The smart product solution provides secure product connectivity to the AWS Cloud, and includes capabilities for local computing within products, sophisticated event rules, and data processing and storage. The solution features fast and robust data ingestion; highly reliable and durable storage of product telemetry data; simple, scalable big data services for analyzing the data; and global messaging and application services.

Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Rekognition from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Amazon Rekognition lets customers easily add intelligent image and video analysis to their applications. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network.

Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculations that allow you to derive advanced analytical insights independent of aggregations and filters applied on your charts. These are calculations that can be computed at a desired level in the overall query evaluation order of QuickSight. You can answer questions such as “How many customers have made one, two, three orders?”, “What is the contribution of each industry to the entire company’s profit irrespective of the filters applied?”. See the blog here to get started with Level Aware Aggregations.  

Three new development boards from NXP are now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using development kits available from NXP.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the Middle East (Bahrain) region to help protect your AWS accounts and workloads. 

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the Americas (São Paulo), Americas (Montreal), Americas (Northern California), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) regions.

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 4,800 software solutions, has announced that customers can now deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Lambda functions together using AWS CloudFormation with just a few clicks.

You can now monetize live HLS video streams without SCTE infrastructure with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. Using MediaTailor, content owners can insert pre-roll advertisements before stream start, overwriting the beginning of their live streams with personalized ads to monetize every stream start to support a low-investment, high-return monetization strategy.

This Quick Start builds a clickstream analytics solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in about 30 minutes. It integrates AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight.