AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), now encrypts data stored on the ephemeral storage with service managed keys using industry-standard AES-256 cryptographic algorithm. Fargate provides 20 GB of ephemeral storage for applications to download and process data. Customers who choose AWS Fargate now have data stored on the ephemeral storage encrypted by default. Encryption and decryption are handled seamlessly, so you don’t have to modify your applications to access your data.  

AWS CodePipeline’s supported action types now include AWS Step Functions, making it easier for customers to invoke complex workflows as part of their release process. With the new action type, CodePipeline Stages can now trigger Step Functions state machines which support conditional branching, error-handling, asynchronous tasks, and easily invoke other AWS services through service-integrations .

You can now use the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API and Amazon RDS Query editor in additional AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in preview in eight additional AWS regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). Refer RDS Proxy pricing page for a complete list of regions where RDS Proxy is available.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launched support for container health checks and a new user interface for load balancers in Spinnaker v1.20. You can now use container health checks through a Spinnaker deployment pipeline which is integrated with ECS services. You can also view and filter load balancers for ECS services within Spinnaker itself to see load balancers and the deployment pipeline for your ECS services in the same tool.

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability (GA) of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android , which are part of the open source Amplify Framework. Amplify iOS and Amplify Android include libraries and tools (CLI toolchain and IDE helpers) that enable mobile developers to build scalable and secure cloud-powered applications. You can use the libraries with backends created using the Amplify CLI or with existing AWS backends. It is our recommended way to build native mobile applications powered by AWS services.

Elastic Load Balancing now supports Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) policies on Network Load Balancers. ALPN is a TLS extension supported by all major browsers that enables negotiation of the protocol used after establishing a TLS connection, such as HTTP/2. Using ALPN policies, you can now offload your application’s TLS HTTP/2 traffic decryption/encryption to the Network Load Balancer, improving your service security posture and reducing operational complexity.

AWS SAM now supports AWS Step Functions, enabling you to integrate workflow orchestration into your serverless applications quickly and easily. Through direct support in the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), an open-source framework for building serverless applications, you can now deliver your serverless applications faster by defining your Step Functions state machine workflows alongside your application architecture and code.

Last year, AWS Config launched the ability to deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from the master account in AWS Organizations. Starting today, you can deploy these AWS Config artifacts from any delegated member account in your organization, in addition to the master account. This option provides additional flexibility to users who want to manage these deployments centrally, from a dedicated account such as an audit, security or compliance account. 

AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solution that automatically sets up a chatbot application with sample interactions for the chatbot. The solution makes use of AWS services such as AWS Lambda to implement the machine learning logic of the chatbot, and uses Amazon Polly to turn text responses into lifelike speech.