Starting today, AWS Organizations is now available in the China regions. AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your workloads on AWS. Whether you are a growing startup or large enterprise, you can use AWS Organizations to programmatically create AWS accounts, organize them in a hierarchy that reflects your current business needs, categorize them using tags, and simplify billing by setting up a single payment method for all of your accounts. You can access AWS Organizations through the AWS console, and via AWS APIs and CLI. AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.

AWS Backup now supports cross-account management, enabling AWS customers to manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations.  

With this release, Amplify Console adds new pattern-based branch deployment features allowing developers to automatically create and delete custom sub-domains every time a branch is added or removed from a Git repository. This enables developers to access new feature branches at familiar URLs (e.g. feature.mydomain.com) without logging in to the console to set up new sub-domains. Additionally, deleting a branch from the Git repository will automatically delete the branch along with the custom sub-domain in the Amplify Console. 

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Canada (Central) Regions. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.  

You can now use AWS Config to manage the compliance of resources from the CloudFormation Registry. With the AWS CloudFormation Registry, you can automate the management of private or third-party application resources alongside AWS ones. With AWS Config, you can assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your application resources. 

Amazon Honeycode, which is available in beta, is a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Customers who need applications to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to do so by error-prone methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, or hiring and waiting for developers to build costly custom applications.

Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. RA3 nodes enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now enables you to take highly-durable backups of your file systems. This capability makes it easy to further protect your file system data and to meet business and regulatory compliance requirements. 

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. 

Amazon Aurora Serverless is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. MySQL 5.7-compatible Aurora offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns, and is up to 5X faster than MySQL 5.7.