Customers can now get deeper insight into how Amazon API Gateway processes requests thanks to new access logging variables. These new access logging variables allow customers to see a step-by-step breakdown of an API call’s phases, latencies, and status codes. 

AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to more easily deploy SAP workloads in four new AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan). With this release, customers can now deploy SAP using Launch Wizard in 20 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). AWS Launch Wizard is also available in AWS GovCloud (US), AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. 

Amazon ElastiCache now allows you to assign permissions to specific resources in AWS IAM policies. You can now assign an IAM principal permissions to specific ElastiCache resource or resources. Prior to this release, Amazon ElastiCache did not support resource level permissions; customers could only assign permissions to all resources for a given action. With this release you can be fine-grained in your IAM policies and allow access to specific ElastiCache resources. For example, you can allow administrators in your organization to create production ElastiCache clusters and restrict other principals from modifying those specific clusters. This provides you with the flexibility to meet your enterprise security and compliance standards.

Starting today, new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5ad instances featuring 2nd generation AMD EPYC™ processors running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz are generally available. Amazon EC2 C5ad instances are variants of the recently launched C5a instances and are equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. C5ad instances provide high performance processing at 10% lower cost over comparable instances. These instances are ideal for applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing and applications that need caches and scratch files. These instances are also a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, such as video encoding, image manipulation and other forms of media processing. With the option of NVMe-based SSD instance storage, C5a customers now have additional storage choices for their most compute-intensive workloads.

You can now control whether contact center agents hear early media audio, such as busy signals, failure to connect errors, or other informational messages when making outbound calls. Previously Amazon Connect played standard ring back sounds during the call connection for agents even when phone companies could not complete calls and potential retries were attempted. Now, with a simple click in the AWS console, you can enable early media audio in Amazon Connect, and your agents can hear if the state of a dialed number is invalid, has been changed or disconnected, is busy, or another issue prevented completing the call. For example, agents can now terminate a call attempt more quickly based on a busy signal or update their records for contacts that changed or disconnected their phone number. 

Today, AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service launched version 0.3.0. Starting with this release, you can configure details about an AWS Copilot environment such as a pre-existing VPC, subnets, and CIDR ranges, allowing you to use infrastructure created outside of AWS Copilot. Additionally, you can now configure how AWS Copilot builds your services with overrides, such as arguments to use in a Dockerfile and the ability to set a context for a Dockerfile. Finally, you can now run one-time tasks or batch jobs with the new task run command; this is useful for containers that do not always need to be running or restarted such as running a script or querying a database.

AWS License Manager now allows customers to enforce assignment rules when they bring their own licenses to EC2 Dedicated Hosts. Software licenses such as Windows Server and SQL Server often require customers to keep the licenses assigned to dedicated hardware for a specified period. Customers can now manage such assignment rules using AWS License Manager by specifying the period for which the license should remain assigned to EC2 Dedicated Hosts. 

Amazon Connect now returns agent to previous status (e.g. Available, Offline, Custom status) after hanging up an outbound call and completing after contact work from the Contact Control Panel (CCP). Previously, agent status was automatically set to Available even if agent had been in a Custom or Offline state before making the outbound call. 

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce one such quality enhancement to our table recognition feature. The new model detects rows and columns of large tables that span an entire page more accurately. Overall table detection and extraction of data/text within tables has also been improved.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) today launched the new Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia Amazon Machine Image (AMI), a new Amazon Linux 2 based AMI for the Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances on ECS. This makes it easy for customers to run Inferentia based containers on ECS using the ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI which comes pre-baked with all the necessary AWS Neuron packages.