AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM PrivateCA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 19.
AWS RoboMaker introduces support for Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) in beta release
AWS RoboMaker now supports Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) feature in beta release. ROS2 expands ROS’s use cases with increased security, quality of service, support for embedded systems and real-time scenarios.
AWS CodePipeline Adds Execution Visualization to Pipeline Execution History
You can now view visualizations of past pipeline executions in AWS CodePipeline. Previously, you were only able to see information about actions that ran in a failed pipeline execution. Now, when an execution fails, you will also see the actions that did not run enabling easier debugging of pipeline failures. When your pipeline has concurrent executions, you are now able to view visualizations of the individual executions making understanding the status of an execution much simpler.
Amazon EKS Generally Available in São Paulo Region
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS São Paulo region (sa-east-1).
Amazon Neptune now supports SPARQL 1.1 federated query
Amazon Neptune now supports SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query , a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation. Using Neptune customers can execute a portion of their query across different SPARQL endpoints within their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), combine the result, and return to the user. Now customers can distribute their data across multiple Neptune clusters and using a single query to access that data across those clusters. Customers can also use federation to combine data in Neptune with data from external SPARQL endpoints.
Amazon Chime now supports screen sharing from Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome without a plug-in or extension
Amazon Chime users can now screen share from Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without installing any extensions or downloading a plug-in on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS desktop devices. Chime now leverages the Web APIs available in Mozilla Firefox version 66 and higher or Google Chrome version 72 and higher to deliver native screen share capabilities. In three clicks, any attendee using these browsers can join a Chime meeting and start sharing an application window or the entire screen with other participants. There is no need for pre-meeting testing or setup as all attendees, even those that work in highly regulated environments and are blocked from making changes to their devices, can now share content during Chime meetings without the need for IT intervention.
You can now expand your Amazon MSK clusters and deploy new clusters across 2-AZs
You can now expand your Amazon MSK clusters and create clusters with brokers in two Availability Zones (2-AZ) in all regions where Amazon MSK is available.
AWS IoT Device Defender Expands Globally
AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), extending its footprint to 17 AWS regions. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully-managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy for customers to manage the end-to-end security of their IoT fleet.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for 4K Ultra HD resolution on 2 monitors and 2K resolution on 4 monitors
Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on 2 monitors and 2K resolution on 4 monitors. For any AppStream 2.0 instance type, you can use up to four monitors, with a maximum display resolution of 2560×1600 per monitor. Graphics instance types support use of up to two 4K monitors. To use this feature, you must start your streaming session with the AppStream 2.0 Windows client. In addition, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses a version of the AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after September 23, 2019.
AWS Deep Learning Containers now support PyTorch
AWS Deep Learning (DL) Containers now support PyTorch. AWS DL Containers are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks to make it easy to setup and deploy custom machine learning environments. Docker images for training and inference with PyTorch are now available through Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) free of charge—you pay only for the resources that you use. You can deploy AWS DL Containers on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).