AWS Cloud9 is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), US West (N. California), Europe (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.  

You can now use recently launched State Manager features through AWS CloudFormation, with support for all State Manager CLI and SDK operations, such as rate control. State Manager, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, is used to define, enforce, and report on desired state configuration compliance for your infrastructure. This integration provides additional safety, control, and flexibility when deploying desired state configurations with AWS CloudFormation.

You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (N. Virginia) Regions. 

You can now use AWS CloudFormation to easily create and manage accelerators and other AWS Global Accelerator components by using a CloudFormation template. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language, or a simple text file to automate creating and managing accelerators, listeners, endpoint groups, and endpoints for your Global Accelerator configuration in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.

AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme based on the previously experimental Jett Dark theme. Customers with existing environments can change or customize their current theme by following the instructions in Working with Themes in the Cloud9 IDE .  

AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low-latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, or local data storage. In this new digital course , you will learn how AWS Outposts can extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to your data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. The result: a consistent hybrid experience. The 80-minute course is available free and on demand.

AWS Training and Certification has released Configure and Deploy AWS Client VPN , a new digital course to help customers successfully deploy and use a client VPN. This free, 30-minute foundational course includes a step-by-step administrator’s guide for setting Client VPN using the AWS Console and the command line interface (CLI). It also provides instructions for client users to download and launch VPN from their personal hardware.

Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes (cdk8s), an open-source software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications using general-purpose programming languages. cdk8s makes it easy for you to manage Kubernetes using the same tools, techniques, and workflows that you use to write applications. cdk8s generates pure Kubernetes YAML, so you can use it to define applications for any Kubernetes cluster running anywhere.

The new AWS CloudTrail console makes it easier for you to create and manage trails. The console experience is refreshed across all CloudTrail features and now includes documentation and pricing links alongside the features so you can easily learn more while staying in the console.

Customers in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).