AWS Backup adds the ability to monitor your AWS Backup metrics and events via Amazon CloudWatch. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and accounts, helping you support your regulatory compliance obligations and meet business continuity goals.

Amazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to eight. Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center service that helps organizations of any size deliver superior customer service at lower cost. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) makes it easier to setup reverse Domain Name System (DNS) lookup for your Elastic IP addresses and improves your email deliverability. A reverse DNS lookup for an IP address returns its domain name and is commonly used by email services to filter out spams. This release improves your email deliverability from EC2 by enabling you to set reverse DNS lookup with just a few clicks and meet a key spam filter requirement.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support to create canaries for your Amazon API Gateway APIs using the API blueprint. This simplifies your canary setup time and makes it easy to monitor your API Gateway APIs.

Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to S3 via a private endpoint within your virtual private network. Simplify your network architecture by connecting to S3 from on-premises or in AWS using private IP addresses in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), eliminating the need to use public IPs, configure firewall rules, or configure an Internet Gateway to access S3 from on-premises.

AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town) regions on the Console mobile app.

We are excited to announce a series of new capabilities that have been added to Amazon Macie to make it easier to configure, scope, and run sensitive data discovery in AWS, including support for scanning jobs that cover Amazon S3 buckets residing across multiple accounts, scoping of scans by object prefix, better cost estimation for visibility of spend before jobs are submitted, and sensitive data location information added to Macie findings.  

Today, AWS X-Ray launches Insights , which helps customers proactively discover issues in applications by using anomaly detection. X-Ray Insights enables developers and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies in fault rate for an application and then notify their teams on these issues and why it occurred.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.2 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.

You can now perform S3 Delete Object Tagging operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to delete object tags across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying objects or replacing tag sets across billions of objects. S3 Batch Operations handles all the manual work, including managing retries and displaying progress.