You can now perform an in-place upgrade of your Chef Automate server to Chef Automate 2 from the AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate console or the AWS CLI.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports authentication of database users using AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory Service .

AWS Cloud Map now allows you to view service instance details and edit custom service instance attributes in the AWS Console. This feature, which was previously available only through the AWS CLI, SDK, or API, provides better visibility into the composition of your services and simplifies updating the metadata associated with cloud resources registered in AWS Cloud Map.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2019 , Windows Server Core 2019, and .NET Core 3.1.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region.  

With the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy simulator, administrators can now simulate permissions boundary policies along with other permissions policies to better understand the effective permissions for IAM principals (users and roles) in their AWS environment. Additionally, developers can now use the policy simulator to debug issues related to permissions boundary policies.

You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon S3 as Apache Parquet , an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. You can analyze the exported data with other AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SageMaker.

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now available to launch as dedicated instances. T3 instances are a low cost burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use. T3 dedicated instances run in a VPC on hardware that’s dedicated to a single customer. This means that your T3 dedicated instances will be physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other AWS accounts. Dedicated instances may help customers meet their specific compliance goals or run software with specific licensing restrictions.  

6 new AWS Public Datasets are now available in the following categories: 

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Using MediaConnect, you can now ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the AWS Cloud in more locations globally.