Today, AWS introduced NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB to help developers build scalable, high-performance data models and to simplify query development and testing. NoSQL Workbench is a free, client-side application available for Windows and macOS.

When using AWS Elemental MediaStore as your live streaming origin, you can now configure a Transient Data Policy on your container via the Object Lifecycle Policy API, which will remove an HLS manifest if it has not been recently updated. This enables players to automatically switch from a primary origin to a backup origin with no additional coding or setup. Customers with redundant encoding pipelines previously had to perform complicated configuration downstream of the origin to ensure manifest freshness. With Transient Data Policy, customers can leverage native HLS behavior to perform origin switch-over.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) for standard-definition (SD), high-definition (HD), and ultra-high-definition (UHD) encoding with HDR support.

File Gateway, part of the AWS Storage Gateway service, now publishes health and performance logs and metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing you with continuous visibility into operations of your gateway in order to quickly respond to changes in your workload.

Today, we’re excited to release Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.21, which has over 70 improvements, fixes, and features for designers, animators, programmers, and more. Click here to download Lumberyard 1.21 today .

AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) standard. Using the RIST protocol, you can transport live video with low latency and high resilience to packet loss. This additional transport option for MediaConnect offers you more flexibility for contributing broadcast streams to the AWS Cloud for processing, and for bringing streams back on-premises using any device that supports RIST.

We are pleased to announce support for multiple TLS certificates on Network Load Balancers using Server Name Indication (SNI). You can now host multiple secure applications, each with its own TLS certificate, on a single load balancer listener. This allows SaaS applications and hosting services to run behind the same load balancer, improving your service security posture, and simplifying management and operations.

AWS Service Catalog now provides budget visibility on your portfolios and products by integrating with AWS Budgets. With this feature you can create and associate budgets with portfolios and products and track your spend. Portfolio and product budget creation is simplified using TagOptions and AutoTags, providing administrators with visibility into the budget and month-to-date spend. To get started, activate your tags and create your budget in AWS Budgets, then associate that budget to your portfolio or product in AWS Service Catalog. This feature is available in all commercial regions where AWS Service Catalog and AWS Budgets are available.

Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. 

Today, Amazon WorkMail announced that you can access full email message content from within your AWS Lambda functions when using Email Flow Rules. With this, you can build powerful email processing, automation, and analytics applications; for example, you can easily add email correspondence to a 3rd party productivity tool such as SalesForce or Asana whenever an email is received, or analyze your organization’s email traffic to spot trends. Email messages can be accessed on both incoming and outgoing email.