Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility to support PostgreSQL version 11.8, 10.13 and 9.6.18 in all regions. This release contains bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community, and improved TLS support from PostgreSQL 12.

Amazon Lightsail now offers a variety of new OS-only instance blueprints, including Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 20, Windows Server 2019, and Debian 10. Lightsail provides a curated selection of blueprints that specify the operating system and software that is preinstalled on your instance bundle when it’s created. With this launch, Lightsail now offers a wider variety of OS blueprints to choose from, making it even easier to build applications on your preferred OS with just a few clicks.  

Starting today, developers using the Amazon Chime SDK can help their application end-users test their device before they try to join a meeting. New meeting readiness checker APIs in the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript can help verify access to audio and video devices and confirm that users can reach the Amazon Chime service from their network. Results can be presented back to end users with easy-to-understand pass/fail statuses that expose the root cause of any issues. Application developers can use the meeting readiness checker to ensure a consistent customer experience and reduce their support burdens.

AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to deploy SAP workloads using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5.

Today we are making it easier to create, prototype and test GraphQL queries directly in the AWS AppSync GraphQL Console.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asian Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London) Regions. You can now synthesize over 14 NTTS voices in these Regions, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you can continue to synthesize the over 60 standard voices available in 29 languages in the Amazon Polly portfolio.

You can now subscribe to Microsoft Office Professional from AWS on Bring Your Own Windows License (BYOL) WorkSpaces. The new offering makes it easier for customers to use the Office suite of applications on Amazon WorkSpaces. 

Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that allows you to set up and manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few clicks. Amazon Managed Blockchain eliminates the overhead required to create the network, and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Once your network is up and running, Amazon Managed Blockchain makes it easy to manage and maintain your blockchain network. It manages your certificates and lets you easily invite new members to join the network.

Starting today, provisioning your WorkDocs site to all of your directory users is made easy. When provisioning your WorkDocs site, all directory users are provided a valid WorkDocs account, enabling each directory user to sign in and begin using full WorkDocs functionality as a Managed User without you having to manually activate each user. A Managed User has 1 TB of personal storage and can save files and collaborate with others on a WorkDocs site.  

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Advanced Video Coding (AVC) for ultra-high definition (UHD) outputs. This allows you to incorporate an AVC UHD output in your adaptive bitrate (ABR) stacks for live channels; for example, you can create an ABR stack with one AVC output with a UHD resolution of 3840×2160, along with 1440p, 1080p, and 720p HD resolution outputs in a single output group.