Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports using Amazon RDS procedures to run certain EMCTL commands on the Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control.  

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. The addition of these regions increases the availability of the AWS Serverless Application Repository, which offers region support for Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and AWS GovCloud regions. With this launch, the AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in 20 commercial regions. 

Today, AWS is announcing general availability of Image Scanning for Amazon Elastic Container Registry. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. Image Scanning is an automated vulnerability assessment feature in ECR that helps improve the security of your application’s container images by scanning them for a broad range of operating system vulnerabilities.

You can now use ElastiCache data migration feature to migrate your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully-managed ElastiCache cluster-mode disabled configuration. With this feature, once you provide ElastiCache-accessible endpoint and port of your Redis cluster, ElastiCache will replicate the data from your cluster in real-time to your ElastiCache cluster. Once the data sync is complete, you can update your client applications to start using the newly-populated ElastiCache cluster. 

Amazon SageMaker is now available in Middle East (Bahrain) Region.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) customers can now use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to configure and deploy ECS patterns into their CloudFormation stacks. This allows users to quickly create highly integrated applications while abstracting away details of how the infrastructure is stitched together. Leaving the infrastructure configuration details to AWS, customers can focus more on building their applications.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 z1d instances are available in AWS US East (Ohio), and AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul) regions 

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Today, we’re excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2 and new Instance Types. With this update, it’s easier and more cost efficient to:

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in the Middle Eastern (Bahrain) region. Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.