Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region. On-demand is a flexible capacity mode for DynamoDB that is capable of serving thousands of requests per second without requiring capacity planning. DynamoDB on-demand offers simple pay-per-request pricing for read and write requests so that you only pay for what you use, making it easy to balance cost and performance. 

Customers can now use AWS App Mesh to encrypt traffic between services of their application without any changes to their application code. App Mesh works with ACM or with a customer managed certificate to negotiate TLS encrypted sessions between Envoy proxies of mesh services.  

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney, Bombay) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases including energy demand forecasting, product demand forecasting, inventory planning, workforce planning and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting.

You now can update your global tables from version 2017.11.29 to the latest version of global tables (2019.11.21) with a few clicks in the DynamoDB Console. By upgrading the version of your global tables, you can increase the availability of your DynamoDB tables easily by extending your existing tables into additional AWS Regions, with no table rebuilds required. There is no additional cost for this update, and you will benefit from improved replicated write efficiencies after you update to the latest version of global tables.  

Global Datastore is a new feature of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication. You can now write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one region and have the data available for read in two other cross-region replica clusters, thereby enabling low-latency reads and disaster recovery across regions.

Amazon Athena now enables customers to create and update Athena Workgroups using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::Workgroup resource.

Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that allows you to set up and manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few clicks. Amazon Managed Blockchain eliminates the overhead required to create the network, and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Once your network is up and running, Amazon Managed Blockchain makes it easy to manage and maintain your blockchain network. It manages your certificates and lets you easily invite new members to join the network. 

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Anomaly Detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze system and application metrics, determine a normal baseline, and surface anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use Anomaly Detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior.  

Amazon Athena now publishes Amazon CloudWatch Events for query state transitions. When a query transitions between states — for example, from Running to a terminal state such as Succeeded or Cancelled — Athena publishes a query state change event to CloudWatch Events. The event contains information about the query state transition.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Cluster Auto Scaling became available in the AWS Govcloud (US) Regions. With ECS Cluster Auto Scaling, your ECS clusters using Amazon EC2 Instances can automatically scale as needed to meet the resource demands of all tasks and services in your cluster, including scaling to and from zero. Managed scaling with ECS Cluster Auto Scaling improves the reliability, scalability, and cost of running containerized workloads on ECS.