AWS Config now supports nine new managed rules, which are predefined rules that can help you evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices. 

AWS Config now offers a new conformance pack template that is intended to help you verify your compliance with NIST CSF operational best practices .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) now offers support for cross-cluster search, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple Amazon ES domains with a single query or from a single Kibana interface. With this feature, you can separate heterogeneous workloads into multiple domains, which provides better resource isolation, and the ability to tune each domain for their specific workloads which can improve availability and reduce costs. 

Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types, so you can import resource types in the Registry, including non-AWS and private ones. Resource Import allows you to bring existing infrastructure and application resources into CloudFormation, regardless of how they were created or managed previously.

Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.19 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements.

Semiconductor manufacturers like Infineon can now use AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration to pre-configure silicon components like secure elements with X.509 certificates and private keys, ensuring devices built using these components are pre-qualified to connect to AWS IoT by default. AWS IoT customers can then use these qualified devices together with AWS IoT Multi-Account Registration to simplify device registration and easily move devices between multiple AWS accounts in the same Region.  

AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution is an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps migrate a large number of servers with CloudEndure in a simplified and expedited way at scale. The solution automates many of the manual, time-consuming tasks that enterprises commonly face in migrating servers from on-premise to the cloud; for example, checking prerequisites on the source machine, installing/uninstalling software on the source and target machine. Thousands of servers have been migrated to AWS using this solution. When customers deploy the solution, its AWS CloudFormation template automatically provisions and configures the necessary AWS services, starting with Amazon Elastic Container Service to build a web interface and an Amazon S3 bucket to contain the frontend code. 

To help you identify unused S3 permissions, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) extended service last accessed information to include S3 management actions and reports the last time a user or role used an S3 action. This granular access information helps you analyze access, identify unused S3 actions, and remove them confidently.

Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database activity to provide safeguards for your database and help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. New users can sign up for QuickSight with Asia Pacific (Mumbai) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to Asia Pacific (Mumbai) via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and to enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in this region.