Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports PrivateLink Endpoint Policies, a capability that enables customers to better control access to Amazon ECR repositories and images using private endpoints. Previously customers were not able to explicitly define policies to deny or allow access based on IAM resource policies, but now customers can define granular, API level access to container image repositories.

AWS IQ is a new service that enables customers to quickly find, engage, and pay AWS Certified third-party experts for on-demand project work. AWS IQ offers video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, and integrated billing.  

You can now enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) capabilities for your users using AWS Client VPN and Active Directory. Enterprises can now create a second layer of defense by prompting the user for additional factor, such as verifying a push notification or an email OTP.

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.

You can now right-size your message broker by modifying the instance type on demand. Instance type changes can be applied immediately or during the next maintenance window. Vertically scaling your message broker provides flexibility to adjust for seasonal changes and increase capacity as your application grows. 

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports adding Amazon EC2 G4 instances as worker nodes to all clusters in regions where G4 is available.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, and T3a instances are available in additional regions.

• M5a and R5a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (London) Regions
• M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Singapore), Europe (Paris, London, Ireland, Frankfurt), US West (N. California) Regions
• T3a instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Region

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)  supports Automated Spot Instance Draining, a new capability that reduces service interruptions due to Spot termination for ECS workloads. This feature will enable ECS customers to safely manage any interruptions of ECS tasks running on Spot instances due to termination of the underlying EC2 Spot instance .

The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core has been updated to include Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. The AMI comes pre-configured with .NET Core 2.2 (with Long Term Support), Mono 5.18, PowerShell Core 6.2, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).