AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS Europe (Milan) Region. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a consistent AWS experience. Outposts is ideal for applications that need to run on-premises to meet low latency requirements. You can also use Outposts to process and manage data locally and effectively meet your data residency requirements.  

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Europe (Paris) AWS region. 

You can now provide cron expressions as the scheduling input for your Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policies. Cron expressions provide you the flexibility to specify custom schedules in your policies.  

Starting today, AWS Systems Manager Explorer provides a summary of AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations to help you improve cost and performance for your workloads. Systems Manager Explorer is an operations dashboard that provides a view of your operations data such as patch compliance and instance details helping you see where you may need to investigate and remediate operational issues. Compute Optimizer delivers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance recommendations so that you can quickly identify the most impactful optimization opportunities. You can now see all your operations data and Compute Optimizer recommendations in one aggregated view from Systems Manager Explorer.

You can now select multiple blocks at the same time and rearrange them as a group within your contact flows, saving time and effort. Previously, moving a sequence of blocks would require each block to be individually dragged and dropped. This feature is replacing the repetitive task of dragging one block at a time, which was frustrating, error prone, and time consuming, replacing it with one that takes seconds. 

You can now access Amazon S3  objects using the IPv6 protocol via the S3 dual-stack endpoint in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. S3’s dual-stack endpoint supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols and allows your applications to continue to access data without any code changes while leveraging the benefits of IPv6 protocols.

AWS CodeBuild‘s support for Test Reporting is now Generally Available for production use. Test Reporting gives you a detailed and actionable view of your test executions in CodeBuild, making it easier for you to investigate test failures.

AWS Storage Gateway now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to protect sensitive information for regulated workloads. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. US Federal agencies and companies contracting with the US Federal government can now meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data. 

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS region. 

AWS has updated Real-Time Analytics with Spark Streaming, an AWS Solution that automatically deploys a highly available, cost-effective batch and real-time data analytics architecture on the AWS Cloud that leverages Apache Spark Streaming and Amazon Kinesis. This solution is designed to support custom Apache Spark Streaming applications, and leverages Amazon EMR for processing vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.