The digital training course Architecting Serverless Solutions now offers hands-on learning with optional labs. You will now be able to learn how to benefit from new features such as Provisioned Concurrency, AWS Lambda Destinations, and error handling for streams.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. 

Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances and the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors are generally available. Amazon EC2 C6g instances deliver up to 40% better price performance over x86-based Amazon EC2 C5 instances for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. Amazon EC2 R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price performance over x86-based Amazon EC2 R5 instances for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. 

Amazon CloudFront now provides you even more control over the connection behaviors between CloudFront and your origin. You can now configure the number of connection attempts CloudFront will make to your origin and the origin connection timeout for each attempt. In addition, the CloudFront origin response timeout range has been expanded and you can now change the value from 1 to 60 seconds, where previously the minimum value was 4 seconds. These two new configurations can be individually set for any type of origin within your CloudFront distribution and can also be used to further enhance the responsiveness and availability of your multi-origin application when coupled with CloudFront Origin Failover .

You can now monitor your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis fleet with 18 additional engine and node-level CloudWatch metrics. These metrics are based on the Redis INFO command and are published either as-is or are calculated further to provide you with more actionable insights to manage your Amazon ElastiCache fleet.

AWS Transfer Family adds support for using end users’ Source IP addresses as a factor for authorization, enabling you to apply an additional layer of security when authorizing access over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), or FTP.  

Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports exporting recommendations to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Amazon Pinpoint journeys gives marketing teams the flexibility they need to automate multi-step customer campaigns. Today, Amazon Pinpoint journeys expanded its capabilities to support notifications across SMS, Push, and custom channels. This helps marketers more effectively send the right message, to the right customer, over the best channel. Additionally, Amazon Pinpoint journeys now supports the ability to target a customer across devices using a single unified ID, rather than multiple points of contact (e.g., email address, phone numbers). This enables expanded multi-channel use cases. For example, you could send your customer a push notification when they download your application and after a defined period of time, follow-up with an email dependent on whether they opened the original push notification.

EC2 Image Builder is now integrated with AWS PrivateLink which enables customers to privately access EC2 Image Builder from Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network.

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 Canada (Central) 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.