We are delighted to announce the addition of Amazon S3 Glacier Re:Freezer to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform.
Starting today, you can use managed Amazon AppStream 2.0 image updates to keep your AppStream 2.0 images up-to-date with the latest Windows operating system updates, driver updates, and AppStream 2.0 agent software. Previously, AppStream 2.0 images were kept up to date by installing your applications on the latest base image each time a new image was released, or by installing updates for the Windows operating system, your applications, and their dependencies on a new or existing image using the AppStream 2.0 image builder. With this launch, you can select the image that you want to update, and with a single action, AppStream 2.0 creates an image builder in the same AWS account and Region to install the updates and create the new image. After the new image is created, you can test it before updating your production fleets or sharing the image with other AWS accounts. To get started, see Keep Your AppStream 2.0 Image Up-to-Date in the Amazon AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide.
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow.
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support SQL Server extended events, a performance monitoring system that can be used to monitor and troubleshoot performance problems in SQL Server.
Amazon Athena users can now view the execution plan for their queries. When querying large, complex datasets, users are often unaware of how their query will be executed or how optimizations will impact performance. Now generally available for Amazon Athena, the EXPLAIN statement helps users understand and improve the efficiency of their queries.
Today, Amazon Lookout for Equipment is generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Lookout for Equipment is a machine learning (ML) industrial equipment monitoring service that detects abnormal equipment behavior so customers can take action and avoid unplanned downtime.
eksctl, the official CLI for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), now lets you create node groups inside an Amazon EKS cluster by simply providing node requirements in vCPUs, memory, or GPUs. Additionally, eksctl now lets you preview the cluster configuration before creating a new cluster or a new node group by using the new dry-run mode.
AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces the ability to deploy CloudFormation Stacks to multiple AWS regions in parallel. This reduces the overall stack set provisioning times and provides a performance improvement when using StackSets. StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a single operation. Currently, using StackSets you can specify the region order preference to deploy stacks across AWS regions in a sequential manner. StackSets now expands on that by providing the additional ability to specify deploying across AWS regions in parallel as part of the deployment preferences for the stack set.
You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.11 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.6.
AWS Amplify iOS can now be installed through the Swift Package Manager. iOS developers can interface with AWS services through Amplify iOS, which is a use case based client library. Developers have been importing Amplify iOS through dependency management tools like CocoaPods. With Swift 3.0, Apple introduced a native package management tool called Swift Package Manager that allows developers to manage these dependencies within their Swift project.