Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Lets You Use Microphones with Your Streaming Applications

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to use microphones and other audio input devices with your streamed applications. With this capability, you can use popular collaboration applications, call center solutions, and tools used to record voiceovers, such as video editing software with AppStream 2.0. Since your applications are streamed to an HTML5 browser, your users can now access these solutions from Windows PCs, Mac OS devices, and Linux-based desktops.
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Announcing Third Edge Location in Paris, France for Amazon CloudFront

We are happy to announce the launch of our third edge location in Paris, France! This brings Amazon CloudFront’s total edge locations to 91 (including 80 points of presence and 11 regional edge cache locations). To see a full list of CloudFront locations, please visit our website here. Meet with the CloudFront team at one of our upcoming webinars.
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Amazon Athena adds support for querying data using Logstash Grok filters

You can now use Amazon Athena to query data using Logstash Grok filters. Grok is useful for applying patterns to parse unstructured data, usually logs. The patterns are easier to use than regular expressions, because each Grok pattern is essentially a named regular expression. This makes it easier to identify and re-use deserialization patterns. Grok provides a set of pre-defined patterns. You can also create custom patterns.
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AWS CodeCommit Now Sends State Changes to Amazon CloudWatch Events, Saves User Preferences, and Adds Tag Details View

AWS CodeCommit now sends repository state changes to Amazon CloudWatch events. For example, the repository state changes include activities like pushing new code to a code repository. Using these new event types, customers can build Amazon CloudWatch Event rules to match AWS CodeCommit events and route them to one or more targets like an Amazon SNS Topic, AWS Step Functions state machine, or AWS Lambda function to trigger automated workflows to process repository changes. To learn more, read the blog post.
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AWS Marketplace Self-Service Listings Adds Support for SaaS Software Scenarios

Today, AWS Marketplace released new feature enhancements to the Seller Self-Service Listings feature, a web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). SaaS software vendors that have product listings in AWS Marketplace can now use Self-Service Listings to upload new SaaS Contract products, or make changes to their SaaS Subscriptions and SaaS Contracts product listings, including updating product metadata and making pricing changes. In addition, Self-Service Listings now enables sellers to sunset their AMI or SaaS listings.
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UK Met Office’s High-Resolution Weather Forecast Data is Now on AWS

Archive data from the UK Met Office Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction System (MOGREPS) is now available on Amazon S3. Data from two models is available: MOEGREPS-UK, a high resolution weather forecast covering the United Kingdom, and MOGREPS-G, a global weather forecast. MOGREPS is primarily designed to aid the forecasting of rapid storm development, wind, rain, snow and fog. Accurate weather forecasts allow farmers to predict when to plant crops, let airlines know when it’s safe to fly, help governments plan for transportation hazards, and are useful in a number of other ways.
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NOAA’s GOES-R Series Weather Satellite Imagery is Now on AWS

Data from NOAA’s GOES-R series satellite is available on Amazon S3. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates a constellation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) to provide continuous weather imagery and monitoring of meteorological and space environment data for the protection of life and property across the United States. GOES satellites provide critical atmospheric, oceanic, climatic and space weather products supporting weather forecasting and warnings, climatologic analysis and prediction, ecosystems management, safe and efficient public and private transportation, and other national priorities.
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