AWS RoboMaker announces the support for sudo access inside robot and simulation applications at runtime. Customers now have additional flexibility to modify their robot and simulation application environment at runtime so as to align with the environment they have on their robot. With sudo access, customers can install custom software, make changes to the root filesystem, update file permissions, and troubleshoot issues.  

AWS Trusted Advisor is an application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS’ aggregated operational history of serving millions of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance, and closing security gaps.

AWS Cloud9 now supports the ability to tag Cloud9 development environments through both the console and the AWS API. Further documentation about tags is available here .

Starting today, Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is available in all AWS commercial regions excluding China and AWS GovCloud regions. Additionally, the limits for FSR-enabled snapshots per region are increased from 5 to 50.

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) , a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports ordering clauses in Cassandra Query Language (CQL) queries and AWS CloudTrail logging for control-plane operations.

AWS Backup is now available to protect Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) workloads in four more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong),EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Learn to “think serverless” with this free training course from AWS. In this intermediate, three-hour digital course, you will learn how to combine AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in event-driven patterns to power scalable and secure serverless applications.

We’re excited to announce a free training course that demonstrates how to create and configure an AWS Transit Gateway. In this digital course, you will learn about setting up a basic Transit Gateway, creating a Transit Gateway with shared domains and route tables, and routing and propagation. Demonstrations will help teach you about connecting VPN and direct connect to AWS Transit Gateway.