Application Load Balancers now support request routing based on standard or custom HTTP headers and methods, query parameters, and source IP addresses. This launch extends the existing support for Host header and path-based routing rules in Application Load Balancers to more fields from HTTP request messages. This richer set of routing criteria enables you to further simplify your application architecture by offloading routing functionality to the load balancer. It can also be used to block unwanted traffic at the load balancer.

Vertical farm is using tunable Signify LED technology to optimize lettuce, spinach, and coriander for the convenience chain.

Much of China is taking SSL lessons from New York’s Times Square or Las Vegas in lighting the exteriors of metropolitan buildings, but Signify has supplied more sedate tunable-white LED lighting for historic buildings in the Shanghai Bund.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio in the following new languages: German and Korean. These languages expand upon the existing languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English, British English, Australian English, US Spanish, Canadian French, French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

AWS Event Fork Pipelines is a suite of nested open-source applications based on the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can deploy Event Fork Pipelines directly from the AWS Serverless Application Repository (AWS SAR) into your AWS account. AWS Event Fork Pipelines helps you build event-driven serverless applications by providing pipelines for common event handling requirements.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available on Amazon Linux 2 , the next generation of Amazon Linux, in addition to Amazon Linux  and Ubuntu . In addition, the AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with MXNet 1.4.0, Chainer 5.3.0, PyTorch 1.0.1, and TensorFlow 1.13.1, which is custom-built directly from source and tuned for high-performance training across Amazon EC2 instances.  

AWS Storage Gateway added support for Amazon S3 Object Lock to File Gateway, enabling write-once-read-many (WORM) file-based systems to store and access objects in Amazon S3, using Object Lock’s Compliance or Governance modes.

Beginning today, you can call AWS IoT Core’s HTTPS Publish API with certificate-based client authentication on port 443. Previously this combination of protocol and authentication mechanism was only supported on port 8443.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now integrated with AWS CloudTrail. AWS CloudTrail captures changes made to your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket you specify. Customers can now get visibility into their Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application modifications including creation, deletion, and updates.

AWS IoT Device Management is a service that allows you to onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage connected devices at scale. Within AWS IoT Device Management, fleet indexing allows you to index the Registry, Device Shadow, and connection state for every device in your fleet, as well as search for devices based on any combination of these attributes. You can use fleet indexing to query which devices are running a particular version of firmware, or to query which devices are actively connected to AWS IoT.