AWS Backup now supports service opt-in, enabling AWS customers to opt into (or out of) AWS Backup support for supported AWS services at the account level. Service opt-in provides an easy-to-configure solution to ensure that AWS Backup service coverage reflects exactly what you need. It will also make it easy for customers to opt-in when AWS Backup introduces support for a new service, without having to change tagging strategies. Service opt-in is available in all regions where AWS Backup is available except Beijing and Ningxia.

Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) directly on RDS DB instances. There is no additional cost to install SSIS directly on your Amazon RDS DB instance. 

Semiconductor manufacturers like NXP can now use AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration to pre-configure silicon components like secure elements with X.509 certificates and private keys, ensuring devices built using these components are pre-qualified to connect to AWS IoT by default. AWS IoT customers can then use these qualified devices together with AWS IoT Multi-Account Registration to simplify device registration and easily move devices between multiple AWS accounts in the same Region.  

AWS CloudFormation StackSets allows you to deploy CloudFormation stacks into multiple accounts and regions in a single operation. StackSets is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can now select the Traffic splitting deployment policy when deploying application code using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is in addition to the four existing deployment policies that Elastic Beanstalk currently supports: All at once, Rolling, Rolling with additional batch, and Immutable.

AWS Client VPN is a managed, scalable virtual private network service that enables users to securely access AWS resources and on-premises networks. Federated Authentication makes it easy to integrate AWS Client VPN user authentication and authorization with a centralized, SAML based Identity Provider (IdP).  

The Game Analytics Pipeline is an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps game developers launch a scalable serverless data pipeline to ingest, store, and analyze telemetry data generated from their games and services. Player usage patterns can vary widely and a game’s success in the marketplace can be unpredictable. This can make it challenging to build and maintain solutions that scale with your player population while remaining cost effective and easy to manage. Many game developers and game publishers want to centralize data from across applications into common formats for integration with their data lake and analytics applications. The solution is designed to provide a framework for ingesting game events into your data lake for analytics and storage, allowing you to focus on expanding the solution functionality rather than managing the underlying infrastructure operations.

Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in the US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Regions.  

AWS CloudFormation is now integrated with AWS CodeDeploy to allow ECS customers with application or network load balancers to invoke blue/green and canary style deployments when performing application updates. This feature allows customers to configure the incremental traffic migration strategy for their deployments within CloudFormation templates as well as identify CloudWatch alarms to monitor the deployment.

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).