Starting today, Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is available in all AWS commercial regions excluding China and AWS GovCloud regions. Additionally, the limits for FSR-enabled snapshots per region are increased from 5 to 50.

AWS Cloud9 now supports the ability to tag Cloud9 development environments through both the console and the AWS API. Further documentation about tags is available here .

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) , a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports ordering clauses in Cassandra Query Language (CQL) queries and AWS CloudTrail logging for control-plane operations.

AWS Backup is now available to protect Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) workloads in four more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong),EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Learn to “think serverless” with this free training course from AWS. In this intermediate, three-hour digital course, you will learn how to combine AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in event-driven patterns to power scalable and secure serverless applications.

We’re excited to announce a free training course that demonstrates how to create and configure an AWS Transit Gateway. In this digital course, you will learn about setting up a basic Transit Gateway, creating a Transit Gateway with shared domains and route tables, and routing and propagation. Demonstrations will help teach you about connecting VPN and direct connect to AWS Transit Gateway.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Amazon CloudFormation resources. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications (called “stacks”). You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed. For example, you can use CloudFormation to build and activate an issuing CA and then issue a private certificate from that CA. This feature offers templates for CAs, CA activation and private certificates. 

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including inventory planning, energy demand forecasting, financial planning, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure usage forecasting, and traffic forecasting.