AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager, simplifying common maintenance and deployment tasks on instances and other resources on your Snowball device. You can write scripts in Python or PowerShell directly in AWS OpsHub , a graphical user interface for managing Snow Family devices. The scripts can include any operations supported on the device. When these scripts are executed, AWS OpsHub will automatically execute the defined operations. These automated scripts can also be presented as actions listed in customizable drop-down menus.

AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball devices at your fingertips; you can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.  

AWS Snowball now supports local AWS Identity and Access Management  (IAM), allowing you to securely manage access to AWS services and resources running on your Snowball device by controlling what actions users can take, and what AWS resources on the device users can take those actions on.

Customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor their private endpoints that run in a virtual private cloud (VPC). Microservices, APIs, or internal web tools inside a private network often power customer-facing websites and applications. Further, there are several critical internal applications such as for accounting, collaboration tools, corporate email, and payroll that have a direct impact on increased productivity for your organization. Continuously monitoring both internal and external endpoints using synthetic monitoring is vital to ensure smooth operations on a consistent basis. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports Multifile Native Backups. With this feature, you can back up data from a single database across multiple files, uploading each of them in parallel directly to Amazon S3. This improves the overall backup experience. 

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of US Spanish Newscaster speaking style voice. The Newscaster speaking style was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech technology, and imitates the voice of a news anchor. The US Spanish voice is the second language launched by Polly in the Newscaster speaking style, following the release of Newscaster speaking style voices in US English in July 2019. To hear an audio sample of the US Spanish Newscaster voice click here .

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and EU (Stockholm) Regions.

AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region advanced query enabling you to run queries across accounts and Regions in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature provides you an easy mechanism to query your entire AWS footprint from a central account and get relevant information about your resources. For example, using this query capability, you can retrieve a list of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances of a particular size, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are not attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, or resources that have encryption disabled. This capability works across accounts, Regions, and organizations in AWS Organizations.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition major version 8.0 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. MySQL 8.0 is the latest major version release and offers new query functionality and enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, manageability, and international and mobile support.

Starting today, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports the r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge instance sizes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using r4.8xlarge or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.