The German giant banks on global “digitization” that it says will require optical diodes serving as sensors and light sources in everything from humans to cars to general illumination. Massive factory starts on time and on budget.

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Networking Competency. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have staff with AWS-certifications.

Earlier this month, we introduced AWS PrivateLink , a new service that allows customers to privately access select AWS services from their Virtual Private Cloud and from on-premises via AWS Direct Connect. We are now extending this capability to customer and partner services hosted on AWS.

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Machine Learning Competency. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.

AWS AppSync is a new service in Public Preview that enables you to manage and update mobile app data in real-time between devices and the cloud, and allows apps to interact with the data on the mobile device when it is offline. With AWS AppSync, applications can easily access AWS services using a data language called GraphQL and an SDK that is optimized for mobile and web applications. GraphQL is an open standard that lets you request, change, and subscribe to the exact data you need in a single network request. This makes prototyping and building data intensive applications as simple as writing a few lines of code.

AWS Marketplace is pleased to announce that customers can now discover Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that are available on AWS PrivateLink, and connect to these applications using verified DNS names on the service endpoints. AWS PrivateLink enables customers to access services hosted on AWS in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping the network traffic within the AWS network.

You can now use canary release deployments to gradually roll out new APIs in Amazon API Gateway. This helps you more safely roll out API changes and limit the blast radius of new deployments.

You can now shift incoming traffic between two AWS Lambda function versions based on pre-assigned weights. This allows you to gradually shift traffic between two versions, helping you reduce the risk and limit the blast radius of new Lambda deployments. You can now also use AWS CodeDeploy to automatically manage the rollout of new function versions. CodeDeploy is a service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services like Lambda and Amazon EC2. CodeDeploy makes it easy to gradually and safely deploy updates to Lambda, and it is supported by the AWS Serverless Application Model .  

Now, you can use advanced security features (beta) for Amazon Cognito to help protect access to user accounts in your applications. These advanced security features provide risk-based adaptive authentication and protection from the use of compromised credentials.

AWS Batch now supports the submission of arrays of jobs with a single API call. With ArrayJobs, users can easily submit, with a single SubmitJob  call, up to 10,000 copies of a job. Users can also express dependencies on Array Jobs, including ‘N-to-N’ dependencies between related elements across multiple Array Jobs. Array Jobs simplify the submission and management of large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, parametric sweeps, and jobs which need to perform the same operation on thousands of input files or objects. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. With AWS Batch, there is no need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters.