AWS Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (AWS Site-to-Site VPN) now supports digital certificates for Internet Key Exchange (IKE) authentication, so for AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections, you can now use private certificates from AWS Certificate Manager instead of pre-shared keys. This enables you to take advantage of the added security and flexibility that digital certificates offer.

Alexa for Business now enables customers to designate, at a room profile level, if voice recordings from devices they manage will be manually reviewed and used to improve our services. Using a new preference, Data Use Policy, located in the Room Profile, customers can either allow (default) or disallow Alexa for Business’s manual reviews of voice recordings which are used to improve Amazon’s services. By default, only a very small percentage of these recordings are manually reviewed in order to improve these algorithms. To learn more about this feature, and how-to create and manage Room Profiles in Alexa for Business, please see our documentation .

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management have reduced prices in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports automated data labeling for the built-in image labeling workflow for semantic segmentation. With the addition of Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London), SageMaker Ground Truth is available in 12 AWS Regions. 

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure. 

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in thirteen AWS regions with the addition of Asia Pacific (Mumbai), EU (Paris), and EU (Stockholm).  

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.  

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region . Amazon’s isolated infrastructure and services are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD.  

AWS CodeBuild now provides a managed Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) build image. Previously, CodeBuild customers had to use a custom Docker image, in order to build and test for Amazon Linux environment.

Now you can simply select the build environment to be “aws/codebuild/amazonlinux2-x86_64-standard:1.0 “, when creating or updating an AWS CodeBuild Project . This new AL2 image supports polyglot builds . You can specify one or more programming language versions in your buildspec for your build needs. This is made possible by a concept called “runtime-versions”. With runtime-versions, you can also specify which major version of the runtime should be enabled for your builds. The programming languages included in this image are listed in our documentation .

Please visit our product page or the console to learn more about how to get started with AWS CodeBuild .