Amazon API Gateway now offers tag-based access control for WebSocket APIs using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, enabling you to easily categorize API Gateway resources for WebSocket APIs by purpose, owner, or other criteria.  

AWS CodeBuild is now available to customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service in the cloud. CodeBuild compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. For more information, visit the CodeBuild product page .

AWS GovCloud (US) is Amazon’s isolated cloud infrastructure and services designed to address specific regulatory and compliance requirements of US Government agencies, as well as contractors, educational institutions, and other US customers that run sensitive workloads in the cloud.

To learn more about AWS CodeBuild, visit our documentation . To see all regions where CodeBuild is available, see the AWS region table .

The AWS Partner Network (APN) launched the AWS Industrial Software Competency in 2018 that verifies, validates, and vets top APN Technology Partners with solutions for an end-to-end Industrial Software value chain. These Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) provide technology offerings targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations.

Launching soon, a correlative track for best-in-class APN Consulting Partners designed to connect customers with highly-specialized Industrial Software System Integrators. These APN Partners can help customers achieve meaningful outcomes and support exploration and integration with top solutions designed specifically for this industry.

To receive the AWS Industrial Software Competency designation, APN Partners must undergo rigorous technical validation related to industry-specific technology, as well as an assessment of the security, performance, and reliability of their AWS solutions. This validation gives customers complete confidence in choosing top APN Partner solutions from the tens of thousands in the AWS Partner Network.

APN Consulting Partners with the AWS Industrial Software Competency will support the following categories:

• Product Design: Applications and services used in the design phase, including Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), and Civil Engineering
• Production Design: Applications for factory layout and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM)
• Production & Operations: Discrete and process industry applications like Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), Plant Information Management System (PIMS), supply chain logistics, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), analytic applications for industrial use, and manufacturing specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions

Congratulations to the Advanced and Premier tier APN Partners that are paving the way for this new AWS Competency designation:

Storm Reply

Premier APN Consulting Partner based in Italy
With a deep knowledge of the business processes of industrial and manufacturing companies, Storm Reply supports customers to build Industrial IoT solutions and provides digital platform to process real time data coming from factories, providing services on top like Machine Learning training and computation, big data processing, data warehousing and business logic.

Deloitte

Premier APN Consulting Partner based in US
The manufacturing industry is ever changing. Rapid globalization, technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, and evolving government policies are reshaping the manufacturing industry, exponentially accelerating the pace of competition and continually raising the bar on company performance. Deloitte serves more than 95% of the Fortune 500 Industrial Manufacturing companies and can help anticipate, plan for, and manage the dramatic swings that characterize this market.

Accenture 

Premier APN Consulting Partner based in US
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Accenture helps help Industrial Equipment companies digitally transform their business through smart, connected and living technologies, to become Industry X.0 businesses.

Wipro 

Premier APN Consulting Partner based in India
Wipro helps Industrial and Manufacturing businesses in their digital transformation journey of achieving operational excellence and superior customer experience across the entire value chain through continuous innovation, leveraging a combination of its own IPs and Platforms and the power of an unparalleled ecosystem of partners like AWS.

Contact your Partner Development Manager (PDM) to learn more about becoming an AWS Industrial Software Competency Partner! You can find the requirements here . 

We are pleased to announce the general availability for the latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.0.27. This release adds support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2020 and Eddy for Nuke 2.3.0, and includes a new AWS feature, Resource Tracker, in addition to many improvements and bug fixes.  

AWS IoT Greengrass is now available in seven additional regions – Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), US East (Ohio), EU (London), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet , extending the footprint to 13 AWS regions.

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 base images for Standard, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized and Graphics Pro instance families. This launch allows you to bring your applications that are only supported for Windows Server 2016/2019 to AppStream 2.0 or update your existing AppStream 2.0 environments to use the most recent Windows server operating system.

Today AWS Elemental MediaConnect  added integration with SPEKE for key exchange with conditional access system (CAS) partners. SPEKE, which stands for Secure Packager and Encoder Key Exchange, is an open API specification that streamlines the way CAS systems integrate with MediaConnect. Using this feature, you can now encrypt live video shared using entitlements and fully control permissions for content sent to your distribution partners. This enables you to build complex distribution workflows with more granular and sophisticated conditional rights management, including time-based access, black-outs, and many other rules-based requirements. Visit the documentation pages to learn more.

You can now copy your Amazon WorkSpaces Images across AWS Regions. Using the same Image across Regions makes it simpler to manage global deployment of WorkSpaces while improving consistency, compliance, and security of your WorkSpaces.

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 19.1 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.