Starting today, new general purpose Amazon EC2 M6gd, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6gd, and memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance and 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. The local SSD storage provided on these instances is ideal for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files.

AWS CloudHSM is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions. 

AWS DataSync now enables you to automate and accelerate online data transfers between on-premises object storage and Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server over the internet or AWS Direct Connect. With DataSync you can now easily and securely migrate, archive, or replicate on-premises datasets containing petabytes of data and billions of objects from on-premises to AWS.  

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now integrates with AWS Organizations to allow you to easily enable visibility and control of your instances across AWS accounts and Regions. Now, with just a few clicks, you can enable operations best practices across your organization, such as patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection.

Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to install and update software agents on instances running Oracle Linux 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8. This support simplifies agent management for environments that include Oracle Linux instances.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human review systems or managing large numbers of human reviewers. 

Scale-Out Computing on AWS is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides customers with a production-ready reference implementation for deploying an AWS environment to start and manage scale-out workloads. This implementation features a large selection of compute resources, budget and cost management integration within AWS, automation tools, and an example user interface.

You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources while creating the resource. These resources are VPCs, Subnets, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, Internet Gateways, Egress-only Internet Gateways, DHCP Option Sets and VPC Peering Connections.  

Amazon Detective now enables you to interactively examine your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network flows. This new capability enables you to answer questions such as “what port or network service was in use at that time?”, “were any large data transfers involved?”, “was the traffic allowed by my Security Groups?”. These details help security analysts investigate Amazon GuardDuty findings, examine unexpected network behavior, and identify other AWS resources that might be affected by a potential security issue.

Now, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows IAM users to have longer access to their AWS resources when they Switch Roles in the AWS Management Console.