Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data to New Relic , the industry’s leading observability platform for all telemetry data. This Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to New Relic without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression to help you accelerate the deployment of data streams across your organization.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to a Datadog . This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to Datadog without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression to help you accelerate the deployment of data streams across your organization.

Starting today, you can target EC2 Capacity Reservations within an AWS Resource Group using the Resource Group ARN. With this feature, you can now use Capacity Reservations seamlessly for workloads that span Availability Zones and multiple instance types. This feature integrates seamlessly with EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet.  

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. By using Hibernation, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances to get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications.  

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now facilitates connecting Amazon ES with two of the most powerful business intelligence and data visualization applications, Tableau and Microsoft Excel. To achieve this, we introduce Amazon ES- Tableau integration and the Amazon ES- Excel integration in Open Distro for Elasticsearch SQL Engine on Amazon Elasticsearch Service.  

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

We are happy to announce that we are lowering the price of Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enterprise Edition database instances in the Multi-AZ configuration, for both On-Demand and Reserved purchase types on the latest generation hardware. 

AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, AWS IQ, and EC2 Reserved Instances Marketplace now support invoice payments in 13 additional currencies, in addition to our existing support for US Dollars (USD). This will help relieve your accounting department of the burden of paying and tracking conversion fees and other costs associated with the use of foreign currencies.

Starting today, customers can manage their AWS Purchase Orders (“POs”) within their AWS Billing Console, creating and defining invoices association rules, managing their PO status, and setting up PO balance notifications.