Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within CDC in Canberra, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Canberra location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. 

Today, AWS announced the opening of two new AWS Direct Connect locations within the Equinix CL1 and CL3 data centers in Calgary, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Calgary locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. These sites are the seventh and eighth AWS Direct Connect sites within Canada.

AWS Clean Rooms has added certification for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports. Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using NetApp System Manager to manage your file systems. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added query auditing support for Keyspaces Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations with AWS CloudTrail. 

You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain the consistency in processing messages across multiple independent services in a strictly ordered manner. Example use cases include bank transaction logging, stock tickers, flight trackers, news broadcasting, inventory management, vote tabulation, and price updates.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Starting today, you can enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) on Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints to encrypt DNS queries that pass through the endpoints and improve privacy by minimizing the visibility of the information exchanged through the queries. DoH is a protocol that protects DNS traffic by passing the queries through an encrypted HTTPS session. DoH can help enhance privacy by protecting DNS queries from eavesdropping and manipulation from unauthorized users.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Ground Station in US West (Alaska) region. This is the 12th AWS Ground Station antenna location connected to the AWS Global Network. Global expansion to Alaska enables increased opportunities for satellite operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from more timely satellite data to make data-driven decisions.

Today, AWS announces a major version release of the Amazon SageMaker model parallel library (SMP), which now is compatible with PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) APIs and can accelerate deep learning model training by up to 20%. SMP enables you to accelerate training of large models with billions of parameters by automatically partitioning and distributing the model across multiple accelerators and compute instances. You can get started with SMP in minutes and speed up your existing PyTorch FSDP training scripts with just a few lines of code.