Cloud Foundation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Itoc, an AWS DevOps, Financial Services, SaaS and Security Competency Partner. Cloud Foundation delivers a best practice, secure, and flexible foundation AWS environment for customers that don’t have the depth of skills yet or the capacity internally to build their own. Whether you need to improve the implementation of your current AWS solution or build a new greenfield environment, Itoc will provide a complete walkthrough; no prior experience required.

Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Data Lakes Using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that creates a scalable environment in AWS to prepare genomic data for large-scale analysis and perform interactive queries against a genomics data lake. The solution demonstrates how to 1) build, package, and deploy libraries used for genomics data conversion, 2) provision data ingestion pipelines for genomics data preparation and cataloging, and 3) run interactive queries against a genomics data lake. The solution uses AWS CloudFormation to automate its deployment in the AWS Cloud, and it includes continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using AWS CodeCommit source code repositories and AWS CodePipeline  for building and deploying updates to the data preparation jobs, crawlers, data analysis notebooks, and the data lake infrastructure. It fully leverages infrastructure as code principles and best practices that enable you to rapidly evolve the solution.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data. 

EC2 Image Builder now allows customers to stream logs to AWS CloudWatch, which can help examine and troubleshoot issues with building, customizing, securing, patching, testing, and distribution of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). It also allows customers to maintain continuous visibility into the activity of Image Builder pipelines. 

Amazon Athena customers can now register and manage their data catalogs in Athena using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::DataCatalog resource.

Amazon Neptune now provides the flexibility to specify conditions in IAM policies using tags. Tags can be added to a Neptune resource such as a DB cluster or instance. Using tags, you can restrict management operations on the cluster without using the cluster or instance resource identifiers.

AWS Launch Wizard for SAP is now integrated with Amazon Route53 as the Domain name system. Starting today, you can choose a Route53 hosted zone as the domain name system for SAP systems deployed with AWS Launch Wizard. Launch Wizard creates DNS records in the chosen Route53 hosted zone eliminating the need to maintain /etc/hosts file entries for each of the EC2 instances being deployed as part of the deployment. Since it’s not possible for two instances in the same domain to have same hostname, Launch Wizard validates the user input to ensure that the record does not exist already, thereby avoiding deployment failures. 

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports launching Amazon EC2 instances of Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions. Enterprises can now migrate their workloads using Oracle Linux 7.5 into AMS using workload ingest process or by creating new EC2 instances. AMS performs patching, monitoring, back-up management, log aggregation, security management, incident management, and problem management for these EC2 instances.  

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5 and T3 instance types in this region for your graph applications.  

AWS Service Catalog now supports obtaining outputs from a Service Catalog provisioned product in an AWS CloudFormation template. Product outputs provide the interface from one product to another. With this new feature, administrators and developers can easily refer to those outputs in order to combine the products needed for their applications, which saves time building applications that use more than one product, such as a three-tier web application.