Tag-on create is now available for AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and Private Certificate Authority (CA). Upon creation, you can tag your ACM certificates and private certificate authorities (CAs). By tagging resources at time of creation you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation. 

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces new streaming instances based on the EC2 z1d family. EC2 z1d instances deliver high single-thread performance using custom Intel® Xeon® processors with a sustained all-core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz, the fastest of any cloud instance. Z1d provides both high compute and high memory performance, which is ideal for electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, and software with high per-core licensing costs. Z1D instances are also built on the new AWS Nitro System, which offloads many traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware to improve performance, availability, and security.

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add a speech-to-text capability to applications. Organizations can use Amazon Transcribe to create text transcripts of audio and video files quickly.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS Canada (ca-central-1) region.

With the addition of a new polymorphic data type, GEOMETRY, Amazon Redshift now provides the ability to natively process spatial data. This capability enables customers to store, retrieve, and process spatial data so you can enhance your business insights by integrating spatial data into your analytical queries.

This Quick Start deploys Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) VPX on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to build and test a proof of concept or to create a production-ready solution with a highly available deployment of Citrix ADC VPX as a front end for their web applications. 

You now can benefit from the 99.999% DynamoDB availability SLA more easily by adding global tables replicas to your existing, single-region tables with a few clicks in the DynamoDB console. Previously, you could only create new DynamoDB global tables. For existing tables, you can now easily create a hot standby for disaster recovery, or you can extend your existing tables to additional AWS Regions to support latency-sensitive applications, without taking any downtime on your table. In addition, you benefit from efficiency improvements that can reduce replicated writes consumed by up to 50 percent.

Today, AWS X-Ray is launching trace maps, which enables you to visually map the end to end path of a single request.  

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you include instance weights in Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that are configured to provision and scale across multiple instance types. Instance weights define the capacity units that each instance type would contribute to your application’s performance, providing greater flexibility for instance type selection that can be included in your ASG. 

Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC) is a new feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA). S3 RTC helps customers meet compliance or business requirements for data replication, and provides visibility into the replication process with new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics.