Federated queries in Amazon Athena enable users to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. The feature, which is now generally available in the us-east-1, us-west-2, and us-east-2 regions, enables customers to submit a single SQL query that scans data from multiple sources running on-premises or hosted in the cloud.  

Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections.

You can now use the updated Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) console in the AWS Europe (Milan), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (“NWCD”) and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Sinnet”). The updated console makes it even easier for you to create and manage your file system resources. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can create file systems configured with the recommended settings in just a few clicks and you can customize your view to quickly find information you’re looking for. You can also monitor your file system’s behavior using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms natively in the Amazon EFS console.

AWS Glue DataBrew is a new visual data preparation tool for AWS Glue that helps you clean and normalize data without writing code, reducing the time it takes to prepare data for analytics and machine learning by up to 80% compared to traditional approaches to data preparation. AWS Glue DataBrew features an easy-to-use visual interface that helps data analysts and data scientists of all technical levels understand, combine, clean, and transform data.

You can now take automatic backups of your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems with AWS Backup in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions, directly using the Amazon EFS console or API. Automatic backups for Amazon EFS further simplifies backup management of your file systems by enabling you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.  

Starting today, AWS AppSync is available in three new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain) and China (Ningxia). 

AWS CodePipeline Source Action now supports cloning of AWS CodeCommit repositories. With this improvement, when you define a Source Action, CodePipeline will clone the CodeCommit git repository to fetch the commit history and metadata.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for the latest Memcached version 1.6.6. This version brings a number of enhancements, such as improved memory management reducing the memory usage from idle client connections and lowers the risk of memory fragmentation from large number of connections. Additionally, this version introduces the experimental meta protocol and meta commands. 

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Starting today, AWS Systems Manager Explorer provides a summary of AWS Config rules and associated resource compliance, to help you check overall compliance status and quickly find non-compliant resources. Systems Manager Explorer is an operations dashboard that provides a view of your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions, helping you see where you may need to investigate and remediate operational issues. AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.