AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region with AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now improves the speed of backups by up to 10x for buckets with more than 300 million objects. This performance improvement enables you to speed up your initial S3 backup workflow and back up buckets with more than 3 billion objects. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. The performance improvement is automatically enabled at no additional cost in all Regions where AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is available.

AWS Lake Formation is  a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. AWS Lake Formation is now available in the following two additional AWS Regions:

• Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
• Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It also provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS Verified Access Instances and Amazon Cognito user pools. To learn more about AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF, visit the AWS Shield Advanced product page and the AWS WAF product page.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Starting today, customers can specify the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy in AWS Batch. Previously, AWS Batch supported the capacity optimized Spot allocation strategy that is designed to optimize Spot Instance placement based on capacity availability to help reduce the likelihood that workloads are interrupted. The new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is designed to provide a balance between price and capacity.

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports read and mounted replicas for instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration . Amazon RDS for Oracle replicas fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard to create and maintain replicas in the same or different AWS Region as the primary DB instance.

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables Data Scientists and ML practitioners with their end to end machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. In May 2023, we launched SageMaker Distribution a pre-built docker image which includes the most popular libraries for machine learning as an open-source project at JupyterCon. Today, we are announcing support for SageMaker Distribution in Amazon SageMaker Studio.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as an EKS add-on, making it simpler and easier to use EFS shared file storage with your EKS clusters.

AWS Batch now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in AWS Fargate via AWS Batch console. This feature helps AWS Batch customers simplify the adoption of modern container technology by expanding their architecture options for scheduling Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Fargate compute environments. Support for ARM64 architecture also gives customers the benefits of Graviton instances in Fargate which can help improve price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a variety of workloads including high performance computing.