Another big round up of useful new capabilities for customers!

Shownotes:

Announcing S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, a New Amazon S3 Storage Class | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/announcing-s3-one-zone-infrequent-access-a-new-amazon-s3-storage-class/

Amazon S3 Select Is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-s3-select-is-now-generally-available/

Amazon DynamoDB Adds Support for Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-dynamodb-adds-support-for-continuous-backups-and-point-in-time-recovery/

Amazon DynamoDB Encryption at Rest Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-dynamodb-encryption-at-rest-now-available-in-additonal-regions/

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Enables Custom Branding | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/appstream2-enables-custom-branding/

AWS Cloud9 Supports Local Debugging of AWS Lambda Functions in Python | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-cloud9-supports-local-debugging-of-aws-lambda-functions-in-python/

AWS Lambda Supports Node.js v8.10 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-lambda-supports-nodejs/

AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Launch Templates | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-cloudformation-now-supports-launch-templates/

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source - Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-sam-implementation-is-now-open-source/

Introducing Service Discovery for Amazon ECS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/introducing-service-discovery-for-amazon-ecs/

AWS Fargate Platform Version 1.1 Adds Support for Task Metadata, Container Health Checks, and Service Discovery | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-fargate-platform-version-1-1/

AWS AppSync now Generally Available (GA) with new GraphQL Features | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-appsync-now-ga/

AWS Amplify Adds Support for GraphQL and AWS AppSync Enabling Real-time Data Capabilities in JavaScript Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-amplify-adds-support-for-graphql-and-aws-appsync-enabling-re/

AWS X-Ray Adds Support for Customer Managed AWS KMS Keys | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-x-ray-adds-support-for-customer-managed-aws-kms-keys/

Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-api-gateway-supports-cross-account-aws-lambda-authorizers/

Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-api-gateway-supports-resource-policies/

Introducing AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-aws-certificate-manager-private-certificate-authority/

Longer Sessions For IAM Roles | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/longer-role-

sessions/

Enable Trusted Organization Access in AWS Organizations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-organizations-trusted-organization-access/

Increase User Logon Performance in AWS Managed Microsoft AD | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/increase-user-logon-performance-in-aws-managed-microsoft-ad/

New Multi-Account, Multi-Region Data Aggregation Capability in AWS Config | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/new-multi-account-multi-region-data-aggregation-capability-in-aws-config/

Introducing AWS Firewall Manager - Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-aws-firewall-manager/

Introducing AWS Secrets Manager - Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-aws-secrets-manager/

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-metric-math-to-enable-custom-operations-on-metrics/

Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds Amazon SQS FIFO as an Event Target | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-cloudWatch-events-adds-amazon-SQS-FIFO-as-an-event-target/

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Route 53 Logs to Vended Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-route53-logs-to-vended-logs/

Making Easier to Track Your Amazon EBS Volume State | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/making-easier-to-track-your-amazon-ebs-volume-state/

Resource Groups Tagging API | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/resource-groups-tagging-api-now-supports-13-additional-aws-services/

AWS Systems Manager Adds Patch Management for CentOS Linux | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-systems-manager-adds-patch-management-for-centos-linux/

AWS Config Notifications Are Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-config-notifications-are-now-integrated-with-amazon-cloudwatch-events/

Amazon Connect Automated Outbound Calling is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-connect-automated-outbound-calling-is-now-generally-available/

Amazon Connect Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 is Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-connect-federated-single-sign-on-using-saml-2-0-is-generally-available/

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Simplifies User Authentication and Access for Kibana with Amazon Cognito | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-elasticsearch-service-simplifies-user-authentication-and-access-for-kibana-with-amazon-cognito/

Amazon EFS Now Supports Encryption of Data in Transit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-efs-now-supports-encryption-of-data-in-transit/

Apache MXNet Model Server Adds Container Support for Scalable Model Serving | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/mxnet-model-server-container-support/

AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Optimized TensorFlow 1.6 for Amazon EC2 P3 and C5 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-deep-learning-amis-optimized-tensorflow/

Amazon SageMaker has Open Sourced TensorFlow 1.6 and Apache MXNet 1.1 Docker Containers with Support for Local Mode, and More Instance Types Across All Modules | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-sagemaker-has-open-sourced-tensorflow-1-6-and-apache-mxnet-1-1-docker-containers-with-support-for-local-mode-and-now-supports-more-instance-types-across-all-modules/

Amazon Translate is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-translate-is-now-generally-available/

Amazon Transcribe is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-transcribe-is-now-generally-available/

Amazon Polly Increases Character Limits | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-polly-increases-character-limits/

Amazon Rekognition Improves Accuracy of Real-Time Face Recognition and Verification | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-rekognition-improves-accuracy-of-real-time-face-recognition-and-verification/

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now Supports AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-SNS-now-supports-aws-privatelink/

Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with support for Array data types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-athena-updated-jdbc-driver-launch/

Amazon QuickSight Adds New Data Connectors to Popular Business Apps and JSON | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/AmazonQuickSight-adds-new-app-connectors-and-JSON-support/

AWS Batch Adds Support for Automatic Termination with Job Execution Timeout | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-batch-adds-support-for-automatic-termination-with-job-execution-timeout/

Announcing Enhancements to AWS Auto Scaling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/announcing-enhancements-to-aws-auto-scaling/

Announcing 4 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/four-digital-courses-on-new-AWS-services/

Announcing the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-certified-security-specialty/

AWS Elemental MediaConvert Introduces Basic Pricing Tier | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-elemental-mediaconvert-introduces-basic-pricing-tier/

Identify Opportunities for Amazon RDS Cost Savings Using AWS Cost Explorer's Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/cost-explorer-reserved-instance-purchase-recommendations/