You can now run your container applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Docker on Amazon Linux 2 beta platform. The Docker on Amazon Linux 2 beta platform comes with several enhancements in the compiler tool chain, and the Amazon Linux 2 operating system.  

Amazon API Gateway announced the general availability of HTTP APIs, enabling customers to easily build high performance RESTful APIs that offer up to 71% cost savings and 60% latency reduction compared to REST APIs available from API Gateway. As part of this launch, customers will be able to take advantage of several new features including the ability the route requests to private AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), including new support for AWS ALB, and IP-based services registered in AWS CloudMap. 

You can now assign tags to Amazon Lex bots, aliases and channel associations. Tags allow you to categorize your resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation in your organization. You can also use tags to control creation, modification or deletion of tagged resources. 

Starting today, Amazon Redshift supports materialized views functionality. Materialized views provide significantly faster query performance for repeated and predictable analytical workloads such as dashboarding, queries from business intelligence (BI) tools, and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) data processing. 

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.  

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

AWS App Mesh is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

You can now use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose through AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS PrivateLink allows you to privately access services hosted on AWS in a highly available and scalable manner, without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse the internet. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose APIs are now available to use inside your VPC through AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

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

Amazon Redshift now supports the ability to pause and resume a cluster, allowing customers to easily suspend on-demand billing while the cluster is not being used. For example, a cluster used for development can now have compute billing suspended when not in use. While the cluster is paused, you are only charged for the cluster’s storage. This adds significant flexibility in managing operating costs for your Amazon Redshift clusters.