AWS Systems Manager Distributor now enables in-place updates to keep your software packages installed during the update process. With this feature, you can avoid uninstalling your software during the update process, enhancing your security posture and availability.

Amazon QuickSight dashboards now support one-click filtering through QuickSight Actions. Readers of dashboards can click on data points in charts to view relevant, filtered details across other visuals. Authors can configure Actions to provide detailed insights either via filtering the same dashboard or navigating to a link outside of the dashboard via QuickSight’s URL actions. To learn more about QuickSight Actions, see here .

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS regions.

You can now use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) version 2 preview release with AWS Single Sign-on (SSO) integration. The preview enables your developers to sign-in to the CLI using credentials you manage in AWS SSO or Microsoft Active Directory. The release includes automatic short-term credential rotation enabling developers to take full advantage of CLI profiles to switch between roles, which increases your security posture and developer productivity.

You can now use CloudFormation templates to configure and provision additional features for AWS CodePipeline, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Amplify, Amazon ElasticSearch Service (Amazon ES), AWS App Mesh, and more AWS resources. CloudFormation periodically releases additional support, making it easier for developers to configure and provision AWS services.

Starting today you can now launch R5 and T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for SQL Server.  

Developers can now include the Amazon Encryption SDK for JavaScript (ESDK) in production applications, the first time client-side encryption will be natively supported in-browser by the ESDK. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt in a browser to protect sensitive data at the edge of the cloud. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy for everyone to encrypt and decrypt data using industry standards and best practices. Now available in C, Java, JavaScript, Python and the Command Line Interface, all ESDKs are interoperable, meaning that data encrypted with the JavaScript ESDK can be decrypted by any other implementation, provided access to the keys is maintained. All implementations of the ESDK are open source projects available on GitHub where anyone can inspect the code and contribute to the project. 

You can now use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys and Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains. You can view the metadata associated with an AWS KMS key and track changes to key policies, tags, and other configuration attributes associated with the AWS KMS key. Similarly, for Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains, you can track configuration changes such as changes to instance type, encryption settings, network configuration, and access policies.

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the EU (London) and EU (Paris) Regions. You can create DAX clusters using Amazon EC2 R4 and T2 instance types in these AWS Regions for applications that require microsecond latency.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the South America (São Paulo) and EU (Stockholm) AWS Regions, bringing the count of supported regions to 16.