We are excited to introduce the new Amazon WorkSpaces client for Windows and Mac. The client contains new enhancements including the ability to create personalized labels for registration codes, a new more intuitive UI, and includes the latest updates to the PCoIP protocol.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle OLAP – a multidimensional analytic engine embedded in the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle OLAP option provides SQL access to advanced analytics, and cube-organized materialized views to enhance the performance of business intelligence solutions.  

AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces new automation features to streamline deployments of resources to multiple accounts and regions through AWS Organizations . With this launch, you can use StackSets to centrally manage deployments to the accounts in one or more organizational units (OUs) or all of the accounts in your organization. You will also be able to enable automatic deployments to any new accounts added to your organization or OUs. The permissions needed to deploy across accounts will automatically be taken care of by the StackSets service.  

Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables customers to configure case sensitivity settings for user aliases, including native username, email alias and preferred username alias. With this update, new user pools will be set to case insensitive by default and customers can change the configuration to case sensitive in the console before a user pool is created. Existing user pools will remain as case sensitive. When creating a user pool through Cognito APIs, the user pool will be case sensitive by default. We will change the default setting for the API in the future after a customer notification campaign.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to discover insights and relationships in text. Starting today, Amazon Comprehend is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions.

We’re excited to announce updated versions of two of our digital courses, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Amazon Connect (Technical) and AWS Technical Professional . These digital courses were designed, respectively, to help APN Partners understand how to discuss the technical advantages of creating a cloud-based contact center with Amazon Connect, and also to gain a basic technical understanding of AWS services.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports up to 50 outputs per flow, more than double the previous limit of 20 outputs. This change provides better fan-out capabilities for your live video content and lets you build more sophisticated workflows to support syndication opportunities. 

The Multi-Region Asynchronous Object Replication Solution automatically provisions and configures all the AWS services necessary to set up a multi-region replication configuration with Amazon S3 buckets. For example, you can create objects in Oregon, rename them in Singapore, and delete them in Dublin, and the changes are replicated to all other regions. This solution is designed for workloads that can tolerate lost events and variations in replication speed.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers fine-grained access control, which adds multiple capabilities to give you tighter control over your data. New features include the ability to use roles to define granular permissions for indices, documents, or fields and to extend Kibana with read-only views and secure multi-tenant support.

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available with machine learning capabilities, an option to export data into Amazon S3, and compatibility with updated PostgreSQL versions.