Starting today, you can easily select any custom drive letter as well as mass deploy a specific drive letter for your organization. IT admins expect the flexibility to select a mounted drive letter based on their organization configurations, standards, or preferences. With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, you and your organization are offered not only the flexibility but also the control you need to specify a specific drive letter for your virtual WorkDocs Drive, thus empowering your organization to install and deploy WorkDocs Drive successfully to your organization’s standards and needs.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Partition Placement Groups are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  

Amazon Pinpoint now supports the apns-push-type header field for push notifications that you send using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). Apple recently announced that this new header would be required for all push notifications sent to iOS 13 and WatchOS 6 devices. Beginning today, Amazon Pinpoint automatically adds this required header to all APNs messages that it sends. Amazon Pinpoint customers don’t have to perform any additional steps to include the header.

AWS customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now send messages to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints, without using public IPs and without having to traverse the public internet.  

Systems Manager Automation now supports queuing of up to 1,000 executions, enabling you to automate operational tasks on a larger scale.  

AWS Config now includes automatic remediation capability with AWS Config rules. Automatic Remediation feature gives you the ability to associate remediation actions with AWS Config rules and the choice to execute them automatically to address non-compliant resources without manual intervention, thereby reducing time to remediate these resources.  

Customers in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region can now use AWS Snowball Edge to migrate up to petabytes of data into and out of Amazon S3, or to perform edge computing in disconnected, harsh and mobile environments, such as mines, factories or ships. Snowball Edge is a data transfer and edge computing service that uses secure, ruggedized devices.  

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. 

Amazon EKS now allows you to assign IAM permissions to Kubernetes service accounts. This gives you fine-grained, pod level access control when running clusters with multiple co-located services.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.14.6 for all clusters.