The AWS Solutions team updated Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers easily generate, test, compare, and iterate on forecasts. The solution allows customers to automatically trigger a workflow to automate the creation of forecasts in Amazon Forecast based on user-provided configuration. The solution then provides automatic visualization using Amazon QuickSight (and optionally Amazon SageMaker Jupyter Notebooks) providing a quick, easy, drag-and-drop interface that displays time series input and forecasted output for any input time series data.

Amazon Athena users can now query databases and tables across AWS accounts through built-in support for AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other AWS accounts. Customers need a central data catalog to enable analysts and data scientists to access their data lake without the complexity of replicating catalog metadata in individual AWS accounts. Today’s release makes it easier to connect AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other accounts using the Athena console or API.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports composite alarms in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms, you can combine multiple alarms to reduce alarm noise and focus on critical operational issues. You can easily combine multiple alarms together into alarm hierarchies that only trigger once when multiple alarms fire at the same time. This helps you stay focused on finding the root cause of operational issues to reduce system and application downtime.
 

You can now use Change Calendar to prevent desired-state configuration updates made usingState Manager. Change Calendar and State Manager are both capabilities of AWS SystemsManager. With Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control when changescan be made to your AWS resources. You can use State Manager to define, enforce, and reporton desired state configuration compliance for your infrastructure. With this new integration,you can help ensure that your desired-state configuration updates do not conflict withimportant business activities, such as sales events or new product launches.

Amazon Connect now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, connected to an agent, transferred to another agent or queue, and disconnected. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track contact activity, integrate into workforce management (WFM) solutions to better understand contact center performance, or to integrate applications that react to events (e.g., call disconnected) in real-time. Amazon Connect contact events are published via Amazon EventBridge, and can be set up in a couple of clicks by going to the Amazon EventBridge AWS console and creating a new rule.

Amazon Fraud Detector now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring Amazon Fraud Detector resources such as detectors and rules along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud.  

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Boston, Houston, and Miami metro areas.

We’re excited to add seven free, digital training courses to the series of AWS End User Computing Digital Training curriculums. Use these new Amazon WorkSpaces Deep Dive and Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer courses to learn how to administer, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud-based desktops and applications. Designed for desktop or virtual desktop infrastructure managers and IT administrators, these interactive, self-paced courses include presentations, videos, and quizzes.  

Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in the EU (Paris and Stockholm) region.