AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region data aggregation capability in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature enables you to aggregate resource configuration and 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 for governance. The data aggregation capability is also integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can centrally retrieve this data for any account within your organization.  

The AWS Storage Gateway service now includes the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor as a deployment option for all gateway types. If you use KVM hypervisor-based on-premises infrastructure, you can now deploy Storage Gateway in your environment to access virtually unlimited cloud storage.

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-four languages and seventeen regions – has been added to the list of AWS Services in Scope for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline. Amazon Translate is also included on the list of AWS Services in Scope for the FedRAMP Moderate baseline. Additional information and resources regarding FedRAMP and AWS are available here.

AWS RoboMaker announces the support for sudo access inside robot and simulation applications at runtime. Customers now have additional flexibility to modify their robot and simulation application environment at runtime so as to align with the environment they have on their robot. With sudo access, customers can install custom software, make changes to the root filesystem, update file permissions, and troubleshoot issues.  

AWS Trusted Advisor is an application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS’ aggregated operational history of serving millions of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance, and closing security gaps.

Starting today, Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is available in all AWS commercial regions excluding China and AWS GovCloud regions. Additionally, the limits for FSR-enabled snapshots per region are increased from 5 to 50.

AWS Cloud9 now supports the ability to tag Cloud9 development environments through both the console and the AWS API. Further documentation about tags is available here .

Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) , a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports ordering clauses in Cassandra Query Language (CQL) queries and AWS CloudTrail logging for control-plane operations.

AWS Backup is now available to protect Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) workloads in four more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong),EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).