Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are pleased to release a major update to the IBM Cloud Pak for Data on AWS Quick Start. This updated Quick Start automatically deploys a multi-master, production instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 cluster on the AWS Cloud. The cluster is created in a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 instances, using the Red Hat OpenShift on AWS Quick Start.

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now enables you to target all instances in an account. Now, with a single click you can enable operational actions, like patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection, across all instances in an account within an AWS Region.  

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-four languages – is now introducing Batch Translation. Starting today, customers have the option to translate a large collection of text or HTML 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.

This Quick Start deploys iBASEt Solumina Manufacturing Execution System (MES) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 1.5–2 hours. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now includes a feature called Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP), which makes it possible to use Amazon SES to send email through publicly-routable IP addresses that you already own.

Amazon Comprehend now supports multi-label custom classification. With multi-label classification you can train models and classify your documents with more than one label. Prior to this launch, custom classification supported multi-class classification, which is used to assign a single unique label to your documents. You now have additional options to meet the needs of your application. 

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.

You can now access AWS PrivateLink based services privately from within your VPC using Private DNS names like ‘myinternalservice.mycompany.com’. With this announcement, you can access your internal / 3rd party AWS PrivateLink based services, without making changes in your application to use the AWS specified public DNS Name or managing private DNS Names your own Route 53 Private Hosted Zones.

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Change Calendar, a new capability that helps you prevent changes to your AWS resources during important business events. Using Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control the changes made to your AWS resources during events, such as public marketing promotions, when you expect high demand on your resources.