AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS now supports FreeRTOS 202002.00 . The latest version of AWS IoT Device Tester supports custom code signing for OTA (Over-the-air) update qualification tests, managed policy, and device setup check for serial ports.

You can now receive notifications about pull request approval events in AWS CodeCommit. You can create notification rules to receive notifications about events when a pull request is approved, rejected, and when a pull request approval rule is overridden. You can also modify existing notification rules to include these events. 

Amazon Neptune now allows you to stop and start database clusters. This makes it easy and affordable to use database clusters for development and test purposes where the database is not required to be running all of the time. 

You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using Ruby 2.7. This is the latest release of Ruby and supports new features like pattern matching, argument forwarding and numbered arguments. Lambda functions written in Ruby 2.7 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. To learn more about the Ruby programming model and how to create AWS Lambda functions in Ruby 2.7, please click here . 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is increasing the rate at which you can pull container images, and introducing simplified quotas (also called limits) for image APIs. Image pull quotas are now between five to ten times higher than before, enabling you to increase the rate at which you use ECR to deploy container images without worrying about API throttling. 

You can use Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore to create on-demand and continuous backups of your DynamoDB tables and then restore from those backups. Starting today, you also can restore table backups as new tables in other AWS Regions.  

You can now add tags, simple labels consisting of a user-defined key and an optional value, to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gateway endpoints , interface endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) , and endpoint services (AWS PrivateLink) directly while creating the resource. By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation.

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including energy demand forecasting, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure usage forecasting, inventory planning, traffic forecasting, and financial planning.

You can now view and monitor the number of concurrent executions of your AWS Lambda functions by version and alias. 

iOS users can now use Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Queue Service features on the Console mobile app. In addition, we have expanded Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to include logs.