AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Australia and New Zealand ISVs and Consulting Partners, adding to the 7,000+ software listings and data products from 1,500+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers can find their local solution providers and leverage their trusted relationships with consulting partners in the region, making it easier than ever to migrate to and build operations in the cloud. 

Amazon WorkSpaces now allows customers to bring their own licenses (BYOL) to WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With BYOL, you can now add your own Windows 10 licenses to WorkSpaces and use the Windows Desktop operating system on your Amazon WorkSpaces running on hardware that is dedicated to you. This option entitles you to a discount per month per WorkSpace, and also allows you to use a single Windows 10 Desktop golden image on-premises and for your Amazon WorkSpaces.  

Amazon GameLift, a managed service for session-based multiplayer games that leverages the power and reliability of AWS, enables game developers to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated low-cost servers. Since 2016, some of the largest game companies in the world, such as Ubisoft, Behaviour Interactive, and Bethesda, trust GameLift to maximize cost savings while scaling their multiplayer experiences.

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS service that makes it easy to create and run browser-based 3D, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) applications, now supports exporting your Sumerian scenes to glTF (GL Transmission Format), an open-source file format for 3D scenes and models that’s compatible with many other 3D editing tools and rendering engines. To learn more about the glTF file format and what is supported, please refer to our user guide .  

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Canada (Central), EU (London), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions, in addition to US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES. 

AWS Ground Station expands its global coverage to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The Sydney Region in Australia is the fifth region within the AWS Global Infrastructure Network and the first region in the Southern hemisphere to offer AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station is available today in US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Middle East (Bahrain), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) with more regions coming soon.

Amazon Connect now enables you to define a custom terminating keypress when capturing DTMF (dual-tone multi frequency) inputs to provide greater flexibility when accepting multiple inputs during a call. Instead of the default “#” to signal the end of DTMF collection, you can now specify a different digit such as “*” or a series of digits such as “##” or “0000”. For example, this can be used to let your callers enter multiple inputs such as account number, amount, and stock name in a single stream of digits, rather than enter each input one at a time. 

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Detective, a new service that makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build interactive visualizations that enable you to conduct faster and more efficient security investigations. 

Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that allows you to set up and manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few clicks. Amazon Managed Blockchain eliminates the overhead required to create the network, and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Once your network is up and running, Amazon Managed Blockchain makes it easy to manage and maintain your blockchain network. It manages your certificates and lets you easily invite new members to join the network. 

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to label and categorize resources by using tags.