AWS Security Hub is now available in the new Africa (Cape Town) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in the first AWS Region in Africa.  

Amazon Aurora Multi-Master is a single database that allows you to create multiple read-write instances of your Aurora database across multiple Availability Zones, which enables uptime-sensitive applications to achieve continuous write availability through instance failure. With today’s launch, the feature is available for the MySQL-compatible edition of Aurora in 8 AWS regions. Check out this blog to find out how to build highly available MySQL applications using Aurora Multi-Master. 

EBS direct APIs for Snapshots are now available in five additional regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Neptune introduced support for Streams, an easy way to capture changes in your graph, in lab mode in October 2019. As background Neptune Streams logs changes to your graph (change-log data) as they happen for notifying processes or creating a new copy of the graph in a different region or service such as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache, or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Customers in the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions can now use AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. For Amazon MSK region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table. 

You can now launch R5, M5, and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.  

AWS customers want a highly scalable, durable, fast and cost-efficient relational database re-imagined for the cloud. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), including Amazon Aurora, makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. AWS customers want to focus on their applications so they can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports distributed transactions using Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC). You can execute distributed transaction on DB instances that are domain joined using the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. 

Today, we announced the AWS SaaS Competency to support AWS customers looking for APN Consulting Partners with deep specialization and expertise in designing and building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions on AWS.