AWS Proton now allows you to define services that do not include pipelines, giving developer and platform teams flexibility in defining, provisioning, and deploying their services.  

AWS Proton has made two new fields, service_instance and service_instance_name, available as inputs for the Jinja parametrization of templates. Template writers can use these fields to name individual resources in the template without requiring additional inputs from developers.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers a Workflow Wizard to help you create a live streaming workflow in just a few minutes. The Workflow Wizard guides you through setting up a live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental MediaLive and other AWS services including AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront.  

Amazon Connect Chat now provides an out-of-the-box chat widget, making it easy to begin servicing your customers through chat in just a few clicks. The widget allows you to design the customer experience to align with your corporate branding by customizing the font and color scheme in the user interface. Once configured, the widget can be easily embedded for display on a website by copying and pasting a simple code snippet. The widget also provides advanced configuration options to restrict access to authenticated users or to define specific domains where the widget can be displayed.

AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that automatically sets up a chatbot application with sample interactions. This update enables customers to build and iterate on their chatbots faster. The new functionalities help customers scale the use of their chatbots with additional languages and support for more natural conversations.

Amazon Redshift RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge nodes are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In addition, the smallest RA3 node type, RA3.xlplus, is also now available in five additional AWS regions. RA3.xlplus is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt, London, Stockholm), in addition to the previously available regions Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo), Brazil (São Paulo), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland, Paris), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (N. California, Oregon).

Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions.

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to replicate secrets across multiple AWS Regions. You can now give your multi-Region applications access to replicated secrets in the corresponding Regions and rely on AWS Secrets Manager to keep the replicas in sync with the primary secret. This feature abstracts the complexity of replicating secrets across Regions, enabling customers to leverage Secrets Manager to easily manage secrets needed to support their multi-Region applications and disaster recovery strategies. You can use this functionality through the AWS Secrets Manager console , CreateSecret and ReplicateSecretToRegions API, or via AWS CloudFormation to replicate secrets in one or more Regions.