AWS China What's New

Provide AWS China region service launch announcements and availability details for Beijing and Ningxia from 2016 to present, including dates and links.

Query AWS China Region (Beijing / Ningxia) service launch announcements from 2016 to present.

When to use

Activate this skill when the user asks about:

• What AWS services are available in China regions (cn-north-1 Beijing, cn-northwest-1 Ningxia)
• Recent AWS China service launches or announcements
• Whether a specific service (e.g., Lambda, EKS, Bedrock) is available in AWS China
• Comparing AWS China region availability between Beijing and Ningxia
• Timeline of when a service launched in AWS China

Data management

Update data (fetch latest announcements)

# Incremental update (current year only, fast)
python3 scripts/fetch_data.py --incremental

# Full refresh (all years 2016-2026)
python3 scripts/fetch_data.py

# Specific year(s)
python3 scripts/fetch_data.py --year 2025 2026

Run incremental update before answering queries if data might be stale.

Querying

# Search by service name
python3 scripts/query.py --service "Lambda"
python3 scripts/query.py --service "Elastic Kubernetes"

# Filter by region
python3 scripts/query.py --service "S3" --region beijing
python3 scripts/query.py --region ningxia --year 2025

# Filter by date
python3 scripts/query.py --after 2025-01-01 --before 2025-12-31
python3 scripts/query.py --service "EKS" --after 2024-06-01

# Latest announcements
python3 scripts/query.py --latest
python3 scripts/query.py --limit 10

# Combine filters
python3 scripts/query.py --service "SageMaker" --region beijing --year 2025

All commands output JSON to stdout:

{
  "count": 2,
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Amazon Lambda adds support for ...",
      "date": "2026-01-09",
      "link": "/en/new/2026/amazon-lambda-adds-support-for-.../",
      "regions": ["beijing", "ningxia"],
      "year": 2026,
      "body_preview": "Short text preview..."
    }
  ]
}

How to respond

1. Run the query and parse the JSON output
2. Summarize the results clearly:
   • List matching services with dates and regions
   • If no results, say the service may not be available in AWS China yet
   • Mention the data source date range (2016-present)
3. For availability questions, note that absence from the list does not guarantee unavailability -- it may just mean no announcement was indexed
4. Include the announcement link when relevant: prepend https://www.amazonaws.cn to the relative link path