Starting today, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is available in the Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. With this launch, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in 21 regions.

Customers who bring in private classroom training for their teams now have new options to supplement the in-course labs and instruction with an AWS Jam event. Seven of our popular three-day instructor-led courses are now available with an optional fourth day—an AWS Jam event—with gamified challenges to match the topics and services covered in the course. These are curated and instructor-facilitated to maximize learning and build your team’s capability in the AWS Cloud. These courses are generally available in all geographies, delivered in English.

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams – a new feature that enables customers to create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of their choice.

You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor with Amazon Redshift clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can query data in your Amazon Redshift cluster directly from your AWS Management console, using the Query Editor. The Redshift Query Editor provides an easier way for admins and end-users to run SQL queries without having to install and setup an external JDBC/ODBC client. Query results are instantly visible within the console.

AWS Direct Connect now offers IEEE 802.1AE MAC Security Standard (MACsec) encryption for 10Gbps and 100Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations to secure your high-speed, private connectivity to the cloud.

Amazon Connect is now available in the
Canada (Montreal) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to nine. You can claim toll-free and local telephone numbers from Canadian telephony suppliers.

Today, AWS announced the launch of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, a managed firewall that enables customers to block DNS queries made for known malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. DNS Firewall provides more granular control over the DNS querying behavior of resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).  

The new AWS Storage Gateway management console makes it easier for you to create, manage, and monitor resources such as file shares, tapes, and volumes. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can now connect your gateway with a simple activation key to help speed up deployment, and create new file shares using a streamlined process. You can easily configure your gateway to use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints and leverage enhanced troubleshooting information for the endpoint configuration. Throughout the console, contextual information about your Storage Gateway resources is provided as part of the help panel, allowing you to easily find answers to common questions and browse related User guide content.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models (CLM) now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to use pre-existing data to build a custom speech engine for your specific batch transcription use cases. No prior machine learning experience is required to create your CLM.

Amazon CloudFront announces reduced billing granularity for Lambda@Edge function duration from 50ms down to 1ms. This will lower the price for most Lambda@Edge functions, more so for functions of short duration. Now, compute duration will be billed in 1ms increments per invocation instead of being rounded up to the nearest 50ms increment per invocation as before.

Lightweight functions such as header manipulations or URL rewrites tend to have a short duration. With this change, it will now be even more cost effective to run these functions on Lambda@Edge. For example, a function that runs in 10ms on average used to be billed for 50ms. Now, that function will be billed for 10ms resulting in a 80% reduction in duration spend. This change applies to all four Lambda@Edge event triggers – viewer request, viewer response, origin request and origin response. This change will be effective starting April 1, 2021. For more information, visit the CloudFront Pricing Page .