Amazon AppFlow now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring Amazon AppFlow resources such as Connector profile and Amazon AppFlow Flow along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. The Amazon AppFlow APIs and SDK give developers programmatic access to Amazon AppFlow functionality, enabling developers to set up flows between source and destinations supported by Amazon AppFlow, create connector profiles and execute flows programmatically.  

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, Amazon Kendra customers can use custom tags to target specific FAQs, based on the search context.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. 

On September 17, 2020, Amazon Pinpoint announced that customers can now store up to 250 attributes across users and endpoints, which is an increase from 40. Attributes are parts of a customer record stored within Amazon Pinpoint that can be used to execute channel marketing through email, push or SMS. Attributes are key pieces of data used for targeting specific criteria, such as sending an email to all customers with a car model older than 2015. Attributes can also be used to customize a message template by adding personal preferences such as name or preferred coffee order. The limit was also extended for endpoint imports through the Amazon Pinpoint console, as well as through the ImportJob and UpdateEndpoint APIs. 

CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.  

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations. 

You can now create, describe, update, and publish contact flows via API. Contact-center administrators can now programmatically configure and test their contact flows, accelerating the time and effort to deploy changes and minimizing avoidable errors. With these flow APIs, you can automate the progression of contact flows between your development, staging, and production environments. To learn more, see the API reference guide .

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. 

You can now programmatically list all prompts in your instance, enabling you to automate recurring processes that are manual. For example, you can identify the prompts that need to be rerecorded with a new voice actor or replicated in a new language, or automatically resolve prompt ARNs between your development, staging, and production environments, saving time and minimizing errors. To learn more, see the API reference guide .

You can now provide multiple creation and retention schedules for your EBS Snapshots within a single Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policy. Multiple schedule support enables you to create Daily, Weekly and Monthly snapshots for your target volumes from the same DLM policy, reducing the setup time and making it easier to manage DLM policies.