Starting today, you can now use custom certificates in AWS Glue when using JDBC connections to connect to your data sources from Glue ETL jobs and crawlers. You may decide to use custom certificates because you already obtained a certificate from a third-party issuer, or because the default certificates supported by AWS Glue do not meet your requirements. Previously, you were only able to use the default certificates supported by AWS Glue. 

Starting today, Amazon Textract is a HIPAA eligible service. HIPAA eligibility applies to all AWS Regions where Amazon Textract is available. This means you can use Amazon Textract to help you process protected health information (PHI) extracted from images to power your healthcare applications.

You can now use ElastiCache self-service updates feature to apply updates on Memcached and Redis cache clusters, in addition to Redis replication groups at the time of your choosing and track the progress in real-time.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18 TB and 24 TB of memory are generally available. 

AWS Training and Certification has updated one partner course and added another to its training portfolio. First, we made major updates to our AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations (Business) course. Second, we are introducing a new course, AWS Solutions Training for Partners Foundations – Public Sector – Business. This new course is designed specifically to help new APN Partners identify customer opportunities and build their business on AWS.

We’re excited to announce two new public classroom courses. AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is an updated classroom version of our most widely adopted free digital course and Architecting on AWS – Accelerator is a new course based on our two of our existing architecting courses. These new offerings make it easier for you to build and advance your cloud skills in a hands-on environment. 

Windows worker nodes are now fully supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Previously, EKS supported running Windows nodes as part of a public preview.

AWS Snowball Edge now allows you to perform an offline update to the software of your Snowball Edge device when your device is not connected to the internet.

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support new PostgreSQL minor versions. This release contains security fixes, bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

You can now retrieve additional data from DynamoDB tables as part of the rule processing in AWS IoT Core. To do so, simply use the get_dynamodb() function in the SQL statement of your rule, either in the SELECT clause to enrich message payload or in the WHERE clause to evaluate a condition with context from a DynamoDB table of your choice.