AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. 

The Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP), a cryptography performance improvement for Amazon Corretto, is now available. Historically, Java cryptography has been CPU-intensive resulting in slow performance and elevated operational costs. ACCP updates dozens of cryptographic algorithms, accelerating cryptographic workloads.

Customers have been running Windows workloads on AWS for over a decade. We run nearly 2x more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report. Our experience running Windows applications has earned our customers’ trust and the number of AWS enterprise customers using Amazon EC2 for Windows Server has grown 5x since 2015.

Today, we are excited to announce the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency for APN Advanced Technology Partners, offering products based on varying phases of a customer’s journey to the AWS Cloud including migration assessment, migration, post-migration operational optimization, enhancement through analytics and Machine Learning, and modernization. The AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency reduces a customer’s time and effort in finding a capable and trusted APN Technology Partner for their Microsoft Workloads environment on AWS.

Interested in becoming an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner? See the requirements and next steps here.

Interested in working with an AWS Microsoft Workloads Technology Partner? See the validated AWS Microsoft Workload Technology Partners here.  

Learn more on the APN Blog . 

AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to – or edit or delete tags of – multiple AWS resources at once. With Tag Editor, you can search for the resources that you want to tag, and then manage tags for the resources in your search results. Starting today, AWS Resource Groups supports 26 additional AWS resources including AWS Config Rules, AWS ElasticBeanstalk Applications, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor supports 6 additional AWS resources including AWS CloudWatch Alarms, AWS CloudFormation Stacks.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en instances are available in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. I3en global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon, N. California) AWS regions. 

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) capability enables developers to playback their ingested video streams using the industry-standard, HTTP-based media streaming protocol.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams producer SDKs are free and open software libraries for building applications that can stream audio and video data directly from an edge device to the AWS cloud for durable storage, playback, and machine learning based processing. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams producer SDK is now available in C. 

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale, announces the support for ROS-Melodic Morenia, which is the latest long term support (LTS) release for ROS. Now with AWS RoboMaker, customers can build robotics applications with ROS-Melodic, in addition to the existing ROS-Kinetic distribution.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert can now ingest video files from HTTP and HTTPS sources. With the ability to transcode content from sources other than Amazon S3, you are no longer required to build logic to copy files into S3 in order to use MediaConvert. This feature is available at no additional charge. To learn, more please read the documentation .