We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports containers for building, deploying, and running game server packages. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this preview release, GameLift now supports end-to-end development of containerized workloads, including deployment and scaling on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid configurations ..read more

AWS DataSync now lets you enable and disable task schedules. Using this new feature, you can temporarily disable scheduled executions of your task to accommodate events such as maintenance on your storage systems. Once the event is complete, you can enable your task schedule to resume execution of your task at the next scheduled interval ..read more

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitHub Actions workflow job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment ..read more

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that provides data modeling and query development features to help you design, create, and work with DynamoDB tables. You can use the NoSQL Workbench operation builder to build and save operations for viewing, updating, and exploring your live datasets. You can even generate code in multiple programming languages. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to the operation builder to help customers better navigate, run operations, and browse their DynamoDB tables ..read more

Today, AWS Direct Connect now enables AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Partners (AWS Direct Connect Partners) to support 25 Gbps hosted connection capacity .  ..read more

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query ..read more

Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich ..read more

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS Regions starting today: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE ..read more

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign-on and centralized authentication of Oracle Database users. Keeping all of your user credentials in the same Active Directory will save you time and effort as you will now have a centralized place for storing and managing them for multiple DB instances ..read more

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change ..read more