You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) First-in, First-out (FIFO) queues in the EU (Milano) region. FIFO queues are designed to ensure that the order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved and that each message is processed exactly once. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function improves scalability and reliability. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now publishes Elastic Load Balancer(ELB) lifecycle events for services attached to multiple load balancer target groups. ECS will emit service events when tasks are successfully registered or de-registered in target groups or in case of errors in the registration process. This enables you to track the progress of attaching your service to multiple target group and easily troubleshoot errors through events in the ECS service event stream as part of the update and describe service API responses as well as in the ECS Management Console. This functionality has already been available for services attached to a single target group but is now available for services attached to multiple target groups as well.

AWS Training and Certification has launched Migrating to the AWS Cloud , a self-paced digital course available on edX. This course helps you build skills by providing foundational knowledge on migrating to the AWS Cloud using AWS products and services.

To provide enhanced performance and scalability, Amazon RDS on VMware adds support for read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. You can create read replicas of a source DB instance to serve high-volume application read traffic, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput. A read replica can also be promoted to become a standalone DB instance if the source DB instance fails.  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports forensic watermarking using NexGuard . This feature enables you to watermark content for both mezzanine and OTT streaming contexts in order to enable content leak forensic workflows. You have access to an added layer of security and traceability for valuable pre-release and early release content, and a simple way for watermarking during video transcoding and OTT content preparation. NexGuard forensic watermarking in MediaConvert for pre-release content, including the recently announced NexGuard ClipMark for short form content as well as NexGuard Streaming for on-demand OTT content, enables full watermark automation when processing in AWS.

An Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports forwarding of write requests from a secondary region to the primary region, to simplify the development of your application code. 

You can now use the AWS Elemental MediaLive schedule feature to prepare a MediaLive channel input prior to switching to it. In the context of live video streaming, this functionality is also known as an ‘input cue’. Preparation of an input in advance of a switch helps reduce the latency of the scheduled switch action. For example, you may need to switch to an input for a postgame press conference that could start at any time. If the MediaLive schedule feature is used to prepare the input, you can switch to it with only a few seconds of latency.

Starting June 20, 2020, Amazon Pinpoint customers who send SMS with an alphanumeric sender ID to Indian recipients must register their use case. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recently updated the regulations on commercial SMS sending. Senders who have a local presence in India are required to register their use cases through the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) system. When you successfully register your use case, you can use an alphabetic sender ID to deliver your transactional messages or numeric sender ID to deliver your promotional messages to recipients who have Indian phone numbers. Messages that you send using a registered sender ID are billed at the standard rates. For current message sending rates, see the Amazon Pinpoint Pricing page.

Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s Neural Text-to-Speech Voices within their contact-center. These new voices deliver groundbreaking improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. The new neural voices are available in eight US English, three UK English, one Spanish, and one Portuguese voice.

Amazon Redshift adds materialized view support for external tables. With this enhancement, you can create materialized views in Amazon Redshift that reference external data sources such as Amazon S3 via Spectrum , or data in Aurora or RDS PostgreSQL via federated queries .