Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) regions. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can create user identities directly in IAM Identity Center or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With IAM Identity Center, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a portal for access to all of their assigned AWS accounts and cloud applications.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. You may now configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints within the Africa (Cape Town) region.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports Read Replicas. Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for RDS database (DB) instances. They provide the option to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas of a given source DB instance and serve high-volume application read traffic from multiple copies of your data, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput. Read replicas can also be promoted when needed to become standalone DB instances.

AWS Glue crawlers now have enhanced support for Linux Foundation Delta Lake tables, increasing operational efficiency to extract meaningful insights from analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue. This feature enables analytics services scan Delta Lake tables without requiring the creation of manifest files by Glue crawlers. Newly cataloged data is now quickly made available for analysis using your preferred analytics and machine learning (ML) tools. 

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges, see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information.

The AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based SDK client and the Transfer Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are now generally available in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The CRT-based S3 client is intended for users who want maximized throughput when transferring objects to and from Amazon S3, and the S3 Transfer Manager is a high level transfer utility built on top of CRT-based S3 client and provides additional functionalities such as file directories transfer and progress monitoring.

AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

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