AWS Backup is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS Control Tower is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 9.6 to 10 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

You can now use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys to provide envelope encryption of Kubernetes secrets stored in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Implementing envelope encryption is considered a security best practice for applications that store sensitive data and is part of a defense in depth security strategy .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) search which can enhance search by similarity use cases like product recommendations, fraud detection, and image, video and semantic document retrieval. Built using the lightweight and efficient Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB), k-NN enables high scale, low latency nearest neighbor search on billions of documents across thousands of dimensions with the same ease as running any regular Elasticsearch query.  

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) today introduced three new enhancements that help you see and proactively manage API usage when pushing and pulling container images. First, you now get up-to-the minute API metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Usage Metrics for the number of times you push and pull images, giving you the operational visibility you need. Second, you can now view approved account-level API quotas (also known as limits) using AWS Service Quotas, making it easier to see and request quota increases from the same place. Third, these new API metrics are automatically tracked against your quotas so you can trend and alarm as usage approaches limits, helping you manage utilization and identify anomalous activity. 

With Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms, you can now combine multiple alarms to reduce alarm noise and focus on critical operational issues. You can easily combine multiple alarms together into alarm hierarchies that only trigger once when multiple alarms fire at the same time. This helps you stay focused on finding the root cause of operational issues to reduce system and application downtime.

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. 

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, released a new Git remote helper that supports customers using CodeCommit with multiple accounts, or with short-lived credentials. This remote helper, git-remote-codecommit, uses the profile information configured for the AWS CLI. It also introduces a new protocol (codecommit://) that enables a URL pattern that uniquely identifies CodeCommit repositories.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint launched a new feature that helps customers to personalize their email, SMS and push messaging templates using dynamic message variables. Customers can add dynamic message variables as placeholders within their templates and then populate them with content specific to each user. Content can come from either user attributes stored in Pinpoint or a machine learning model created with Amazon Personalize. Customers wanting to deliver relevant product recommendations or targeted marketing promotions can now use machine learning to select the right content for each of their users.