AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and instances with 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS is pleased to announce two new features in the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool)—Consolidated Report and Enhanced Search—that will enable customers to quickly identify risk themes across their workloads and scale improvements across their organization.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 61 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include the latest generation general purpose instance families from both Intel and AMD (M6in, M6idn), compute optimized instance families (C6in), and memory optimized instance family (R6in, R6idn).

We are excited to announce search and discovery of AWS resources and AWS documentation content in the AWS Chatbot. The search feature allows customers to find their AWS resources and discover relevant AWS Documentation by simply typing queries in natural language.

AWS Network Firewall now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for ingress VPC traffic. This new feature enables customers to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt TLS traffic without having to deploy and manage any additional network security infrastructure. 

Amazon Athena announces that Amazon Athena for Apache Spark is now available in 4 new AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). This release expands Amazon Athena for Apache Spark beyond the 5 regions available today: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland)

Amazon DevOps Guru for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. With this capability, you can resolve RDS for PostgreSQL related performance bottlenecks in minutes rather than days. DevOps Guru for RDS for RDS PostgreSQL supports both reactive insights, anomalous behavior that has already occurred, as well as proactive insights, informing you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical.

AWS Compute Optimizer no longer requires EC2 instances to have 30 consecutive hours of utilization data to generate recommendations. EC2 instances that have non-consecutive 30 hours of utilization data during the 14 days period (for EC2 instances without enhanced infrastructure metrics) or up to 93 days (for EC2 instances with enhanced infrastructure metrics) can get cost and performance optimization recommendations.

Customers can now track the current build status and image build steps for their image pipelines directly in EC2 Image Builder. This capability makes it easier for you to track image builds and troubleshoot build failures. This release also consolidates logs making it easier for you to audit and review builds. Additionally, workflow optimizations provide faster image builds, with internal tests showing up to 35% build speed improvements.