lex now supports fallback intent making it easier to handle unexpected user input. Until now, you could use error handling prompts to respond when the bot could not match input to an intent. Starting today, you can add a fallback intent to help your Amazon Lex bot recover gracefully in such situations. It can be used to manage the conversation flow, execute business logic, or handover the conversation to a human agent. The fallback intent can be designed to trigger an AWS Lambda function and provide responses. You can now exercise a more granular control over the conversation flow.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now lets you configure your domains to require that all traffic be submitted over HTTPS so that you can ensure that communications between your clients and your domain are encrypted. You can also configure the minimum required TLS version to accept. This option is a useful additional security control to ensure your clients are not misconfigured. For information on enabling this feature, see the documentation .