Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using.

We’re excited to announce the launch of AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders, a new three-day, intermediate-level, instructor-led training course. Built by AWS experts, it’s designed for all builders and technologists interested in learning to design cost-optimized architectures, particularly developers, solutions architects, DevOps, and systems administrators.

The AWS SDK for Java v2 helps take the complexity out of coding by providing Java APIs for AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and more. Today, we are pleased to announce the Metrics Module in AWS SDK for Java v2 as in Developer Preview.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. 

Starting today, customers considering AWS for running on-premises workloads can request a business case from Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) at no cost. Creating business cases on your own can be a time-consuming process and does not always identify the least expensive deployment and purchasing options. With Migration Evaluator, you get access to AWS expertise, visibility into the costs associated with multiple migration strategies, and insights on how reusing your existing software licensing further reduces costs.

AWS Content Analysis is an AWS Solutions Implementation that customers can use to obtain a broader understanding of their media content through machine learning. The solution brings together the capabilities of different AWS machine learning tools to generate meaningful insights from metadata gleaned through video analysis. Customers can use the solutions implementation, modify it to fit their own workflows and build their own analytical solutions for media in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon EMR cluster running G4dn instances is 5.4X cheaper and 4.5X faster compared to an Amazon EMR cluster running Amazon EC2 R5 Memory-optimized instances. To learn more, please see Nvidia Blog Post .  

AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region, extending the footprint to 7 AWS Regions.

Today, AWS added a fourth Availability Zone (AZ) to the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to support the high demand of our growing Korean customer base. 

Starting today, all new file systems created using the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) console are automatically backed up with AWS Backup using the recommended settings (daily backups with a retention of 35 days). Automatic backups for Amazon EFS further simplifies backup management of your file systems by easily enabling you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. It is now as easy as checking a check box in the Amazon EFS console, or making a single API call, to enable backups for your existing file systems. You can also disable automatic backups for your file systems at any time.