You can now right-size your message broker by modifying the instance type on demand. Instance type changes can be applied immediately or during the next maintenance window. Vertically scaling your message broker provides flexibility to adjust for seasonal changes and increase capacity as your application grows. 

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports adding Amazon EC2 G4 instances as worker nodes to all clusters in regions where G4 is available.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, and T3a instances are available in additional regions.

• M5a and R5a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (London) Regions
• M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Singapore), Europe (Paris, London, Ireland, Frankfurt), US West (N. California) Regions
• T3a instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Region

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.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)  supports Automated Spot Instance Draining, a new capability that reduces service interruptions due to Spot termination for ECS workloads. This feature will enable ECS customers to safely manage any interruptions of ECS tasks running on Spot instances due to termination of the underlying EC2 Spot instance .

The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core has been updated to include Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. The AMI comes pre-configured with .NET Core 2.2 (with Long Term Support), Mono 5.18, PowerShell Core 6.2, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).  

AWS IoT is announcing a new feature for AWS IoT Core called “Multi-Account Registration,” which is now available in beta. The new feature allows customers to quickly move devices between their AWS accounts by specifying the account information when the device connects to AWS IoT Core. Customers opting to use this feature will use Server Name Indication (SNI) strings sent by a device and as part of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) session to route to the correct AWS IoT endpoint.

Three new Quick Starts deploy JFrog Artifactory on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in 30-45 minutes. The available options for deployment use your choice of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the release of Amazon Polly for Windows, an open-source engine that allows users to take advantage of Amazon Polly voices in SAPI-compliant Windows applications.

Today, AWS Systems Manager introduces the ability to execute Ansible playbooks directly from GitHub or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) through Systems Manager Run Command or State Manager. This lets you use your existing Ansible automations and to benefit from the control and safety provided by Systems Manager.