Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of an eighth Edge location in Tokyo, Japan. The addition of another Edge location continues to expand CloudFront’s capacity in the region, allowing us to serve increased volumes of web traffic.

For a full list of CloudFront’s global network, see the CloudFront Details webpage .

Auto Recovery is an Amazon EC2 feature that is designed to increase instance availability. Auto Recovery is now available for Dedicated Instances in all AWS Regions. You can now automatically recover Dedicated Instances when a system impairment is detected. This feature recovers the instance on different underlying hardware and reduces the need for manual intervention. 

Compact ultraviolet LEDs will enable new approaches to sterilization and disinfection applications, and the potential of that market has led Luminus Devices to add shorter-wavelength UV-C devices to its portfolio.

We’ve heard this sort of thing before, but it hasn’t happened. This time, the financial markets are convinced. At least for now.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based computer vision service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. Amazon Rekognition Image and Video are now AWS HIPAA Eligible Services.

You can now configure how Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) downloads container images from a container registry in order to speed up container launch times.

The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) agent is now digitally signed using PGP and Windows signatures.

This Quick Start is a reference architecture for those who want to deploy the SAS platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Route 53. By deploying the SAS platform on AWS, you get SAS analytics, data visualization, and machine learning capabilities in an AWS-validated environment. The deployment is automated by an AWS CloudFormation template and takes about one hour.

You can now configure the MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora to publish general logs, slow query logs, and error logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Previously, you could only publish audit logs.