AWS IoT Events is now available in the EU (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions, extending the footprint to 10 AWS regions.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. With this launch, Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in nine AWS Regions. For a list of regions where AppStream 2.0 is available, see the AWS Region Table. You can deploy general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and graphics-pro streaming instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region to meet the needs of your users. Graphics-design instances are not available at this time.  

AWS Chatbot now makes it easy to receive notifications from AWS Config in your team’s Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. You can receive notifications about Config rule compliance or configuration item changes. Receiving notifications in your channels or chat rooms enables your entire team to review and collaborate quickly.

Amazon Inspector expands Center for Internet Security’s CIS Benchmarks support for Windows 2016. You can now run Inspector CIS assessments on Windows 2016 to check the configuration of your Amazon EC2 instances against the security configuration best practices developed by CIS.  

iOS users can now use federated login to authenticate to the AWS Console Mobile Application.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. 

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These AWS Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to allow U.S. government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management tool to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and Amazon VPCs. AWS Firewall Manager now supports Amazon VPC security groups, making it easier for security administrators to centrally configure security groups across multiple accounts in their organization, and continuously audit them to detect overly permissive or misconfigured rules.

Today, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth launched built-in workflows for label verification and label adjustment. One way that ML practitioners have improved the accuracy of their labeled data is through using audit workflows. Audit workflows enable a group of reviewers to verify the accuracy of labels (a process called label verification) or adjust them (a process called label adjustment) if needed.

Amazon API Gateway supports secured connectivity between REST APIs and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in Middle East (BAH). Customers can now isolate traffic between their Amazon VPCs and REST APIs from the internet using Private API and VPC Link features provided by API Gateway.