You can now share Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations with another AWS account or within your AWS Organization. When a Capacity Reservation is shared, EC2 instances launched by one AWS account can utilize EC2 capacity reserved by another account. This feature is enabled by AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), a service that allows you to easily and securely share AWS resources.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added the ability to prioritize transcoding jobs. You can now specify a priority setting when submitting jobs in either on-demand or reserved queues. With this feature, you have more control over the order in which jobs are processed, so that jobs that require shorter turnaround times can be added to the queue with a higher priority and started before other jobs with a lower priority. To learn more, please see the documentation .

Starting today, you can now add tags to your AWS Elemental MediaStore containers . MediaStore tags allow you to categorize your containers in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation for live origination and endpoints.

We’ve launched a new AWS Training and Certification for Enterprise website , in addition to other new resources, to enable our enterprise customers to build cloud skills within their organization and achieve their business objectives faster.

AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Fundamentals: Addressing Security Risk , a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Coursera. This course provides an overview of security best practices when developing and managing applications on AWS.

Amazon Aurora Serverless (MySQL-compatible edition) is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the release of the Campaign Metrics and Application Metrics APIs. By using these APIs, you can programmatically access a subset of the campaign metrics, or key performance indicators (KPIs), that appear on the analytics pages of the Amazon Pinpoint console. This means that you can display, monitor, and assess the performance of your campaigns without needing to analyze raw event data or sign into the Amazon Pinpoint console. These APIs also make it easy to integrate campaign metrics into your existing reporting tools and share them with your team.

This integration configures a set of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to seamlessly use ChoiceView from Radish Systems with Amazon Connect. ChoiceView can transform ordinary phone calls into “voice with visual” calls while maintaining compatibility with existing phones, dialing plans, business phone systems, and contact centers. 

AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to – or edit or delete tags of – multiple AWS resources at once. Starting today, AWS Resource Groups, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) AWS Region.

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now use more playout-style features for your live channels with file-based inputs. These features allow you to effectively configure unlimited file inputs and start and stop anywhere, at an exact time reference, within the file being used as the input. With a dynamic input , you can define the location of the file source when scheduling the switch to the input, rather than having to define it before the channel is started. You can also define which part of the file to play, with IN and OUT parameters , and request the change to be made immediately rather than scheduled in the future.