An alliance with Rifiniti makes data-based workplace analytics available as an IoT service to Osram customers.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve performance challenges on Amazon RDS databases, is now generally available on Amazon RDS for Oracle. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Java through the use of the JVM option. Oracle Java provides a SQL schema and functions that facilitate Oracle Java features in an Oracle database.

Starting today, you can pay your AWS invoices with any bank account supporting the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. Adding a bank account is easy. Simply go to the Payment Methods page on the AWS Billing Console and provide your IBAN, BIC/SWIFT and billing address.

AWS Fargate is now available in the EU (London) Region.  

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.

For a full list of AWS Regions where Fargate is available, please visit our Region table.
 

Starting today, you can add multiple RuleGroups to your AWS Firewall Manager policy. This allows you to use AWS WAF managed rules in conjunction with custom WAF rules consistently across all your AWS accounts. For instance, you can now deploy the OWASP Top 10 managed rule group from AWS Marketplace, with a set of your own custom WAF rules that meets your specific security needs such as blacklisting of IP addresses.

This updated Quick Start automatically deploys Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2016 in a highly available architecture on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 90 minutes. The deployment includes Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) for directory services and Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) for remote administration over the internet.

Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle now allow you to stop and start database instances that are running in a Multi-AZ configuration. This makes it easy and affordable to use databases for development and test purposes that match the configuration of your production databases but are not required to be running all of the time.

Stopping and starting a database instance requires just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, or a single call using the AWS API or AWS Command Line Interface, and takes just a few minutes. While your database instance is stopped, you are charged for provisioned database storage and backup storage, but not for database instance hours.

While a database instance is stopped, Amazon RDS does not delete any of your automatic backups or transaction logs. This means you can do a point-in-time restore to any point within your specified automated backup retention window, even after an instance is re-started. Starting an instance restores it to the same configuration as it had when stopped, including its endpoint, DB parameter group, security group, and option group membership.

You can stop a database instance for up to 7 days at a time. After 7 days, it will be automatically started. For more details on stopping and starting a database instance, please refer to Stopping and Starting a DB Instance in the Amazon RDS User Guide.