At AWS, we hear a common question: “Which AWS options are available in different regions?” It’s a critical question whether you’re planning for regional expansion, ensuring compliance with data placement requirements, or creating a disaster recovery architecture.
Today, I’m excited to introduce AWS Capabilities by Region, a new planning tool that helps you discover and compare AWS services, features, APIs, and AWS CloudFormation resources across regions. You can explore service availability through an interactive interface, compare multiple regions side-by-side, and view forward-looking plan information. This granular visibility helps you make informed decisions about global deployments and avoid project delays and costly rework.
We start with a regional comparison
To get started, go to the AWS Builder Center and make your selection AWS capabilities and Start exploring. When you select Services and Featuresyou can select the AWS regions that interest you most from the drop-down list. Use the search box to quickly find specific services or features. For example, I selected the US (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions to compare Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) features.
Now I can see the availability of services and features in selected regions, as well as when they are expected to be released. Choose Show common features only identify features that are consistently available across all selected regions and ensure you design with services you can use anywhere.
The result will indicate availability using the following statuses: Available (live in the region); Schedule (start strategy evaluation); It does not expand (will not run in region); and Q1 2026 (planning a directional start for a specific quarter).
In addition to exploring services and features, AWS Capabilities by Region also helps you explore available CloudFormation APIs and resources. As an example to explore API operationsI added the Europe (Stockholm) and Middle East (UAE) regions to compare Amazon DynamoDB features in different geographies. This tool allows you to view and search the availability of API operations in each region.
Tea CloudFormation resources helps you verify regional support for specific resource types before writing templates. You can search by Service, Type, Propertyand Config.For example, when planning your Amazon API Gateway deployment, you can check the availability of resource types such as AWS::ApiGateway::Account.
You can also search for detailed resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type availability, including specialized instances such as Graviton-based, GPU-enabled, and memory-optimized variants. For example, I looked for compute-optimized 7th gen metal instances and was able to find them c7i.metal-24xl and c7i.metal-48xl instances are available in all target regions.
In addition to the interactive interface, AWS Capabilities by Region data is also available through the AWS Knowledge MCP Server. This allows you to automate region expansion planning, generate AI-based recommendations for region and service selection, and integrate regional capability checks directly into your development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
Now available
You can immediately start exploring AWS options by region in the AWS Builder Center. The Knowledge MCP server is also free to the public and does not require an AWS account. Usage is subject to rate restrictions. See the Getting Started guide for setup instructions.
We’d love to hear what you think, so please send us any suggestions via the Builder support page.
— Channy