Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to create instances with cPanel & WHM preinstalled. With this addition, Amazon Lightsail expands its curated selection of preconfigured application stacks and makes it easier to streamline and automate your server management tasks.

You can now register Amazon EC2 instances in AWS Cloud Map by providing EC2 instance identifiers instead of the IP address when using HTTP namespaces. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon S3 buckets, or any other cloud resource. Your application can then discover the location and metadata of cloud resources associated with these custom names via AWS SDK or by making authenticated API calls.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions.  

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-five languages – is now supporting translation of Office open XML documents in docx, pptx, and xlsx format. Amazon Translate also increased the file size limit for each document in Batch Translation from 1 MB to 20 MB. Starting today, customers have the option to translate a large collection of docx, pptx, xlsx, HTML and plain text documents stored in a folder in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket using the new asynchronous Batch Translation service. This is in addition to the real-time (synchronous) translation service that is already available, giving you options that best fit your needs. 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports the use of customer master keys (CMK) managed by AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt container images stored in your ECR repositories. AWS KMS is a simple to use key management service that makes it easy for you to create, manage, and control keys to encrypt and decrypt your data. By choosing KMS-based encryption of your container images at rest, you can meet stronger security and compliance requirements around audit, access control and monitoring of encrypted ECR image access using these keys.

You can now use Service Quotas in EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions to view and manage your quotas easily and at scale as your AWS workloads grow.  

EC2 Image Builder, a service that makes it easier and faster to build and maintain secure Virtual Machine images, is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions.

AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources, is now available in the EU (Milan) region. With AppSync, you can build scalable applications, including those requiring real-time updates, on a range of data sources such as NoSQL data stores, relational databases, HTTP APIs, and your custom data sources with AWS Lambda. For mobile and web apps, AppSync additionally provides local data access when devices go offline, and data synchronization with customizable conflict resolution, when they are back online.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to a generic HTTP endpoint. This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to an HTTP endpoint without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression to help you accelerate the deployment of data streams across your organization.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to MongoDB Cloud . This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to MongoDB Cloud without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression to help you accelerate the deployment of data streams across your organization.