Starting today, you can use the Python programming language to develop your functions in Lambda@Edge, in addition to currently supported Node.js. This gives you the flexibility of opting for the programming language of your choice as you author your functions.

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to specify AWS IoT Events resources. This improvement enables you to use CloudFormation to deploy AWS IoT Events resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. You can use CloudFormation templates to specify IoT Events Inputs and Detector Models.

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications.  

You can now view pipeline status from the pipeline listing in AWS CodePipeline. Previously, you had to look at the detail page of a pipeline to obtain its status. Now, you can see the status of the most recent execution for each pipeline directly on the pipeline listing. You are now able to monitor status across multiple pipelines in a unified interface.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the immediate availability of the Middle East (Bahrain) Region, which is the first AWS Region in the Middle East and consists of three Availability Zones. With this launch, AWS now offers 22 Regions and 69 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries.  

Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, in addition to Amazon Linux 1 OS.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology, which delivers ground-breaking improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. The 8 US English and 3 UK English voices in the Polly portfolio are now available in both the previous Standard technology, as well as in the new Neural TTS technology. In addition, 2 of the US English voices also feature a Newscaster speaking style, which sounds like a TV or radio newscaster. 

The EBS default volume type has been updated to gp2 when a block storage volume type is not specified within AWS API calls for volume, image, and instance creation.

You can now attach multiple target groups to your Amazon ECS services that are running on either Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate. Target groups are used to route requests to one or more registered targets when using a load balancer. Attaching multiple target groups to your service allows you to simplify infrastructure code, reduce costs and increase manageability of your ECS services.  

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotic applications, now supports offline logs and metrics for its CloudWatch cloud extension.