You can now use Amazon Neptune in applications that are subject to PCI compliance or require ISO certification. Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully-managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now performs managed, in-place cluster upgrades for Kubernetes versions. Additionally, Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.11.5.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.

AWS Systems Manager now enables customers to use Automation at scale using a pay-per-use model. The existing limit of 25,000 basic steps will be increased to a new free tier of 100,000 basic steps per account per month.

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific: Canada (Central), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. As you grow the number of workloads in AWS across multiple accounts, you need to scale your networks, control your connectivity policies better, and monitor your network effectively. Today, you can connect pairs of Amazon VPCs using VPC peering. However, managing point-to-point connectivity across large number of Amazon VPCs, without centrally managing connectivity and routing policies, can be operationally costly and cumbersome. This solution can be hard to manage hundreds of Amazon VPCs.

With AWS Transit Gateway, you only have to create and manage a single connection from a central gateway to each Amazon VPC, on premises data center, or remote office. AWS Transit Gateway acts as a hub where traffic is routed to all the connected networks, the spokes. This hub and spoke model significantly simplifies management and reduces operational costs because each network only has to connect to the AWS Transit Gateway. With effective routing policies on the Transit Gateway, you have centralized control over how your Amazon VPCs and on-premises networks connect to each other. This connectivity model makes it easy and simple for you to scale and monitor your networks over time.

With this announcement, AWS Transit Gateway is now available in a total of 14 AWS Regions around the world. For more information, see the AWS Transit Gateway product page and documentation .

AWS Step Functions is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region. AWS Step Functions is a workflow automation service that allows you to build and update applications quickly.

AWS Step Functions is now available in the EU (Paris) region. AWS Step Functions is a workflow automation service that allows you to build and update applications quickly.

This Quick Start automatically deploys TIBCO Data Science on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 80 minutes. This deployment guide is for infrastructure architects and TIBCO administrators who want to quickly deploy a TIBCO Data Science system in a fault-tolerant configuration across AWS Availability Zones.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs  for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with newer versions of the following deep learning frameworks: PyTorch 1.0 , MXNet 1.3.1 , and Chainer 5.1 . This release also includes upgrades of the NVIDIA stack, including CUDA 10, cuDNN 7.4.1, and NCCL 2.3.7. For GPU-based training, PyTorch 1.0 in the AMIs is fully configured to take advantage of performance improvements in CUDA 10.

Today, we released the Amazon DynamoDB key diagnostics library, which provides near-real-time key usage information for DynamoDB. This library is a lightweight, client-side utility that can help you to analyze your table’s traffic and display visualizations that show the number of reads and writes to each partition key. By using the library, you can adjust to unpredictable and uneven workloads in near-real time. To learn more about the library, how to set it up, and to identify hot keys, see How to use the new Amazon DynamoDB key diagnostics library to visualize and understand your application’s traffic patterns .