Amazon Connect, an easy to use contact center service, has decreased outbound telephony rates for calling to six countries.  

AWS License Manager now allows customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to manage licenses across all the AWS accounts in an organization. Customers gain control and visibility of their licenses used across all of their AWS accounts with License Manager’s built-in dashboard and thus reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.

AWS has updated its service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to 99.99%.

You can use the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API Client Library with support for Java, to quickly and easily build applications for Amazon Aurora Serverless.  

The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) management console has been redesigned to make it easier to deploy and manage EKS clusters. 

AWS Service Catalog has added three new portfolios to the Getting Started Library that enable customers to build faster on AWS. These new portfolios include AWS Quick Starts, AWS Solutions, and AWS Config Conformance Packs, with a total of 30 new well-architected implementations and blueprints for solving common enterprise cloud needs. Service Catalog Administrators can share these implementations and blueprints with their teams, providing developer self-service while staying compliant with organizational best practices and policies.

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that simplifies software discovery, procurement, and provisioning and helps AWS customers maintain transparency and governance, control costs, and innovate faster. AWS Marketplace now offers two standardized license agreement options , Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace and Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to alleviate lengthy negotiations, decrease time to contract, and build at the speed of cloud.

AWS CodeCommit , a fully-managed source control service, is now available to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. CodeCommit makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.  

Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch is an AWS Solution that creates a scalable environment on AWS to develop, build, deploy, and run genomics secondary analysis pipelines – e.g., processing raw whole genome sequences into variant calls. Customers can deploy this solution for their genomics analysis and research projects.

You can now use Amazon EMR with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce the cost of your big data workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.