AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region data aggregation and advanced query in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. This feature enables you to aggregate & query resource configuration and AWS Config rule compliance data into a single account and Region, which reduces the time and overhead needed to gather an enterprise-wide view of your resource inventory and compliance status. The data aggregation capability is also integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can centrally retrieve this data for any account within your organization.

Android users can now monitor and access their AWS resources through the new AWS Console Mobile application.  

You can now identify and block requests to your web applications from VPN, Tor nodes, proxies, and data centers by using the new Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules. This new managed rule group helps you block users who attempt to hide their identity or evade geographic restrictions. The managed rule group can also help block malicious traffic that originates from bots behind these anonymous networks. 

Today, AWS Chatbot added support for AWS CloudFormation with templates for creating Slack channel configurations. With AWS CloudFormation, you can automate creation of AWS Chatbot configurations and related resources, such as IAM roles and SNS topics. AWS CloudFormation also reduces the potential for manual error, increases efficiency, and ensures consistent configurations over time. Learn more about using AWS Chatbot with AWS CloudFormation in AWS Chatbot documentation . 

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to run simulations at cloud scale, now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications. This new capability allows developers to stream their own GUI enabled tools from the AWS RoboMaker console. For example, a developer can stream the interface of a mobile application that configures and controls the robot when their simulation job is running. Developers can take advantage of this new capability by simply bundling their own GUI enabled tools as part of their robot and/or simulation applications and then enabling GUI streaming for the applications.  

Amazon Redshift now supports access control at a column-level for data in Redshift. Customers can use column-level grant and revoke statements to help them meet their security and compliance needs. 

With this release, Amplify Console has made it’s fully managed hosting and continuous deployment service available from the Amplify CLI. The managed hosting offers benefits such as instantly available CDN, instant cache invalidation on code commit, atomic deployments, and easy custom domain setup. CLI users get the additional benefit of storing the Amplify Console resources as infrastructure as code CloudFormation templates so they can replicate their Amplify Console hosting configuration (e.g. redirects, password protection rules) in different accounts or regions.

AWS Backup is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.  

AWS Control Tower is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 9.6 to 10 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.