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AWS now further enhances the Chinese yuan payments experience for payment of invoices from Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS Inc.”). 

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We are excited to announce three updates to Amazon GameLift’s FlexMatch, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed service. GameLift FlexMatch launched in 2017 as a feature that uses a powerful matchmaking algorithm and flexible developer-defined rules to create high-quality matches at AWS scale. Since it’s inception, game companies from all over the world such as Wargaming, have grown to trust FlexMatch to bring their players together.

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AWS Solutions has updated the AWS QnABot, an open source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot built on Amazon Lex, that responds to your customer’s questions, answers, and feedback. Without programming, the AWS QnABot solution allows customers to quickly deploy self-service conversational AI on multiple channels including their contact centers, web sites, social media channels, SMS text messaging, or Amazon Alexa.

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Payment Profiles is a new payments feature that allows you to customize your payment preferences by AWS service provider (also known as “seller of record”). Using Payment Profiles, you can automatically pay your AWS bills from different service providers using payment methods you choose.

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Amazon CloudWatch agent has added support for configurable log filter expressions. Customers can install and configure the CloudWatch agent to collect system and application logs from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), on-premises hosts, and containerized applications and send them to CloudWatch. This new configuration option is intended for users who want to collect only log events that meet specified criteria.

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Amazon CloudWatch agent now allows you to specify how long CloudWatch will retain log events. You can install and configure CloudWatch agent to collect system and application logs from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), on-premises hosts, and containerized applications and send them to CloudWatch. This new configuration option is intended for users who want to apply uniform log group retention periods when deploying the agent.

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Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports  the collection of NVIDIA GPU performance metrics from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) accelerated computing instances running Linux. GPU-based instances provide access to NVIDIA GPUs with thousands of compute cores. You can use these instances to accelerate scientific, engineering, and rendering applications. Customers can install and configure CloudWatch agent to collect system and application metrics from Amazon EC2, on-premises hosts, and containerized applications and send them to CloudWatch. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications and optimize resource utilization. GPU metrics are intended for users who want to monitor the utilization of GPU co-processors in their EC2 accelerated instances.

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AWS Amplify is announcing the general availability of the Authenticator UI library for Flutter. Using the Authenticator UI library, Flutter developers can create a login/registration experience in minutes. When a developer adds the Authentication category and sets the authorization and verification attributes from the Amplify CLI or Amplify Studio, the Authenticator login/registration forms are displayed accordingly. Developers can also apply custom theming to the Authenticator forms, and override validations on login/signup fields. Developers can also add/remove the profile attribute fields used in the sign up form.

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AWS App Mesh introduces Agent for Envoy, a new component that monitors Envoy proxies and helps keep them healthy. Agent for Envoy also facilitates Envoy connection draining, helping make your applications more resilient to failures. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications.

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AWS App Runner now supports a Java language platform for building and running Java based web applications. The Java language platform on App Runner launched with two Amazon Corretto runtimes – Corretto 11 and Corretto 8. Both runtimes add the Maven and Gradle tools to your application’s container in addition to the respective Corretto runtime version.

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AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) schemas, enabling customers to use Protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. Glue Schema Registry provides Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers for Protobuf that integrate with Java applications developed for Apache Kafka/Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and Kafka Streams.

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Amazon S3 accelerates integrity checking of requests by up to 92%. For the first time in the cloud, you can choose from four supported checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on your upload and download requests. In addition, enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API significantly improve checksum efficiency, increasing the performance and reducing the cost of data validation. You can automatically calculate and verify checksums as you store or retrieve data from S3, and can access the checksum information at any time using a new S3 API or an S3 Inventory report. Using checksums for data validation is a best practice for data durability, and these capabilities increase the performance and reduce the cost to do so.

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The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI announces a public preview of TypeScript native support. The SAM CLI is a developer tool that is designed to initialize and configure serverless applications, build and test locally and on the AWS cloud, and deploy using AWS CloudFormation. SAM CLI’s build, test and deploy features can also be used from IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains or WebStorm.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now enables you to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage database access for Amazon RDS for MariaDB instances. Database administrators can now associate database users with IAM users and roles. By using IAM, you can manage user access to AWS resources from a single location, avoiding issues caused by permissions that are out of sync on different AWS resources.

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Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, and T3 instance types.

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AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to choose single or multiple output files instead of autogenerated files for their recipe jobs in DataBrew. Customers can generate a single output file when the output is small or downstream systems need to consume it more easily such as visualization tools. In some cases, customers want to customize the output file partitions for efficient storage and transfer.  

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AWS Firewall Manager now allows you to deploy AWS Network Firewall to inspect traffic using a centralized deployment model. Previously, Firewall Manager could deploy AWS Network Firewall only in a decentralized deployment model, where we deploy AWS Network Firewall into each VPC which requires protection. With this release, customers can now use Firewall Manager to deploy AWS Network Firewall in either a distributed deployment model or a centralized deployment model.

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