Amazon RDS for Oracle is announcing support for Extended Data Types when using custom parameter groups with the MAX_STRING_SIZE parameter set to EXTENDED. Extended Data Types let users increase the maximum size of VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2 and RAW columns to 32767 bytes.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. This release fixes PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in current and previous minor releases by the PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.

With this update , we have also added support for extensions pglogical version 2.2.0 and pg_similarity version 1.0 in PostgreSQL 10.5 and 9.6.10; pageinspect version 1.6 extension is supported with PostgreSQL 10.5; Map Box Vector Tiles in PostGIS with libprotobuf-c is supported with PostgreSQL 10.5; wal2json has been updated to 01c5c1ec in PostgreSQL 10.5 and 9.6.10; and pg_hint_plan has been updated to 1.3.1 and 1.2.3.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide . See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.

AWS has updated Centralized Logging, a solution that automatically provisions the services necessary to collect, analyze, and display logs on AWS across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. The solution now leverages the scalability and security features of Amazon Cognito User Pools for Kibana dashboard user authentication, supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) version 6.3, and includes the option to encrypt Amazon ES data at rest.

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.

Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage.

Amazon API Gateway now provides a tiered pricing model for API requests. This enables you to decrease your costs based on the number of API requests you make per region across your AWS accounts. API Gateway is a service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) region.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver streaming content at scale. From a single video input, AWS Elemental MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.

This Quick Start deploys a Dynatrace Managed cluster on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.