Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 released a self-guided workshop that enables the AWS administrators for a company to build an application onboarding portal that allows application teams to self-service onboard to AppStream 2.0. The application onboarding portal uses the breadth of AWS services to enable application administrators to create the AppStream 2.0 image and fleet without accessing the AWS Management Console using the best practices and security boundaries created by the AWS administrator. This project series provides step-by-step guidance that demonstrates how you can use AppStream 2.0 for this scenario. To get started, see AppStream 2.0 enterprise workshops.

We are excited to announce the release of a new feature that will provide APN Partner organizations with increased visibility of their employees’ AWS Certification data. Enabled only when an employee consents to sharing that data, this feature is designed to help APN Partner organizations better match the needs of their customers. Employers can track which AWS Certifications their employees are earning, as well as which APN Partner Program Knowledge tier requirements are being met by their organization.

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. Using hibernate, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster, and you can do this without modifying your existing applications. 

Customers can now use a new version of the SageMaker XGBoost algorithm that is based on version 0.90 of the open-sourced XGBoost framework. XGBoost is a highly efficient and flexible algorithm for problems in regression, classification, and ranking.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy robotics applications, now supports conditional over-the-air (OTA) deployment for fleet management. This new feature allows developers to specify a pre-check condition during deployment so that you can have more granular control over the deployment process. For example, you can specify a condition to be a certain level of battery. The deployment will only be triggered if the battery level on a robot meets the specified condition.  

You can now stream your desktop applications to an IFrame within your webpages. You can also customize the user experience using the AppStream 2.0 Embed JS SDK. For example, you can show or hide the AppStream 2.0 menu options within the session toolbar, or the entire session toolbar itself. And, you can register event callbacks to session state changes, and end sessions programmatically. To learn more, visit our documentation .

Customers can now use Amazon S3 Inventory to report the access tier of objects stored in the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a new storage class that makes it easy for developers and IT infrastructure managers to reduce costs on storage when access patterns change without sacrificing performance or availability. It works by storing objects in one of two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for Frequent access, and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for Infrequent access. You can now use S3 Inventory to view the access tier of your Intelligent-Tiering objects in all AWS Regions.  

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for AWS CloudFormation templates and Amazon CloudWatch real-time metrics. With this launch, customers in China can now use CloudFormation templates to create CloudFront distributions with Amazon S3 origins or custom origins. CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on AWS. Customers can create templates for their desired service or application architectures and use those templates for reliable and repeatable provisioning. Customers can find sample templates and template snippets on the AWS CloudFormation Templates page. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions, in addition to the US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger secret size of up to 10 Kb, making it easier for customers to manage secrets such as certificates with a long chain of trust. Secrets Manager now also supports larger size resource policies of up to 20 Kb enabling customers to allow multiple users and applications access a single secret. Secrets Manager also supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 1,500 requests per second. These increased service quotas will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end.