Today, AWS announces the general availability of openCypher query language support with Amazon Neptune. Customers can now use openCypher with Amazon Neptune, giving them more choices to build or migrate graph applications to a highly available, secure, and fully managed graph database.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports highly available configurations with Multi-AZ deployments for PostgreSQL and for MySQL on AWS Outposts in all commercial regions. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ on Outposts deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for RDS database (DB) instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. When you provision a Multi-AZ database instance, Amazon RDS automatically creates a primary DB Instance and synchronously replicates the data to a standby instance on a second AWS Outposts connected to a different Availability Zone  (AZ). Each Outposts runs on its own physically distinct, independent infrastructure, and is engineered to be highly reliable. In case of an infrastructure failure, Amazon RDS performs an automatic fail-over to the standby, so that you can resume database operations as soon as the fail-over is complete.

AWS Migration Hub now helps you orchestrate the migration of applications to AWS with the new Migration Hub Orchestrator feature. The scope of large migration projects generally involves selecting migration tools, step-by-step planning, and tracking the migration process across different tools and teams. Migration Hub Orchestrator provides predefined and customizable workflow templates that offer a prescribed set of migration tasks, migration tools, and automation opportunities. With Orchestrator, you can customize the templates, automate the migration of your applications, and track your progress in one place.

You can now set a default instance warm-up time for all scaling activities, health check replacements, and other replacement events in the Auto Scaling instance lifecycle. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a service that allows you to automatically scale and manage logical groups of instances, known as Auto Scaling groups, that serve your application. EC2 Auto Scaling does this by monitoring various metrics, such as CPU utilization and application demand, to determine if an instance needs to be replaced, removed from, or added to your Auto Scaling group. Setting the default instance warm-up time parameter can simplify your Auto Scaling group configuration by ensuring that any scaling and replacement policies are aware of the time your instances typically take to be ready to serve demand.

Amazon Personalize now gives you more control over your resources by allowing you to stop and start recommenders. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. A recommender is a resource that is optimized for specific use cases, such as “Frequently bought together” for Retail and “Top picks for you” for Media and Entertainment. Stopping the recommender when not in use moves it to an inactive state without having to delete the recommender. Starting moves it to an active state, resuming where you left off without having to recreate the recommender resource. For example, during testing phase, you might need to get recommendations only for a few days. You can stop the recommender when you don’t need it, and then start the recommender again at any time to resume recommendation requests. There are no usage charges for a stopped recommender.

You can now customize your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that control access to your Amazon Neptune resources, like Neptune clusters or instances, with AWS global condition context keys. You can use AWS global condition context keys , which are specified in the Condition element of an IAM policy, to allow or disallow access to Neptune resources based on the set conditions.

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region along with support for 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.

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