PostgreSQL 12 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing customers to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 12 on Amazon RDS. 

Starting today, you can now import the released Java binaries of Glue ETL libraries using Maven on your Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) locally. This feature allows you to seamlessly develop, compile, debug, and single-step Glue ETL scripts and complex Spark applications in Scala and Python locally before deploying them to your production environments on the Glue job system or Glue Development endpoints.

You can now use AWS X-Ray to trace messages that pass through Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). AWS X-Ray makes it easy to troubleshoot performance issues and errors in your distributed applications and microservice architecture.  

We are pleased to announce that starting today, your applications running on Application Load Balancers (ALB) fronted by AWS Global Accelerator can see the original source IP address of the client. This enables you to apply client-specific logic such as IP address or location-based filters by using AWS WAF, as well as gather connection statistics and serve personalized content for your applications. Additionally, you can front an internal ALB with Global Accelerator. This lets you use Global Accelerator as the single internet-facing access point while keeping your ALB private and protecting your applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

You can now configure a lower threshold for rate-based rules you use with AWS WAF, allowing you to mitigate low-volume application threats. The new threshold of 100 requests per 5 minutes (previously 2000 requests per 5 minutes) gives you greater control for stopping slow brute force login attempts, limiting per-user API usage, blocking low-volume denial of service (DoS) attacks, and stopping malicious bots that consume resources and scrape content.

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to redirect traffic from any port inside a remote Amazon EC2 or on-premises instance to a local port on a client machine.

Run Command now lets you select a resource group as a command target. Resource groups make it easier to organize, manage, and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at one time. Resource group support as a command target enables you to automate your administrative and ad hoc tasks on all of the managed instances that belong in the resource group. 

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to specify a single command or a sequence of commands that execute in an interactive shell experience on an Amazon EC2 or on-premises instance. This enables you to easily limit user interaction to a specific command or command sequence, which helps you manage the interactive actions a user can take. 

Beginning today, you can now use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to see the number of DNS queries served for each of your Route 53 public hosted zones. With these metrics, you can see at a glance the activity level of each hosted zone to monitor changes in traffic. Using the metric functions that Amazon CloudWatch provides, you can view the number of queries per minute, or any longer time range that Amazon CloudWatch supports.

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.