Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you manage access to your keyspaces and tables by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and federated identities. 

Amazon Connect now supports claiming toll free and direct inward dial phone numbers in twelve new countries in the EU Central (Frankfurt) and EU West (London) regions. This enables you to provide local telephony support to end-customers in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovenia, and Turkey.

When using Amazon S3 Batch Operations you can now assign tags to jobs to label and manage access to create and edit permissions. S3 Batch Operations is an S3 feature that lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying objects or running AWS Lambda functions across millions of objects with a single request. You provide the list of objects, and S3 Batch Operations handles the repetitive work, including managing retries and displaying progress.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 x1e.32xlarge instance size is available in South America (Sao Paulo) AWS region. 

Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region. On-demand is a flexible capacity mode for DynamoDB that is capable of serving thousands of requests per second without requiring capacity planning. DynamoDB on-demand offers simple pay-per-request pricing for read and write requests so that you only pay for what you use, making it easy to balance cost and performance. 

Customers can now use AWS App Mesh to encrypt traffic between services of their application without any changes to their application code. App Mesh works with ACM or with a customer managed certificate to negotiate TLS encrypted sessions between Envoy proxies of mesh services.  

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney, Bombay) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases including energy demand forecasting, product demand forecasting, inventory planning, workforce planning and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting.

You now can update your global tables from version 2017.11.29 to the latest version of global tables (2019.11.21) with a few clicks in the DynamoDB Console. By upgrading the version of your global tables, you can increase the availability of your DynamoDB tables easily by extending your existing tables into additional AWS Regions, with no table rebuilds required. There is no additional cost for this update, and you will benefit from improved replicated write efficiencies after you update to the latest version of global tables.  

Global Datastore is a new feature of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication. You can now write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one region and have the data available for read in two other cross-region replica clusters, thereby enabling low-latency reads and disaster recovery across regions.

Amazon Athena now enables customers to create and update Athena Workgroups using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::Workgroup resource.