EBS direct APIs for Snapshots are now available in ten additional regions: US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (São Paulo).

Today, we are reducing the price of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery by 80% to $0.028 per hour per server, or an estimated $20 per month per server. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers to AWS. 

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new AWS Game Tech Starter Pack. This digital training curriculum covers key features of Amazon GameLift and Amazon Lumberyard, as well as how AWS analytics solutions, such as Amazon Kinesis and Amazon EMR, can lead to insights to solve real-world problems with games. The curriculum features four courses: Amazon GameLift Primer, Amazon Lumberyard Primer, Data Analytics Fundamentals, and Why Analytics for Games. They feature a combined eight hours of digital video content intended for back-end game developers, operation engineers, architects, designers, producers, artists, data scientists, analysts, and business leaders.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Building Containerized Applications on AWS , a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on edX. Using video lectures, hands-on exercise guides, demonstrations, and quizzes, the course explains what containers are, as well as the differences between containers and virtual machines. It also covers how to use AWS services to build and deploy microservices-based applications, and which AWS services to use to simplify container management.

We are excited to announce the launch of Planning and Designing Databases on AWS, a new three-day, instructor-led classroom course.

AWS IoT Greengrass released an AWS IoT Greengrass Core SDK for Node.js v1.6.0, which provides support for Greengrass Stream Manager.

Today, AWS announced plans to open a full AWS Region in Osaka, Japan. Expected in early 2021, the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will be launched by expanding the existing AWS (Osaka) Local Region with the addition of two new Availability Zones and an increased service portfolio. 

You can now create AWS CloudFormation templates to provision and configure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) ingress routing infrastructures predictably and repeatedly. Amazon VPC ingress routing allows you to route ingress and egress traffic to and from internet gateways and virtual private gateways through networking and security virtual appliances in your VPCs. 

Amazon SageMaker now supports Tensorflow 2.0 as a pre-built deep learning container. This latest version provides significant updates to the existing API, simplifies eager execution, offers a new dataset manager, and more.  

AWS Outposts is now available in the following seven new regions: