Today we are announcing the opening of an AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California. The LA Local Zone is a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, and other select services closer to customers, giving developers the ability to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in LA.

Amazon Detective is a new service in Preview that makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct faster and more efficient security investigations.

The in-preview Amazon Redshift Federated Query feature allows you to query and analyze data across operational databases, data warehouses, and data lakes. With Federated Query, you can now integrate queries on live data in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with queries across your Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 environments.

Amazon SageMaker Processing is a new capability of Amazon SageMaker for running pre- or post- processing and model evaluation workloads with a fully managed experience.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on Outposts is available in Preview, allowing you to deploy fully managed Amazon RDS database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. You can deploy Amazon RDS on Outposts to set up, operate, and scale relational databases on premises, just as you would in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity for databases in Outposts, while automating time-consuming administration tasks including infrastructure provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups, freeing you to focus on your applications.

We are excited to announce the availability of Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN which uses AWS Global Accelerator to improve the performance of VPN connections by intelligently routing traffic through the AWS Global Network and AWS edge locations.

You can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to run Kubernetes pods on AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine built for containers on AWS. This makes it easier than ever to build and run your Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud. 

Today we are announcing AWS Compute Optimizer, a new machine learning-based recommendation service that makes it easy for you to ensure that you are using optimal AWS Compute resources.  

Amazon SageMaker support for the Deep Graph Library (DGL) is now available. With DGL, you can improve the prediction accuracy of recommendation, fraud detection, and drug discovery systems using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).

Starting today, Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes with managed storage are generally available. RA3 nodes enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs. Now you can analyze even more data cost-effectively.