Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve database performance challenges, is now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL. This release supports MySQL version 5.7.22 and higher.

Amazon WorkDocs users can now share files from Microsoft Windows with a single click.

The AWS Serverless Application Repository enables developers across teams and organizations to discover, deploy, store, and share serverless apps. Today, we added sorting functionality and launched improvements to our search ranking algorithm so you can find pre-built applications that match your use case faster than before.

AWS Systems Manager, which provides a unified user interface and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources, now supports calling a broad range of AWS APIs in your Systems Manager Automation workflows. You can author workflows using three new AWS API Actions – Execute, Assert, and Wait, while utilizing the benefits of Automation service such as safe at-scale operation with approvals.

Amazon SageMaker now supports version 1.9 in its pre-built TensorFlow containers. This makes it easier to run TensorFlow scripts, while taking advantage of the capabilities Amazon SageMaker offers, including a library of high-performance algorithms, managed and distributed training with automatic model tuning, one-click deployment, and managed hosting.  

Available today, in addition to a JavaScript library, AWS Amplify now provides a complete CLI (Command Line Interface) Toolchain for developing mobile and web applications in the cloud with Serverless backend components. These features allow developers to build, customize, and deploy applications in a familiar, category-based style with architectural best-practices built in.

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now insert SCTE-35 markers into the the source of a live channel. SCTE-35 markers are used to signal opportunities to insert ads or local programming into streams. You can also add and remove static graphic overlays on channels. These overlays can be used to add digital on-screen graphics, such as channel logos, to live streams.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with newer versions of the following deep learning frameworks and interfaces: TensorFlow 1.10 optimized for AWS for higher performance, Horovod 0.13.11 with OpenMPI 3.1.0 optimized for distributed multi-GPU TensorFlow training on Amazon EC2 P3 instances, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2  optimized for model training on Amazon EC2 P3 instances, Chainer 4.3.1 , and Keras 2.2.2 .  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can now index your thing groups within your AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Index, allowing you to quickly find your thing groups based upon name, attribute, description, and/or parent group name. For example, you can query your fleet index to find your groups that have a firmware version attribute between V1 – V4, or find all child groups under your “TestDevices” parent group.