Performance enhancements have been made that allow Amazon Redshift to copy snapshots across regions much faster, allowing customers to support much more aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Disaster Recovery (DR) policies. The performance of copying a snapshot across regions is now orders of magnitude faster than what was achievable earlier this year, with up to 40,000 MB/s transfer rates observed.  

The PSoC 62 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using this prototyping kit available from Cypress.

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Amazon Elasticsearch Service version 7.x clusters for near real-time data analysis and visualization. Kinesis Data Firehose automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and handles all of the underlying stream management. 

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), US West (N. California), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions.

New AWS Public Datasets Available from Audi, MIT, Allen Institute for Cell Science, Finnish Meteorological Institute, and others.

Customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region and the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region 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.  

Starting today, new Amazon EC2 A1 bare metal instances are available. Similar to all other A1 instances, the new A1 bare metal instances are powered by AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS.  

Today, AWS Elemental MediaConvert adds support for several new features, including improved video quality with single- and multi-pass HQ (High Quality) encoding for H.264 (AVC), expanded Accelerated Transcoding capabilities, and the On Demand profile for DASH output groups.

The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is a specification that extends AWS CloudFormation to provide a simplified syntax to express functions, APIs, and more. The latest SAM release supports four major updates and other features as detailed in the release notes .