AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. You can now use DataSync to copy data to or from AWS Storage services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in this region. You can also use DataSync to copy data between AWS Storage services within the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication access to Redis clusters. By using IAM, you can associate IAM users and roles with ElastiCache for Redis users and manage their cluster access.

AWS Amplify allows developers to set up In-app messaging notification campaigns that are triggered and shown to their users when specific events occur. This feature empowers developers to provide contextual messages to users on web apps on React and cross platform mobile apps with React Native.

AWS Proton introduces the Proton dashboard, a centralized view of all Proton resources deployed and managed by AWS Proton. Platform engineers use Proton to define their environment and service infrastructure in AWS – now through the Proton dashboard they can monitor which of their templates are in use and the up-to-date status of their environments and services.

You can now use AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter to diagnose and remediate operational issues across AWS accounts. You can use a central account to view operational issues in another account (e.g. impaired instances, degraded storage volumes, or non-compliant resources), view pertinent diagnostic information for each issue, and use pre-defined automation runbooks to remediate the issues.

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10, a new release which includes several fixes and improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ, 3.8 and 3.9. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Read Replica. Cross Region Read Replica enables managed disaster recovery capability for mission critical databases by allowing a read replica in another region be “promoted” as a new standalone production database. This feature also supports data proximity by enabling replicas be placed closer to the application users of a given region to reduce read latencies. Additionally, this feature allows Amazon RDS for SQL Server customers to offload their read workload from the primary DB Instance, and also scale out read workloads over a farm of up to five read replicas that can reside in any region. To get started, visit the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide .

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5n instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

We are excited to announce that Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now integrates with PagerDuty, a popular tool for operational incident response. This extends AWS capabilities for operational incident response, helping operations teams more quickly engage, respond, and resolve critical application availability and performance issues when they occur.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices for root account users and IAM users in your AWS accounts. This provides additional flexibility and resiliency in your security strategy by enabling more than one authentication device per user. You can choose from one or more types of hardware and virtual devices supported by IAM.