You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

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

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in two new AWS regions, Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt). Additionally, new language support for Spanish (ES) is now available in all regions where Amazon Transcribe is available.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in open preview in seven AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and AP (Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo).

AWS Device Farm’s Remote Access feature allows developers to swipe, gesture, and interact with a real device through their web browser to test the functionality and usability of their mobile applications.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) now enables you to customize the certificate it uses when you access applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Office 365. AWS SSO uses a certificate to sign and send an authentication token to the applications you access. Through the AWS SSO console, you can now customize the certificate validity period, signing algorithm type, and the key size to match your corporate security policies. To learn more, see Manage AWS SSO Certificates . 

You can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) to run containers on Amazon EC2 A1 Instances as part of a public developer preview. This preview lets you take advantage of the latest EC2 functionality and start validating performance and stability of containerized applications running on the Arm processor architecture.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports the latest C5 (compute-optimized), M5 (general-purpose), and R5 (memory-optimized) instances, all of which offer superior performance at lower costs compared to previous-generation instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 T3a instances. T3a instances are variants of T3 instances and feature AMD EPYC processors with an all core turbo clock speed of up to 2.5 GHz. T3a instances provide additional options for customers who are looking to achieve a 10% cost savings on their Amazon EC2 compute environment for applications with moderate CPU usage that may experience temporary spikes in use.