AWS Resilience Hub has added Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) as a supported resource. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. Amazon EKS is a managed service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, 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. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity. 

Starting today, Amazon Security Lake (Preview) is available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). You can now automatically centralize your security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. 

Amazon Aurora now supports disaster recovery capabilities of Global Database and Cross-Region database cluster snapshot copying in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region.

AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, extending the service footprint to seven AWS Regions.

Today we are excited to announce the availability of AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. Service Catalog helps you centrally curate and share commonly deployed templates across teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End-users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists can then quickly discover and self-service approved AWS resources that they need to use to perform their daily job functions.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 Asia Pacific regions – Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. DocumentDB Elastic Clusters are a new type of DocumentDB cluster that enables you to elastically scale your document database to handle millions of reads and writes per second with petabytes of storage.

Today, AWS announces the release of an allow listing feature that helps you test and enable the new fine-grained IAM permissions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account services.

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports per-second billing for both Linux and Windows instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this update, customers will only pay for Amazon GameLift usage in one second increments, with a minimum of 1 minute. 

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports setting content-type request headers for HTTP/S notifications . This enables your topic subscribers to create a DeliveryPolicy that specifies the content-type value that Amazon SNS assigns to their HTTP/S notifications, such as application/json, application/xml, or text/plain. With this launch, applications can receive their notifications in a more predictable format.