AWS DeepRacer is a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car powered by reinforcement learning that gives machine learning developers of all skill levels the opportunity to learn and build their ML skills in a fun and competitive way. AWS DeepRacer Evo includes new features and capabilities that help developers to learn more about ML through the addition of sensors that enable object avoidance and head-to-head racing. Starting today, while supplies last, developers can purchase AWS DeepRacer Evo  for a limited-time, discounted price of $399, a saving of $199 off the regular bundle price of $598 and the AWS DeepRacer Sensor Kit for $149, a saving of $100 off the regular price of $249. Both are available on Amazon.com for shipping in the USA only.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.17.

Now you can configure ingress for your applications running within App Mesh with virtual gateways that allow services outside of your mesh to communicate with services inside the mesh. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your applications. 

Cloud Foundation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Itoc, an AWS DevOps, Financial Services, SaaS and Security Competency Partner. Cloud Foundation delivers a best practice, secure, and flexible foundation AWS environment for customers that don’t have the depth of skills yet or the capacity internally to build their own. Whether you need to improve the implementation of your current AWS solution or build a new greenfield environment, Itoc will provide a complete walkthrough; no prior experience required.

AWS Service Catalog is now available for use in AWS Managed Services (AMS) accounts. You can now leverage Service Catalog as an alternative to the AWS change management system to provision and manage resources in your AMS accounts. Service Catalog helps you achieve consistent governance by systematically applying your organization’s security and operational policies, while enabling your end users to quickly deploy only the approved IT resources they need. With Service Catalog, you can control which IT services and versions are available, the configuration of the available services, and permission access by individual, group, department, or cost center. Once provisioned, AMS manages all of the operational tasks needed to run AWS at scale for all infrastructure resources provisioned through Service Catalog. 

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data. 

Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Data Lakes Using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that creates a scalable environment in AWS to prepare genomic data for large-scale analysis and perform interactive queries against a genomics data lake. The solution demonstrates how to 1) build, package, and deploy libraries used for genomics data conversion, 2) provision data ingestion pipelines for genomics data preparation and cataloging, and 3) run interactive queries against a genomics data lake. The solution uses AWS CloudFormation to automate its deployment in the AWS Cloud, and it includes continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using AWS CodeCommit source code repositories and AWS CodePipeline  for building and deploying updates to the data preparation jobs, crawlers, data analysis notebooks, and the data lake infrastructure. It fully leverages infrastructure as code principles and best practices that enable you to rapidly evolve the solution.

Amazon Athena customers can now register and manage their data catalogs in Athena using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::DataCatalog resource.

EC2 Image Builder now allows customers to stream logs to AWS CloudWatch, which can help examine and troubleshoot issues with building, customizing, securing, patching, testing, and distribution of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). It also allows customers to maintain continuous visibility into the activity of Image Builder pipelines. 

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports launching Amazon EC2 instances of Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions. Enterprises can now migrate their workloads using Oracle Linux 7.5 into AMS using workload ingest process or by creating new EC2 instances. AMS performs patching, monitoring, back-up management, log aggregation, security management, incident management, and problem management for these EC2 instances.