Amazon Quicksight now supports Sankey diagram. Sankey diagram is used to depict a flow from one set of values to another like customer journey, cash flows, process flow, or analysis of an energy system. For example, a Sankey diagram can show the path a web visitor takes from one page to the next on a company website, with possible stops along the way. See here for more details.

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).

You can now add four additional metadata fields in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs, namely flow-direction, traffic-path, pkt-src-aws-service and pkt-dst-aws-service. With these enriched fields you can derive insights into the AWS services that your workloads are communicating with, differentiate between ingress and egress traffic flows and identify the next hop of your egress traffic, such as an internet gateway, a VPC peering connection or a virtual private gateway.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now publishes certificate metrics and events through Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge . Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are used to secure network communication and establish the identity of websites over the internet. Certificates have a defined lifetime and for continued use need to be renewed before they expire. These new metrics and events help administrators keep track of certificate expiration dates and take necessary action or configure automation to prevent certificate expiry and related outages.

Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for easy management of access to configuration APIs that are used for operations such as creating, modifying, or updating Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains.

FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) release 202012.01 now includes the over-the-air update (OTA), AWS IoT Device Defender, and AWS IoT Jobs libraries in the first LTS release (FreeRTOS 202012.00 LTS). With this release, developers can use the FreeRTOS LTS libraries to update firmware, manage device fleets, and monitor fleet metrics for their microcontroller-based IoT devices. In addition, developers can rely on a FreeRTOS version that provides feature stability, and security patches and critical bug fixes for two years.

We reorganized features on the console based on key tasks such as, writing code, testing, monitoring and configuring. With this update, we reduced the amount of scrolling needed to access common configuration options by creating a dedicated configuration tab. In addition, the new navigation design orients your work on the Lambda console towards the tasks you want to complete and focuses your work around relevant features. This change will also help you find new features more easily when they are available in the console.

Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of AWS X-Ray trace context, enabling you to view the end-to-end flow of events through your applications. AWS X-Ray traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It connects and visualizes the data generated by individual services like AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 and the many resources that make up your application, providing you an end-to-end view of how your application is performing.

The Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) console with a new and updated user interface is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.