Today we are announcing general availability of Multi-Attach on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. You can now enable Multi-Attach on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS io1 volumes to allow a single volume to be concurrently attached to up to sixteen AWS Nitro System-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances within the same Availability Zone. Each attached instance has full read and write permission to the shared volume. For applications that manage storage consistency from multiple writers, Multi-Attach makes it easier to achieve higher application availability.

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region.  

Amazon ECS Optimized Linux 2 Amazon Machine Images(AMI) now come with the AWS System Manager (SSM) Agent pre-installed. The SSM Agent makes it possible for Systems Manager to update, manage, and configure EC2 instances in a customer’s ECS cluster. ECS customers that used to manually install the SSM agent into thier ECS optimized AMI will now get these features out of the box.

You can now enable Amazon EC2 Hibernation for On-Demand and Reserved Instances through AWS CloudFormation, a service that allows you to easily provision and update a collection of AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion. Launching EC2 instances with Hibernation enabled has become easier than ever as now you just need to add a single “HibernationOptions ” property with “Configured: true” parameter within the AWS::EC2::Instance resource in your CloudFormation template. With this new feature, you can easily make Hibernation a part of your EC2 instance setup through CloudFormation, provided your EC2 instance meets the Hibernation Prerequisites .  

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now enables you to set a patch release cutoff date to automatically approve only the patches released before the date. For example, if you specify February 7, 2020 as the cutoff date, Patch Manager will not automatically apply patches showing a release date of February 8, 2020 or later. 

AWS AppConfig customers can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to provision AppConfig resources. AWS AppConfig makes it easy for customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on EC2 instances, containers, AWS Lambda, mobile apps, IoT devices, and on-premise servers in a validated, controlled and monitored way. 

AWS App Mesh is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo) and Middle East (Bahrain). 

You can now configure notification rules for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy in two additional AWS regions: Hong Kong and Bahrain. You can create notification rules to receive notifications about events in repositories, build projects, and deployments.

We are excited to introduce the new Amazon WorkSpaces client for Windows and Mac. The client contains new enhancements including the ability to create personalized labels for registration codes, a new more intuitive UI, and includes the latest updates to the PCoIP protocol.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle OLAP – a multidimensional analytic engine embedded in the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle OLAP option provides SQL access to advanced analytics, and cube-organized materialized views to enhance the performance of business intelligence solutions.