Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.

You can now use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

Amazon Redshift Advisor now recommends sort keys for frequently queried tables. With the ALTER TABLE command, you can add and change sort keys of existing Redshift tables without having to re-create the tables and without impacting concurrent read or write queries. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server announces a hard disk drive (HDD) storage option that provides highly available and durable file storage at a price of 1.3 cents per GB-month (in the US-East, N. Virginia Region). For customers who require file systems that span multiple Availability Zones, HDD storage is available at 2.5 cents per GB-month. Combined with Amazon FSx’s support for data deduplication, you can achieve an effective cost of less than 1 cent per GB-month.

AWS has updated its service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon EKS to 99.95% for Amazon EKS clusters.

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to mobile users can now host their application in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to a phone number , or can send a message to multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. Customers can send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries.

Today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager added support for AWS CloudFormation with templates for building global networks across the cloud and on-premises. This improvement enables you to automate the creation of global networks, register transit gateways, associate customer gateways, and define your on-premises resources within global network such as devices, sites, and links in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.  

Starting today, you can use the UpdateShardCount API in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to scale up to 10,000 shards for a single data stream. You can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture, store, and analyze terabytes of data per hour from clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, and more. The UpdateShardCount API enables you to rapidly scale the capacity of data streams up or down to handle changes in data volumes without any disruption to the producing or the consuming applications.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.  

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now lets you attach IAM resource policies to your VPC endpoints. VPC Endpoint policies can help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements by granularly controlling access to Amazon EC2 APIs.