With this release, Amplify Console makes it easy to deploy projects managed in monorepos. A monorepo is a single repository containing source code for multiple web or mobile apps that share common assets. Amplify Console now automatically detects build settings for monorepos by allowing developers to pick a root directory for their app when connecting their repository. Once the app is built and deployed, new builds are triggered only if commits contain changes within the app root directory. 

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of another child US English voice – Kevin. Kevin’s voice was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology, and imitates the voice of a male child. Amazon Polly offers 14 neural voices across 4 languages – US English (en-US), British English (en-GB), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), and US Spanish (es-US). NTTS voices are supported in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) capacity providers now support delete functionality. You can delete capacity providers once they are no longer in use using either the AWS Management Console or the new DeleteCapacityProvider API.

AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store.

AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig hosted configurations, a new feature that simplifies on-boarding to AWS AppConfig to enable customers to deploy configurations in seconds. AWS AppConfig makes it easy for AWS customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, containers, AWS Lambda, mobile apps, IoT devices, and on-premises servers in a validated, controlled and monitored way. 

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and data providers from United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland are now eligible to sell software and data products in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. These offerings add to the global catalog of 7,000+ software and data products from 1,500+ ISVs and data providers in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. Customers around the world can now discover and subscribe to an even greater breadth of software and data products to innovate faster and achieve their business goals.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports CloudFormation templates for automating SSL/TLS certificate issuance for DNS-validated certificates with domains managed in Route 53, issuance of private certificates from an ACM Private Certificate Authority, and configuration of certificate transparency (CT) logging.

AWS CloudFormation announces the preview of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard ), an open-source command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. Cfn-guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. It enables developers to validate their CloudFormation templates against those rules.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you automatically update the instances in your Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to release new application versions or make infrastructure changes. Traditionally, customers had to write custom scripts and build systems to update ASG configurations with new AMIs. With the new Instance Refresh feature, customers can now trigger configuration updates such as moving to new AMIs and changing instance types. You can roll out these updates to the ASG by replacing instances all at once or gradually.

You can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to run containers on Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances. With EKS and the AWS Neuron Kubernetes device plugin, it’s easy combine multiple Inferentia devices in your cluster to run high performance and cost-effective inference workloads at scale.