Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 9,000 transactions per second, per API action in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, the throughput quota has been increased to 4,500 transactions per second, per API action. For all other regions where SQS is generally available today, the quota for high throughput mode quota has been increased to 2,400 transactions per second.

The AWS Application Composer introduces three new updates to help developers build and share modern applications faster. With these capabilities, developers can more easily iterate on their application, export an image of the application, and integrate Application Composer with their local development environment whenever they’re ready.

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region with AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now improves the speed of backups by up to 10x for buckets with more than 300 million objects. This performance improvement enables you to speed up your initial S3 backup workflow and back up buckets with more than 3 billion objects. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. The performance improvement is automatically enabled at no additional cost in all Regions where AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is available.

AWS Lake Formation is  a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. AWS Lake Formation is now available in the following two additional AWS Regions:

• Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
• Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It also provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS Verified Access Instances and Amazon Cognito user pools. To learn more about AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF, visit the AWS Shield Advanced product page and the AWS WAF product page.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Starting today, customers can specify the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy in AWS Batch. Previously, AWS Batch supported the capacity optimized Spot allocation strategy that is designed to optimize Spot Instance placement based on capacity availability to help reduce the likelihood that workloads are interrupted. The new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is designed to provide a balance between price and capacity.

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports read and mounted replicas for instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration . Amazon RDS for Oracle replicas fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard to create and maintain replicas in the same or different AWS Region as the primary DB instance.