You can now integrate your AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) applications with AWS Cloud Map to make it easy for your containerized services to discover and connect with each other. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discovers the most up-to-date locations of its resources.  

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,500 software listings from over 1,400 software sellers, has announced Private Marketplace. Private Marketplace is a new feature that enables you to create a custom digital catalog of pre-approved products from AWS Marketplace. As an administrator, you can now select products that meet your procurement policies and make them available for your users. You can also further customize Private Marketplace with company branding, such as logo, messaging, and color scheme. All controls for Private Marketplace apply across your entire AWS Organizations, and you can define fine-grained controls using Identity and Access Management. 

AWS announces the General Availability of CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility. 

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog, has announced that you can now find and buy more than 180 curated and trusted container products in AWS Marketplace and through the Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) console. Container products are offered in popular categories such as high performance computing, security, and developer tools. Once you find the container products you need, you can quickly deploy them on services such as Amazon ECS, Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and AWS Fargate by using deployment templates such as task definitions, Helm charts, and AWS CloudFormation templates provided by the software seller. Products are offered with a variety of purchasing options, including free, bring-your-own-license, fixed monthly fees, and pay-as-you-go.

The AWS Developer Tools now offer improved continuous delivery support for the Amazon Container Services. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate now support blue/green deployments via AWS CodeDeploy. Additionally, AWS CodePipeline now supports Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) as a source provider. Previously, both of these actions required additional steps. 

Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing service that makes it easy to use machine learning to extract relevant medical information from unstructured text. Using Amazon Comprehend Medical, you can quickly and accurately gather medical information, such as medical condition, medication, dosage, strength, and frequency from a variety of sources, like doctors’ notes, clinical trial reports, and patient health records. Additionally, the service identifies the relationship among the extracted medication and test, treatment and procedure information. For example, the service identifies a particular dosage, strength, or frequency related to a specific medication from unstructured clinical notes.

Amazon DynamoDB now offers native, server-side support for transactions, simplifying the developer experience of making coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. With support for transactions, developers can extend the scale, performance, and enterprise benefits of DynamoDB to a broader set of mission-critical workloads.

Transactions provide atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) in DynamoDB, enabling you to maintain data correctness in your applications more easily. Using transactions, you can support sophisticated workflows and business logic that require adding, updating, or deleting multiple items as a single, all-or-nothing operation. For example, a video game developer can ensure players’ profiles are updated correctly when they exchange items in a game or make in-game purchases.

Support for transactions is available in all standard AWS Regions where DynamoDB is offered. Pricing for transactions is based on the sizes of the items in the transaction.

For more information, see Amazon DynamoDB transactions .

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Java-based stream processing applications, in addition to the previously supported SQL. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and respond to your business and customer needs in real time. Now, you can use your own Java code in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to continuously transform and load your data lake, generate metrics to feed real-time gaming leaderboards, apply machine-learning models to data streams from connected devices, and more. 

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural-network based machine translation service that delivers high-quality, real-time, and affordable language translation. Today, we are introducing Custom Terminology, a feature that lets you customize Amazon Translate’s output to use company and domain-specific vocabulary. By uploading and invoking Custom Terminology with translation requests, you can ensure that your brand names, character names, model names, and other unique content get translated exactly the way you define it.  

Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video. Using MediaConnect, broadcasters and content owners can cost-effectively send high-value live content into the cloud, securely transmit it to partners for distribution, and replicate it to multiple destinations around the globe. Build mission-critical live video transport workflows in a fraction of the time and cost of satellite or fiber, with broadcast-grade monitoring to maintain confidence that your video is delivered. MediaConnect combines reliable video transport, highly secure stream sharing, and real-time network traffic and video monitoring that allow you to focus on your content, not your transport infrastructure. To learn more, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconnect/ .