Customers in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.  

Amazon Connect now provides new APIs that enable you to programmatically list resources such as queues, phone numbers, contact flows, and hours of operations in an Amazon Connect instance. For example, now you can use the List Queues API to retrieve queue IDs at run time and use them with the queue metrics API to filter the data returned.

AWS has updated the Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. The solution now supports equipment that uses the Mitsubishi Seamless Messaging Protocol (SLMP). SLMP is a unified protocol for achieving seamless communication between applications without awareness of network hierarchy or boundaries and general-purpose Ethernet devices.

AWS Managed Services (AMS) announces support for AWS Landing Zone (ALZ), a multi-account architecture recommended for enterprises looking for a scalable design for the configurations of their AWS accounts. With this release, new AMS customers will be able to choose either ALZ or the current AMS landing zone design based on their needs.

Starting today, you can now specify allocation strategies in AWS Batch, allowing customers to choose two additional methods for AWS Batch to allocate compute resources. These strategies allow customers to factor in throughput as well as price when deciding how AWS Batch should scale instances on their behalf.  

Amazon Chime Voice Connector, a SIP trunking service that lets you save over 50% on voice calling costs from your on-premises phone system, now supports real-time audio streaming. The feature automatically sends audio from your business phone calls to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, where it can be accessed by applications that you build. Previously, you had to integrate and deploy multi-vendor on-premises hardware and software platforms that were expensive and required disruptive changes to your enterprise voice network.

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), regions. Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Amazon FreeRTOS is open source, free to download and use, and provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge locations in Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. With these Edge locations, viewers within these countries will see an average of 60% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition, effective November 1st 2019, CloudFront will reduce the pricing for on-demand data transfer by up to 56% in South America. You can refer to the new South America pricing on the CloudFront pricing page . CloudFront now has 200 Points of Presence in 77 cities across 37 countries. Here is a blog from Jeff Barr about this launch.

Starting today, you can rewind your job bookmarks for your Glue Spark ETL jobs to any previous job run. AWS Glue tracks data that has been processed during a previous run of an ETL job by storing state information from the job run. This persisted state information is called a job bookmark.

Amplify Console now supports Pull-Request Previews, offering development and QA teams a way to preview changes before merging code to a production or integration branch. A pull-request preview deploys every pull request made to your GitHub repository to a unique preview URL; completely different from the one your main site uses. For apps with backend environments provisioned via the Amplify CLI, every pull request (private Git repositories only) spins up an ephemeral backend that is deleted when the PR is closed.