Applications in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) can now securely access AWS PrivateLink endpoints across VPC peering connections. AWS PrivateLink allows you to privately access services hosted on the AWS network in a highly available and scalable manner, without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse the internet.

You can now use Apache Flink 1.7.0 on Amazon EMR release 5.21.0. Flink 1.7.0 has many new features such as the ability to change the state schema of the streaming application which allows you to change the features captured by the application without restarting it, support for a new connector to write to Kafka 2.0, and an exactly-once S3 file sink for writes to Amazon S3. Flink 1.7.0 also features several streaming SQL improvements such as support for temporal tables that tracks the history of data changes and several new built-in SQL functions to handle complex data types.

Additionally, with this release, you can use the upgraded version of Presto 0.215.

You can create an Amazon EMR cluster with the release 5.21.0 by choosing the release label “emr-5.21.0” from the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDK. You can choose Flink and Presto to install these applications when you launch your EMR cluster. Please visit the Amazon EMR documentation for more information about EMR release 5.21.0 , Flink 1.7.0 , and Presto 0.215 .

Amazon EMR release 5.21.0 is now available in all supported regions for Amazon EMR .

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Tag-on create is now available for Kinesis Data Firehose. Upon creation, you can tag your Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose from the AWS Management Console or using the AWS APIs. By tagging resources at the time of creation you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation.  

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