You can now pause the entitlement on an output of AWS Elemental MediaConnect when sharing live video between AWS accounts. This feature makes it easier to manage content sharing by allowing you to suspend and restart distribution of live video to your subscribers without having to delete and then reconfigure entitlement settings. To learn more about entitlements in MediaConnect, please read the user guide .

AWS Elemental MediaTailor customers can now configure a video bumper at the beginning and/or the end of an ad break. Bumpers are commonly used to indicate a change from regular programming or ad breaks to viewers. Bumpers can also be used to meet requirements such as station identification announcements or viewer age recommendations.

Amazon Fraud Detector is now generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. Amazon Fraud Detector uses machine learning (ML) and 20 years of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com to automatically identify potentially fraudulent activity so you can catch more online fraud faster. Amazon Fraud Detector handles the heavy lifting of ML for you – in just a few clicks you can create a fraud detection model, with no prior machine learning experience required. 

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports gzip compression for HTTP payloads. With HTTP compression, you can reduce the size of your documents by to up to 80%, lowering bandwidth utilization and latency, leading to improved transfer speeds.  

You can now tag your AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections, Virtual Private Gateways, and Customer Gateways upon creation. You can do this when creating these resources through the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation. In addition, you can now set resource-level permissions when using Site-to-Site VPN APIs . This allows you to implement stronger security policies by giving you more granular control over who has access to these APIs. You can also enforce the use of tagging and control which tag keys and values are set on your resources.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cosine similarity distance metric with k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) to power your similarity search engine. Cosine similarity is used to measure similarities between two vectors, irrespective of their sizes and is most commonly used in information retrieval, image recognition, text similarity, bioinformatics and recommendation systems.

Amazon MQ now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), enabling you to authenticate and authorize Amazon MQ users using directory services like Microsoft Active Directory. LDAP support simplifies authentication and access control for Amazon MQ brokers. You can now authenticate your Amazon MQ users through the credentials stored in your LDAP server. You can also add, delete, and modify Amazon MQ users and assign permissions to topics and queues.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports the open source Learning to Rank plugin that lets you use machine learning technologies to improve the ranking of the top results returned from a baseline relevance query. With Learning to Rank (LTR) support, you can tune the search relevancy and re-rank your Elasticsearch query search results in information retrieval, personalization, sentiment analysis and recommendation systems.  

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. 

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups.