Amazon Redshift ra3.xlplus instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. Amazon Redshift ra3 instances with Redshift Managed Storage (RMS) allow you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently for fast query performance and to optimize costs. It also enables you to more securely and more easily share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. Amazon Redshift ra3.16xlarge and ra3.4xlarge instances are already available in those regions. With this announcement, we will be launching ra3.xlplus instance types in those regions.

AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers securely connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices the cloud and manage them at scale, announces support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 through Configurable Endpoints. TLS 1.3 provides two major improvements in security and performance – it removes legacy features and older cipher suites in previous versions of TLS, and offers better performance through a simplified handshake process. With this launch, AWS IoT customers can also use TLS 1.3 in AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a fully managed test capability to help developers test their IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports inferred workload type filtering on Amazon EC2 instance recommendations. The inferred workload type feature utilizes Machine Learning and automatically detects the applications that might be running on your AWS resources. By leveraging the inferred workload type filter, customers can easily pinpoint cost-saving opportunities based on the specific workload running on their EC2 instances. In addition, AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Microsoft SQL Server as an inferred workload type.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports PostgreSQL major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL database, new security capabilities, and more. 

AWS Security Hub has added four new integration partners to help customers with their cloud security posture monitoring. The additions of Trend Micro, Claroty, New Relic, and Metric Stream bring Security Hub to 91 integrations. 

AWS Local Zones is now available in Auckland, New Zealand. You can now use AWS Local Zones in Auckland to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports the ability to filter your rightsizing recommendations by tags. This includes tag keys, tag key and value pairs, or combinations of both. Tag filtering will be available on these rightsizing recommendations pages: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services on AWS Fargate.

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect supports failover for streams that have SRT caller or listener sources. You can configure SRT failover via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation, the AWS CDK, or the MediaConnect API.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, exploration, cleansing, and processing from a single visual interface.

AWS Config now supports 24 more resource types for services, including Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS IoT Wireless, AWS Network Manager, AWS Device Farm, AWS Ground Station, Amazon AppFlow, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS IoT, AWS AppConfig, AWS Image Builder, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Panorama, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Audit Manager, and AWS Network Firewall.