The new CIS Benchmark for Amazon EKS helps you accurately assess the secure configuration of nodes running as part of your Amazon EKS clusters. 

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Amazon CloudFront now provides enhanced granular control to configure headers, query strings, and cookies that can be used to compute the cache key or forwarded to your origin from your CloudFront distributions. Further, you can configure the cache key and origin request settings independently as account-level policies that can be easily applied across multiple distributions.

AWS App Mesh is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use AWS App Mesh to manage communication between services that contains protected health information (PHI). To learn more, visit our site on services compliance or see our compliance resources.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.7 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. 

Starting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB support 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.

AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing your build environments with AWS Session Manager so you can investigate and diagnose build issues. With support for AWS Session Manager, you can access your Linux and Windows build environments through an interactive one-click browser-based shell or through the AWS CLI.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports enabling or disabling certain security protocols and ciphers. By creating a custom DB parameter group and associating it with your DB instance, you can disable or enable older versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) such as TLS 1.0 and 1.1. You can also disable or enable ciphers such as the RC4 stream cipher.

Starting today, you can enable Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) on shared snapshots.

FreeRTOS now supports the ability to suspend and resume an over-the-air update (OTA) operation. With this feature, a FreeRTOS device can suspend an in-progress OTA if it disconnects from the network, and then resume the OTA when it reconnects. This helps OTA downloads to complete quickly when there is intermittent network connectivity. For additional details, see the 202007.00 release Changelog .