You can now run Amazon Inspector security assessments on Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors. Inspector assesses your EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities, checks your instance configurations against host hardening best practices, and analyzes your AWS network configurations to determine whether your EC2 instance can be reached from external networks. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a prioritized list of security findings that include guidance to address vulnerabilities and improve insecure configurations.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are now available in EU (Stockholm) and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. 

AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for AWS Systems Manager, which provides availability guarantees for AWS Systems Manager .

Unique two-pump design broadens spectral energy in the blue region and enables the Bridgelux Thrive family to offer a relatively uniform SPD across the human visual range.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a and R5a instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. Both M5a and R5a instances were first introduced in November of 2018 and feature 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors that are variants of Amazon EC2’s general purpose (M5 ) and memory optimized (R5 ) instance families.

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11. 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.

With this release , pgaudit has been updated to 1.3.0, pg_hint_plan to 1.3.2, pglogical to 2.2.1, PLV8 to 2.3.8, PostGIS to 2.5.1, prefix to 1.2.8, and wal2json to hash 9e962ba.

To use the new version, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console .

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.
 

AWS Config now includes remediation capability with AWS Config rules. This feature gives you the ability to associate and execute remediation actions with AWS Config rules to address noncompliant resources. You can choose from a list of available remediation actions. For example, you can create an AWS Config rule to check that your Amazon S3 buckets do not allow public read access. You can then associate a remediation action to disable public access for noncompliant S3 buckets.

Amazon Neptune is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to discover insights and relationships in text. This service API is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region .

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region with R5 instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances. Now you can create Amazon DocumentDB clusters with R5 instances in Europe (Frankfurt) and use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools that you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB. Enjoy improved performance, scalability, and availability without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.

You can use Amazon DocumentDB in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt). For more information on AWS regions and services, please visit the AWS global region table.

To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please see the product page and documentation .