AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications, now supports the ability to interact with the applications in your simulation job, by connecting to your robot application or simulation application with port forwarding. A RoboMaker simulation job is a pairing of a robot application and a simulation application running in the cloud. When you configure port forwarding, traffic will be forwarded from the simulation job port to the application port. For example, customers can now connect to an HTTP server or ROS bridge running in their robot or simulation application, and debug or interact with their applications from a web browser running on their local laptops.

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 enabled applying an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Role to your image builder and fleet resources. With this launch, you can make AWS API calls from an image builder or fleet streaming instance without having to specify the access key or secret access key. For example, you can download an installer from Amazon S3, execute an AWS Lambda function, or upload logs to an S3 bucket within your account without storing credentials on the image. AppStream 2.0 manages the credentials for you, and periodically rotates them on your behalf. To get started, see Using an IAM Role to Grant Permission to Applications and Scripts Running on AppStream 2.0 Streaming Instances in the AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide .

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) CSI driver.  

You can now pay your AISPL invoices using your Netbanking enabled bank account. AISPL supports Netbanking for 55 banks in India.

AWS CodePipeline, a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates, is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region.

Amazon QuickSight announces new features that improve organizing assets, send email alerts on anomalies, other improvements with anomaly detection capabilities and introduces Word Cloud chart type to represent categorical fields.  

EMR 6.0.0 (Beta) allows users to define application and library dependencies using Docker images from Docker Hub and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) using Spark 2.4.3 and Hadoop 3.1.0.

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones and across On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase options. With a single API call, now you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and across purchase options to achieve desired scale, performance and cost. 

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you provision and automatically scale instances across purchase options, Availability Zones (AZ), and instance families in a single Auto Scaling group (ASG), to optimize scale, performance, and cost. Now you can include Spot Instances with On-Demand and RIs in a single ASG, to save up to 90% on compute in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached adds support for the latest Memcached open source version 1.5.16. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and includes the fixes from engine versions 1.5.14 and 1.5.15.

For the full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached 1.5.16 click here . Memcached 1.5.16 support is available in all AWS regions.

To get started on ElastiCache for Memcached cluster with engine version 1.5.16 log on to AWS Management Console .