AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. Snowball and Snowball Edge are data transfer services that use secure, ruggedized devices to move up to petabytes of data into and out of Amazon S3 for migration, edge computing, machine learning and analytics.

AWS Chatbot is a new service that makes it easy to set up ChatOps for AWS in your Amazon Chime or Slack chat rooms. AWS Chatbot provides an interactive agent that enables you to monitor and interact with your AWS resources from team chat rooms. You can receive alerts and execute commands to return diagnostic information so your team can collaborate and respond to events faster. AWS Chatbot is in beta with support for receiving notifications in your chat room.

We’re excited to announce Lumberyard Beta 1.20, which reduces the time it takes Amazon Lumberyard to scan assets by 90%. This release contains over 200 improvements, fixes, and features.

Amplify Console now supports branch pattern deployments, allowing developers to automatically deploy branches that match a specific pattern without any extra configuration.

When using AWS IoT Events, you now have the option to define actions to invoke AWS Lambda functions, publish messages to the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue or an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream, and republish messages to IoT Events. Previously, you could only define actions to publish messages to SNS and MQTT. These expanded actions make it easier to build monitoring applications that help you quickly understand the state of your devices by providing more options to process messages created by IoT Events.

AWS Glue has updated its Apache Spark infrastructure to support Apache Spark 2.4.3 (in addition to Apache Spark 2.2.1 ) for ETL jobs, enabling you to take advantage of stability fixes and new features available in this version of Apache Spark.  

You can now specify additional worker types when you use AWS Glue development endpoints. An AWS Glue development endpoint is a serverless Apache Spark environment that you can use to develop, debug, and test your AWS Glue ETL scripts in an interactive manner.

Amazon S3 announced support for percentiles on Amazon CloudWatch Metrics. This feature allows customers to visualize and alarm on p90, p95, p99, p99.9 or any other percentile (including p100) of an S3 request metric. This provides customers with more granularity about their request patterns on S3 and helps them observe and diagnose anomalies in request patterns on S3. 

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region to help protect your AWS accounts and workloads.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies, making it easier for you to restrict egress of secrets from your Amazon VPC. When you create a VPC endpoint for Secrets Manager, you can attach an endpoint policy to define the Secrets Manager actions that can be performed, the secrets these actions can be performed on, the IAM users or roles that can perform these actions, and the accounts that can be accessed via the VPC endpoint.