AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in GovCloud regions. Graviton2 instances are already generally available for Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. Starting today, you can now use Snowflake as a data source in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to easily prepare data in Snowflake for machine learning.

Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), enabling you to set up Amazon EFS client (amazon-efs-utils) across all the Amazon EC2 instances in your organization with a few clicks. In addition to installing and configuring the Amazon EFS client, Quick Setup also supports periodically updating the client to the latest available version.

AWS Systems Manager is now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline. With FedRAMP-High compliance, you can use AWS Systems Manager to gain operational insights and safely take actions on your workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region’s authorization boundary.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports auditing end-user access to files, folders, and file shares. You can publish logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or stream logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, enabling you to query, process, store, and archive logs and trigger actions to further advance your security and compliance goals.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton, the first fully managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. It is designed to provide platform teams the management tools, governance, and visibility needed to provide consistent standards and best practices when managing deployments, while helping to increase developer productivity and innovation.

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. 

The latest query engine for Amazon Athena is generally available in all 24 AWS Regions where Athena is available. Customers who use Athena engine version 2 benefit from new features and performance enhancements that make analyzing data easier and more cost-effective than before. 

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications expands its features with Veeva. Customers can now export documents from Veeva Vault into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When choosing the document option for the Veeva connector in AppFlow, customers can choose to bring just the latest version (default) or all versions of documents, along with document metadata.

Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in the Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions.