Following the November 26, 2019 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in six AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to all commercial AWS Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.

AWS Config Conformance packs are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Conformance packs help you manage configuration compliance of your AWS resources at scale–from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting–using a common framework and packaging model. 

AWS Chatbot is now generally available for all customers. AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent for “ChatOps” that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases. Previously, AWS Chatbot was in public preview.

Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at nearly any scale at the frequency you choose – on a schedule, in response to a business event, or on demand. AppFlow includes powerful data transformation capabilities like mapping, merging, masking, filtering, and validation so you can generate rich, ready-to-use data as part of the flow itself, without additional steps. AppFlow automatically encrypts data in motion, and allows users to restrict data from flowing over the public Internet for SaaS applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink, reducing exposure to security threats.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that provides you global access to your space workloads. AWS Ground Station enables you to downlink data and provide satellite commands across multiple regions quickly, easily, and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing their own ground station infrastructure. AWS Ground Station is available today in six AWS Regions around the world. To see a list of supported regions, please visit the Global Infrastructure Region Table webpage.

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East).  

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now allow fully private cluster networking by ensuring that only private IP addresses are assigned to EC2 instances managed by EKS. 

AWS Firewall Manager now supports organizational units (OU), allowing customers greater flexibility while scoping their policies. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. With Firewall Manager, you can manage AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, or VPC security groups across your entire AWS Organization.

AWS Security Hub has launched a new security standard: AWS Foundational Security Best Practices v1.0.0. The initial release of this standard consists of 31 fully automated security controls in 12 Regions and 27 controls in AWS GovCloud (West) Region. 7 additional regions will be launched shortly. These security controls detect when AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align with security best practices defined by AWS security experts. This curated set of controls helps improve a customer’s security posture in AWS and covers AWS’s most popular and foundational services. When a deviation from an AWS security best practice is identified, AWS Security Hub issues a detailed and actionable finding to customers. These controls closely align to the Top 10 Security Best Practices outlined by AWS Chief Information Security Office, Stephen Schmidt, at AWS re:Invent 2019. We recommend that you enable AWS Security Hub and this standard in all accounts and Regions where you have activity. To learn more, visit our documentation on the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.