This release adds support for rule group and managed rule group. Rule…

… group is a container of rules that customers can create, put rules in it and associate the rule group to a WebACL. All rules in a rule group will function identically as they would if each rule was individually associated to the WebACL. Managed rule group is a pre-configured rule group composed by our security partners and made available via the AWS Marketplace. Customers can subscribe to these managed rule groups, associate the managed rule group to their WebACL and start using them immediately to protect their resources.

Adds the following updates: 1. T2 Unlimited enables high CPU performance for any period of time whenever required 2. You are now able to create and launch EC2 m5 and h1 instances

This release updates AWS Systems Manager APIs to enable executing automations at controlled rate, target resources in a resource groups and execute entire automation at once or single step at a time. It is now also possible to use YAML, in addition to JSON, when creating Systems Manager documents.

This release adds support for load balancer and TLS/SSL certificate management. This set of APIs allows customers to create, manage, and scale secure load balanced applications on Lightsail infrastructure. To provide support for customers who manage their DNS on Lightsail, we've added the ability create an Alias A type record which can point to a load balancer DNS name via the CreateDomainEntry API http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/2016-11-28/api-reference/API_CreateDomainEntry.html.

AWS Resource Groups lets you search and group AWS resources from multiple services based on their tags.

This release adds support for rule group and managed rule group. Rule group is a container of rules that customers can create, put rules in it and associate the rule group to a WebACL. All rules in a rule group will function identically as they would if each rule was individually associated to the WebACL. Managed rule group is a pre-configured rule group composed by our security partners and made available via the AWS Marketplace. Customers can subscribe to these managed rule groups, associate the managed rule group to their WebACL and start using them immediately to protect their resources.

You can now use Auto Scaling with EC2 Launch Templates via the CreateAutoScalingGroup and UpdateAutoScalingGroup APIs.

Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables data scienti…

…sts and developers to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models, at scale.

This release adds support for new the service called Iot Jobs. This client is built for the device SDK to use Iot Jobs Device specific APIs.

This release introduces Amazon Rekognition support for video analysis.

Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models, at scale.

Public preview release of Amazon Translate and the Amazon Translate Developer Guide. For more information, see the Amazon Translate Developer Guide.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports the following features: Global Table and On-Demand Backup. Global Table is a fully-managed, multi-region, multi-master database. DynamoDB customers can now write anywhere and read anywhere with single-digit millisecond latency by performing database operations closest to where end users reside. Global Table also enables customers to disaster-proof their applications, keeping them running and data accessible even in the face of natural disasters or region disruptions. Customers can set up Global Table with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console-no application rewrites required. On-Demand Backup capability is to protect data from loss due to application errors, and meet customers' archival needs for compliance and regulatory reasons. Customers can backup and restore their DynamoDB table data anytime, with a single-click in the AWS management console or a single API call. Backup and restore actions execute with zero impact on table performance or availability. For more information, see the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.

This release includes support for Glacier Select, a new feature that allows you to filter and analyze your Glacier archives and store the results in a user-specified S3 location.

This release includes support for Glacier Select, a new feature that allows you to filter and analyze  your Glacier storage class objects and store the results in a user-specified S3 location.

Amazon Comprehend is an AWS service for gaining insight into the content of text and documents . It develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements in a document. For more information, go to the Amazon Comprehend product page. To get started, see the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) released a new launch type for running containers on a serverless infrastructure. The Fargate launch type allows you to run your containerized applications without the need to provision and manage the backend infrastructure. Just register your task definition and Fargate launches the container for you.

Announcing Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, a fully managed video ingestion and storage service. Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for machine learning, analytics, and processing. You can also stream other time-encoded data like RADAR and LIDAR signals using Kinesis Video Streams.

Announcing Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, a fully managed video ingestion and storage service. Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for machine learning, analytics, and processing. You can also stream other time-encoded data like RADAR and LIDAR signals using Kinesis Video Streams.

This release adds support for a number of new IoT features, including AWS IoT Device Management (Jobs, Fleet Index and Thing Registration), Thing Groups, Policies on Thing Groups, Registry & Job Events, JSON Logs, Fine-Grained Logging Controls, Custom Authorization and AWS Service Authentication Using X.509 Certificates.

Greengrass OTA feature allows updating Greengrass Core and Greengrass OTA Agent. Local Resource Access feature allows Greengrass Lambdas to access local resources such as peripheral devices and volumes.

Announcing Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, a fully managed video ingestion and storage service. Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for machine learning, analytics, and processing. You can also stream other time-encoded data like RADAR and LIDAR signals using Kinesis Video Streams.

This is the initial SDK release for Amazon MQ. Amazon MQ is a managed…

… message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.

AWS Cognito SDK has been updated to support new Cognito user-pool objects and operations for advanced security

Changes related to CanaryReleaseDeployment feature. Enables API developer to create a deployment as canary deployment and test API changes with percentage of customers before promoting changes to all customers.

Adds the following updates: 1. You are now able to host a service powered by AWS PrivateLink to provide private connectivity to other VPCs. You are now also able to create endpoints to other services powered by PrivateLink including AWS services, Marketplace Seller services or custom services created by yourself or other AWS VPC customers. 2. You are now able to save launch parameters in a single template that can be used with Auto Scaling, Spot Fleet, Spot, and On Demand instances. 3. You are now able to launch Spot instances via the RunInstances API, using a single additional parameter. RunInstances will response synchronously with an instance ID should capacity be available for your Spot request. 4. A simplified Spot pricing model which delivers low, predictable prices that adjust gradually, based on long-term trends in supply and demand. 5. Amazon EC2 Spot can now hibernate Amazon EBS-backed instances in the event of an interruption, so your workloads pick up from where they left off. Spot can fulfill your request by resuming instances from a hibernated state when capacity is available.

Enable Amazon GuardDuty to continuously monitor and process AWS data sources to identify threats to your AWS accounts and workloads.  You can add customization by uploading additional threat intelligence lists and IP safe lists. You can list security findings, suspend, and disable the service.

Lambda aliases can now shift traffic between two function versions, based on preassigned weights.

Support for AWS Lambda function deployment - AWS CodeDeploy now supports the deployment of AWS Lambda functions. A Lambda deployment uses a Lambda function alias to shift traffic to a new version. You select a deployment configuration that specifies exactly how traffic shifts to your new version. Success of a deployment can be validated using Lambda functions that are referenced by the deployment. This provides the opportunity to rollback if necessary.

AWS AppSync is an enterprise-level, fully managed GraphQL service with real-time data synchronization and offline programming features.

Add support for Array Jobs which allow users to easily submit many copies of a job with a single API call.  This change also enhances the job dependency model to support N_TO_N and sequential dependency chains. The ListJobs and DescribeJobs APIs now have the ability to list or describe the status of entire Array Jobs or individual elements within the array.

Auto commit from CI.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a just-in-time video packaging and orig…

…ination service that lets you format highly secure and reliable live outputs for a variety of devices.

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a video service that lets you easily create live outputs for broadcast and streaming delivery.

AWS Elemental MediaStore is an AWS storage service optimized for media. It gives you the performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver live and on-demand video content. AWS Elemental MediaStore acts as the origin store in your video workflow.

AWS Elemental MediaStore is an AWS storage service optimized for media. It gives you the performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver live and on-demand video content. AWS Elemental MediaStore acts as the origin store in your video workflow.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video conversion service that transforms media into formats required for traditional broadcast and for internet streaming to multi-screen devices.

Amazon Lex is now available in the EU (Ireland) region.

Amazon Lex is now available in the EU (Ireland) region.

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ability to import domainless certs and additional Key Types as well as an additional validation method for DNS.

This release includes updates to Amazon Rekognition for the following…

… APIs. The new DetectText API allows you to recognize and extract textual content from images. Face Model Versioning has been added to operations that deal with face detection.

AWS Storage Gateway now enables you to get notification when all your files written to your NFS file share have been uploaded to Amazon S3. Storage Gateway also enables guessing of the MIME type for uploaded objects based on file extensions.

The AWS Shield SDK has been updated in order to support Elastic IP address protections, the addition of AttackProperties objects in DescribeAttack responses, and a new GetSubscriptionState operation.

Added automatic pagination support for AWS X-Ray APIs in the SDKs that support this feature.

Enable Kerberos on Amazon EMR.

Add support for Access logs and customizable integration timeouts

1) Instance-level parameter overrides (CloudFormation-StackSet feature): This feature will allow the customers to override the template parameters on specific stackInstances. Customers will also have ability to update their existing instances with/without parameter-overrides using a new API "UpdateStackInstances"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         2) Add support for SSM parameters in CloudFormation - This feature will allow the customers to use Systems Manager parameters in CloudFormation templates. They will be able to see values for these parameters in Describe APIs.

Adding support for accessing Amazon VPC resources from AWS CodeBuild, dependency caching and build badges.

The AWS Cost Explorer API gives customers programmatic access to AWS …

…cost and usage information, allowing them to perform adhoc queries and build interactive cost management applications that leverage this dataset.

DescribeGroups API and miscellaneous enhancements

Documentation updates for Apigateway

AWS CodeCommit now supports pull requests. You can use pull requests to collaboratively review code changes for minor changes or fixes, major feature additions, or new versions of your released software.

This release includes a new Kinesis Firehose feature that supports Splunk as Kinesis Firehose delivery destination. You can now use Kinesis Firehose to ingest real-time data to Splunk in a serverless, reliable, and salable manner. This release also includes a new feature that allows you to configure Lambda buffer size in Kinesis Firehose data transformation feature. You can now customize the data buffer size before invoking Lambda function in Kinesis Firehose for data transformation. This feature allows you to flexibly trade-off processing and delivery latency with cost and efficiency based on your specific use cases and requirements.

Customers can now obtain the important characteristics of their stream with DescribeStreamSummary. The response will not include the shard list for the stream but will have the number of open shards, and all the other fields included in the DescribeStream response.

Support for migration task assessment. Support for data validation af…

…ter the migration.

Amazon RDS now supports importing MySQL databases by using backup files from Amazon S3.

This release adds Proxy Protocol v2 support for Network Load Balancer. Proxy protocol provides a convenient way to transport connection information (such as a client's source IP address/port and destination IP address/port) for a TCP connection across multiple layers of NAT or TCP proxies.

This SDK update contains support for Target Tracking scaling for EC2 Spot Fleet. It allows you to scale an EC2 Spot Fleet using a Target Tracking scaling policy.

Added ORC to the supported S3 Inventory formats.

You can use Route 53's GetAccountLimit/GetHostedZoneLimit/GetReusable…

…DelegationSetLimit APIs to view your current limits (including custom set limits) on Route 53 resources such as hosted zones and health checks. These APIs also return the number of each resource you're currently using to enable comparison against your current limits.

Documentation updates for OpsWorks-cm: a new feature, OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, that allows users to create and manage OpsWorks-hosted Puppet Enterprise servers.

This release adds APIs that you can use to enable and disable integration with AWS services designed to work with AWS Organizations. This integration allows the AWS service to perform operations on your behalf on all of the accounts in your organization. Although you can use these APIs yourself, we recommend that you instead use the commands provided in the other AWS service to enable integration with AWS Organizations.

You are now able to create and launch EC2 x1e smaller instance sizes

Application Auto Scaling now supports automatic scaling of Amazon Aurora replicas

API update for AWS Glue. New crawler configuration attribute enables customers to specify crawler behavior. New XML classifier enables classification of XML data.