Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions.  

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. By using Hibernation, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances to get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications.  

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

We are happy to announce that we are lowering the price of Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enterprise Edition database instances in the Multi-AZ configuration, for both On-Demand and Reserved purchase types on the latest generation hardware. 

Starting today, customers can manage their AWS Purchase Orders (“POs”) within their AWS Billing Console, creating and defining invoices association rules, managing their PO status, and setting up PO balance notifications.

AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, AWS IQ, and EC2 Reserved Instances Marketplace now support invoice payments in 13 additional currencies, in addition to our existing support for US Dollars (USD). This will help relieve your accounting department of the burden of paying and tracking conversion fees and other costs associated with the use of foreign currencies.

Amazon Fraud Detector is now generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. Amazon Fraud Detector uses machine learning (ML) and 20 years of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com to automatically identify potentially fraudulent activity so you can catch more online fraud faster. Amazon Fraud Detector handles the heavy lifting of ML for you – in just a few clicks you can create a fraud detection model, with no prior machine learning experience required. 

AWS Elemental MediaTailor customers can now configure a video bumper at the beginning and/or the end of an ad break. Bumpers are commonly used to indicate a change from regular programming or ad breaks to viewers. Bumpers can also be used to meet requirements such as station identification announcements or viewer age recommendations.

You can now pause the entitlement on an output of AWS Elemental MediaConnect when sharing live video between AWS accounts. This feature makes it easier to manage content sharing by allowing you to suspend and restart distribution of live video to your subscribers without having to delete and then reconfigure entitlement settings. To learn more about entitlements in MediaConnect, please read the user guide .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports gzip compression for HTTP payloads. With HTTP compression, you can reduce the size of your documents by to up to 80%, lowering bandwidth utilization and latency, leading to improved transfer speeds.