Tag Policies is a new feature that allows you to define rules on how tags can be used on AWS resources in your accounts in AWS Organizations. You can use Tag Policies to easily adopt a standardized approach for tagging AWS resources.

Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline, which includes over 400 security controls. 

AWS Lambda now supports Destinations for asynchronous invocations , a new feature that allows you to gain visibility to asynchronous invocation result and route the result to an AWS service without writing code

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports Cross-region Read Replicas with Oracle Active Data Guard. Amazon RDS for Oracle makes it easy to create physical standby DB instances in different AWS Regions from the primary DB instance. It fully manages the configuration of Active Data Guard, and replicates data over secured network connections between a primary DB instance and its replicas running across regions. 

Authors who publish serverless applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) and share them publicly can now receive Verified Author badges, enabling consumers to quickly and reliably know who you are. The Verified Author badge will appear next to your author name on your application’s detail card and detail page, and will deep-link to your Github profile.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now publishes ECS Service Action events to Amazon CloudWatch Events. CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources. Using simple rules that you can quickly set up, you can match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams, including AWS Lambda for event processing with custom business logic, Amazon Simple Notification Service for automated notifications, or CloudWatch Logs for event logging. 

You can now preview Amazon QuickSight’s integration with Amazon SageMaker: a new feature that makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective for customers to augment their business data with ML predictions. With just a few clicks, business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists can perform machine learning inferencing in QuickSight to make decisions on new data. Using SageMaker models, popular use cases include predicting likelihood of customer churn, scoring leads conversion, and assessing credit risk for loan applications.

Amazon EMR now supports running multiple EMR steps at the same time, the ability to cancel running steps, and AWS Step Functions. Running steps in parallel allows you to run more advanced workloads, increase cluster resource utilization, and reduce the amount of time taken to complete your workload. The number of steps allowed to run at once is configurable and can be set when a cluster is launched and at any time after the cluster has started. With the ability to cancel running steps, you now have more control over step execution, including the ability to forcefully cancel steps. Running steps in parallel is also supported with AWS Step Functions, allowing you to create and scale clusters, and orchestrate step execution using Step Functions workflows.

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 11.5 and 10.10 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.5 and 10.10 . This release contains cumulative fixes including an important security fix, bug fixes, and other improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports creating and managing Network Load Balancers (NLB) in shared VPCs. Using NLBs with VPC sharing, you can now route traffic across subnets in VPCs owned by a centrally managed account in the same AWS Organization.