AWS Config launched advanced query last year, which makes it easy to query the resource configuration properties of your AWS resources for audit, compliance, or operational troubleshooting using simple SQL-like queries. With today’s launch, you can now use advanced query with configuration aggregators , enabling you to run the same queries across accounts and Regions. This provides you an easy mechanism to query your entire AWS footprint from a central account and get relevant information about your resources. For example, using this query capability, you can retrieve a list of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances of a particular size, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are not attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, or resources that have encryption disabled. This capability works across accounts, Regions, and organizations in AWS Organizations. 

AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning through the Control Tower console. This feature allows master account administrators to provision new accounts from within the Control Tower console.  

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has added support for aws:CalledVia, a new condition key, for use with all services that make requests using your credentials. With this release, Amazon Athena has added support for the CalledVia key. 

Tracking patients health status is imperative for a healthcare provider. Being able to place this information on a longitudinal timeline is also vital for other healthcare aspects such as research, medical coding and claims adjudication , population health, and pharmacovigilance to name a few.

AWS now supports China based customers, who use services in US commercial regions, to pay their invoices from Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS Inc.”) in Chinese Yuan through Bank Redirect payment method .

Starting today, you can now use Node.js 12.x and Python 3.8 to develop functions in Lambda@Edge. Both these runtimes come in addition to the currently supported Node.js 10.x and Python 3.7.

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to launch and run feature-rich and highly performant file systems with just a few clicks, now enables you to create and use file systems in Shared Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). This feature is available on both FSx for Windows File Server and FSx for Lustre.

You can pass variables to the ‘Set hold flow’ block, ‘Set whisper flow’ block, and ‘Set customer queue flow’ block to programmatically adapt and personalize your customer experience. Historically, businesses built branching logic into their flows to set a customer specific hold, whisper, or queue flow. Now, contact-center administrators can design flows that configure the customer experience in real-time based on the attributes returned from an AWS Lambda function or the input entered by your end-customer, reducing the number of blocks by 40%+. For example, after checking the customer’s language preference, a business could transfer a customer to a queue that relays a personalized message in their preferred language when on hold. 

You can now use AWS Systems Manager through AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS PrivateLink allows you to privately access services hosted on AWS in a highly available and scalable manner, without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse the internet. AWS Systems Manager APIs are now available to use inside your VPC through AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. 

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode in the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows . Native application mode for streaming provides a familiar experience for AppStream 2.0 users by letting them interact with their remote streaming applications in the same way as they interact with locally installed applications. In addition, users can switch seamlessly between locally installed applications and remote applications that are streamed through AppStream 2.0.