Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 5.6.46 , release 5.7.28 , and release 8.0.17 of the MySQL database. These releases include a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are available on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Amazon Linux 2, and Amazon Linux with TensorFlow (1.15.2 & 2.1.0), PyTorch 1.4.0, MXNet 1.6.0. The PyTorch EI environment has been updated to 1.3.1.

AWS Config now supports Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Config provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account. This includes how the resources are related to one another and how they were configured in the past so that you can see how the configurations and relationships changed over time.

Starting today, customers can easily enable AWS Local Zones themselves from the new “Settings ” section of the EC2 Console or ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. Once enabled, customers can create and manage resources in Local Zones using the same APIs and Management Console they use for Availability Zones in AWS Regions today.

CloudFormation Drift Detection and Resource Import are now available in seven additional AWS regions: EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Ningxia), China (Beijing), and AWS GovCloud (US).  

Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policies, you can now schedule automated backups for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes every 1 hour (in addition to the currently supported 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 12 or 24 hours). 

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send text messages (SMS) to mobile users can now host their application in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to a phone number , or can send a message to multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. Customers can send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports multi-label image and text classification. Ground Truth helps you build highly accurate training datasets by using your own or third-party human labelers. It provides labelers with built-in workflows and user interfaces for common labeling tasks. Built-in workflows are provided for image and text classification, for assigning class labels to an image or a text selection, along with workflows for other computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. 

Amazon VPC Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway now supports adding tags at the time of resource creation, and tag-based access control. You can define fine-grained access controls for NAT gateways using tags and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to resources to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access to resources.

Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that allows you to set up and manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few clicks. Amazon Managed Blockchain eliminates the overhead required to create the network, and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Once your network is up and running, Amazon Managed Blockchain makes it easy to manage and maintain your blockchain network. It manages your certificates and lets you easily invite new members to join the network.