Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports more time zones including South Africa Standard Time, Sri Lanka Standard Time, and UTC+13. This feature enables our customers to match their DB instance time zone to their chosen time zone.

Amazon S3 now provides bucket owner condition, allowing you to validate the AWS Account ID of the owner of an S3 bucket. Bucket owner condition helps you to easily verify that the S3 buckets that you interact with are owned by expected AWS Accounts. 

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can increase customer engagement by sending marketing campaigns and transactional messages across multiple channels: email, SMS, and push notifications. 

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of two new courses for Media Services: AWS Elemental MediaLive Primer and AWS Elemental MediaConvert Primer. These 60-minute digital courses are designed for new and experienced media operators who are responsible for the day-to-day operations and monitoring of video workflows. Both courses will help you learn more about the operational elements of AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaConvert.  

Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in these regions. 

AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility.  

PostgreSQL 13 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing customers to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 13 on Amazon RDS.  

Amazon Redshift can now be accessed using the built-in Data API, making it easy to build web-services based applications and integrating with services, including AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, and AWS Cloud9. Redshift Data API simplifies data access, ingest, and egress from languages supported with AWS SDK such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and C++ so you can focus on building applications versus managing infrastructure.

You can now associate an existing Application Load Balancer when you create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application environment. This capability enables you to share your existing Application Load Balancer and allow it to serve traffic for multiple applications running on Elastic Beanstalk within the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. 

Amazon Redshift now supports up to 100K tables in a single cluster for clusters with DC2.8XL, DS2.8XL, RA3.4XL, and RA3.16XL node types. This feature is intended for customers with workloads that require a large number of tables to run with Amazon Redshift without having to split the tables across clusters or storing them in Amazon S3.