Amazon Aurora Serverless with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. 

Starting today, new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5a instances featuring 2nd generation AMD EPYC™ processors running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz are generally available. C5a instances are variants of Amazon EC2’s compute-optimized (C5) instance family and provide high performance at 10% lower cost over comparable instances. C5a instances deliver leading x86 price-performance for a broad set of compute-intensive workloads including batch processing, distributed analytics, data transformations, log analysis, and web applications.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.7, 10.12, and 9.6.17. These releases contains bug fixes and improvements from the PostgreSQL community, as well as bug fixes and improvements specific to Aurora PostgreSQL .

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility has added support for managing the recovery point objective (RPO) in an Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database configuration.

AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to learn machine learning. Get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques to expand your ML skills. AWS DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data that can be used to build generative AI models, all without having to write a single line of code. Generative AI is one of the exciting recent advancements in artificial intelligence techniques because of its ability to create something new. Until now, developers interested in growing skills in this area haven’t had an easy way to get started. With AWS DeepComposer, developers, regardless of their background in ML, can get started with generative AI techniques to learn how to train and optimize the models to create original music.  

AWS Config now supports nine new managed rules, which are predefined rules that can help you evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices. 

AWS Config now offers a new conformance pack template that is intended to help you verify your compliance with NIST CSF operational best practices .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) now offers support for cross-cluster search, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple Amazon ES domains with a single query or from a single Kibana interface. With this feature, you can separate heterogeneous workloads into multiple domains, which provides better resource isolation, and the ability to tune each domain for their specific workloads which can improve availability and reduce costs. 

Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types, so you can import resource types in the Registry, including non-AWS and private ones. Resource Import allows you to bring existing infrastructure and application resources into CloudFormation, regardless of how they were created or managed previously.

Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.19 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements.