AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer is an AWS Solution that automatically provisions the infrastructure necessary to aggregate cost optimization recommendations and actively track cost optimization health across your organization over time. The solution creates a data lake that can be used to create dashboards to visually explore the data. The solution enriches the data with Resource Tags that further enhance the discovery and filtering capabilities.  

Amazon Aurora Multi-Master is a single database that allows you to create multiple read-write instances of your Aurora database across multiple Availability Zones, which enables uptime-sensitive applications to achieve continuous write availability through instance failure. With today’s launch, the feature is available for the MySQL-compatible edition of Aurora in 8 AWS regions. Check out this blog to find out how to build highly available MySQL applications using Aurora Multi-Master. 

AWS has updated Video on Demand on AWS, a solution that automatically provisions the AWS services necessary to build a scalable, distributed video-on-demand workflow. The solution now leverages AWS Elemental MediaConvert Accelerated Transcoding which increases the processing speed of file-based video encoding jobs by up to 25 times. With Accelerated Transcoding, you can meet the most demanding turnaround times for processing the highest quality video with confidence.

AWS Security Hub is now available in the new Africa (Cape Town) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in the first AWS Region in Africa.  

EBS direct APIs for Snapshots are now available in five additional regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Neptune introduced support for Streams, an easy way to capture changes in your graph, in lab mode in October 2019. As background Neptune Streams logs changes to your graph (change-log data) as they happen for notifying processes or creating a new copy of the graph in a different region or service such as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache, or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Customers in the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions 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.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. For Amazon MSK region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table. 

You can now launch R5, M5, and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.  

AWS customers want a highly scalable, durable, fast and cost-efficient relational database re-imagined for the cloud. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), including Amazon Aurora, makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. AWS customers want to focus on their applications so they can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.