AWS Backup now supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads running on EC2, via Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). Customers can create, manage, and restore consistent backups of their Microsoft Windows Server instances and Microsoft applications (including SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange Server) directly from the AWS Backup console. 

AWS Glue Studio is a new visual interface for AWS Glue that makes it easy for extract-transform-and-load (ETL) developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. You can now use a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform data and run them on AWS Glue. You can then use AWS Glue Studio’s job run dashboard to monitor ETL execution and ensure that your jobs are operating as intended.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 released a self-guided workshop that enables customers to use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can view details for your AppStream 2.0 fleets, monitor autoscaling activities, and manage user streaming sessions without having to access the AppStream 2.0 console. To get started, see Create End User Computing Dashboard in the Hands-On Tutorials for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), increases the default service quotas (also commonly known as limits) for On-Demand and Spot resource counts. You can now launch up to 500 concurrent ECS tasks and EKS pods running on Fargate On-Demand and 500 concurrent ECS tasks running on Fargate Spot, up from 100 and 250 respectively. These are default quotas for an account in a given AWS Region, but you can always raise these values by requesting a service quota increase.

Today we are announcing the availability of two new CloudWatch metrics for capacity monitoring on AWS Outposts. The new metrics are UsedInstanceType_Count and AvailableInstanceType_Count. These new metrics provide insight into the number of instance types that are currently in use and available on Outposts. These metrics are available along with the other CloudWatch capacity monitoring metrics for Outposts on the AWS management console and CLI.

Amazon WorkSpaces released a self-guided workshop that helps customers use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can send the registration code email to a user, or stop, start, restart, and restore a user’s WorkSpace without having to access the WorkSpaces console. To get started, see Create End User Computing Dashboard in the Hands-On Tutorials for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS Perspective is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps you build detailed architecture diagrams of your workloads from live data in your account, that you can customize and share.  

You can now view all Amazon EC2 instances across all your accounts that are non-compliant with your configured patch rules in a single dashboard via AWS Security Hub. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now enables you to automatically send patch compliance findings generated by your patch rules to AWS Security Hub. This gives you the ability to centrally monitor your patch compliance along with other security findings in a single view. Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your security posture across your AWS accounts and aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes your security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services. Patch Manager is a feature of AWS Systems Manager. AWS Systems Manager enables visibility and control of your cloud and on-premises infrastructure.  

Today, we are announcing the availability of three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC. With this launch, AWS now offers 5 Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G network. Wavelength Zones were previously announced in Boston and San Francisco Bay Area.  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data.