Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5 instances will be available in new 12xlarge, 24xlarge, and Bare Metal sizes. These new instances will be powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (based on the Cascade Lake architecture) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz. New Cascade Lake processors enable a new feature called Intel DL Boost which will help speed up typical machine learning operations like convolution, and automatically improve inference performance over a wide range of deep learning workloads. The specifications for the new sizes are in the table below.  

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces seven new Edge locations. Four of the new Edge locations are in North America including Houston, Texas (2) , Hillsboro, Oregon, and Toronto, Ontario. Two locations were added in Europe in Manchester, England, and Zurich, Switzerland while another Edge location was added in Sydney, Australia. The addition of these new Edge locations has doubled our capacity in each city to serve the growing number of viewer requests. A full list of CloudFront’s global locations is available on the CloudFront Features webpage.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.13.7 for all clusters. Additionally, you can use ECR PrivateLink and Kubernetes PodSecurityPolicies with your EKS clusters.

You can now configure Amazon Neptune to publish audit logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

Amazon MQ is now available in 14 regions, with the addition of the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Paris) regions.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region.  

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to provision Amplify Console resources, enabling repeatable and reliable web app deployments. CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment and simplifies the roll out across multiple AWS accounts and/or regions with just a couple of clicks.

AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment. It allows you to use a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. 

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to specify AWS Client VPN Endpoint resources. This improvement enables you to use CloudFormation to create AWS Client VPN Endpoints, associate target subnets, create routes and rules —along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.