Starting today, Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, and c5.metal instance sizes are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) and the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Local Region. In addition, c5.24xlarge and c5.metal instance sizes are also available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These C5 instance sizes are powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.

You can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) identity-based policies to enforce encryption of data at rest for your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system resources. Using an IAM condition key , you can prevent users from creating EFS file systems that aren’t encrypted. Central security administrators can also define service control policies (SCPs) inside AWS Organizations to enforce EFS encryption for all AWS accounts in their organization.

AWS Backup now provides customers a more seamless way to manage their backups, by automatically copying tags from their nested EBS volumes to their EC2 backups. For customers using tags to manage their AWS resources, AWS Backup will enable them to more effectively search for source resources or conduct billing for their backups. See AWS Tagging Strategies for tagging best practices.

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in the Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milan) Regions, increasing the total to 20 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. At this time, Firewall Manager does not include support for centralized management of VPC Security Groups in the Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milan) Regions.

The AWS Outposts Ready Program, part of the AWS Service Ready Program, help customers find integrated storage, networking, security, and industry-specific solutions that are validated by AWS experts to integrate with AWS Outposts deployments. AWS customers use AWS Outposts to benefit from the same AWS hardware infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to build and run their applications on premises and in the cloud for a truly consistent hybrid experience. With AWS Outposts, customers can run AWS services locally on their Outpost, including EC2, EBS, ECS, EKS, and RDS, and also have full access to services available in the Region. Customers using specific tools and applications want to know which AWS Technology Partner products will help them to simplify and protect their AWS Outposts deployment, or accelerate access to insights on AWS Outposts.

Confluence Data Center Implementation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Cprime, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Confluence Data Center Implementation delivers the Confluence Data Center on AWS Quick Start giving you high availability, performance at scale, and disaster recovery for uninterrupted access to Confluence for all your teams. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a customized configuration and deployment of the Confluence Data Center on AWS Quick Start as well as cost optimization and training.

As part of the ongoing collaboration between AWS and Docker, we are excited to announce the newest features that allows developers to use Docker Compose and Docker Desktop to deploy applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS Fargate from either Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) or Docker Hub. This release extends the functionality of deploying and managing containers in AWS from a local development environment running Docker.

AWS Certification and Training now offers the digital course, Getting Started with .NET on AWS, which helps you learn how to develop, deploy, manage, and secure .NET applications on AWS. Available on demand, this free introductory course is designed for experienced .NET developers who are new to the AWS Cloud.  

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Hyperledger Fabric version 1.4 for new networks. In addition to stability improvements and bug fixes, this version improves Node.js and Java client SDKs for easier chaincode development and deployment, enhances private data collections to make the feature more stable and easier to use, supports Java chaincode, and has additional metrics to monitor network activity. Customers can also now select CouchDB as their state database, enabling them to perform richer state data queries from chaincode using JSON storage and query formats. To learn more about these features, please see the Private Data Collections , Java chaincode , CouchDB , and Peer node metrics sections in the Amazon Managed Blockchain Management Guide.

Amplify JavaScript is part of the open source Amplify Framework, a suite of libraries, UI components, and tools for front-end web and mobile developers. When using Amplify JavaScript to build web applications, you can now incorporate server-side rendering (SSR) with frameworks like Next.js and Nuxt.js. Next.js and Nuxt.js enable developers to use SSR, as well as static site generation and client-side rendering, to build fast, modern sites. These frameworks have grown in popularity as developers take advantage of their great developer experience and features like API routes, incremental static regeneration, code splitting, and SEO-friendliness.