Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region. In addition, we’ve expanded the availability of C5 Instance sizes in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and GovCloud (US-East) AWS Regions. c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, and c5.metal sizes are now available in GovCloud (US-East) AWS Region, and C5.metal is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

Amazon EC2 adds Hibernation support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system in addition to Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Windows Server 2012, 2012R2, 2016 and 2019.  

The AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) now supports the AWS Serverless Lens, which provides best practices for reviewing serverless workloads.

You can now run your python applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Python 3.7 on Amazon Linux 2 beta platform. The Python 3.7 on Amazon Linux 2 beta platform comes with several improvements and major new features including support for Pipfile and Gunicorn. For a complete list of Python 3.7 features, visit the official Python 3.7 release announcement .

Amazon RDS for Oracle enables you to use the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 for the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that defines cryptographic module security requirements.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.6, 10.11, 9.6.16, and 9.5.20. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. 

Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.  

Amazon EventBridge now provides additional content filtering options for builders designing event-driven architectures. With event pattern content filtering, you can write complex rules that only trigger under conditions you specify. This helps reduce the amount of custom code needed in downstream services by handling content filtering at the event bus using a declarative approach. 

Amazon EC2 is transitioning On-Demand Instance limits from the current instance count-based limits to new vCPU-based limits to simplify the limit management experience for AWS customers. Usage toward the vCPU-based limit is measured in terms of number of vCPUs (virtual central processing units) for the Amazon EC2 Instance Types launched. 

AWS Managed Services (AMS) announces support for 8 additional AWS services. With this release, the total number of services supported by AMS has increased to 69, including AWS Transfer for SFTP, a much requested service. In addition to running AWS services within secure and operated AMS managed accounts, you can self provision and configure these services directly in the AWS Console or the APIs. These services fall into the second pricing tier for AMS that is lower for certain groups of AWS services where more of the day-to-day operations is handled by the service itself; 12% for AMS Plus and 18% for AMS Premium.