Amazon Redshift now leverages Bloom filters to enable early and effective data filtering for up to 2x faster query performance on external tables in Amazon S3. A Bloom filter is a probabilistic, memory-efficient data structure that accelerates join queries at scale by filtering rows that do not match the join relation, significantly reducing the amount of data transferred over the network. Amazon Redshift automatically determines what queries are suitable for leveraging Bloom filters at query runtime. You can power a lake house architecture with Amazon Redshift Spectrum to directly query and join data across your data warehouse and data lake, enabling you to gain unique insights not possible otherwise.  

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge locations in Kolkata, India and Hamburg, Germany. Viewers served by these new Edge locations can expect to see up to a 20% improvement in latency. In India, CloudFront has multiple Edge locations in Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Similarly, CloudFront already has Edge locations in several cities in Germany such as Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and Munich. For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features .

Amazon Forecast is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including product demand forecasting, inventory planning, workforce and resource planning, energy demand forecasting, and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting.  

We are excited to announce the launch of Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, a new five-day, instructor-led classroom course. This intermediate-level workshop includes a unique combination of training and exam readiness with additional lessons and quizzes available only in this course. Designed for solutions architects with at least six months to one year of practical experience, it can help you gain confidence and get ready to take the exam. 

AWS Direct Connect is now live at AWS Bahrain DC52, Manama, Bahrain. This is the second AWS Direct Connect location in Bahrain. Pairing the new DC52 location with existing DC53 location, customers can now establish location redundant connectivity within Bahrain. Further, with global access for AWS Direct Connect, you can reach AWS resources in any global AWS region from any of the above locations using global public VIFs and Direct Connect Gateway. When connecting to any AWS region, your data will not hairpin via the home region if it is not in the shortest path to your desired AWS region.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server extends support to AWS X-Ray, to help customers get further visibility into the issues impacting the health of their applications. Starting today, customers using AWS X-Ray to instrument their .NET and SQL Server applications will be able to view trace-level metrics, including number of requests, faults, errors, throttles, and average latency, for the impacted resources on CloudWatch Application Insights. The automated dashboards created for problems detected additionally provides customers visibility into the related alarms, log errors, and events, enabling customers troubleshoot ongoing problems and reduce their mean time to resolution (MTTR). Customers can also drill down into service map for this application using CloudWatch ServiceLens to investigate further.

AWS Cloud9 is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), US West (N. California), Europe (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.  

You can now use recently launched State Manager features through AWS CloudFormation, with support for all State Manager CLI and SDK operations, such as rate control. State Manager, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, is used to define, enforce, and report on desired state configuration compliance for your infrastructure. This integration provides additional safety, control, and flexibility when deploying desired state configurations with AWS CloudFormation.

You can now centrally discover, plan, and track your migrations into any commercial AWS region from the Migration Hub in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (N. Virginia) Regions. 

You can now use AWS CloudFormation to easily create and manage accelerators and other AWS Global Accelerator components by using a CloudFormation template. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language, or a simple text file to automate creating and managing accelerators, listeners, endpoint groups, and endpoints for your Global Accelerator configuration in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.