Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) now offers support for cross-cluster search in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple Amazon ES domains with a single query or from a single Kibana interface. With this feature, you can separate heterogeneous workloads into multiple domains, which provides better resource isolation, and the ability to tune each domain for their specific workloads which can improve availability and reduce costs.

AWS CodeBuild now supports the bash and CMD shell environments for executing commands and scripts. The bash shell is available for machines hosting versions of Amazon Linux or Ubuntu, and the CMD shell is available on machines hosting versions of Microsoft Windows Server.

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (ML) feature that enables customers to quickly train their own custom models for detecting business-specific objects and scenes from images – no ML experience is required. For example, customers train a custom model to find their company logos in social media posts, identify their products on store shelves, or classify unique machine parts in an assembly line. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now allows customers to train object detection projects for a single object (label).  

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.  

You can now manage users of the Amazon API Gateway Serverless Developer Portal directly from the portal’s admin interface. In addition, API consumers can quickly find APIs with improved search and more easily build APIs by exporting OpenAPI definitions for published APIs.

AWS Fargate is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Amazon EMR now offers a “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy for provisioning Spot Instances in an Amazon EMR cluster. The “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy automatically makes the most efficient use of available spare capacity while still taking advantage of the steep discounts offered by Spot Instances. By offering the possibility of fewer interruptions, the capacity-optimized strategy can lower the overall cost of your workload. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Management Console now supports specifying a custom capacity provider strategy when you run tasks manually using the Run Task functionality. This capability has been available through the AWS CLI, SDK, and API, but is now available through the Management Console as well. For use with manually running tasks, a custom capacity provider strategy consists of one or more capacity providers with an optional base and weight specified for each provider, giving you control over how your tasks are distributed across one or more capacity providers.

AWS Backup is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers with stringent U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.