We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g and R6GD) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, R6g and R6gd is available in the Europe (Paris) region. In addition, the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), and Canada (Central) regions already supported C6g, M6g and R6g instance families, and we have now added support for R6gd in these regions. 

Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts.

PartiQL —a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports batch transcription in two new languages – Swedish and Vietnamese. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in 22 regions, including Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan).

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition content moderation comes with an improved model for image moderation that significantly reduces false positive rates for e-commerce, social media and online communities content, without reduction in detection rates for truly unsafe content. Lower false positive rates mean faster approvals for user uploaded content leading to a better end-user experience. Lower false positive rate also imply lower volumes of flagged images to be reviewed further, leading to a better experience for human moderators and more cost savings.

We are excited to announce support for full cluster lifecycle automation through GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A). Previously, the only mechanism for customers to perform full EKS-A cluster lifecycle operations such as provisioning, updates, and deletion was by using an Amazon command-line-interface (CLI) tool “eksctl”. Now, EKS-A supports GitOps and IaC in the EKS-A management cluster so customers can automate EKS-A workload cluster lifecycle operations including cluster creation, update, and deletion. 

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Nutanix with AHV Virtualization, which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Nutanix enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, and Apache CloudStack.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka).

Amazon Nimble Studio now supports Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots with our new Auto Backup feature, providing a simple and secure data protection solution customized for your Amazon Nimble Studio workstations. Auto Backup is intended for artists and administrators leveraging persistent storage for their workstations who wish to protect that data in the event of a recovery situation, such as data loss or misconfigured software.