Today, AWS Control Tower is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is now available in 22 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less.

AWS Amplify is announcing support for Push Notifications for Swift, Android, Flutter, and React Native applications. This means that developers can now use Amplify to set up push notifications when targeting iOS and Android platforms, providing developers and businesses with a way to engage with users and send them timely and relevant information.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity. 

AWS Lake Formation and the Glue Data Catalog now extend data cataloging, data sharing and fine-grained access control support for customers using a self-managed Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) as their data catalog. Previously, customers had to replicate their metadata into the AWS Glue Data Catalog in order use Lake Formation permissions and data sharing capabilities. Now, customers can integrate their HMS metadata within AWS, allowing them to discover data alongside native tables in the Glue data catalog, manage permissions and sharing from Lake Formation, and query data using AWS analytics services.

Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can deploy Amazon WorkSpaces using WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), without having to install a native client application and your users can now access Amazon WorkSpaces from supported web browsers on devices running Windows, macOS, and Linux.

On April 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.1, 17.0.7, 11.0.19, 8u372 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. With this release, we are declaring aarch64 Alpine Linux binaries of Corretto 17, 11, and 8 GA.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab deployed CAPTCHA, (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), to deter automated bots and scripts, from absorbing compute capacity that is meant for customers experimenting with machine learning.

Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview) has added an administrative dashboard for Dev Environments. This dashboard enables users with the Space administrator role to centrally view and manage Dev Environments across projects. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.

Amazon Comprehend announced that Amazon Comprehend APIs for Document Classification will now use layout of the document in addition to text, to provide higher accuracy.