The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Canada (Central) Regions. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.  

You can now use AWS Config to manage the compliance of resources from the CloudFormation Registry. With the AWS CloudFormation Registry, you can automate the management of private or third-party application resources alongside AWS ones. With AWS Config, you can assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your application resources. 

Amazon Honeycode, which is available in beta, is a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Customers who need applications to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to do so by error-prone methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, or hiring and waiting for developers to build costly custom applications.

Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. RA3 nodes enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now enables you to take highly-durable backups of your file systems. This capability makes it easy to further protect your file system data and to meet business and regulatory compliance requirements. 

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. 

Amazon Aurora Serverless is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. MySQL 5.7-compatible Aurora offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns, and is up to 5X faster than MySQL 5.7.

AWS CodeCommit now supports emoji reactions to comments on pull requests and commits. With this launch, a developer can quickly react to a comment by clicking on the emoji icon in the comment to see a list of supported emojis. They can then choose an emoji from the list that represents their feedback about the comment. CodeCommit records the selected emoji as a reaction to that comment. The list of supported emojis includes popular reactions such as thumbs-up and thumbs-down, smiley face, heart, and ship-it.

Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Starting today, you can automate four common media analysis tasks – detection of black frames, end credits, shot changes, and color bars using fully managed, ML-powered APIs from Amazon Rekognition Video.

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available in the EU (Stockholm) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Region Table.