The Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress can now automatically translate text to different languages, and convert the written content into multilingual audio formats. This new feature is powered by Amazon Translate, a neural machine translation service.

You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets for applications that are subject to U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS has made it easier for you to use the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information that is subject to HIPAA.

Amazon EC2 M5d instances deliver M5 instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block level instance storage physically connected to the host server. M5d instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low latency local block storage including data logging and media processing. M5d will be beneficial for applications including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. With the option of NVMe-based SSD instance storage, M5 customers now have additional storage choices for their general-purpose workloads.

With AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can now create Common Media Application Format (CMAF) fragmented MP4 (fMP4) HLS and DASH video outputs. With CMAF support on AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can create a single file format using the AVC (Advanced Video Coding) or High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) codecs and fMP4 segments that are then packaged and delivered as multiple adaptive streaming technologies to serve different devices. Support for CMAF lets you realize video quality improvements and benefit from simplification of content creation and storage. You can also now create HEVC content for Apple devices with improved video quality and better compression efficiency over AVC, and use High Dynamic Range (HDR) for premium video experiences.

Starting today, you can use your own custom domain for the hosted Login UI — offering your users a unified login experience into user directories managed by Amazon Cognito. To add a custom domain, from the service console enter your domain name, and link it with a security certificate obtained from AWS Certificate Manager. With the newly announced feature, users can now stay within your application’s domain, and thus enjoy a consistent branding experience.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is now generally available and supported for production use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain the Kubernetes management infrastructure.

Amazon Polly now offers a choice of a second female French voice, Léa, in addition to the current female voice, Celine. Amazon Polly also has a French male voice, Mathieu. Léa is a warm and natural-sounding voice with Parisian accent. Listen to the spoken introduction from Lea.    

AWS WAF adds two new features to help customers write more specific rules to protect their web applications and APIs: (a) enhanced pattern matching against Query String arguments and (b) support for non-octet CIDR boundaries.

With enhanced pattern matching against Query String arguments, customers can now configure AWS WAF to parse the query string in the URI and run pattern matches on the value of a specific query argument or values of all query arguments. Previously, customers could match a string (or use a regex) against the full query string without differentiating individual name-value pairs. With this enhancement, customers can write WAF rules for application vulnerabilities embedded in the query string and benefit from more targeted look-ups and more granular detections thus reducing false positives on query argument names. For example, in the URL https:// example.com/page?name1=value1&name2=value2, customers can now write a string match condition to match the value “value1” for the query argument “name1” as well as a size constraint condition(s) on one or more of the name-value pairs in the query string.

Support for non-octet CIDR boundaries allows customers to use more granular subnet boundaries by configuring any subnet mask between /16 and /32 for IPv4 addresses. Previously, AWS WAF’s IP match condition supported only /8, /16, /24 and /32 subnets for IPv4. Now, customers can write AWS WAF rules to match on CIDRs such as 10.21.3.44/31, 10.21.3.40/29, 10.21.3.45/17, and so on. This allows for better aggregation of IPs into fewer entries in the IP lists which currently support 10,000 CIDR entries per list. We will also continue to support the existing IPv6 CIDR boundaries, which are: /128 /64 /56 /48 /32 and /24.

There is no additional charge for either of these new features. For more details visit the AWS WAF page on the AWS Website.

Server Fleet Management at Scale is a solution that can help you more easily automate your fleet of servers. This solution automatically provisions the services necessary to maintain a consistent configuration of your Amazon EC2 or on-premises instances. The solution can also automate maintenance and deployment tasks, and automatically apply patches, updates, and configuration changes across any resource group.