AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and the tool has been localized into Japanese. AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. 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.  

AWS Cloud Map is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.

Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL can now be accessed using the built-in Data API, enabling you to access Aurora Serverless with web services-based applications. In particular, you can access Aurora easily from AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, and AWS Cloud9.

Amplify Console now allows users to download access logs for their CDN distribution. Access logs contain detailed information about every user request received by the CDN. Access logs are always available to download in a CSV format for any two week period.  

Tape Gateway, a member of the AWS Storage Gateway service family, is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. 

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 230,000 active customers, has announced paid container software for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), adding to the selection of existing software for EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Fargate. You can run paid container software from AWS Marketplace on EKS clusters running version 1.1.3 or later.

We recently announced Amazon EC2’s vCPU-based On-Demand Instance limits to simplify the limit management experience for EC2 customers. Starting today, you can opt in to using vCPU-based limits from the Amazon EC2 console .

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe used Amazon S3-SSE to encrypt transcripts. Starting today, you can use your own encryption keys from the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt transcripts placed in your S3 bucket. Doing so provides users added flexibility and control over how to secure their output transcripts. For those who prefer to continue using the default S3-SSE encryption method, that will still be an available option.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis improves availability of auto-failover clusters during all planned operations. You can now scale your cluster, upgrade the Redis engine version and apply patches and maintenance updates while the cluster stays online and continues serving incoming requests. These availability improvements are included along with the latest Redis version 5.0.5. For a full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 5.0.5 .