Starting today, you can enable the native desktop experience for your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. Previously, AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions only showed the windows of the applications that were launched. With this launch, you can enable Desktop View on your fleet, which provides the same desktop experience your users are used to with the existing non-persistent capabilities AppStream 2.0 provides. You can enable the Desktop View when you create a new fleet, or update a stopped fleet. To get started, see Create a Fleet in the Amazon AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide . 

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports IPv6 traffic for VPN connections to AWS Transit Gateway. With this launch, you can now use IPv6 addressing for traffic between your customer gateway device and your resources in AWS. If you use IPv6 addresses for your resources in Amazon Virtual Private Clouds and on-premises data center or office sites, you can now communicate securely between them using AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections.  

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now allows you to scale your Redis Clusters up to 500 nodes. Redis (cluster mode enabled) configuration allows you to partition your data across multiple shards and offers better scalability, performance, and availability. With this announcement, you can double your cluster size from 250 nodes to 500 nodes, thereby supporting larger memory storage capacity of up to 340 TB of memory and improved throughput per cluster. You can choose to configure a 500-node cluster that ranges between 83 shards (one master and five replicas per shard) and 500 shards (single master and no replicas). 

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics from text. No ML expertise required. You can use Custom Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your domain. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant to you from unstructured text documents. Starting today, Amazon Comprehend is adding support for the following five new languages to Custom Entity Recognition: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.  

AWS Transfer Family now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions to protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Transfer Family for regulated workloads.  

Customers can now connect to meetings from the Amazon Chime app or Amazon Chime SDK in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. Additionally, Amazon Chime SDK customers can connect to meetings in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. 

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. 

Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables customers to choose how long their access and refresh tokens should be valid. Access tokens can be configured to expire in as little as five minutes or as long as 24 hours. Refresh tokens can be configured to expire in as little as one hour or as long as ten years. These customizations enable Amazon Cognito customers to balance the security and usability of each application they develop. 

On Aug 12th, 2020, AWS IoT Device Defender launched Audit Finding Suppression. The new capability allows you to choose which audit findings you want to see and turn off non-compliant findings for specific resources – this can be either because you are working towards fixing related issues or because the resources are known to be non-compliant, such as test or broken devices. In addition, you can configure audit finding suppressions for a defined period of time or indefinitely.  

CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24×7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This lets you discover issues before your customers do and react quickly to fix them.