We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon Lightsail block storage that allows customers to extend their Lightsail instances with additional solid state drive (SSD) -backed storage disks for $0.10 per GB-month. With block storage, customers can attach performant, secure storage disks to their Lightsail instances with just a few clicks. With Lightsail block storage, users can now further customize their instances and scale their applications at a low, predictable price.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to to view and filter services in the AWS management console. 

Amazon WorkDocs Drive is now available for Microsoft Windows in limited preview. With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, all of your files are available in Windows File Explorer on-demand, and are not stored locally. You can use Amazon WorkDocs Drive as your personal home drive, and no longer need to use network file shares for your team’s home drive.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09, C5 and P3 Instance Types, and Python 3.6. 

Tasks running on Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now take advantage of awsvpc mode for container networking. This new mode allocates an elastic networking interface to each running task, providing a dynamic private IP address and internal DNS name. This simplifies container networking operations, allowing tasks to run with full networking features on AWS, just like EC2 instances. 

AWS Step Functions now supports updating state machines, allowing you to easily change your state machine definitions and configurations. AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly. Step Functions is a reliable way to coordinate components and step through the functions of your application. 

Amazon EC2 F1 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.  

We’re pleased to announce the availability of two new versions of the AWS Deep Learning AMIs . The first, a Conda-based AMI, available in Amazon Linux and Ubuntu versions, is for developers who need ready-to-run deep learning environments with Python support. The Conda-based AMI comes packaged with latest official releases of the following deep learning frameworks: Apache MXNet 0.12 with Gluon, TensorFlow 1.4, Caffe2 0.8.1, PyTorch 0.2, CNTK 2.2, Theano 0.9, Keras 1.2.2 and Keras 2.0.9.  

To better serve a global audience, Amazon Polly announces the expansion to nine additional AWS Regions, as well as the release of Korean language support, and a new Indian English voice to our Text-to-Speech portfolio. Listen to the voice introductions from Seoyeon , a new Korean female voice, and Aditi , a new Indian English female voice.

You can now use up to four monitors with Amazon WorkSpaces when accessing your WorkSpace from a Windows or Apple Mac computer. Working with four monitors provides additional screen space, which makes it easier to multitask, and lets you keep relevant information always visible. Amazon WorkSpaces also now supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on up to two monitors, which lets you see more information on each screen and in greater detail.