You can now launch M5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  

CloudWatch Logs Insights is an interactive log analytics service in CloudWatch that helps developers, engineers, and operators easily explore, analyze, and visualize logs when debugging applications or when troubleshooting operational problems. Users can get answers in seconds from system and application logs using a log query language , whether they are searching for specific errors across millions of log events, summarizing values across log events to better understand a system or application, or visualizing log data as time series to better understand behavior over time.

Starting today, you can maintain job bookmarks for Parquet and ORC formats in Glue ETL jobs (using Glue Version 1.0 ). AWS Glue tracks data that has been processed during a previous run of an ETL job by storing state information from the job run. This persisted state information is called a job bookmark. Job bookmarks help AWS Glue maintain state information and prevent the reprocessing of old data.  

AWS is expanding the Extras catalog in Amazon Linux 2 to include AWS-optimized variants of new Linux Kernel releases. Starting today, an AWS-optimized Linux Kernel 4.19 is now available in Amazon Linux 2 in the Extras channel. The new kernel includes enhancements such as improved performance on A1 instances and higher bandwidth with lower latency on smaller instance types. The Linux Kernel 4.14 continues to be available as the pre-installed and default kernel in Amazon Linux 2 and receives long-term support. 

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. PCI DSS is a security standard for organizations that process credit card information. For additional information about PCI DSS, visit AWS Compliance.  

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports immutable tags, a capability that prevents image tags from being overwritten. Previously, tags could be overwritten requiring manual methodologies to uniquely identify an image, but now with tag immutability you can use a common, intuitive approach which easily integrates with your CI/CD build options.  

Amazon Transcribe now supports WebSocket protocol for streaming transcription. Users can open a bidirectional connection to send an audio stream to the service, and in return, receive a stream of text in real time. Prior to this launch, streaming transcription was available via HTTP/2 streams. WebSocket protocol support makes integrations easier for customers with WebSocket-based clients. Support for WebSocket is available in all the regions where streaming service is available today. To learn more, please see this documentation .

 

AWS ParallelCluster is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region.  

Amazon Transcribe now supports WebSocket protocol for streaming transcription. Users can open a bidirectional connection to send an audio stream to the service, and in return, receive a stream of text in real time. Prior to this launch, streaming transcription was available via HTTP/2 streams. WebSocket protocol support makes integrations easier for customers with WebSocket-based clients. Support for WebSocket is available in all the regions where streaming service is available today. To learn more, please see this documentation .

Amazon SES is now a HIPAA Eligible Service. HIPAA eligibility applies to all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available.