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. 

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.  

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Amazon Elastic Filesystem (EFS) filesystems in ECS task definitions (in preview). When using ECS task definitions compatible with the EC2 launch type, customers can add EFS filesystems to their task definitions. This enables persistent, shared storage to be defined and used at the task and container level in ECS. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers expanded support for audio-only workflows with the ability to create MP3 audio files. With MediaConvert, you can easily produce MP3 audio for devices and services that use this format with a simple selection from the console. Create MP3 files in standalone audio conversion jobs, extracted from video files, or as supplementary outputs produced during the video transcoding process. To learn more about supported audio formats, please see the documentation pages .

You can now access the source code of AWS Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EBCLI) on Github . You can contribute to the development of EBCLI by making suggestions, reporting issues, and submitting pull requests. Visit the EBCLI source code in the Github repository to find more details. For more information about the EB CLI, see Using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI) in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

You can now configure your AWS Client VPN endpoint to use either the port 443 or the port 1194, with support for both TCP and UDP transmissions. New and existing endpoints are defaulted to use the port 443. However, you can now modify these endpoints to use the port 1194. If you cannot use the port 443, such as for security reasons, using the port 1194 gives you more flexibility. 

AWS Glue now supports three new transforms – Purge, Transition, Merge – that can help you extend your extract, transform, and load (ETL) logic in Apache Spark applications. You can use the Purge transform to remove files, partitions or tables, and quickly refine your datasets on S3.

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now gives you the option to defer rebooting after patch installation to a later time. You can choose this option if you have applications or processes running on the instance that cannot be disrupted during the patching operation. 

You can now centrally aggregate your AWS Health events from all accounts in your organization. AWS Organizations enables you to centrally govern and manage across multiple AWS accounts. The new AWS Health Organizational View provides centralized and real-time access to all AWS Health events posted to individual accounts in your organization, including operational issues, scheduled maintenance, and account notifications. You can start using Organizational View today via the AWS Health API.