You can now save even more money on your file storage – automatically – as your access patterns change when using the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Infrequent Access storage class (EFS IA). Today we’re announcing a 44% reduction* in storage prices for EFS IA, one of the largest percentage price reductions in AWS history to date. EFS IA storage prices now start at $0.025/GB-month. Using the industry accepted estimate that 20% of data is actively used and 80% is infrequently accessed, this reduction leads to an effective EFS storage price of $0.08/GB-month (20% * $0.30/GB-month for files stored on EFS Standard + 80% * $0.025/GB-month for files stored on EFS IA = $0.08/GB-month)*.

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Location in Lisbon, Portugal. With this new Edge location, viewers in Portugal will now see up to a 60% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. CloudFront now has 190 Points of Presence in 72 cities across 33 countries. Learn more by reading our announcement .

For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features .

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud sharing (VPC sharing) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. VPC sharing is also available in all commercial AWS Regions except in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), and China regions. 

Analyzing Text with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Comprehend is an automated reference implementation that deploys a cost-effective, end-to-end solution for extracting meaningful insights from unstructured data such as customer calls, support tickets, and online customer feedback.

The AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. This increases the availability of the service to a total of 18 AWS regions across Asia Pacific, North America, EU and South America. To see the complete list of where SAR is available today, please visit the AWS region table. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre now allows you to create smaller high-performance file systems, reducing the minimum size from 3.6 TBs to 1.2 TBs. These smaller file systems enable you to use FSx for Lustre for an even broader set of workloads, including machine learning workloads with smaller training sets. 

Amazon SageMaker customers can now use smaller Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems as the data source for training machine learning models. Until today, the smallest FSx for Lustre file system that could be created was 3.6 TBs. For training sets that are smaller than this size, customers can now create and use file systems as small as 1.2 TB.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS region. 

Customers can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.