Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Locations in five new countries: Sofia (Bulgaria), Athens (Greece), Budapest (Hungary), Nairobi (Kenya), and Bucharest (Romania). Viewers in these countries will now see, on average, up to a 50% reduction in first-byte latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition to these new countries, CloudFront also launched its first Edge location in Dusseldorf, Germany. With these new locations, CloudFront now has 216 Points of Presence in 84 cities across 42 countries. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure .

We are excited to introduce the Amazon WorkSpaces migrate feature that enables you to bring your user volume data to a new bundle. You can leverage this feature to migrate your WorkSpaces from the Windows 7 Experience to the Windows 10 Desktop Experience, as well as from a PCoIP WorkSpace to a WSP-powered WorkSpace (WSP, WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol, is currently available in beta).

You can now follow the public AWS Elastic Beanstalk roadmap on GitHub to get updates on recently launched features, upcoming features, and to provide feedback on what you want us to support. You can create new issues to propose features or changes you would like to see, or comment on existing issues with feedback and suggestions. Visit Elastic Beanstalk roadmap to see several upcoming and just shipped features of Elastic Beanstalk. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre is making it even easier to access high-performance FSx for Lustre file systems from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Ubuntu with Lustre clients that are distributed from AWS repositories.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) launched support for 1-minute Amazon CloudWatch metrics on Dec 11, 2019 in US East (Ohio), EU (Ireland), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. Starting today, you can set up Amazon CloudWatch metrics at 1-minute interval at no additional cost in all commercial regions.  

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Region. 

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. 

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now enables you to target all instances in an account. Now, with a single click you can enable operational actions, like patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection, across all instances in an account within an AWS Region.  

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are pleased to release a major update to the IBM Cloud Pak for Data on AWS Quick Start. This updated Quick Start automatically deploys a multi-master, production instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 cluster on the AWS Cloud. The cluster is created in a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 instances, using the Red Hat OpenShift on AWS Quick Start.

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-four languages – is now introducing Batch Translation. Starting today, customers have the option to translate a large collection of text or HTML documents stored in a folder in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket using the new asynchronous Batch Translation service. This is in addition to the real-time (synchronous) translation service that is already available, giving you options that best fit your needs.