AWS Lambda now supports up to 5x faster polling scale-up rate (adding up to 300 concurrent executions per minute) for spiky Lambda workloads configured with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source using Lambda event source mapping or Amazon EventBridge Pipes . This enables customers building event-driven applications using Lambda and SQS queues (standard or first-in, first-out) to achieve more responsive scaling during a sudden burst of messages in their queues, and reduces the need to duplicate Lambda functions or SQS queues to achieve faster message processing.

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 28 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new fault tolerance check for too many partitions per broker on Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). AWS Trusted Advisor helps you optimize costs, increase performance, improve security and resilience, and operate at scale in the cloud.

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) extended the duration during which customers can access their engagement metrics in the Virtual Deliverability Manager dashboard. Now customers can see delivery and engagement rates for up to 60 days prior, helping customers monitor sending performance and troubleshoot unexpected drops in delivery and engagement rates. This extra history makes it easier to identify trends, compare unusual events with a broader baseline, and reduce the timing dependencies for identifying problems requiring investigation.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Zurich) region.

AWS CodeBuild customers can now use AWS Lambda to build and test their software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Milan) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.7 environments and execute deferrable operators on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.7 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Starting today, you can now integrate AWS Health events to receive operational and account information, prepare for scheduled changes, and manage events directly within Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources. 

Customers running applications with more than one containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI) to lazily load specific container images within the Amazon ECS task definition . This eliminates the need to generate SOCI indexes for smaller container images within the task definition, while still getting the benefits of SOCI with larger container images, improving the overall application deployment and scale-out time.