We’re excited to announce three new courses specifically designed to help APN Partners use AWS solutions to better help their customers and differentiate their organizations. These courses provide a technical understanding of how machine learning (ML), VMware and containers work in the AWS Cloud.

Application Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups routing. With this launch you will be able to do weighted routing of the traffic forwarded by a rule to multiple target groups. This enables various use cases like blue-green, canary and hybrid deployments without the need for multiple load balancers. It even enables zero-downtime migration between on-premises and cloud or between different compute types like EC2 and Lambda.  

Starting today, you can launch builds on three new compute types, ARM, GPU and X-Large, when using AWS CodeBuild.

AWS CodeBuild’s support for ARM-based workload allows you to build and test your software updates natively, without needing to emulate or cross-compile. You can get started by creating or updating a CodeBuild Project, and selecting “ARM_CONTAINER” as the environment type and “BUILD_GENERAL1_LARGE” as the compute type. A new managed image, “aws/codebuild/amazonlinux2-aarch64-standard” , based on Amazon Linux is now available for you to use as the build environment for these builds.

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Explorer, an operations dashboard providing you with an at-a-glance graphical view of relevant operations data, such as EC2 instance summaries and their patch compliance. With Explorer, you can view your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions to see where attention, investigation, and remediation may be required. 

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes are available in 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using either m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.  

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the October 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and October 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 18c.

Amazon QLDB is now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul, Sydney) regions.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now enables better control and access with condition keys specific to Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. You can use these condition keys in the Condition element of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. 

AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EMR, making it faster to build and easier to monitor EMR big data processing workflows.

We’ve introduced an enhancement for instance metadata access requests that adds defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. You can configure the instance metadata service to require this feature on both new and running instances. Additionally, you can choose to turn off access to instance metadata altogether.