Amazon Web Services announced Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) support for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on AWS Outposts.  

Today we are announcing the availability of more granular CloudWatch metrics for improved network monitoring on the AWS Transit Gateway.

EC2 Image Builder is now integrated with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and enables customers to build and distribute Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are encrypted with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) today increased the default service quotas for ECS tasks per service and services per cluster. You can now launch up to 2,000 tasks per service and 2,000 services per cluster, up from 1,000 each.

We are happy to announce the availability of Porting Assistant for .NET, an analysis tool that scans .NET Framework applications and generates a .NET Core compatibility assessment, helping you port your applications to Linux faster.

Today, we are announcing AWS App2Container (A2C), a new command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications. A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in virtual machines on-premises or in the cloud. You simply select the application you want to containerize, and A2C packages the application artifact and run-time dependencies into container images, configures the network ports, and generates the ECS task and Kubernetes pod definitions.

EC2Launch v2 is a redesigned, unified launch agent for EC2 Windows instances, which simplifies the configuration of Windows instances to meet the needs of your workloads. EC2Launch applies AWS-recommended configurations to your Windows instances, such as local administrator username changes, support for increased user data input length, and agent auto-updates. EC2Launch v2 provides you with a single EC2 launch experience regardless of EC2 platform and supported Windows OS.

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.12 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and improvements compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.10.  

Amazon Comprehend Medical, is a HIPAA-eligible machine learning service that allows developers to process unstructured medical text and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more. One of the more powerful features of Amazon Comprehend Medical is the ability to tie these entities together through a process called relationship extraction.  

Starting today, AWS AppSync is available in five new regions: EU (Paris and Stockholm), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo) and US (N. California).