Amazon Neptune is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now has support for AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS PrivateLink is a networking technology designed to enable access to AWS services in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS network. When you create a AWS PrivateLink endpoint for Amazon ECR, the service endpoints appear as elastic network interfaces with a private IP address in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Starting today, developers of all skill levels can join the AWS DeepRacer League from anywhere in the world via the AWS DeepRacer console . Developers can put their skills to the test by competing in the Virtual Circuit World Tour, on virtual tracks inspired by famous raceways to be revealed each month. They will race for prizes and glory and a chance to win an expenses paid trip to the AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup at re:Invent 2019 .

Customers who need to run Amazon EC2 workloads on AWS Snowball Edge devices can now attach multiple persistent block storage volumes to their Amazon EC2 instances. With both block and object storage options on Snowball Edge, you have flexibility to deploy a wider set of applications in rugged, temporary or mobile environments that have limited or no network connectivity.

Starting today, AWS IoT Analytics customers can now refresh their SQL data sets in customizable intervals as low as one minute. Prior to this capability, customers could only refresh their SQL data sets with a minimum interval of 15 minutes, which enabled a plethora of batched analysis operations but limited their ability to do near real-time analysis. With this new feature, customers can address their need for more timely analyses such as getting minute updates to operational dashboards or deriving more actionable insights on customer usage trends and equipment telemetry using their IoT data.

AWS has updated AWS WAF Security Automations, a solution that automatically deploys a single web access control list (web ACL) with a set of AWS WAF rules designed to filter common web-based attacks.

Today, we are excited to announce the new VMware Cloud on AWS Navigate track. 

Together, VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud solution that extends on-premises VMware environments to AWS elastic, bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated as part of the AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS will bring the capabilities of VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies to the AWS Cloud, and enable customers to run any application across vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

The VMware Cloud on AWS Navigate track creates a prescriptive journey for APN Partners who want to build expertise in supporting AWS Customer projects for VMware Cloud solutions on AWS.

Learn more about the AWS Navigate Program, and all the AWS Navigate tracks available on the APN blog . 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain, which is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks using the popular open source frameworks Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. Hyperledger Fabric is available today. Ethereum is coming soon.

You can now set the minimum capacity of your Aurora Serverless DB clusters to 1 Aurora Capacity Unit (ACU). With Aurora Serverless, you specify the minimum and maximum ACUs for your Aurora Serverless DB cluster instead of provisioning and managing database instances. Each ACU is a combination of processing and memory capacity. By setting the minimum capacity to 1 ACU, you can keep your Aurora Serverless DB cluster running at a lower cost.  

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) has increased the limits per account for certificate creation and certificate revocation. The limits on the lifetime total certificates generated and revoked by a single CA has been increased from 50,000 to 1,000,000. This applies to all regions for which ACM Private CA is available. This limit increase is intended for organizations doing large scale certificate deployment to IOT, endpoints, and devices.