Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1)

• Full-name:  Africa (Cape Town)

• Short-name:  af-south-1

• Year: 2020

Full list of AWS Regions

• 2021/03/29: CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region

• 2021/03/24: Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability

• 2021/03/23: Amazon Redshift Spectrum launches in four additional AWS Regions

• 2021/03/19: AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in additional 9 regions

• 2021/03/17: AWS announces General Availability of Six New Regions for Amazon GameLift

• 2021/03/16: AWS Batch now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and the Asia-Pacific (Osaka) Regions

• 2021/03/11: Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates

• 2021/03/09: Introducing Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System

• 2021/03/09: Introducing Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System

• 2021/03/04: Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations

• 2021/03/02: Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for configuration APIs

• 2021/03/01: Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports cross region bucket access and upgraded dependencies

• 2021/02/24: Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retention

• 2021/02/24: AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions

• 2021/02/23: Amazon Elasticsearch Service add support for Reporting in Kibana

• 2021/02/19: Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports canary events with Amazon EventBridge

• 2021/02/17: Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds Trace Analytics, a new feature for distributed tracing

• 2021/02/17: Amazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node types

• 2021/02/09: AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

• 2021/02/08: Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)

• 2021/02/03: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses

• 2021/02/02: Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint

• 2021/02/02: AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions

• 2021/01/27: Amazon Elasticsearch Service extends encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption to existing domains

• 2021/01/27: Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions

• 2021/01/22: AWS App Mesh is now available in Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region

• 2021/01/15: Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are now available in additional AWS regions

• 2021/01/08: Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control

• 2020/12/21: AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region

• 2020/12/21: PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions