Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

Network Load Balancer, designed to handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies, is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka).  

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region.

Starting today, Amazon Rekognition is available in four additional AWS Regions — EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

Security and compliance are primary considerations for many of our customers as they begin their cloud journey. Oftentimes, public sector customers face obstacles and challenges using commercially available solutions today do not meet the security and compliance authorizations needed to operate in the public sector.

Introducing the new Authority to Operate (ATO) on AWS Program to help APN Partners running on AWS accelerate the security and compliance authorization process, reducing the time and cost it takes to achieve an ATO from their customers, which is required for production use (such as FedRAMP or CJIS).

Through the ATO on AWS Program, APN Partners receive the resources needed to build, implement, and optimize DevOps, SecOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Continuous Risk Treatment (CRT) strategies and processes for their organization, as well as provide access to managed solutions that minimize the work required to achieve such authorizations.

Learn more on the APN Blog >> 

Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode and transactions are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . On-demand capacity mode is a flexible capacity mode for DynamoDB capable of serving thousands of requests per second without requiring capacity planning. Transactions provide developers atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) operations in DynamoDB so that they can maintain data correctness in applications more easily.

AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) is now available. This introductory digital course features updated, streamlined content to help you better understand security in the cloud for your organization. In this two-hour, self-paced, digital course, the experts at AWS will help you address your security responsibility in the AWS Cloud and the different security-oriented services available. You will learn to identify the security benefits and responsibilities when using the AWS Cloud. You will also learn fundamental AWS Cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured.

Customers using AWS ParallelCluster to set up their High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters can now take advantage of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). AWS ParallelCluster helps you easily configure everything you need to run your application with EFA, including security group with ingress & egress rules, Open MPI, and Libfabric library. 

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. The addition of the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region 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, Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), and US East (N. Virginia, Ohio). The AWS Serverless Application Repository is available in 17 regions.

Customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.