You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. You can read more about the custom runtimes in the AWS Lambda documentation . 

Starting today, you can stop and restart your workflows in AWS Glue giving you more control over the orchestration of your Glue ETL workloads. Additionally, you can specify the maximum number of concurrent runs for your Glue workflow.

Amazon EC2 G4 instances which provide industry’s most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 22. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, today announced new Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage options that make it even more cost effective to power any compute workload with a fast, shared file system. When creating shared file systems for compute workloads, you can now choose between existing SSD storage options and two new HDD storage options, each offering different levels of performance. The HDD options reduce storage costs by up to 80% for throughput-intensive workloads that don’t require the sub-millisecond latencies of SSD storage, including genome analysis, financial simulations, and seismic data processing.

AWS Fargate for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now included in Compute Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that allows customers to save money in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term. These plans automatically apply to usage across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS Fargate, and now Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate. Existing Savings Plans will automatically apply to EKS on Fargate usage from August 1, 2020.

Amazon CloudFront announces a new Regional Edge Cache located in AWS’ Europe (Ireland) Region . As part of this launch, a small number of CloudFront Edge locations that sent their origin requests through the Regional Edge Cache in the London Region will now go through the Ireland Region. Because of their proximity to Ireland, or more direct connections to Ireland, these Edge locations will see as much as a 62% reduction in latency fetching content from the Ireland Regional Edge Cache than the London Regional Edge Cache. 

We’re excited to announce a new digital course, Configure and Deploy AWS PrivateLink. This hour-long course teaches network engineers, systems administrators, and cloud architects how to configure and deploy AWS PrivateLink using the AWS Management Console. The course includes presentations and a video demonstration.

The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce v5.0 now provides CTI Flows which allows customers to build agent interactions with a drag and drop UI within Salesforce Lightning or Classic. CTI Flows consist of process blocks that enable you to easily design agent workflows within our Salesforce integration. This version supports screen-pop of accounts, cases or contacts from Amazon Connect voice or chat contacts, handle call disposition and activity management, and enable outbound calling such as click-to-call. In addition to CTI Flows, this release includes improvements for security profiles, Amazon Connect chat interactions, and Amazon Connect Salesforce Serverless updates for Salesforce queries and AWS Secrets Manager.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances have expanded availability to include AWS Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), US West (N. California) and Canada (Central) Regions. In addition, 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes of Amazon EC2 M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

The Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment solution make it easier to set up a multi-region architectures, supports controlled updates and maintain consistency of workloads. The solution automatically provisions and configures AWS CodePipeline to automate the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for validating and deploy AWS CloudFormation templates into a primary and secondary region.