AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.11. Developers can use Python 3.11 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Python 3.11 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Powertools for AWS Lambda , a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Python 3.11. 

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.11, a new minor version release, which includes several fixes and improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ – 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. With RabbitMQ version 3.11, Amazon MQ is also introducing a default operator policy on each virtual host with high availability properties enabled.

Amazon MQ now supports the ability for customers to create and apply configurations to their RabbitMQ broker on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to define the RabbitMQ delivery acknowledgement timeout (consumer_timeout) value and enable operator policies using the RabbitMQ configuration format (Cuttlefish). You can now exert greater control over your RabbitMQ broker and fine tune the performance of your consumer applications or enable and manage high availability operator policies directly through configuration.

We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Starting today, you can deploy RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS.

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. M6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% higher price performance compared to M5a instances, and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. 

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUs are available in Europe(Spain) region. G5g instances can be used for graphics intensive and machine learning workloads.

A New minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2C6i, M6i, R6i and C6gn instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect and NAT Gateway in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.

AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. Now, you can add an IAM role or user to be a Read-Only Administrator. Using this role, Read-Only Administrators can access metadata and permissions without making changes. This allows Read-Only Administrators to search metadata without needing access the data and to validate permissions without requiring access to make changes to permissions.