AWS Service Catalog now provides simplified provisioning of cloud resources with a one-page launch process and a new console experience. With this new feature, end-users can more easily and quickly provision products with fewer errors.

Virtusa Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Virtusa, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. vDaaS provides employees access to their digital workspace and secure data anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a full life cycle of services to aid in your digital workplace transformation.

Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default, auto-generated REST API endpoint. The default REST API endpoint in API Gateway looks like https://{restapi_id}.execute-api.{region}.amazonaws.com. This feature is intended for customers who use custom domain names for REST APIs and want to ensure that all traffic to their API only goes through the custom domain name and not the default endpoint. This feature was already available for HTTP APIs. Now, it is available for REST APIs too. 

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables customers to manage their own contact lists and offers enhanced subscription management capabilities. 

Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables you to manage quotas for commonly used operation categories, such as user creation and user authentication, as well as view quotas and usage levels in the AWS Service Quotas dashboard or in CloudWatch metrics. This update makes it simple to view your quota usage of and request rate increases for multiple APIs in the same category. For example, you now can now see the aggregated limit for a single “UserCreation” category, which includes SignUp, AdminCreateUser, ConfirmSignUp, and AdminConfirmSignUp. You can check whether the existing quotas can meet your operations needs in Service Quotas console or CloudWatch metrics. You can refer to this documentation to learn how the API operations are mapped to the new categories.

Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Kendra to manage healthcare and life science workloads that contain protected health information (PHI).

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports gRPC protocol. With this release, you can use ALB to route and load balance your gRPC traffic between microservices or between gRPC enabled clients and services. This will allow customers to seamlessly introduce gRPC traffic management in their architectures without changing any of the underlying infrastructure on their clients or services.

Application developers building real-time audio, video, and screen sharing applications can now collect client metrics from meetings events available from the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript. Developers can help end users troubleshoot their application without requiring them to send in client logs. And by streaming metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, developers can analyze meeting health trends or deep dive on problematic meetings or devices.  

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups.

Customers can now share AMIs from Image Builder pipelines with AWS accounts in multiple AWS regions, using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).