You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and configure AWS Elemental MediaLive channels (both inputs and outputs). This improvement enables you to use AWS CloudFormation to deploy MediaLive resources in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.

Amplify Console now provides developers the ability to host a web app by simply uploading a folder from their desktop, or linking to a zip file stored in an S3 bucket or external server.  

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS EU (London) Region.

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS EU (London) Region. 

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager now lets you define the operating system user account that an interactive shell uses on an instance. You can associate an operating system user with your IAM principal (user or role) for Session Manager. You can also set the operating system user in your Session Manager preferences. This enables you to better manage shell privileges for multiple users that need interactive access to instances. 

AWS Cloud Map is now available in the AWS South America (São Paolo) Region. 

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to tunnel SSH (Secure Shell) and SCP (Secure Copy) traffic between a client and a server. 

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you provision and automatically scale instances across purchase options, Availability Zones (AZ), and instance families in a single Auto Scaling group (ASG), to optimize scale, performance, and cost. Now you can include Spot Instances with On-Demand and RIs in a single ASG, to save up to 90% on compute in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

AWS Config now supports a new set of APIs to manage AWS Config rules across your organization in AWS Organizations. Using this capability, you can centrally create, update, and delete AWS Config rules across all accounts in your organization. This capability is particularly useful if you have a need to deploy a common set of AWS Config rules across all accounts. You can also specify accounts where AWS Config rules should not be created. In addition, you can use these APIs from the master account in AWS Organizations to enforce governance by ensuring that the underlying AWS Config rules are not modifiable by your organization’s member accounts. 

AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender are now available in multiple additional regions.