Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches.

Customers can now create Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs that route requests to AWS AppConfig, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon SQS, and AWS Step Functions. With these new integrations, customers can easily create APIs and webhooks for their business logic hosted in these AWS services. 

AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to more easily deploy SQL Server Always On workloads in two new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way to size, configure, and deploy AWS resources for SQL Always On applications with an easy to use wizard. It provides resource recommendations and is integrated with AWS compute, storage, management, logging, monitoring, and security services to orchestrate SQL Server deployments taking AWS Best Practices into consideration. AWS Launch Wizard frees up resources from undifferentiated infrastructure build activities so AWS customers can focus their resources on activities with higher added-value. 

You can now configure your Amazon Connect contact-center to automatically resolve to the best sounding version of a Polly Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice. Instead of manually updating the settings within every ‘Set voice’ block, administrators can configure their contact-center once and every TTS prompt would auto-resolve to the best available voice, saving time and effort. For example, businesses could have their contact-centers resolve to Joanna conversational without updating a single flow. To get started, select the best available voice toggle from within the Amazon Connect console. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) customers can now add or remove email addresses in bulk from their account-level suppression list. The account-level suppression list prevents you from sending email to addresses that previously produced a bounce or complaint event. When you configure the account-level suppression list, you specify whether addresses should be added to the list when they result in hard bounces, when they result in complaints, or both. Previously, you were only able to manually add or remove individual email addresses from the account-level suppression list, which was a time consuming process, especially for customers who were onboarding to the Amazon SES account-level suppression list.  

You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the EU (Ireland) & EU (London) Regions. 

The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you define and use AWS service resources directly from Kubernetes. With ACK, you can take advantage of AWS managed services for your Kubernetes applications without needing to define resources outside of the cluster or run services that provide supporting capabilities like databases or message queues within the cluster. 

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now gives you control over who you can watch your live streams. When you want to gate your content, you can use the playback authorization feature to restrict your streams by channel and viewer. Playback authorization manages access to video playlists.

AWS Storage Gateway now supports Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) and Tape Retention Lock on Tape Gateway virtual tapes, providing you data protection features to meet regulatory compliance. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now generally available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.