You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations which add incremental capacity to our network in their respective regions. Five of the new Edge locations are in North America: Atlanta (2), Chicago, Dallas, and Houston. This new capacity increases CloudFront’s request processing capacity by up to 50%, on average, in these areas. The sixth new Edge location is located in Paris, France. As always, every new CloudFront Edge location enhances the delivery and performance of your web applications to your customers. A full list of CloudFront’s global locations is available on the CloudFront Features webpage.

We are excited to announce that AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) for tunnel setup. Starting today, new VPN connections will be able to use IKEv2 or IKEv1 to negotiate a VPN session. This allows customers to use the newer and stronger protocol to establish their VPN.

To take advantage of this feature today, you will need to create a new VPN connection. You can control the IKE version to use by updating your customer gateway device’s configuration and the AWS side endpoint will negotiate the session using the same protocol. This feature is not available for AWS Classic VPN. We will add IKEv2 support for existing AWS VPN connections soon.

For more information about AWS Site-to-Site VPN, see the web site and documentation .

Starting today, you can now add tags to your AWS Elemental MediaLive resources. MediaLive tags allow you to categorize your inputs, channels, and input security group resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation for live channels.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. If you have configured dedicated master nodes while using multi-AZ deployment, they are automatically placed into three AZs to ensure that your cluster can elect a new master even in the rare event of an AZ disruption. 

AWS Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and monitor your reservations both at a high level (e.g., cost savings associated with all Amazon EC2 reservations) or for highly-specific requests (e.g., reservation utilization associated with all regional Amazon EC2 reservations owned by a particular linked account). Starting today, you can access information about the normalized units associated with your reservations in AWS Cost Explorer, making it easier to understand how your reservations (including Size Flexible RIs ) are applied to your instance usage.

Developers keep at it, although broad commercialization of light-delivered Internet could still be a couple years away.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a major update to the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on AWS Quick Start. This Quick Start automatically deploys AD DS on the AWS Cloud and now includes Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and AWS Systems Manager Automation documents.

You can now seamlessly run machine learning and high performance computing applications by scheduling Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks with Amazon EC2 GPU instances in the same manner that you do CPU and Memory. You can also pin these GPUs instances to containers for workload isolation.