EBS direct APIs for Snapshots are now available in five additional regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Neptune introduced support for Streams, an easy way to capture changes in your graph, in lab mode in October 2019. As background Neptune Streams logs changes to your graph (change-log data) as they happen for notifying processes or creating a new copy of the graph in a different region or service such as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache, or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Customers in the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. For Amazon MSK region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table. 

You can now launch R5, M5, and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.  

AWS customers want a highly scalable, durable, fast and cost-efficient relational database re-imagined for the cloud. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), including Amazon Aurora, makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. AWS customers want to focus on their applications so they can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports distributed transactions using Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC). You can execute distributed transaction on DB instances that are domain joined using the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. 

Today, we announced the AWS SaaS Competency to support AWS customers looking for APN Consulting Partners with deep specialization and expertise in designing and building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions on AWS.

Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning is an AWS Solution that automates the detection of potentially fraudulent activity, and flags that activity for review. The solution is easy to deploy and contains an example dataset. You can also modify the solution to use your own dataset. The update improves model accuracy and now includes a model to detect anomalies in unlabeled data. 

Now you can include enriched metadata in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Prior to this launch, custom format VPC flow logs enriched with additional metadata could be published only to S3. With this launch, we are also adding metadata fields that provide insights about the location of the network interface on which flow logs are being captured, such as the AWS Region, AWS Availability Zone, AWS Local Zone, or AWS Outpost where it resides.