AWS IoT Greengrass released an AWS IoT Greengrass Core SDK for Node.js v1.6.0, which provides support for Greengrass Stream Manager.

Today, AWS announced plans to open a full AWS Region in Osaka, Japan. Expected in early 2021, the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will be launched by expanding the existing AWS (Osaka) Local Region with the addition of two new Availability Zones and an increased service portfolio. 

You can now create AWS CloudFormation templates to provision and configure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) ingress routing infrastructures predictably and repeatedly. Amazon VPC ingress routing allows you to route ingress and egress traffic to and from internet gateways and virtual private gateways through networking and security virtual appliances in your VPCs. 

Amazon SageMaker now supports Tensorflow 2.0 as a pre-built deep learning container. This latest version provides significant updates to the existing API, simplifies eager execution, offers a new dataset manager, and more.  

AWS Outposts is now available in the following seven new regions:

Today, AWS announced plans to open a full AWS Region in Osaka, Japan. Expected in early 2021, the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will be launched by expanding the existing AWS (Osaka) Local Region with the addition of two new Availability Zones and an increased service portfolio. 

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.  

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Amazon Elastic Filesystem (EFS) filesystems in ECS task definitions (in preview). When using ECS task definitions compatible with the EC2 launch type, customers can add EFS filesystems to their task definitions. This enables persistent, shared storage to be defined and used at the task and container level in ECS. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers expanded support for audio-only workflows with the ability to create MP3 audio files. With MediaConvert, you can easily produce MP3 audio for devices and services that use this format with a simple selection from the console. Create MP3 files in standalone audio conversion jobs, extracted from video files, or as supplementary outputs produced during the video transcoding process. To learn more about supported audio formats, please see the documentation pages .