AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers Amazon CloudFormation resources. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications (called “stacks”). You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed. For example, you can use CloudFormation to build and activate an issuing CA and then issue a private certificate from that CA. This feature offers templates for CAs, CA activation and private certificates. 

Amazon Forecast is now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including inventory planning, energy demand forecasting, financial planning, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure usage forecasting, and traffic forecasting.

You can now perform an in-place upgrade of your Chef Automate server to Chef Automate 2 from the AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate console or the AWS CLI.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports authentication of database users using AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory Service .

AWS Cloud Map now allows you to view service instance details and edit custom service instance attributes in the AWS Console. This feature, which was previously available only through the AWS CLI, SDK, or API, provides better visibility into the composition of your services and simplifies updating the metadata associated with cloud resources registered in AWS Cloud Map.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2019 , Windows Server Core 2019, and .NET Core 3.1.  

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region.  

With the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy simulator, administrators can now simulate permissions boundary policies along with other permissions policies to better understand the effective permissions for IAM principals (users and roles) in their AWS environment. Additionally, developers can now use the policy simulator to debug issues related to permissions boundary policies.

You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon S3 as Apache Parquet , an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. You can analyze the exported data with other AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SageMaker.

6 new AWS Public Datasets are now available in the following categories: