AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Fundamentals: Migrating to the Cloud , a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Coursera. This course introduces you to migration to the AWS Cloud using AWS products and services.

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. 

Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections. Two of the detections are related to Amazon S3, and the third to potential EC2 instance metadata exfiltration via DNS rebinding.  

Customers can now configure Amazon API Gateway to send API access logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. It’s easy to configure Kinesis Data Firehose as a log destination by enabling access logging on an API and specifying the Firehose stream. 

Starting today, you can use AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to, edit, or delete tags on multiple AWS resources at once. AWS Resource Groups supports over 140 resource types, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor supports over 50 AWS resource types. To learn more about AWS Resource Groups, visit our documentation . 

Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing data sources with users and groups. You can create data sources from any data source supported by QuickSight and share across users and groups similar to other assets such as data sets, analyses, and dashboards. With this feature, data source co-owners can now edit the underlying SQL for custom SQL data sets. Data source sharing is supported on all types except S3 analytics and file-based data sets. See here for details.

You can now set environment variables for CodeBuild build jobs in your pipeline. Previously, build jobs in your pipeline could only use environment variables defined in the build project configuration or buildspec file. When building for different environments and stages, you can now set environment variables directly through CodePipeline. You can now reuse the same build project for multiple actions and simplify deployments to staging and production environments in your pipeline. You can also view the environment variables used for your build in the pipeline execution history alongside all other action configuration details.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.  

Performance enhancements have been made that allow Amazon Redshift to copy snapshots across regions much faster, allowing customers to support much more aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Disaster Recovery (DR) policies. The performance of copying a snapshot across regions is now orders of magnitude faster than what was achievable earlier this year, with up to 40,000 MB/s transfer rates observed.  

The PSoC 62 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using this prototyping kit available from Cypress.