Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can engage your customers by sending marketing campaigns and transactional messages through email, SMS, push notification, and voice channels.  

We are excited to announce Route Analyzer, a new feature available through AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager that enables you to perform route analysis on Transit Gateways in your global networks. With Route Analyzer, you can easily verify routing configurations of Transit Gateways across your global network by simply running network connectivity analysis on transit gateways between the given source and the destination.

AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink allowing you to access AWS License Manager’s capabilities from an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and other AWS services without traversing the public Internet. To get started, you need to create and interface endpoint in your VPC for AWS License Manager using the CLI, SDK or VPC Console. AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your existing software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM to AWS and centrally manage them across AWS and your on-premises environments. AWS PrivateLink allows you to access License Manager while keeping your network traffic within the Amazon network using interface VPC endpoints.

Starting today, AWS Systems Manager Explorer provides a summary of AWS Trusted Advisor checks across your AWS accounts, to help you get better visibility into cost savings, improve performance and reliability, and close security gaps. Systems Manager Explorer is an operations dashboard that provides a view of your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions, helping you see where you may need to investigate and remediate operational issues. Trusted Advisor offers checks and recommendations across five categories based on AWS best practices: cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, NoSQL Workbench is available for Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8, and any newer versions of these Linux distributions, in addition to Windows and macOS. 

AWS Transit Gateway now supports the ability to establish peering connections between Transit Gateways in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Transit Gateway is a service that enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. With AWS Transit Gateway, customers only have to create and manage a single connection from a central regional gateway to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data center, or remote office across their networks.  

Today, we are reducing the price of the Device Jobs feature of AWS IoT Device Management by 90%+. AWS IoT Device Management is a service that enables customers to register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage their devices connected to AWS IoT Core. Device Jobs is a fully managed feature that enables customers to trigger remote actions on their connected IoT devices, such as OTA firmware updates, device reboots, factory resets, content delivery, and configuration changes.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers an Enhanced VQ AVC mode for live channel outputs. Selecting this option for an AVC output lets you improve video quality for a live channel or reduce bitrate while maintaining the same level of quality. By reducing output bitrate for your live video, you can reduce the costs of distributing and storing content.

You can now perform S3 Object Lock operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to apply or change legal holds or retention periods across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying or updating tag sets across billions of objects. S3 Batch Operations handles all the manual work, including managing retries and displaying progress.  

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.16 for all clusters.