AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added the ability to prioritize transcoding jobs. You can now specify a priority setting when submitting jobs in either on-demand or reserved queues. With this feature, you have more control over the order in which jobs are processed, so that jobs that require shorter turnaround times can be added to the queue with a higher priority and started before other jobs with a lower priority. To learn more, please see the documentation .

AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Fundamentals: Addressing Security Risk , a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Coursera. This course provides an overview of security best practices when developing and managing applications on AWS.

We’ve launched a new AWS Training and Certification for Enterprise website , in addition to other new resources, to enable our enterprise customers to build cloud skills within their organization and achieve their business objectives faster.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the release of the Campaign Metrics and Application Metrics APIs. By using these APIs, you can programmatically access a subset of the campaign metrics, or key performance indicators (KPIs), that appear on the analytics pages of the Amazon Pinpoint console. This means that you can display, monitor, and assess the performance of your campaigns without needing to analyze raw event data or sign into the Amazon Pinpoint console. These APIs also make it easy to integrate campaign metrics into your existing reporting tools and share them with your team.

Amazon Aurora Serverless (MySQL-compatible edition) is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

This integration configures a set of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to seamlessly use ChoiceView from Radish Systems with Amazon Connect. ChoiceView can transform ordinary phone calls into “voice with visual” calls while maintaining compatibility with existing phones, dialing plans, business phone systems, and contact centers. 

AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to – or edit or delete tags of – multiple AWS resources at once. Starting today, AWS Resource Groups, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) AWS Region.

You can now launch M5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now use more playout-style features for your live channels with file-based inputs. These features allow you to effectively configure unlimited file inputs and start and stop anywhere, at an exact time reference, within the file being used as the input. With a dynamic input , you can define the location of the file source when scheduling the switch to the input, rather than having to define it before the channel is started. You can also define which part of the file to play, with IN and OUT parameters , and request the change to be made immediately rather than scheduled in the future.

CloudWatch Logs Insights is an interactive log analytics service in CloudWatch that helps developers, engineers, and operators easily explore, analyze, and visualize logs when debugging applications or when troubleshooting operational problems. Users can get answers in seconds from system and application logs using a log query language , whether they are searching for specific errors across millions of log events, summarizing values across log events to better understand a system or application, or visualizing log data as time series to better understand behavior over time.