The new AWS Training Partner (ATP) program enables AWS customers to work with a single, trusted Partner who can offer, deliver, and/or resell official AWS-authored training. All AWS Training Partners are selected based on their quality and expertise in providing training. They must continually meet or exceed rigorous criteria to maintain their status in the program.

AWS RoboMaker WorldForge, a capability that makes it faster, simpler, and less expensive to create a multitude of virtual 3D worlds, now supports adding doors to indoor residential simulation worlds. With this new feature , robotics developers can add doors to connect rooms on the same floor of their indoor residential simulation world to test robot behaviors like navigating through doors and avoiding closed doors. Robotics developers can specify the initial angle doors are open in order to test their robot behaviors in a variety of simulated scenarios.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Cross-Region Automated Backups feature is now available in the AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East).

You can now respond to AWS IQ messages from experts and buyers directly from your email, without logging into AWS IQ. If you are offline and receive responses from buyers or experts, you will receive unread responses via email. Reply to the email or log in to AWS IQ to continue the conversation. All responses will appear as chat messages in the AWS IQ application.

AWS Edit in the Cloud is an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps the content creator to build a virtual editing environment on AWS. This allows your editors and creative professionals to work from anywhere in the world using only a laptop with a high-speed connection. Leveraging the AWS Cloud for editorial and content delivery, this solution brings collaborators together to publish content to your preferred platform using high-speed internet.

You can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes v1.21 , which is currently the latest available stable version of upstream Kubernetes. Highlights of the Kubernetes version 1.21 release include Cronjobs and Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps reaching stable status, and Graceful Node Shutdown graduating to beta. You can find more details about Kubernetes 1.21 release in EKS blog post and in Kubernetes project release notes .

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

Today we are announcing the availability of AWS provided License included Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with Microsoft SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI). Customers can now combine the scale, performance, and elasticity of Amazon EC2 with consistency, reliability, and high performance of Microsoft SQL Server on RHEL to deploy mission critical transactional systems and data warehouses.