Earlier this year, we launched support for Aurora PostgreSQL user authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory. In the original release, this support was based on AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory . We have now added support for user authentication using external Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directories, including those running on premises.

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions.  

AWS Service Catalog administrators can now create service actions that use AWS Systems Manager Automation documents with more than one parameter. With this new feature, Service Catalog end users can now execute more complex operational tasks, such as creating a backup or filing a ticket based on content they provided.  

EC2 Image Builder is now integrated with AWS CloudFormation which allows customers to automate the creation, testing, and deployment of custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). EC2 Image Builder simplifies the creation, patching, testing, distribution, and sharing of Linux and Windows Server images.  

Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing service that makes it easy to use machine learning to extract relevant medical information from unstructured text. This service API is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Media Event Management (MEM), a support program designed to improve the operational reliability of your business-critical video events. MEM applies a structured process specifically designed for the unique operational requirements of large-scale video events that use AWS Media Services or AWS Elemental Appliances and Software, such as the broadcast of a marquee sports or the launch of a new online video service.

AWS Elemental MediaLive has added a few capabilities to provide added flexibility for content providers. 

We’re excited to announce the availability of pull request dashboard to Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. With this new addition, customers can now view recommendations for all code reviews in one centralized location. 

Launched at AWS re:Invent 2019, Amazon Comprehend Medical ICD-10-CM and RXNorm Ontology Linking extracts medical condition and medication entities from medical text and links them to the relevant ICD-10-CM and RXNorm concepts respectively. Medical ontologies, such as ICD-10, make it possible to classify unstructured medical information into standardized codes that downstream healthcare applications, such as revenue cycle management tools (medical coding) can read. Today we’re happy to announce that this API can now process batches of documents stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

AWS Trusted Advisor is an application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS’ aggregated operational history of serving millions of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance, and closing security gaps.