You can now initiate on-demand scanning for patch compliance in accordance with your patch rules, remediate when patches are out of compliance within seconds using AWS Systems Managers Patch Manager, and track the progress in real time. You can patch your instances using pre-defined concurrency and error threshold configurations offered by Patch Manager. This new feature enables you to update your patch compliance on-demand without waiting for the next maintenance window by initiating patching with 2 clicks.

AWS Service Catalog now supports the use of administrator-provided names for product discovery, provisioning, and searches on running products. With this new feature, administrators can define their taxonomy for product naming and versioning, and this taxonomy is accessible to builders and administrators for use within their code and scripts. Referencing by name helps builders innovate faster, and provides a consistent product discovery and provisioning experience across accounts and regions.  

In addition to the previously supported OIDC/OAuth2 authorization option, customers can now secure Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs using two new authorization options: Lambda authorizers and IAM authorizers. These new options enable customers to make flexible authorization decisions by providing an AWS Lambda function, or leveraging AWS IAM policies to control access to their APIs without writing any code.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers MSK version 2.4.1.1, a bug fix release of Apache Kafka version 2.4.1, addressing a critical bug (KAFKA-9752 ) that causes consumer groups to perpetually rebalance. MSK recommends that all customers who use or plan to use Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 instead use or upgrade their clusters to MSK version 2.4.1.1. After September 23, 2020, Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 will no longer be offered for new MSK clusters.

AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now send SMS text messages from the US West (N. California) region to mobile users. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to a phone number , or can send a message to multiple phone numbers at once via Amazon SNS topics. Customers can send SMS text messages to more than 200 countries.

Data-Lake-as-a-Service is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Cloudwick, an AWS Data & Analytics, AWS DevOps, and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Data-Lake-as-a-Service is a consulting engagement that enables organizations to quickly implement business use cases. The offer relies on Cloudwick’s Amorphic solution, which accelerates enterprise data lake adoption with no IT required. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an initial discovery call, a discovery workshop, statement of work presentation, and deployment of the Amorphic solution. 

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now support AWS Outposts, a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Migration to AWS is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Syntax, an AWS Oracle Competency Partner. Syntax provides expertise to precisely map, architect, design, plan, and migrate JDE EnterpriseOne environments onto AWS. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a complete end-to-end migration plan. Inclusive to the plan are cloud infrastructure and middle-ware provisioning, full migration strategy, systems and technology testing/recertification, user acceptance testing, reporting, resource optimization, go-live assessments, systems and technology validation, user validation, and risk mitigation recommendations.

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so customers can securely initiate API calls to Amazon CodeGuru Profiler from within their VPC, without crossing the public internet and without using public IPs.