Developers can now include the Amazon Encryption SDK for JavaScript (ESDK) in production applications, the first time client-side encryption will be natively supported in-browser by the ESDK. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt in a browser to protect sensitive data at the edge of the cloud. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy for everyone to encrypt and decrypt data using industry standards and best practices. Now available in C, Java, JavaScript, Python and the Command Line Interface, all ESDKs are interoperable, meaning that data encrypted with the JavaScript ESDK can be decrypted by any other implementation, provided access to the keys is maintained. All implementations of the ESDK are open source projects available on GitHub where anyone can inspect the code and contribute to the project. 

You can now use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys and Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains. You can view the metadata associated with an AWS KMS key and track changes to key policies, tags, and other configuration attributes associated with the AWS KMS key. Similarly, for Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains, you can track configuration changes such as changes to instance type, encryption settings, network configuration, and access policies.

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the EU (London) and EU (Paris) Regions. You can create DAX clusters using Amazon EC2 R4 and T2 instance types in these AWS Regions for applications that require microsecond latency.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the South America (São Paulo) and EU (Stockholm) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 16. 

Amazon CloudWatch now includes cross-account cross-region dashboards, which enable you to create high level operational dashboards, and with one click, drill down into more specific dashboards in different AWS accounts without having to log in and out of different accounts or switch AWS Regions. It is intended for centralized operations teams, DevOps engineers, and service owners who need to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze applications running in multiple regions and accounts. The ability to visualize, aggregate, and summarize performance and operational data across accounts and Regions helps reduce mean time to resolution.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now enables you to perform minor and major version upgrades of PostgreSQL instance snapshots.  

Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2019, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server. When you run SQL Server 2019 on Amazon EC2, you benefit from the scale, performance, and elasticity of the AWS Cloud, while leveraging the latest features available in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 such as enhanced PolyBase and intelligent query processing. You can deploy SQL Server 2019 Always-On Availability Groups across multiple AWS Availability Zones (“AZs”) for enhanced availability. With AWS, you benefit from all the security capabilities such as Amazon VPC, data encryption, and integration with Microsoft AD, while taking advantage of latest security enhancements provided in SQL Server 2019 such as Always Encrypted secure enclaves, data classification, and built in auditing and certificates management with SQL Server Configuration Manager.  

AWS Batch has added support for GPU scheduling to G3, G3s, and G4 instance families, in addition to existing support for GPU scheduling on P2 and P3 families. 

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. 

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.