Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory.  

AWS Snowball Edge now supports block storage volumes of up to 10 TB, ten times higher than the previous limit of 1 TB. A higher volume size limit provides you greater flexibility when using block storage with your applications on Snowball Edge.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates. Name constraints are defined in the Internet public key infrastructure (PKI) standard RFC 5280 and provide a way for CA administrators to restrict subject names in certificates.

You can now develop your AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications using PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0

We are pleased to announce that starting today, your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances can be directly fronted by AWS Global Accelerator. Before, you needed to use an Elastic IP address to front an EC2 instance with Global Accelerator. Now, you can use Global Accelerator directly as your single internet-facing access point for your EC2 instances, improving availability and performance of applications with local or global users. You can also use Application Load Balancers or Network Load Balancers in conjunction with Global Accelerator to connect to your EC2 instances.

Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. New users can sign up for QuickSight with Asia Pacific (Seoul) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in-region and providing proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing Amazon QuickSight users can switch to this region via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in that region.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports using Amazon RDS procedures to run certain EMCTL commands on the Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control.  

The AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. The addition of these regions increases the availability of the AWS Serverless Application Repository, which offers region support for Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California, Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and AWS GovCloud regions. With this launch, the AWS Serverless Application Repository is now available in 20 commercial regions. 

Today, AWS is announcing general availability of Image Scanning for Amazon Elastic Container Registry. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy container images. Image Scanning is an automated vulnerability assessment feature in ECR that helps improve the security of your application’s container images by scanning them for a broad range of operating system vulnerabilities.

You can now use ElastiCache data migration feature to migrate your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully-managed ElastiCache cluster-mode disabled configuration. With this feature, once you provide ElastiCache-accessible endpoint and port of your Redis cluster, ElastiCache will replicate the data from your cluster in real-time to your ElastiCache cluster. Once the data sync is complete, you can update your client applications to start using the newly-populated ElastiCache cluster.