Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Learn to “think serverless” with this free training course from AWS. In this intermediate, three-hour digital course, you will learn how to combine AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in event-driven patterns to power scalable and secure serverless applications.

We’re excited to announce a free training course that demonstrates how to create and configure an AWS Transit Gateway. In this digital course, you will learn about setting up a basic Transit Gateway, creating a Transit Gateway with shared domains and route tables, and routing and propagation. Demonstrations will help teach you about connecting VPN and direct connect to AWS Transit Gateway.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Amazon CloudFormation resources. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications (called “stacks”). You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed. For example, you can use CloudFormation to build and activate an issuing CA and then issue a private certificate from that CA. This feature offers templates for CAs, CA activation and private certificates. 

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including inventory planning, energy demand forecasting, financial planning, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure usage forecasting, and traffic forecasting.

You can now perform an in-place upgrade of your Chef Automate server to Chef Automate 2 from the AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate console or the AWS CLI.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports authentication of database users using AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory Service .

AWS Cloud Map now allows you to view service instance details and edit custom service instance attributes in the AWS Console. This feature, which was previously available only through the AWS CLI, SDK, or API, provides better visibility into the composition of your services and simplifies updating the metadata associated with cloud resources registered in AWS Cloud Map.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2019 , Windows Server Core 2019, and .NET Core 3.1.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region.