Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can create DAX clusters in this AWS Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. 

You can now launch the next generation general-purpose burstable T3-Standard cache nodes in Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon EC2’s T3-Standard instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time till the accrued credits are exhausted. They offer generational advances in CPU performance that enable a higher overall baseline performance threshold over T2 cache nodes. 

AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the total to 16 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

You can now add tags to a lifecycle policy in Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). Tags allow you to categorize your policies in different ways, such as by department, purpose or owner. You can also enable resource level permissions based on tags to set access control on ability to modify or delete a tagged policy.

AWS IoT Device Management now provides enhanced fleet-level metrics and insights with simple statistics, percentiles, and cardinality.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models and simplifies query development and testing. Starting today, you can connect to your DynamoDB local instance, the downloadable version of DynamoDB, directly from NoSQL Workbench. 

The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core has been updated to .NET Core 3.0. This AMI come pre-configured with .NET Core 3.0 , Mono 5.18, PowerShell Core 6.2, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, T3a instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Both M5a and R5a instances were first introduced in November of 2018. M5ad and R5ad instances were launched in March of 2019, followed by T3a in April of 2019. All the AMD instances feature 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors, and are variants of Amazon EC2’s general purpose (M5), memory optimized (R5), and burstable general-purpose (T3) instance families.  

Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region.

Starting today, you can now launch Amazon RDS for Oracle Z1d instances in the following additional AWS regions:

• US East (Ohio), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai).