Amazon CloudWatch now includes cross-account cross-region dashboards, which enable you to create high level operational dashboards, and with one click, drill down into more specific dashboards in different AWS accounts without having to log in and out of different accounts or switch AWS Regions. It is intended for centralized operations teams, DevOps engineers, and service owners who need to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze applications running in multiple regions and accounts. The ability to visualize, aggregate, and summarize performance and operational data across accounts and Regions helps reduce mean time to resolution.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now enables you to perform minor and major version upgrades of PostgreSQL instance snapshots.  

Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2019, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server. When you run SQL Server 2019 on Amazon EC2, you benefit from the scale, performance, and elasticity of the AWS Cloud, while leveraging the latest features available in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 such as enhanced PolyBase and intelligent query processing. You can deploy SQL Server 2019 Always-On Availability Groups across multiple AWS Availability Zones (“AZs”) for enhanced availability. With AWS, you benefit from all the security capabilities such as Amazon VPC, data encryption, and integration with Microsoft AD, while taking advantage of latest security enhancements provided in SQL Server 2019 such as Always Encrypted secure enclaves, data classification, and built in auditing and certificates management with SQL Server Configuration Manager.  

AWS Batch has added support for GPU scheduling to G3, G3s, and G4 instance families, in addition to existing support for GPU scheduling on P2 and P3 families. 

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. 

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. 

Today we are announcing Savings Plans, a new flexible pricing model that allows customers to save up to 72% on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term. With a Savings Plan, usage up to the commitment will be charged at the discounted Savings Plan rates and any usage beyond the commitment will be charged at regular On Demand rates. Savings Plans offer significant savings over On Demand, just like Reserved Instances, but automatically reduce customers’ bills on compute usage across any AWS region, even as usage changes. This provides customers the flexibility to use the compute option that best suits their needs and continue to save money, all without having to perform exchanges or modifications.

AWS Artifact is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, where you’ll now have on-demand access to AWS compliance reports and select online AWS agreements with a single-click in the AWS Management Console .  

Amazon QuickSight announced the release of QuickSight Mobile for iOS and Android devices. This release is both a major update to the existing iOS app and a new Android application. The app enables you to securely get insights from your data from anywhere; browse, favorite, and interact with your dashboards; explore your data with drilldowns and filters; stay ahead of the curve via forecasting; get email alerts when unexpected changes happen in your data; and share those insights with colleagues. To download the QuickSight Mobile app, visit the iOS App Store and Google Play . For more details on using QuickSight Mobile, see here .  

Amazon Pinpoint customers can now engage their customers with journeys. Each journey is a fully automated, multi-step engagement program.