You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and may help support your local data compliance obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances to meet the needs of your users. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time recovery (PITR) . 

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Opscenter availability to customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. OpsCenter helps you view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to your environment from a central location. OpsCenter presents operational issues in a standardized view, along with contextually relevant data to help you with the diagnosis and remediation of them. You can associate AWS Systems Manager Automation documents for easier remediation and also specify deduplication logic to filter repetitive operational issues. 

AWS Config launched 28 new managed rules today across multiple AWS Regions. Managed Config rules are predefined rules that can help you evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices.  

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Explorer availability to customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. 

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions.

Today, we are announcing that customers can create snapshots of their block storage data, including on-premises data using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs. With a set of API calls, customers can use snapshots to store data in AWS, regardless of where it resides. This enables customers to achieve business continuity in AWS at lower cost.  

You can now use AWS Organizations to manage the use of your content by some AWS machine learning services. Certain services (Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Translate) may use content to improve the service. Previously, you could opt out of this use by contacting AWS Support. This new feature allows you to configure an organizational policy to opt out, without the need to contact AWS Support, and to have your configuration applied to all accounts within an organization. 

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain), extending the total to 18 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

Docker and Amazon Web Services have announced a simplified developer experience to deploy and manage containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) directly from Docker tools. Now, customers can use Docker Desktop and Docker Compose to deploy containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) using the AWS Fargate launch type. After customers build and test containers locally using Docker Desktop and Docker Compose, they can now deploy them to Fargate on ECS through the same CLI.