AWS Firewall Manager now supports new version of AWS WAF including AWS Managed Rules (AMR). Firewall Manager is a security management tool to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and resources including WAF, AWS Shield and VPC security groups.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 12. PostgreSQL 12 includes better management of indexing, improved partitioning capabilities, JSON path queries per SQL/JSON specifications, nondeterministic collations that support case-insensitive and accent-insensitive comparisons for ICU provided collations, most common-value statistics for improved query plans, creation of generated columns that computes values with an expression, and many additional features. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) General Purpose mode file systems support up to 35,000 read operations per second, a 400% increase from the previous limit of 7,000. Maximum write operations are unchanged at 7,000 per second.

Amazon Chime now supports up to 250 attendees for any meeting hosted by a user with Amazon Chime Pro permissions. IT administrators don’t need to do anything special to let their users host larger meetings and there is no additional host fee for the increased meeting size. Amazon Chime Pro users can host meetings with up to 250 attendees without advanced scheduling or additional permissions, and the new meeting capacity is retroactive so existing meetings don’t need to be updated or rescheduled to support the larger attendee limit. 

Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes are now available in the Europe (Paris), Canada (Central), and Brazil (São Paulo) regions. RA3 nodes enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs. 

Today, AWS added a third Availability Zone (AZ) to the AWS Canada (Central) Region to support the high demand of our growing Canadian customer base. 

With a single click, customers can now enable AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer for all their accounts centrally managed through AWS Organizations. This enables security teams and administrators to uncover unintended access to resources from outside their AWS organization within minutes. Customers can proactively address whether any resource policies across any of their accounts violate their security and governance practices by allowing unintended access.

AWS App Mesh now supports sharing a Mesh with multiple AWS accounts.  

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports several AWS big data tools, including Amazon Sagemaker, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon CloudSearch as Self-provisioned services (previously known as enabled or compatible services). With the support of these three new AWS services, you can deploy machine learning models, query large volumes of data and quickly deploy data lakes, all natively within AMS Managed Landing Zones.  

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.