Amazon EMR is now available through VPC endpoints, allowing you to access Amazon EMR within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet. VPC endpoints for Amazon EMR are powered by AWS PrivateLink, which provides secure, private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services.

Amazon ElastiCache adds support for Redis open source version 5.0.6. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and memory management. This release improves the stability of ElastiCache for Redis when dealing with large number of new concurrent connections and with low memory conditions. Additionally, customers can now monitor replication latency with sub-second granularity.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in two additional AWS regions: Canada (Central) and South America (Sao Paulo). Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in fifteen AWS regions.

AWS Security Hub now integrates with AWS Firewall Manager. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and Amazon VPC Security Group rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organizations. AWS Firewall Manager’s integration with Security Hub will send four types of findings to Security Hub: (1) resources that are not properly protected by WAF rules; (2) resources that are not properly protected by Shield Advanced; (3) Shield Advanced findings that indicate a Distributed Denial of Service attack is underway; and (4) security groups that are being used incorrectly. AWS Security Hub will automatically enable this integration if you are already using Firewall Manager, and you will begin receiving findings from Firewall Manager without any action needed on your end.

AWS Cloud9 is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.  

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy and quick to retrieve text and structured data like tables and forms using our DetectText or AnalyzeDoc APIs, without requiring any custom configuration or templates. One advantage of a managed service like Amazon Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon Textract is now PCI DSS certified. This means that you can now use Amazon Textract for all workloads that require Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) information security standard, such as cardholder data (CHD) or sensitive authentication data (SAD). Also starting today, AWS launched a set of quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate for our tables and forms features. 

You can now easily connect your Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud source repository to your AWS CodePipeline, allowing for the automation of the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change. 

Starting today, you can configure EC2 Fleet to utilize On-Demand Capacity Reservations first when launching On-Demand instances. EC2 Fleet will then look for available Capacity Reservations within the instance pools specified, and will fully utilize available Capacity Reservations before launching On-Demand instances on net new capacity.

AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Computer Vision: Getting Started with GluonCV , a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Coursera. Using video lectures and demonstrations, you will develop foundational knowledge about computer vision (CV) on AWS and skills to build and train CV models with Apache MXNet and GluonCV.

We’re excited to announce new digital versions of two APN Partner classroom courses that we launched in November 2019. Designed to help APN Partners use AWS solutions for their customers and organizations, these courses provide a technical understanding of how VMware and containers work in the AWS Cloud.