Today, Kinesis Analytics expands its processing capabilities with 6 new stream processing functions. First, the new STEP() function provides you a simpler way to perform time-series analytics. Second, real-time sessionization use cases have become easier with the addition of the LAG() function. Third, we have added support for conversion of Unix timestamps with TO_TIMESTAMP() and UNIX_TIMESTAMP functions. Finally, you can parse complicated strings in your data with additional regular expression functions including REGEX_REPLACE() and SUBSTRING() with regex support.