Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon RDS for MariaDB so you can identify high-frequency, long-running, and stuck SQL queries in seconds. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service now enables customers to tag Task Sets when deploying an ECS service that uses the EXTERNAL deployment controller type. This will enable ECS customers to improve visibility into workloads, easily search and identify containerized applications, implement programmatic infrastructure management actions, and define fine-grained resource-level permissions.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. With this launch, Amazon EFS is now available in all standard AWS Regions.

AWS Security Hub today released updates and additions to AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) that enable integrated Security Hub partners to send richer, more detailed findings to Security Hub.  

Amazon QuickSight launches a full screen narrative editor that supports easy creation and editing of auto-narratives on QuickSight . With auto-narratives, you can add natural language summaries derived from your data. You can embed these widgets throughout your dashboard to highlight key insights and callouts. The enhanced editor now makes it easy to build these narratives with the support for full screen mode. The editor also provides a preview built on-the-fly making it easier to see the end result as you craft the narrative. Additionally, the editor also supports inserting static and dynamic URLs within narratives allowing you to create URLs based on custom computed functions that are part of the URL parameters. See here to learn more about the full screen editor.

In just a few clicks, you can now quickly re-execute a previous command using AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Run Command provides safe, secure remote management of your compute nodes at-scale and with safety controls. You can now re-execute a previous command exactly as before by using the new rerun command feature, or first make a few edits by using the new copy-to-new command feature. Simply select the desired command from your command history and click either rerun or copy-to-new, in both cases saving valuable time and effort by automatically copying all of the parameters and controls from the selected command into the new command.

We are excited to announce AWS Client VPN for desktop, an application which runs on Mac and Windows devices and provides access to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and on premise networks through AWS Client VPN endpoints. 

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations. Ground Station is pleased to announce the availability of Cross Region Data Delivery, enabling customers to deliver satellite data received through AWS Ground Station into the AWS Region of their choice.

Starting today, Redshift will be billed in one-second increments for on-demand clusters. Pricing is still listed on a per-hour basis, but bills are now calculated down to the second and show usage in decimal form.  

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and offers over 60 publicly available voices in 29 languages. AWS is excited to announce a new feature in Amazon Polly called Brand Voice, a feature where customers can engage the Amazon Polly team to build custom high-quality Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices that represent the customer’s brand persona. Polly’s Brand Voices are created for the exclusive use of the customer, allowing them to differentiate themselves by incorporating a unique vocal identity into the products and services that they offer to their end users.