Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases.

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

We are excited to announce updates to the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ’s ClaimGameServer operation to better handle game session placement decisions. Amazon GameLift FleetIQ optimizes the use of low-cost Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for cloud-based multiplayer game hosting. With Amazon GameLift FleetIQ, you can leverage your existing Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling hosting resources while taking advantage of Amazon GameLift optimizations to deliver inexpensive, resilient game hosting for your players. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6gd and R6gd instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Jakarta). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, and they are built on AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances provide local SSD storage and are ideal for workloads that need high-speed, low latency local storage, such as batch processing, ad serving, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.

AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 29 AWS commercial regions, AWS GovCloud (US) regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

Amazon Connect now provides contact records and real-time contact events for calls and transfers made to external third-party phone numbers. The new contact records can be used for reporting, billing reconciliation, and analytics. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track real-time contact lifecycle activity (e.g., call connected to the third-party). To learn more about these new contact records and events, and how you can stream these to your analytics applications, see our documentation for contact records and contact events .

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the PLDT Vitro Makati 2 data center in Manila, Philippines. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Customers can now use AWS Transfer Family in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).

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