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

You can now tag launch templates at the time they are created, eliminating the need to run custom tagging scripts after creation. In addition, you can now set resource-level permissions on the CreateLaunchTemplate API, allowing you to implement stronger security policies by giving more granular control over who has access to that API. Resource-level permissions and tagging your launch templates on creation simplifies management and ensures that your launch templates are secured upon creation.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale, is now available in the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), US East (Ohio) regions. With these additions, RoboMaker is now available in seven regions globally.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region.

Starting today, you can leverage AWS Budgets’ integration with the newly released AWS Chatbot service to receive AWS Budgets alerts via Slack and Amazon Chime. To enable AWS Chatbot integration, simply configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic during the budget alert creation process. From there, navigate to the AWS Chatbot console and map your Amazon SNS topic to the appropriate Slack channel or Chime room. Once configured, your AWS Budgets alerts will be sent directly to the Slack channel or Chime room of your choice.

AWS Chatbot is a new service that makes it easy to set up ChatOps for AWS in your Amazon Chime or Slack chat rooms. AWS Chatbot provides an interactive agent that enables you to monitor and interact with your AWS resources from team chat rooms. You can receive alerts and execute commands to return diagnostic information so your team can collaborate and respond to events faster. AWS Chatbot is in beta with support for receiving notifications in your chat room.

AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. Snowball and Snowball Edge are data transfer services that use secure, ruggedized devices to move up to petabytes of data into and out of Amazon S3 for migration, edge computing, machine learning and analytics.

We’re excited to announce Lumberyard Beta 1.20, which reduces the time it takes Amazon Lumberyard to scan assets by 90%. This release contains over 200 improvements, fixes, and features.

Amplify Console now supports branch pattern deployments, allowing developers to automatically deploy branches that match a specific pattern without any extra configuration.