2019

Amazon Web Services Health is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. Amazon Web Services Health is available through the Amazon Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) and the Amazon Web Services Health API. These tools give you awareness and remediation guidance for resource performance or availability issues that affect your applications running on Amazon Web Services. 

Amazon X-Ray, a distributed tracing system that helps developers analyze and debug multi-tiered applications, is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. 

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Amazon FreeRTOS is open source, free to download and use, and provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. 

We now support Parallelization Factor on Amazon Lambda, a feature that allows you to process one shard of a Kinesis or DynamoDB data stream with more than one Lambda invocation simultaneously. This new feature allows you to build more agile stream processing applications on volatile data traffic.  

We now support four failure-handling features for processing Kinesis and DynamoDB streams: Bisect on Function Error, Maximum Record Age, Maximum Retry Attempts, and Destination on Failure. These new features allow you to customize responses to data processing failures and build more resilient stream processing applications.  

Customers in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by SINNET and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD can now use Amazon Secrets Manager to manage secrets such as database passwords and API keys needed to access their applications, services, and IT resources.  

You can now use Amazon Glue in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

Amazon Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from Amazon Web Services for Tape Gateway, and for reading data and listing directories for File Gateway, providing you faster access to data managed through these gateways. 

You can now use Environment Variables with your Amazon Lambda functions in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Oracle Database 19c is the long term support release of the Oracle Database 12.2 family of products (terminal release for 12.2.0.1 and 18c/12.2.0.2). Oracle has announced support for 19c through 2023 for Premier Support customers, and through 2026 for customers who acquire Extended Support.  

We are pleased to announce Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption at rest through Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) and node-to-node encryption, enabling organizations to host sensitive workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. 

We now support two new features on Amazon Lambda, which provide developers additional controls on how to process asynchronous invocations: Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts. When you invoke a function asynchronously, Lambda sends the event to a queue. A separate process reads events from the queue and runs your function. These two new features provide ways to control how events are retried and how long they can remain in the queue. 

We now support Amazon SQS FIFO as an event source on Amazon Lambda. This allows you to use Lambda for building event-driven applications where ordered events and operations are critical. For example, you can build an application that displays the correct product price by sending price modifications in the right order.  

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports IPv6 traffic over Inter-Region VPC Peering. With this launch, your resources in different Amazon Web Services China Regions, can communicate with each other using IPv6 addresses without requiring gateways or separate physical hardware. Inter-Region VPC Peering encrypts inter-region traffic with no single point of failure or bandwidth bottleneck. Traffic using Inter-Region VPC Peering always stays on the Amazon Web Services network and never traverses the public internet.

You can now add tags while copying snapshots. Previously, a user had to first copy the snapshot and then add tags to the copied snapshot manually. Moving forward, you can specify the list of tags you wish to be applied to the copied snapshot as a parameter on the Copy Snapshot API.

Today, we’re excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2, new Instance Types, and CloudFormation improvements. With this update, it’s easier and more cost efficient to:  

Amazon Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as Amazon Web Services Managed Microsoft AD, can now encrypt Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) communications between Amazon Web Services applications, such as Amazon Workspaces, and your self-managed AD. This allows you to better protect your organization’s identity data and meet your security requirements by enabling Amazon Web Services Managed Microsoft AD as your Secure LDAP (LDAPS) client.  

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Amazon CloudFormation templates and Amazon CloudWatch real-time metrics. With this launch, customers in China can now use CloudFormation templates to create CloudFront distributions with Amazon S3 origins or custom origins. CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on Amazon Web Services. Customers can create templates for their desired service or application architectures and use those templates for reliable and repeatable provisioning. Customers can find sample templates and template snippets on the Amazon CloudFormation Templates page.  

You can now send data from Amazon IoT Core directly to your own web services for processing without writing a single line of code. To do so, simply configure the new HTTP action by providing the HTTPS endpoint of your web service (e.g. https://example.com). After validating your ownership of the endpoint, Amazon IoT Core will deliver the data via HTTP POST method.  

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, nonrelational database that delivers reliable performance at any scale. DynamoDB encrypts all your data at rest by default with an Amazon Web Services owned customer master key (CMK), unless you opt to use a Amazon Web Services managed CMK. Starting today, you also can use customer managed CMKs, which means you can have full control over how you encrypt and manage the security of your DynamoDB data. 

Amazon IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends Amazon Web Services to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. Starting today, Amazon Web Services developers can collect, process, and export data streams, and manage the life cycle of data streams locally on devices.

Least outstanding requests (LOR) algorithm is now available for Application Load Balancer. This is in addition to the round-robin algorithm that the Application Load Balancer already supports. Customers have the flexibility to choose either algorithm depending on their workload needs. 

To enable access to customers’ Amazon VPCs, Amazon Direct Connect is announcing Direct Connect gateway, a new feature to allow customers using any Amazon Direct Connect location in China to use their Direct Connect connections to access any Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) deployed in any Amazon Web Services Regions in China. In addition, each Direct Connect gateway will enable association with one or more Amazon VPCs. Using Direct Connect gateway, you do not need to have Amazon Direct Connect connections in multiple Amazon Web Services China regions to access your Amazon VPCs in those Amazon Web Services China regions. Rather, you can use one (or more) private virtual interface to communicate with multiple Amazon VPCs across any Amazon Web Services China regions. 

Earlier today, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabled you to use your employees’ existing identity attributes such as cost center and department from your directory to create fine-grained permissions in Amazon Web Services. Your administrators can use these employee attributes in Amazon Web Services to implement attribute-based access control to Amazon Web Services resources and simplify permissions management at scale in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and in Amazon Web ServicesChina (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

You can now launch the next generation general-purpose burstable T3-Standard cache nodes in Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon EC2’s T3-Standard instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time till the accrued credits are exhausted. They offer generational advances in CPU performance that enable a higher overall baseline performance threshold over T2 cache nodes. 

We’ve introduced an enhancement for instance metadata access requests that adds defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. You can configure the instance metadata service to require this feature on both new and running instances. Additionally, you can choose to turn off access to instance metadata altogether.

Amazon IoT Device Management now provides enhanced fleet-level metrics and insights with simple statistics, percentiles, and cardinality. 

Application Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups routing. With this launch you will be able to do weighted routing of the traffic forwarded by a rule to multiple target groups. This enables various use cases like blue-green, canary and hybrid deployments without the need for multiple load balancers. It even enables zero-downtime migration between on-premises and cloud or between different compute types like EC2 and Lambda.  

You can now author your Amazon Lambda functions in Node.js 12, and use its new features such as the performance improvements in the V8 engine, private class fields, and enhanced stack tracing. Lambda functions written in Node.js 12 run on the latest generation of Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2. You can read the Node.js programming model in the Amazon Lambda documentation to learn more about writing functions in Node.js 12. 

You can now develop Amazon Lambda functions using Java 11. You can use Java 11 features such as its improved HTTP Client API and new methods for reading and writing strings when authoring your functions. Lambda functions written in Java 11 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux, and Amazon Corretto 11, a no-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 11 that comes with long-term support. 

Amazon 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 Amazon Web Services cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads.

Amazon EventBridge is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD and Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet. Amazon EventBridge makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and Amazon Web Services Services.

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can create DAX clusters in this Amazon Web Services Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. 

You can now use Amazon WorkSpaces in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on Amazon Web Services. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can pay either monthly or hourly, just for the WorkSpaces you launch, which helps you save money when compared to traditional desktops and on-premises VDI solutions. 

Starting today you can now launch R5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for SQL Server.  

Elastic Load Balancing now supports TLS termination on Network Load Balancers. With this new feature, you can offload the decryption/encryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to the Network Load Balancer, which helps you optimize the performance of your backend application servers while keeping your workloads secure. Additionally, Network Load Balancers preserve the source IP of the clients to the back-end applications, while terminating TLS on the load balancer. 

Customers can now configure Amazon API Gateway to send API access logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. It's easy to configure Kinesis Data Firehose as a log destination by enabling access logging on an API and specifying the Firehose stream. 

Amazon S3 now supports automatic and asynchronous replication of newly uploaded S3 objects to a destination bucket in the same Amazon Web Services Region. Amazon S3 Same-Region Replication (SRR) adds a new replication option to Amazon S3, building on S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) which replicates data across different Amazon Web Services Regions. Together, SRR and CRR form Amazon S3 Replication to deliver enterprise-class replication features such as cross-account replication for protection against accidental deletion and replication to any Amazon S3 storage class, including S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive to create backups and long-term archives. With SRR, new objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are configured for replication at the bucket, prefix, or object tag levels. Replicated objects can be owned by the same Amazon Web Services account as the original copy or by different accounts, to protect from accidental deletion. 

We are announcing Batch Window for Amazon Lambda, a new feature that allows developers to fine tune Lambda invocation for cost optimization. This feature gives you additional control on batching behavior when processing data from Kinesis data streams and DynamoDB streams.

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.  

You can now use ElastiCache data migration feature to migrate your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully-managed ElastiCache cluster-mode disabled configuration. With this feature, once you provide ElastiCache-accessible endpoint and port of your Redis cluster, ElastiCache will replicate the data from your cluster in real-time to your ElastiCache cluster. Once the data sync is complete, you can update your client applications to start using the newly-populated ElastiCache cluster. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5 instances will be available in new 12xlarge and 24xlarge sizes. These new instances will be powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (based on the Cascade Lake architecture) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz. New Cascade Lake processors enable a new feature called Intel DL Boost which will help speed up typical machine learning operations like convolution, and automatically improve inference performance over a wide range of deep learning workloads. 

Starting today, customers can queue purchases of EC2 RIs in advance by specifying a time of their choosing in the future to execute those purchases.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now lets you configure your domains to require that all traffic be submitted over HTTPS so that you can ensure that communications between your clients and your domain are encrypted. You can also configure the minimum required TLS version to accept, with TLS 1.2 as the default. This option is a useful additional security control to ensure your clients are not misconfigured. For information on enabling this feature, see the documentation. 

Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Windows Server including: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Windows Server, in addition to Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.  

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze system and application metrics, determine a normal baseline, and surface anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use Anomaly Detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior, reducing the mean time to detect and resolve operational issues.

Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of a new CloudFront Edge (POP) location in Shenzhen, China. With this new POP operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Co. Ltd. (NWCD), CloudFront has 4 POPs in 4 cities across China. With this launch, viewers in Shenzhen would see an improvement of 62% in average latency when accessing content through CloudFront. 

Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of a new CloudFront Edge (POP) location in Shenzhen, China. With this new POP operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Co. Ltd. (NWCD), CloudFront has 4 POPs in 4 cities across China. With this launch, viewers in Shenzhen would see an improvement of 62% in average latency when accessing content through CloudFront. 

Starting today, Amazon Batch is now available in the  Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the  Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

You can now retrieve additional data from DynamoDB tables as part of the rule processing in Amazon IoT Core. To do so, simply use the get_dynamodb() function in the SQL statement of your rule, either in the SELECT clause to enrich message payload or in the WHERE clause to evaluate a condition with context from a DynamoDB table of your choice. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

You can now use ElastiCache self-service updates feature to apply updates on Memcached and Redis cache clusters, in addition to Redis replication groups at the time of your choosing and track the progress in real-time. 

Amazon Fargate is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Amazon Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. 

Starting today, inter-region Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) peering can now be setup between the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports immutable tags, a capability that prevents image tags from being overwritten. Previously, tags could be overwritten requiring manual methodologies to uniquely identify an image, but now with tag immutability you can use a common, intuitive approach which easily integrates with your CI/CD build options.  

Tape Gateway, a member of the Amazon Storage Gateway service family, now supports IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) version 7.1.9 running on Linux. Tape Gateway also increases the maximum supported virtual tape size from 2.5 TiB to 5 TiB to help you store more data on a single tape and ease tape management. 

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11 in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure. 

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached adds support for the latest Memcached open source version 1.5.16. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and includes the fixes from engine versions 1.5.14 and 1.5.15.  

Amazon Step Functions now supports dynamic parallelism, so you can optimize the performance and efficiency of application workflows such as data processing and task automation. By running identical tasks in parallel, you can achieve consistent execution durations and improve utilization of resources to save on operating costs. Step Functions automatically scales resources in response to your input. 

Amazon API Gateway simplifies accessing private APIs by allowing you to associate one or more Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints to a private API. API Gateway will create and manage DNS alias records necessary for easily invoking the private APIs. With this feature, you can leverage private APIs in web applications hosted within your VPCs.  

To easily identify the purpose of Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues and track costs associated with them, you can categorize queues using metadata tags. For example, you can use tags to identify all Amazon SQS queues used by a particular department, project, or application.  

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.3 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c3 in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running OMS 13.3 can now manage databases by installing OMA 13.3.

Amazon Step Functions now allows you to orchestrate more complex processes by composing modular, reusable workflows. 

EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now offer native support for the IPv6 protocol in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.  

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, nonrelational database that delivers reliable performance at any scale. Because of the flexible DynamoDB data model, enterprise-ready features, and industry-leading service level agreement, customers are increasingly moving sensitive workloads to DynamoDB such as financial and healthcare data. DynamoDB encryption at rest is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

We are excited to announce the availability of the EC2 Hibernation feature in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

The Amazon Web Services Management Console now makes it easier to find and access your favorite services and discover learning content that helps you get started with Amazon Web Services.

The Amazon Web Services Management Console automatically detects whether you are on a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or widescreen monitor, and it resizes the on-screen content so you can easily access your favorite services. When you click into the search bar, you can see a list of Amazon Web Services services with easy-to-follow descriptions, even before you start typing. This allows you to quickly find relevant services based on your needs. If you are new to Amazon Web Services, the “Learn to Build” section helps you build popular solutions in categories like Big Data and Databases using step-by-step tutorials.

These improvements are available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. To start using these features, login to the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Amazon ElastiCache now allows you to name your clusters up to 50 characters for cacheClusters and up to 40 characters for replicationGroups. By lifting the previous limit of 20 characters, this increase lets you use longer names that are unique to your naming standards. The cluster name must contain alphanumeric characters or hyphens, should start with a letter, and cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Starting today, customers can suspend and resume any of their Amazon Web Services Application Auto Scaling actions. 

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and July 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. 

You can now launch Amazon RDS instances for Oracle Database 18c.  

Amazon ElastiCache introduces online vertical scaling for Redis Cluster mode. You can now scale up or scale down your sharded Redis Cluster on demand. Amazon ElastiCache resizes your cluster by changing the node type, while the cluster continues to stay online and serve incoming requests. 

Amazon Systems Manager enables you to manage large hybrid environments through an advanced on-premises instance management tier. With this launch, the advanced tier is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. The advanced tier enables you to manage hybrid environments with over 1,000 instances. The advanced tier also enables advanced functionality, such as using interactive shell access with Systems Manager Session Manager to connect to on-premises instances. Session Manager removes the need to open inbound ports, manage SSH keys, or use bastion hosts.  

Amazon Systems Manager Distributor is a new feature that you can use to securely store and distribute software packages, such as software agents, in your accounts. Distributor integrates with existing Systems Manager features to simplify and scale the package distribution, installation, and update process. 

Amazon EC2 now offers a new “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy for provisioning Spot Instances via EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. The “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy automatically makes the most efficient use of available spare capacity while still taking advantage of the steep discounts offered by Spot Instances. 

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by SINNET, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. Parameter Store provides a centralized store to manage your configuration data and passwords. You can reference this information dynamically from your application or from other Amazon Web Services services.

Starting today, Amazon IoT customers can configure the quality of service (QoS) when publishing messages via the republish action of a topic rule. Amazon IoT supports QoS levels 0 and 1 for MQTT messages, where QoS 0 means a message is delivered zero or more times and QoS 1 means message is delivered one or more times. See Amazon IoT MQTT documentation for more details about Amazon IoT QoS definition. 

Amazon DynamoDB now publishes account metrics to help you monitor capacity consumption against your account limits. You can now alarm as your capacity approaches your account limits and proactively request limit increases, helping ensure your DynamoDB tables are always available. These metrics are available in the Amazon Web Services Management Console by navigating to the CloudWatch console, choosing Metrics, selecting DynamoDB, and finally Account Metrics, or via the Amazon CLI. To learn more, see DynamoDB Metrics and Dimensions in the DynamoDB Developer Guide. 

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of EC2 capacity across different instance types, Availability Zones (AZs), and purchase options to optimize for scale, performance, and cost. Allocation strategies let you determine how EC2 Fleet should select from the instance types and AZs you have specified to fulfill the desired capacity.  

Amazon Storage Gateway now supports adding tags at resource creation time, and tag-based access control. You can assign tags to all Storage Gateway resources including gateways, file shares, volumes, volume snapshots, and tapes when creating them. You can also define fine-grained access controls using tags and Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to resources and actions. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to resources to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access to resources. 

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase models. With a single API call, you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and purchase models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.

Starting today, you can send diagnostic interrupts to your Amazon EC2 instances. Diagnostic interrupts help you debug unresponsive instances and conduct root cause analysis.

You can now launch Amazon EMR clusters with the next generation of Compute Optimized C5 and C5d instances and Memory Optimized R5 and R5d instances from the Amazon EC2 family. These instances are available for EMR clusters with release 5.13.0 and later.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch versions 6.8 and 7.1 and their corresponding Kibana versions. Elasticsearch 6.8 is the final minor 6.x release and is the upgrade path for 7.x. Elasticsearch 7.1 is a major release and provides improved resiliency and scalability, and more efficient query processing. 

Amazon IoT Core and Amazon IoT Device Management are now available in the Amazon Web Services  China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. 

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11 in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.

With PostgreSQL 11, pgaudit has been updated to 1.3.0, pg_hint_plan to 1.3.2, pglogical to 2.2.1, PLV8 to 2.3.8, PostGIS to 2.5.1, prefix to 1.2.8, and wal2json to hash 9e962ba.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have also updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11,2, 10.7, 9.6.12, 9.5.16, and 9.4.21. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.

With this PostgreSQL 11.2 release, a new extension pgTAP, a suite of database functions that make it easy to write unit tests in psql script, is added and supported with PostgreSQL version 11.2.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.

 

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message filtering now supports attribute key matching in Amazon Web Services China regions. This feature lets you create an Amazon SNS subscription filter policy that matches incoming messages which contain an attribute key, regardless of the attribute value associated with this key. This feature lets you offload additional message filtering logic to Amazon SNS. 

Amazon API Gateway now supports secured connectivity between REST APIs and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Customers can now isolate traffic between their Amazon VPCs and REST APIs from the internet using Private API and VPC Link features provided by API Gateway.  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert has expanded support for audio formats and improved overall transcode performance. With new audio-only outputs for HLS, AAC with MP4, and WAV with PCM, you have more options for delivering audio-only content to users for music, podcasting, radio, audio books, and more. In addition, MediaConvert has significantly improved performance for non-accelerated jobs, reducing the time required for creating VOD assets so you can make your media available to end users even faster and start monetizing new content sooner.

Default Amazon EBS volume type is now General Provisioned SSD (GP2) across all regions. 

Default Amazon EBS volume type is now General Provisioned SSD (GP2) across all regions. 

You can now launch an EMR cluster with three master nodes and support high availability of applications like YARN Resource Manager, HDFS Name Node, Spark, Hive, and Ganglia. Amazon EMR automatically fails over to a standby master node if the primary master node fails or if critical processes, like Resource Manager or Name Node, crash. 

Amazon Aurora Serverless (MySQL-compatible edition) is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.  

Now you can reset your Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) using the Amazon Web Services Management Console in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.

Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 Spot Instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on base Red Hat Enterprise Linux Images (AMIs). Previously, only customers with existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Premium subscriptions could launch Amazon EC2 Spot Instances running RHEL (i.e. the bring your own license model). Spot Instances can now be launched through RHEL’s basic subscription model and are included in the hourly Spot Instance price. 

Players expect multiplayer game sessions to be fast and full. But with the rise of Battle Royale games and other player-intensive games, ensuring a consistent and fulfilling matchmaking experience can be a challenge for developers.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports the latest C5 (compute-optimized) and R5 (memory-optimized) instances, all of which offer superior performance at lower costs compared to previous-generation instances. 

Amazon S3 announced support for percentiles on Amazon CloudWatch Metrics. This feature allows customers to visualize and alarm on p90, p95, p99, p99.9 or any other percentile (including p100) of an S3 request metric. This provides customers with more granularity about their request patterns on S3 and helps them observe and diagnose anomalies in request patterns on S3. 

You can now launch M5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert can now ingest video files from HTTP and HTTPS sources. With the ability to transcode content from sources other than Amazon S3, you are no longer required to build logic to copy files into S3 in order to use MediaConvert. This feature is available at no additional charge. 

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces improved maintenance update procedures for auto failover enabled clusters. You can now benefit from improved availability during patching, updates and other maintenance related activities that involve planned node replacements. For Redis Cluster configurations that are set up to use Redis Cluster clients, the planned node replacements will now complete without any interruption. For non-Redis Cluster configurations, you may notice a brief interruption, of up to a few seconds, associated with DNS update.

Customers in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD can now use Server-Side Encryption with Amazon KMS-Managed Keys (SSE-KMS) to encrypt their data at rest in Amazon S3. 

Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 25 unique items and 4 MB of data per transactional request. Transactions enable developers to simplify their code and support workflows and business logic that require adding, updating, or deleting multiple items as a single, all-or-nothing operation. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5, M5a, M5d, R5, R5a, and R5d instances will be available in new 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes.  With these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using either m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.

Amazon Web Services customers can now use Amazon Storage Gateway to provide hybrid cloud storage through their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. With this feature, the network connection between a Storage Gateway and Amazon Web Services can be restricted to private network routes, further securing storage workloads and administration activities. VPC endpoints for Amazon Storage Gateway are provided by Amazon PrivateLink, a highly available, scalable technology that enables customers to privately connect their VPC to supported Amazon Web Services services. 

Amazon RDS now allows you to encrypt your RDS databases using keys you manage through Amazon Key Management Service (KMS).

We have published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). We will use commercially reasonable efforts to make KMS available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each Amazon Web Services service region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.9% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event Amazon KMS does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the Amazon KMS Service Level Agreement for Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region and for Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region.

Amazon KMS is a service that makes it easy for you to create and manage encryption keys. It gives you centralized control over the encryption keys used to protect your data.

This SLA is now available in all regions where Amazon KMS is available. For more information on where KMS is available, see the Amazon Web Services region table. Please visit our product page for more information about KMS.  

 

You can now use launch templates with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups and Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets in your Amazon CloudFormation templates. Launch templates are a new capability for templatizing your EC2 instance launch requests.

Launch templates simplify launch management and give you access to the latest EC2 features in your Auto Scaling groups. Launch templates enable you to centrally make changes to launch parameters and control the roll out of those changes to Auto Scaling groups and Spot Fleet. To learn more, read the Launch Templates documentation.

To get started using launch templates in Amazon CloudFormation, visit the CloudFormation console. See CloudFormation documentation for more information on setting up your CloudFormation templates with launch templates for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet.  

Amazon EC2’s next generation general purpose M5d and burstable general purpose T3a instances are now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.

We have published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon API Gateway. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to make API Gateway available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each Amazon Web Services service region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.95% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event API Gateway does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the Amazon API Gateway Service Level Agreement for Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region and for Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region.

API Gateway is a service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

This SLA is now available in all regions where API Gateway is available. For more information on where Amazon API Gateway is available, see the Amazon Web Services region table. Please visit our product page for more information about Amazon API Gateway.

 

Amazon IoT Greengrass is now available to customers in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

The Amazon Web Services Management Console now makes it easier to complete tasks in multiple Amazon Web Services accounts using roles.

With just one click, you can assume a role in any account you have access to. You don’t have to sign-in when you assume a role in a different account, saving you time and effort. Once you assume a role in an account, you can complete tasks in that account. When you are done, you can stop using that role with one click. You can choose which role to assume from a list of up to 5 roles defined by your Amazon Web Services administrator.

This improvement is available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. To get started, visit the Amazon Web Services Management Console, select the Account menu, and then choose ‘Switch Role.’

 

Starting today, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle support RDS Storage Auto Scaling. RDS Storage Auto Scaling automatically scales storage capacity in response to growing database workloads, with zero downtime.

Amazon EC2’s next generation general purpose M5, burstable general purpose T3 instances, and a new variant of the R5 memory optimized instances are now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. In addition, I3 instances are now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region along with a price reduction of I3 instances in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region.

Amazon License Manager is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Amazon License Manager is offered at no additional charges. To learn more about this service, visit the product documentation and FAQ page.

Elastic Load Balancing now supports the UDP protocol on Network Load Balancers, in addition to the already supported TCP protocol. With this launch, you can deploy services that rely on the UDP protocol, such as Authentication and Authorization, Logging, DNS, and IoT, behind a Network Load Balancer, benefiting from its low latency, scale, and reliability.  

We are excited to announce the availability of Encryption by Default for all new EBS volumes created in an account within a region in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. 

We are excited to announce the capability to launch Encrypted EBS backed EC2 instances from unencrypted AMIs in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. 

We are excited to announce the availability of Encrypted AMI sharing across accounts in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. 

You can now use a single reader endpoint to connect to your Redis read replicas. Until today, to easily connect to your read replicas you had to manage multiple endpoints at the application level. The new feature allows you to direct all read traffic to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster through a single, cluster-level endpoint.  

Today we are announcing a price reduction of 30% on P3 1-year Reserved Instances and 10% on the 3-year Reserved Instances in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. In the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, we are reducing P3 1-year Reserved Instances by 40% and 3-year Reserved Instances by 10%.

You can now query data in your Amazon Redshift cluster directly from your Amazon Web Services Management console, using the new Query Editor. This provides an easier way for admins and end users to run SQL queries without having to install and setup an external JDBC/ODBC client. Query results are instantly visible within the console.  

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and April 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2. Oracle PSUs contain bug fixes and other critical security updates. Beginning with Oracle Database version 12.2.0.1, Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Release Updates (RU) in place of the PSU. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, please visit the Amazon RDS documentation. 

Amazon Step Functions is now available in Amazon Web Service-s China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia and Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. Amazon Step Functions makes it easier to coordinate the components of distributed systems, serverless applications, and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly.

Amazon Step Functions provides a graphical console to arrange and visualize the components of your application as a series of steps. It automatically triggers and tracks each step, and retries when there are errors, so your application executes in order and as expected.

You can build your first state machine in minutes using the console, Amazon SDKs, or an HTTP API. To learn more, see the Amazon Step Functions webpage and visit our documentation.

Amazon Web Services Marketplace is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region and Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region. Amazon Web Services Marketplace China is a curated digital catalog operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (NWCD), providing enterprises and developer the ability to directly launch the software from independent software vendors into their Amazon Web Services China accounts.

With Amazon Web Services Marketplace available in China, customers are now able to browse and discover free and bring-your-own-license (BYOL) software compatible to both China regions through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console, and subscribe the product using the Launch Instance Wizard. The vendors also gain a new promotion channel in China and the capability to enable implementation just in-minutes upon customer subscriptions.

At launch, customers can find free and BYOL Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products in Amazon Web Services Marketplace China.

To get started, visit the Amazon EC2 Console and choose an AMI product from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace category, or learn more from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace China FAQ page. If you’re interested in listing a product in Amazon Web Services Marketplace China, please contact us.

 

You can now create tags in CloudWatch alarms that let you define policy controls for your Amazon Web Services resources. This enables you to specify fine grained permissions, improving security for monitoring resources and cost allocation. 

You can now launch R5 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. AmazonEC2 R5 instances are the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized Instances. 

Amazon KMS is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Chinese government-approved hardware security modules to protect the security of your keys. The service is designed so that no one, including KMS service operators, can retrieve your plaintext master keys from the service. You control the use and management of these keys to access encrypted data across Amazon Web Services services and in your own applications.

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EBS encryption in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by SINNET, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD.

Host Recovery for Amazon EC2 automatically recovers the instances running on a Dedicated Host in the event of unexpected hardware failures. Host Recovery reduces the need for manual intervention, reducing time for recovery and lowering operational burden for instances running on Dedicated Hosts. Additionally, Host Recovery takes into consideration license tracking settings specified for recovery operations, helping you to effectively track and manage your licenses.

There are no additional EC2 charges for using Host Recovery. Standard Dedicated Host charges apply. See Dedicated Host Pricing page for more information. Host Recovery is now available in all Amazon Web Services Regions, including Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To learn more and to get started, please visit the Host Recovery documentation.  

Amazon API Gateway now offers tag-based access control using Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, allowing you to set more fine-grained access controls for all API Gateway resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can define on API Gateway resources to categorize them by purpose, owner, or other criteria. 

Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, database instances with up to 64 TiB of storage and provisioned I/O performance of up to 80,000 IOPS.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.7 and Kibana 6.7. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including BKD backed geo-shapes datatype, median absolute deviation aggregation support, and support for nested fields in composite aggregations.

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports self-service updates. This feature allows you to apply service updates at the time of your choosing and track the progress in real-time. You now have the visibility and control on service updates to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster on a schedule that best fits your business needs.

When service updates applicable to your Redis replication group(s) become available, we will notify you via multiple channels including ElastiCache console, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

You can start using self-service updates via the ‘Service Updates’ page in the Amazon ElastiCache console, Amazon ElastiCache API and Amazon CLI. The self-service updates feature is available in all Amazon Web Services Regions (including the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD) for Redis replication groups running engine versions 3.2.6 and later. For more information about this feature, see ElastiCache for Redis Service Updates.

Effective August 1st, 2019, Amazon Config rules will switch to a new pay-per-use pricing model, lowering the bill for almost all existing Amazon Config rules customers. Amazon Config helps you assess and maintain compliance over your Amazon Web Services resource configurations. You can use Amazon Config rules to view compliance history and trends, identify configuration drift, and remediate configurations that fall out of compliance. Today, Amazon Config rules are priced based on the number of active Amazon Config rules you have in your account. An active rule is defined as a rule that records a compliance result against at least one resource during the month. In the new pricing model, you will be charged based on your monthly Amazon Config rule evaluations. A rule evaluation is recorded every time you compare your resource configuration against the rule. This better aligns with your actual usage of Amazon Config rules as your charges are based on the frequency and the number of resources evaluated. The new pricing delivers value by supporting volume usage, giving you more control of the Amazon Config rule cost in your account. Tiered pricing makes it more affordable than ever to implement configuration compliance within your Amazon Web Services environment, for as little as ¥0.0033 per rule evaluation. This new pricing is designed to provide almost all of the current Amazon Config rules customers with a significant reduction in their Config rules bill. 

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), GovCloud (US-East), and GovCloud (US-West).

You can now develop your Amazon Lambda functions using Node.js v10. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js v10 such as the performance improvements in the V8 6.6 engine, Lambda functions written in Node.js 10 run on the latest generation of Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2.

Tape Gateway, a member of the Amazon Storage Gateway service family, adds capability to move your virtual tapes archived in Amazon S3 Glacier to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class, enabling you to further reduce the monthly cost to store long-term data in the cloud by up to 75%. S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a new S3 storage class that provides secure, durable object storage for long-term data retention and digital preservation. 

New SQL support enables you to query your domain using the familiar SQL syntax without compromising on Elasticsearch’s full-text search and scoring capabilities. With SQL support, you can query your data using aggregations, group by, and where clauses to investigate your data.

Amazon Step Functions now supports callback patterns. Callback patterns automate workflows for applications with human activities and custom integrations with third-party services. You create callback patterns in minutes with less code to write and maintain, run without servers and infrastructure to manage, and scale reliably. 

You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gateway endpoints, interface endpoints (Amazon PrivateLink), and endpoint services (Amazon PrivateLink). A tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value that can be used to search, filter, and organize your VPC endpoints and endpoint services.

You can now use cost allocation tags to manage your Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) costs. Cost allocation tags are key-value pairs that let you categorize SNS topics to easily identify their purpose and track associated costs. For example, you may use tags to identify the Amazon SNS topics for a particular department, project, or application.  

Now Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (STS) enables you to specify IAM managed policies as session policies to create fine-grained session permissions when user assume a role in Amazon Web Services to create a session in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.

At Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2018 we announced preview availability for S3 Batch Operations and today we are announcing general availability. S3 Batch Operations is a new feature that makes it simple for customers to manage billions of objects stored in Amazon S3, with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. Now, all Amazon Web Services customers can make changes to object properties and metadata, and perform other storage management tasks – such as copying objects between buckets, replacing tag sets, modifying access controls, and restoring archived objects from Amazon S3 Glacier – for any number of S3 objects in minutes instead of months.

With S3 Batch Operations, customers can save up to three months of development time and resources, typically required to write custom application software, in order to perform desired API actions on S3 objects in bulk. Customers can also use the feature to run custom Amazon Lambda functions across billions, or even trillions, of S3 objects to execute more complex tasks, such as processing data or transcoding image files. S3 Batch Operations manages retries, tracks progress, sends notifications, generates completion reports, and delivers events to Amazon CloudTrail for all changes made and tasks executed.

To get started, customers can specify a list of target objects by using an S3 inventory report, which lists all objects within an S3 bucket or prefix, or by providing their own list of target objects. Then, in the S3 Management Console, a customer can select the desired API action from the pre-populated menu of options. S3 Batch Operations then makes the requested changes against the list of target objects. When complete, S3 Batch Operations sends the customer a notification and automatically generates a completion report that itemizes the changes made.

Amazon S3 Batch Operations is now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.

Please visit the Amazon S3 pricing page. (https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/s3/pricing/)

To learn more, visit the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for the latest Redis open source version 5.0.4. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and memory management.

For the full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 5.0.4 click here. Redis 5.0.4 support is available in all Amazon Web Services regions, including Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.

To get started on ElastiCache for Redis cluster with engine version 5.0.4 log on to Amazon Web Services Management Console.  

R5 nodes are now available on Amazon ElastiCache in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD. R5 nodes feature the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers nearly all of the compute and memory resources to the guest VMs.

R5 nodes offer up to 635.61 GiB of memory and 25 Gbps of aggregate network bandwidth. The ElastiCache R5 nodes are able to support between 59% and 144% more transactions per second than the similarly sized R4 nodes.

In addition, ElastiCache R5 nodes running Redis 5.0.3 with 4 or more vCPUs (cache.r5.xlarge and up) include enhanced I/O handling. This dynamic network processing capability delivers up to 83% increase in throughput and up to 47% reduction in latency per node.

R5 nodes are available at equivalent or lower costs than R4 nodes. You can further reduce your R5 costs by purchasing corresponding standard RIs available in three payment models – All Upfront, No Upfront and Partial Upfront.

To deploy Amazon ElastiCache on the new R5 nodes, please use the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

 

Starting today, Amazon RDS is billed in one-second increments for database instances and attached storage in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD for on-demand instances and clusters. Pricing is still listed on a per-hour basis, but bills are now calculated down to the second and show usage in decimal form. There is a 10 minute minimum charge when an instance is created, restored or started. Per-second billing is applicable to instances that are newly launched or already running.

Please visit the Amazon RDS pricing page for more information on per-second billing for all applicable Amazon Web Services Regions.

Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS for Oracle database instances with up to 64 TiB of storage and I/O performance of 80,000 IOPS.

Existing database instances can also be scaled up to 64 TiB storage without any downtime. The new storage limit is an increase from 32 TiB and is supported for Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose SSD storage types. For instances using Provisioned IOPS SSD storage, Amazon RDS also supports increased performance of up to 80,000 IOPS for db.m5.24xlarge, db.r5.24xlarge, db.x1.32xlarge and db.x1e.32xlarge instance classes.

This increase allows you to consolidate database shards into a single database instance, which will simplify your database manageability. To learn more, please visit the Storage for Amazon RDS documentation page.

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. See& Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing for regional availability.

After being announced in preview at Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019, Amazon GameLift Realtime Servers is now available to help game developers create and customize affordable game servers.

The MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora has added support for R5 instances, the next generation of Amazon EC2 memory-optimized instances in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.

R5 instances are based on the Amazon EC2 Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and a lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your database instance. With a 1:8 vCPU to memory ratio, R5 instances are well suited for running memory-intensive database workloads such as transaction processing, data warehousing and analytics. Depending on your workload, you may be able to achieve up to a 70% performance boost as compared to R4 instances.

You can easily create a new R5 instance, or modify your existing Aurora database instance to scale up to R5, in the Amazon RDS Management Console. Please refer to the Amazon Aurora User Guide for more details, and to find out which Aurora versions are supported. For pricing, see Amazon Aurora Pricing.

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than the typical MySQL database, together with increased scalability, durability, and security. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page.

Amazon Direct Connect now enables Amazon Web Services Partner Network Technology and Consulting Partners supporting Amazon Direct Connect (Amazon Direct Connect Partners) to support hosted connection capacities greater than 500 Mbps. Approved Amazon Direct Connect Partners are able to provision 1, 2, 5 and 10 Gbps capacities.

Amazon Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a private network connection from your premises to Amazon Web Services. Amazon Direct Connect Partners will help you establish the Amazon Direct Connect service between an Amazon Direct Connect location and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment. Hosted connections enable Amazon Direct Connect Partners to provision connectivity on demand over pre-provisioned network circuits.

Until today, hosted connections only supported capacities from 50 Mbps through 500 Mbps. 1, 2, 5 and 10 Gbps hosted connections will provide customers with higher capacities that were previously only available via dedicated connections. Amazon Web Services will also be working with partners to enable the additional monitoring of the network link between Amazon Direct Connect Partners and Amazon Web Services for problem identification and resolution.

The new higher capacity hosted connections will be available through select Amazon Direct Connect Partners once they are approved by Amazon Web Services. A list of approved Amazon Direct Connect Partners can be found on the Amazon Direct Connect partner page.

Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of CloudFront in China with three new Edge locations (POPs) located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhongwei, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Co. Ltd. (NWCD). Customers can now serve content to end viewers in Mainland China with improved latency, availability and security.

CloudFront in China works with any Amazon Web Services origin, such as Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2, or a custom origin. The CloudFront POPs in China are connected by a dedicated network to the two Amazon Web Services China regions in Beijing and Ningxia offering improved reliability and performance when fetching content from Amazon Web Services origins. To start using CloudFront in China, customers must setup a CloudFront distribution using the Amazon Web Services Management Console or API in China and also obtain a valid ICP (Internet Content Provider) recordal.

To view pricing for CloudFront China delivery, please refer here .For developer guide, please refer here; To get started, log in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and start accelerating your content.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.5 and Kibana 6.5. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including auto-interval date histogram, conditional token filters, and early termination support for min/max aggregations. 

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now provides built-in event monitoring and alerting, enabling you to monitor the data stored in your domain and automatically send notifications based on pre-configured thresholds. For example, if you are storing HTTP server logs in your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain, you can now monitor the response codes and alert your team if there are too many errors, right from your domain. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Elemental MediaConvert allows video providers with any size content library to easily and reliably transcode on-demand content for broadcast and multiscreen delivery. You can build workflows to generate high-quality video outputs in minutes instead of weeks or months. With access to a comprehensive set of transcoding features, workflows that in the past could only have been implemented on-premises can now be built in the cloud. Amazon Elemental MediaConvert is easy to use with a pay-as-you-go pricing model, offering a high degree of availability, reliability, and scalability.

Amazon Simple Notification Services (SNS) now supports VPC endpoint policies to control access to your Amazon SNS resources. When you create a VPC endpoint for Amazon SNS, you can attach an endpoint policy to define the SNS actions that can be performed, the IAM user or role that can perform the actions, and the SNS resources these actions can be performed on. 

Amazon IoT Core launched the Custom Authentication and Credential Provider feature in the BJS region operated by Sinnet. Using the custom authentication feature, you can utilize bearer token authentication strategies, such as OAuth, to connect to Amazon Web Services without using a X.509 certificate on your device. With this feature, you can reuse the existing authentication mechanisms that you have already invested in.

Today Amazon Direct Connect has landed two new locations in Shanghai and Shenzhen providing dedicated access to the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet. Direct Connect in Shanghai, operated by NWCD is live at the GDS Shanghai No.3 Data Center location and in Shenzhen, also operated by NWCD, is live at the GDS Shenzhen No.3 Data Center.  

Today we are announcing the ability to pick the time at which an EC2 scheduled event in your account will be implemented, providing you more flexibility when managing your EC2 instances.

After you are notified about a scheduled event, you can pick the time for the event through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, API and CLI. This feature is now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU(Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.

To learn more about scheduled events and how to pick the time for scheduled events, see the user guide for EC2 Scheduled Events.

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, a new Amazon S3 storage class providing secure, durable object storage for long-term retention of data that is accessed rarely in a year. From just ¥ 0.012 per GB-month, S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest cost storage in the cloud, at prices lower than storing and maintaining data in on-premises magnetic tape libraries or archiving data offsite. To get started with S3 Glacier Deep Archive visit: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/s3/.

Amazon IoT Device Management is a service that allows you to onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage connected devices at scale. Within Amazon IoT Device Management, fleet indexing allows you to index the Registry, Device Shadow, and connection state for every device in your fleet, as well as search for devices based on any combination of these attributes. You can use fleet indexing to query which devices are running a particular version of firmware, or to query which devices are actively connected to Amazon IoT.  

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds dynamic network processing to enhance I/O handling in Redis 5.0.3. By utilizing the extra CPU power available in nodes with four or more vCPUs, ElastiCache transparently delivers up to 83% increase in throughput and up to 47% reduction in latency per node. You can now benefit from the enhanced I/O handling to further boost application performance and reduce costs.  

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Config now supports Amazon Config rules in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Config provides pre-built Amazon Config rules to evaluate the configuration of your Amazon Web Services resources. Amazon Config rules also evaluate software within managed instances, including Amazon EC2 instances and servers running on-premises. You can choose from the 53 managed Amazon Config rules available at launch to evaluate changes in your Amazon Web Services resource configurations. You can also create custom rules to define your internal best practices and guidelines for resource configurations.

Applications in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) can now securely access Amazon PrivateLink endpoints across VPC peering connections in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Amazon PrivateLink allows you to privately access services hosted on the Amazon Web Services network in a highly available and scalable manner, without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse the internet.

Starting today, Amazon GameLift, a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games, allows you to utilize an IAM role you own to give Amazon GameLift access to other services available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, such as Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon DynamoDB. You now have more flexibility in how your game server process connects to other Amazon Web Services services in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

To learn more about how to get started with IAM roles and Amazon GameLift, take a look at the documentation.

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for Oracle supports integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for data ingress and egress capabilities. This feature allows RDS Oracle customers to easily, efficiently and securely transfer data between their RDS Oracle DB Instances and Amazon S3. It is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Previously, data transfers from an RDS Oracle DB Instance required an additional DB Instance and a networking link between the two DB Instances. With Amazon S3 Integration, you can now use the RDS Oracle DB instance to transfer files to or from Amazon S3 using new RDS Oracle procedures.

With Amazon S3 Integration, you can perform data ingress with Oracle Data Pump to migrate workloads into your RDS Oracle DB Instance. After exporting your data from your source instance, you upload your Data Pump files to your Amazon S3 bucket. You can then copy the files from your S3 bucket to the RDS Oracle host and finally use the DBMS_DATAPUMP package to import your data into the target RDS Oracle DB Instance.

With Amazon S3 Integration, you can also perform data egress out of your RDS Oracle DB instance. First, back up the data locally on the RDS Oracle host. This local backup can either be an Oracle RMAN backup or Oracle Data Pump export of the database. Once these files are created locally, you can copy the files to the S3 bucket. Optionally, you can move these backups from Amazon S3 to Amazon S3 Glacier for long term storage that complements your automated backup strategy. By using this method, you can satisfy regulatory requirements for storing database backups in an off-site location and, at the same time, cost effectively support your long-term retention policies.

Amazon S3 Integration supports both Oracle Data Pump and Oracle RMAN for data egress. Amazon S3 Integration also allows Oracle Data Pump for data ingress.

Amazon S3 Integration for RDS Oracle is free and is supported in all commercial regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available. To learn more, please visit the Integrating Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon S3 documentation page.

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing for regional availability.
 

Amazon Config is pleased to announce increased default limits for Amazon Config rules for customers in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. Customers can now create 150 Amazon Config rules per account per Region by default, increased from 50 Amazon Config rules per account per Region. The full list of Amazon Web Services service limits can be found on the Amazon Web Services Service Limits page.

Amazon Step Functions now supports additional access control with tag-based permissions. This allows you to control access based on tags using Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. 

You can now use Amazon CloudFormation templates to build WebSocket APIs in Amazon API Gateway. Amazon CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment across all regions and accounts, simplifying how you build applications in the cloud.

February 28, 2019: Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 5.0.3. Redis 5.0.3 is a maintenance release which includes several bug fixes and minor enhancements. You can now stay current with the most up to date version of Redis and benefit from recently introduced capabilities such as Redis Streams (made available with the launch of Redis 5.0 on ElastiCache in November 2018).

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs can now be directly delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) using the Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI) or through your Amazon EC2 or VPC console in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.
You can now deliver VPC Flow Logs to both S3 and CloudWatch Logs.

Deliver VPC Flow Logs to S3 when you require simple, cost-effective archiving of your log events. Take advantage of the different storage classes of S3, such as Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, or write custom data processing applications using other solutions, such as Amazon Athena.

Deliver VPC Flow Logs to CloudWatch Logs to monitor your systems and applications. Generate and visualize metrics using Metric Filter Patterns and CloudWatch Dashboards, set up alerts on log-based metrics, or search log events using CloudWatch Logs while solving problems.

Learn about the pricing to export Amazon VPC Flow Logs to S3 or CloudWatch Logs here. Learn about how to send VPC Flow Logs to S3 and CloudWatch Logs here.

Starting today you can use the new Windows Server platform v2 on Elastic Beanstalk to run your Windows applications with several enhancements including managed updates, deployment options and enhanced health reporting and monitoring.

Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. This allows you to have unified operational view across your cloud resources and applications. 

You can now use WebSocket APIs to build real-time two-way communication applications in Amazon API Gateway—all without having to provision and manage any servers.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. At launch, CloudFront China has three Edge locations in Beijing, Zhongwei, and Shanghai, all of which are connected by private network directly to our Amazon Web Services China. CloudFront works seamlessly with services including Amazon Web Services Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications.

Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of CloudFront in China with three new Edge locations (POPs) located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhongwei, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Co. Ltd. (NWCD). Customers can now serve content to end viewers in Mainland China with improved latency, availability and security.

CloudFront in China works with any  Amazon Web Services origin, such as Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2, or a custom origin. The CloudFront POPs in China are connected by a dedicated network to the two  Amazon Web Services China regions in Beijing and Ningxia offering improved reliability and performance when fetching content from Amazon Web Services origins. To start using CloudFront in China, customers must setup a CloudFront distribution using the  Amazon Web Services Management Console or API in China and also obtain a valid ICP (Internet Content Provider) recordal.

To view pricing for CloudFront China delivery, please refer here .For developer guide, please refer here; To get started, log in to the  Amazon Web Services Management Console and start accelerating your content.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. If you have configured dedicated master nodes while using multi-AZ deployment, they are automatically placed into three AZs to ensure that your cluster can elect a new master even in the rare event of an AZ disruption. 

Amazon SNS message filtering now supports blacklisting of multiple string values, using the anything-but operator. This makes it easier to set criteria for filtering messages.

Amazon ECS now has support for Amazon PrivateLink. Amazon PrivateLink is a networking technology designed to enable access to Amazon Web Services services in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the Amazon Web Services network. When you create Amazon Web Services PrivateLink endpoints for ECS, its endpoints appear as elastic network interfaces with a private IP address in your VPC.

Amazon API Gateway launched the Serverless Developer Portal, a hub that empowers API publishers to connect with API subscribers who want to discover and quickly leverage APIs in the applications they build.

Now, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) makes it easier for you to manage your security credentials using the Amazon Web Services console. Amazon Web Services uses security credentials to authenticate and authorize your requests before letting you access your resources. My Security Credentials page enables quicker access to security credentials for IAM users and makes it easier to access and configure them in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. 

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.4 and Kibana 6.4. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including weighted average aggregation, option to multiplex token filters, support for field aliases, and improved workflow for inspecting the data behind a visualization. 

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.

Amazon API Gateway now provides a tiered pricing model for API requests. This enables you to decrease your costs based on the number of API requests you make per region across your Amazon Web Services accounts. API Gateway is a service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

Beginning today you can start connecting your devices to Amazon IoT Core using Persistent Sessions that will store subscription information and pending Quality of Service (QoS) 1 messages should the devices become disconnected. When a device reconnects and resumes a Persistent Session, its subscriptions will be automatically reinstated and any stored messages will be delivered.  

Today we are introducing partition placement groups, a new Amazon EC2 placement strategy that helps reduce the likelihood of correlated failures for large distributed and replicated workloads such as HDFS, HBase and Cassandra running on EC2. Partition placement groups spread EC2 instances across logical partitions and ensure that instances in different partitions do not share the same underlying hardware, thus containing the impact of hardware failure to a single partition. In addition, partition placement groups offer visibility into the partitions and allow topology aware applications to use this information to make intelligent data replication decisions, increasing data availability and durability.

Partition placement groups are available to customers through Amazon API and CLI at no additional charge and is offered in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), South America (São Paulo), Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.

To learn more about partition placement groups, see the User Guide for EC2 Placement Groups.

Amazon 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 Amazon Web Services cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. Built as an enhancement to and replacement for the popular open source CfnCluster project, Amazon ParallelCluster enables customers to quickly build an HPC cluster on Amazon Web Services. It automatically sets up the required compute resources and shared file systems and offers a variety of batch scheduler options, including Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Torque, and Slurm.

Amazon ParallelCluster reduces the operational overhead of cluster management and simplifies running HPC workloads on Amazon Web Services. Amazon ParallelCluster facilitates both quick-start proof of concepts (POCs) and production deployments. Amazon ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the Amazon Web Services resources needed to run your applications. Amazon ParallelCluster is released via the Python Package Index (PyPI). Amazon ParallelCluster’s source code is hosted under the Amazon Web Services repository on GitHub at https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster

Amazon ParallelCluster is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia)Region, operated by NWCD.

AD Connector enables you to use identities from your existing self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) with compatible Amazon Web Services applications. AD Connector is a proxy that directs AD requests from Amazon Web Services applications to your Microsoft AD, without caching information in the Amazon Web Services cloud services.

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new Amazon Direct Connect console to users in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. The redesigned Amazon Direct Connect console provides a new user interface, and a streamlined user experience.

You can now create and manage Amazon Direct Connect connections at any Amazon Direct Connect location across China from a single user interface. The revamped Amazon Direct Connect console makes information about your Amazon Direct Connect Connections, Link Aggregation Groups, Virtual Private Gateways and Virtual Interfaces readily accessible and provides a summary of Amazon Direct Connect resources in an unified manner.

You can access the new Amazon Direct Connect console here.