CloudFormation Drift Detection and Resource Import are now available in seven additional AWS regions: EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Ningxia), China (Beijing), and AWS GovCloud (US).  

Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policies, you can now schedule automated backups for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes every 1 hour (in addition to the currently supported 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 12 or 24 hours). 

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to mobile users can now host their application in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to a phone number , or can send a message to multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. Customers can send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports multi-label image and text classification. Ground Truth helps you build highly accurate training datasets by using your own or third-party human labelers. It provides labelers with built-in workflows and user interfaces for common labeling tasks. Built-in workflows are provided for image and text classification, for assigning class labels to an image or a text selection, along with workflows for other computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. 

Amazon VPC Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway now supports adding tags at the time of resource creation, and tag-based access control. You can define fine-grained access controls for NAT gateways using tags and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to resources to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access to resources.

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. 

AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region data aggregation and advanced query in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. This feature enables you to aggregate & query resource configuration and AWS Config rule compliance data into a single account and Region, which reduces the time and overhead needed to gather an enterprise-wide view of your resource inventory and compliance status. The data aggregation capability is also integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can centrally retrieve this data for any account within your organization.

Android users can now monitor and access their AWS resources through the new AWS Console Mobile application.  

You can now identify and block requests to your web applications from VPN, Tor nodes, proxies, and data centers by using the new Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules. This new managed rule group helps you block users who attempt to hide their identity or evade geographic restrictions. The managed rule group can also help block malicious traffic that originates from bots behind these anonymous networks. 

Today, AWS Chatbot added support for AWS CloudFormation with templates for creating Slack channel configurations. With AWS CloudFormation, you can automate creation of AWS Chatbot configurations and related resources, such as IAM roles and SNS topics. AWS CloudFormation also reduces the potential for manual error, increases efficiency, and ensures consistent configurations over time. Learn more about using AWS Chatbot with AWS CloudFormation in AWS Chatbot documentation .