AWS IoT Events is now available in the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. This is in addition to the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) AWS regions.

Data Analytics Fundamentals, which replaces the digital training course Big Data Technology Fundamentals, will teach you the latest on how to seamlessly plan a data analysis solution using the suite of AWS services. In this 3.5-hour, self-paced digital course, you will understand the big picture of data analysis, how to plan data analysis solutions, as well as the data analytic processes involved in those solutions.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.

If you have beginner-level coding experience and want to learn to use the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), the new Alexa for Developers digital training course is the right starting point. This free, two-hour online digital course introduces you to the ASK and explains how to use it to build, test, publish, and certify Amazon Alexa skills.

Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. 

AWS is announcing the immediate availability of AWS EdStart, the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator designed to help startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, to customers in Brazil. Brazil joins the United States as the second country for availability in the Western Hemisphere, and the 34 country globally. AWS EdStart provides eligible EdTech startups AWS promotional credits and access to the same scalable technology used by established companies. 

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. You can now centrally and continuously manage the compliance and security of your AWS accounts in the Europe (Stockholm) region.

This Quick Start deploys MemSQL, a distributed, highly scalable structured query language (SQL) database, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This Quick Start is for database administrators, data architects, data scientists, and data analysts. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS US-West-1 Region.

AWS Backup is now available in six additional regions across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), EU (London), Canada (Central), and US West (Northern California).