Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Type for Percentage Now Available in Preview; Number slot type Now Supports Decimal

You can now use Percentage as a built-in slot type in your Amazon Lex chatbots. Built-in slot types enable you to easily and quickly define slots in your chatbot to enable accurate resolution of user responses. The AMAZON.Percentage slot type enables resolution to percentage values. You can also now use decimal numbers with the AMAZON.Number slot type. The addition of the AMAZON.Percentage slot type further expands the Amazon Lex built-in slot library total to 97.
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Announcing Enhancements to the AWS Lambda Console

Today we are releasing enhancements to the AWS Lambda console that make it easier to create, configure, and test Lambda functions. You can now save up to ten test events for each Lambda function. You can access these saved test events from any machine or browser using the console. Previously, you were limited to only one saved test event per account, and you needed to use the same browser on the same machine in order to access the saved test event.
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their VPCs by adding secondary IPv4 address ranges (CIDRs) to their VPCs. Customers can add the secondary CIDR blocks to the VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI after they have created the VPC with the primary CIDR block. Similar to the primary CIDR block, secondary CIDR blocks are also supported by all the AWS services including Elastic Load Balancing and NAT Gateway.
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Amazon AppStream 2.0 APIs can now programmatically manage your image builders.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 APIs now support programmatic access to image builder actions. The image builder APIs enable you to create, delete, start, and stop image builders, and generate URLs for AppStream 2.0 administrators to log in and install their apps. Now, AppStream 2.0 administrators can build or use existing workflow automation solutions to simplify application onboarding.

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AWS Glue now supports Filter and Map transforms

AWS Glue now supports Filter and Map as part of the built-in transforms it provides for your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. You can use the Filter transform to remove rows that do not meet a specified condition and quickly refine your dataset. You can combine multiple fields in a dataset into a single field using the Map transform. You can also use the Map transform to do a lookup. To learn more, please visit the Filter and Map documentation. 
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Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.11 Now Available, Adds New Animation and Visual Scripting Tools, New Cloud Gems, and More

We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.11. With over 412 improvements, fixes, and features, this release introduces two new tools to help game teams create high quality and complex gameplay with less engineering resources. Additionally, Lumberyard Beta 1.11 adds new AWS integrations so game developers can add text-to-speech and speech recognition to their game experiences. Some highlights include:  
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Amazon Pinpoint broadens reach of multi-channel messaging with new support for Amazon Device Messaging, Baidu Cloud Push, and APNs Sandbox and .p8 token authentication for APNs

Amazon Pinpoint now supports Amazon Device Messaging (ADM), Baidu Cloud Push (Baidu), as well as additional options for using Apple Push Notification service (APNs). These changes help Amazon Pinpoint customers reach more customers on more devices around the world using push notifications, one of the most effective channels for increasing customer engagement with applications.

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AD Connector, part of AWS Directory Service, is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) and South America (São Paulo) Regions

AD Connector enables you to use your existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) identities to access the AWS Management Console and compatible AWS applications, such as Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Connect, and Amazon Chime. With AD Connector, you can enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for AWS applications users and use your existing RADIUS-based infrastructure for an additional layer of security. You also can join Amazon EC2 Windows instances to your on-premises AD domain and manage the instances using group policy objects.
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