You can now copy your Amazon WorkSpaces Images across AWS Regions. Using the same Image across Regions makes it simpler to manage global deployment of WorkSpaces while improving consistency, compliance, and security of your WorkSpaces.

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 19.1 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.

AWS IoT Events is now available in the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. This is in addition to the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) AWS regions.

Data Analytics Fundamentals, which replaces the digital training course Big Data Technology Fundamentals, will teach you the latest on how to seamlessly plan a data analysis solution using the suite of AWS services. In this 3.5-hour, self-paced digital course, you will understand the big picture of data analysis, how to plan data analysis solutions, as well as the data analytic processes involved in those solutions.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.

If you have beginner-level coding experience and want to learn to use the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), the new Alexa for Developers digital training course is the right starting point. This free, two-hour online digital course introduces you to the ASK and explains how to use it to build, test, publish, and certify Amazon Alexa skills.

Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. 

AWS is announcing the immediate availability of AWS EdStart, the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator designed to help startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, to customers in Brazil. Brazil joins the United States as the second country for availability in the Western Hemisphere, and the 34 country globally. AWS EdStart provides eligible EdTech startups AWS promotional credits and access to the same scalable technology used by established companies. 

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. You can now centrally and continuously manage the compliance and security of your AWS accounts in the Europe (Stockholm) region.