Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. This is now the 9th Ground Station connected to the AWS Global Network.

AWS Data Provider for SAP version 4.0 is now available in all commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Host Resource Groups , which is a logical collection of Dedicated Hosts that you can manage as a single entity, now support AWS CloudFormation , allowing customers to create Host Resource Groups using CloudFormation templates and automate EC2 Dedicated Host management.

Today, we are excited to announce support for customer-managed customer master keys to encrypt your code repositories in Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. Customer-managed customer master keys allow you to create, own, and manage your encryption keys, giving you more control over how you manage the security of your CodeGuru Reviewer code.

Starting today, AWS Nitro Enclaves and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves are available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and they often use their own service identity called a service principal to achieve this. Using the new service principal conditions, it is simple to author rules that enforce a rule for all your service principals, or exclude service principals from certain permission rules that are intended only for your own identities.

Cloud Assessment and Design is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Atos, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. Cloud Assessment and Design leverages the Atos Cloud Assessment Tool (ACAT) to transform a customer’s IT landscape in their journey to the cloud with a detailed approach and business use case. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers application discovery and analysis, blueprint design, framework deployment, and migration execution.

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now automatically detects duplicate customer profiles in your Amazon Connect Customer Profiles domain and allows you to review the results by using Identity Resolution APIs (preview). Identity Resolution uses machine learning to detect duplicate profiles based on similar name, email address, and phone number. For example, two or more profiles—with spelling mistakes such as “John Doe” and “Jhn Doe,” or different casing email addresses such as “JOHN_DOE@ANYCOMPANY.COM” and “johndoe@anycompany.com,” or different phone number formats such as “555-010-0000” and “+1-555-010-0000”, can be detected as belonging to the same customer “John Doe” and merged into a unified profile by using the MergeProfiles API .

The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce now enables customers to extend their Contact Control Panel (CCP) with customizable buttons called CTI Actions. These buttons can be configured in Salesforce and used to simplify common agent actions. For example, you can add a button that transfers calls to a manager, start and stop recordings, automate case creation, or start a customer refund process. CTI Actions are configured in the CTI Adapter’s Actions Admin panel to execute CTI Flows which are process blocks that enable you to easily design agent workflows within our Salesforce integration. There are no technical skills required and customers can easily configure an end to end agent workflow in Salesforce Lightning and Classic. 

S3 Object Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more.