Amazon Connect now allows you to dynamically set your caller ID phone number for outbound calls so recipients of the calls may recognize the number and use the number you specify to return calls. This is useful when you have multiple telephone numbers used to make outbound calls, but want to consistently display the same phone number as the caller ID for calls made from your contact center. You can also display a phone number for a specific line of business or for customers based on their account type.

Starting today, Launch Templates for Amazon EC2 Instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region , an isolated region designed to address specific regulatory and compliance requirements for vetted government customers and organizations in government-regulated industries that run sensitive workloads in the cloud.

Launch Templates in this region streamline and simplify the launch process for Auto Scaling, and On-Demand instances. They help reduce the number of steps required to create an instance and, because they capture all the launch parameters within one resource, they make it easy to reproduce instance launches. Launch Templates are also designed to help you better manage costs, improve security, and minimize deployment errors because it allows you to easily implement standards and best practices.

This capability is available at no additional cost in AWS commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. To get started, read our Launch Templates documentation .

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Amazon SageMaker is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.

Amazon SageMaker inference calls are now supported on AWS PrivateLink, keeping them secure from the internet. Customers can initiate inference calls to their machine learning models hosted on Amazon SageMaker inside their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), without going over the internet.

Amazon MQ now supports four new M5 broker instances that enable you to scale your brokers to meet higher throughput requirements.  

AWS Step Functions is now available in AWS GovCloud (US). AWS Step Functions makes it easier to coordinate the components of distributed systems, serverless applications, and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly.

Starting today, Elastic Volumes extends support to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) magnetic (standard) volume type. You can now dynamically increase capacity or change the type of magnetic (standard) volumes with no downtime or performance impact using a simple API call or a few console clicks. You can streamline and automate changes using Amazon CloudWatch with AWS Lambda.

You can now access Amazon CloudWatch from within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. This allows you to privately connect to CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, and Events, securely on the AWS network.

Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in the EU (Paris) Region. With on-demand backup and restore, you can create full backups of your DynamoDB tables for data archiving and retention, helping you meet your corporate and governmental regulatory requirements. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data, protecting you against accidental writes or deletes. When you enable PITR on your DynamoDB table, you can recover that table from backup at any point in time from the moment you enable it to a maximum of the 35 preceding days.

You can enable backup and restore for your DynamoDB table data with a single click in the AWS Management Console, a simple API call, or with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). You can back up tables with no impact on performance and availability to your production applications.

DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in 15 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo).

To learn more about DynamoDB backup and restore, see Backup and Restore . For backup and restore pricing, see Amazon DynamoDB Pricing .