The AWS Snowcone service is now available for customer orders in AWS Europe (London) adding to our growing list of regions already offering Snowcone including, AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), South America (Sao Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and US West (San Francisco). AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing, edge storage, and data migration devices. Snowcone is now available in both hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) in AWS Europe (London). Both device models are portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and are able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcones to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline by shipping the device to AWS, or online by using AWS DataSync on Snowcone to send the data to AWS over the network.

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications with one-to-one and group meetings. Amazon Chime SDK meetings are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to move workloads into the cloud while addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

AWS IoT Device Management Jobs now supports a new Job execution retry configuration, enabling developers to increase success rates of large scale deployments by ensuring automatic redeployment of failed job executions. Instead of having to manually identify and redeploy to devices that fail, customers can now define a maximum number of retries in the ‘Job Execution Retry Configuration’ for each Job rollout or deployment, along with the criteria to trigger the retry behavior.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), EU (Milano), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions.

AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List.

Since our last update in November 2021, AWS CloudFormation Registry  has expanded to include support for 37 new resource types (refer to the complete list below) between November and December 2021. A resource type includes schema (resource properties and handler permissions) and handlers that allow API interactions with the underlying AWS or third-party services. Customers can now configure, provision, and manage the lifecycle of these newly supported resources as part of their cloud infrastructure through CloudFormation, by treating them as infrastructure as code. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that three new AWS services added CloudFormation support on the day of launch. These services include: Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon CloudWatch RUM, and AWS Resilience Hub. CloudFormation now supports 170 AWS services spanning over 830 resource types , along with over 40 third-party resource types.

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) now supports JSON output format for QLDB Exports, in addition to existing Amazon Ion output format. Customers can select JSON when requesting an export and will receive journal data in newline-delimited JSON format.

Today AWS is announcing the general availability of AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit applications. AWS SAM and AWS CDK are both open-source frameworks for building applications using infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS SAM is made up of the SAM template, which is a way to describe infrastructure in an application using JSON or YAML, and SAM CLI, which is a tool to build, package, test and deploy AWS SAM applications. AWS CDK is a development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages such as Python or Node.js.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6, enabling customers to scale containerized applications on Kubernetes far beyond limits of private IPv4 address space, while achieving high network bandwidth with minimal complexity.

Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to easily run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDE) such as EMR Studio .