AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog, has announced an easier way to discover relevant products. With this new feature, you can see products related to the one you are looking at under a “Related Products” section that’s made available on the detail page. Relevant products are provided based on correlations between thousands of products in AWS Marketplace. You can learn more about a related product by clicking into its detail page directly from the page you’re on.

You can now easily publish APIs on the API Gateway Serverless Developer Portal supported by Amazon API Gateway. In addition, using the Serverless Developer Portal’s new search functionality, feedback mechanisms, and SDK generation capabilities, you can also increase the discoverability and utility of APIs for your customers.  

You can use Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore to create on-demand and continuous backups of your DynamoDB tables and then restore from these backups. DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports logical replication. With logical replication, you can replicate data changes from your Aurora PostgreSQL database to other databases using native PostgreSQL replication slots, or data replication tools such as the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). Logical replication is supported with Aurora PostgreSQL versions 2.2.0 and 2.2.1, compatible with PostgreSQL 10.6.

To enable logical replication with Aurora PostgreSQL, set up logical replication slots on your instance and stream changes from the database through these slots. This is enabled by setting the parameter rds.logical_replication to 1; you can set this parameter in just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console . The rds_replication role, assigned to the master user by default, can be used to grant permissions to manipulate and stream data through replication slots. This feature also enables Aurora PostgreSQL to be used as a source for AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). You can learn more about using logical replication with Aurora PostgreSQL in the Aurora documentation .

Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page , and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability.

 

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.12.6 for all clusters. Additionally, you can now update the version of your Amazon EKS cluster using AWS CloudFormation.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to discover insights and relationships in text. Starting today, customers can enable the service to work with encrypted data in S3, using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). AWS KMS makes it easy for you to create and manage keys and control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications. AWS KMS is a secure and resilient service that uses FIPS 140-2 validated hardware security modules to protect your keys. AWS KMS is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs. The feature can be configured via the AWS Management console or the SDK and supports Amazon Comprehend asynchronous training and inference jobs.

Amazon Comprehend is fully managed and continuously trained by AWS. The service makes it easy to add text analytics to your applications by removing any skills or steps required to build and run NLP models. Get started with Amazon Comprehend by using the console or the API.

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, a new Amazon S3 storage class providing secure and durable object storage for long-term retention of data that is accessed rarely in a year. From just $0.00099 per GB-month (less than one-tenth of one cent, or about $1 per TB-month), S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest cost storage in the cloud, at prices lower than storing and maintaining data in on-premises magnetic tape libraries or archiving data offsite. To get started with S3 Glacier Deep Archive visit: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/.

Starting today, you can use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to set permission guardrails with the fine-grained controls used in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. This makes it easier to meet the specific requirements of your organization’s governance rules. The new policy editor in the AWS Organizations console makes it easier to author SCPs by guiding you to add actions, resources, and conditions.  

AWS RoboMaker makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale. Today we have added a new feature in our build and bundle tool that decouples the application code and dependency code. This new feature allows developers and system engineers to update their simulation jobs and robots with only the changes in their application code and leave dependency code unchanged, making the update significantly faster (up to 10x). For more details, see this blog post . 

AWS RoboMaker is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions. To get started, run a sample simulation job in the RoboMaker console or explore the RoboMaker webpage .

Direct Connect gateway enables you to connect between your on-premises networks and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in any commercial AWS Region, except for the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions, using AWS Direct Connect connections at any AWS Direct Connect location.