Starting today, AWS Security Token Service is announcing support for AWS PrivateLink in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paolo), and US West (N. California) regions, enabling you to route data between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Security Token Service entirely within the AWS network. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5ad and R5ad instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. In addition, 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes of M5ad and R5ad instances are now also available in the Canada (Central) Regions.

Amazon Lex is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Lex to process user input that contains protected health information (PHI). 

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. CodeCommit makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. 

Alexa for Business now supports new meeting room capabilities that help employees end meetings on time, automatically free up reserved but unused meeting rooms, and provide meeting room utilization insights for your organization. 

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in AWS Canada, Brazil (São Paulo), and Europe (Paris) AWS Regions.

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new Exam Readiness course for the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty certification exam. Available digitally and via classroom, this course teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. You’ll also have a chance to work through sample questions to understand the rationale behind correct and incorrect answer choices.

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and US West (N. California) regions. 

In addition to Amazon CloudWatch, you now have the option to monitor your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters using Prometheus , an open source monitoring system for time-series metrics. Open Monitoring with Prometheus enables you to monitor Amazon MSK using solutions like Datadog , Lenses , New Relic , Sumo logic , or a Prometheus server, and easily migrate your existing monitoring dashboards to Amazon MSK.