Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.

Amazon Redshift RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge nodes are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In addition, the smallest RA3 node type, RA3.xlplus, is also now available in five additional AWS regions. RA3.xlplus is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt, London, Stockholm), in addition to the previously available regions Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo), Brazil (São Paulo), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland, Paris), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (N. California, Oregon).

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to replicate secrets across multiple AWS Regions. You can now give your multi-Region applications access to replicated secrets in the corresponding Regions and rely on AWS Secrets Manager to keep the replicas in sync with the primary secret. This feature abstracts the complexity of replicating secrets across Regions, enabling customers to leverage Secrets Manager to easily manage secrets needed to support their multi-Region applications and disaster recovery strategies. You can use this functionality through the AWS Secrets Manager console , CreateSecret and ReplicateSecretToRegions API, or via AWS CloudFormation to replicate secrets in one or more Regions.

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions.

AWS Step Functions now supports YAML state machine definitions within the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and in AWS CloudFormation, making it possible to define workflows in the same language as your infrastructure as code.

Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to define multiple, sequential levels of approvals that are required for your operational changes. Change Manager simplifies the way you can request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes to your application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on-premises. Now, you can further streamline your change approval process by specifying the order in which approvals are required.

The over-the-air update (OTA), AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and AWS IoT Device Shadow named shadow features are now generally available in AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202103.00. With this release, developers can use the C-SDK libraries to update firmware, manage device fleets, monitor fleet metrics, and create multiple shadows for their IoT device.

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage Amazon S3 on Outposts resources, allowing you to create buckets, endpoints and access points. Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs. Using Amazon S3 APIs and features, Amazon S3 on Outposts makes it easy to store and manage data on your Outpost.

Amazon EventBridge now supports API Destinations, a simple and reliable way for customers to send events to any HTTP API, such as self-managed or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, allowing customers to easily extend their existing applications without writing code. Authorization is built in so customers don’t have to write or manage additional code to authorize their requests.

Amazon EMR now supports instance fleets: a new way to provision clusters in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Instead of specifying an Amazon EC2 availability zone for your Amazon EMR cluster and an Amazon EC2 instance type for an Amazon EMR instance group, you can now provide a list of availability zones and instances, and Amazon EMR will automatically select an optimal combination based on cost and availability.