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feature: CloudWatchEvents: Support for Managed Rules (rules that are created and maintained by the AWS services in your account) is added.

feature: CloudWatchEvents: Support for Managed Rules (rules that are created and maintained by the AWS services in your account) is added.
feature: ELBv2: This release allows Application Load Balancers to route traffic to Lambda functions, in addition to instances and IP addresses.
feature: Kafka: This is the initial SDK release for Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK). Amazon MSK is a service that you can use to easily build, monitor, and manage Apache Kafka clusters in the cloud.
feature: Lambda: AWS Lambda now supports Lambda Layers and Ruby as a runtime. Lambda Layers are a new type of artifact that contains arbitrary code and data, and may be referenced by zero, one, or more functions at the same time. You can also now develop your AWS Lambda function code using the Ruby programming language.
feature: S3: Fixed issue with ObjectLockRetainUntilDate in S3 PutObject
feature: ServerlessApplicationRepository: AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports nested applications. You can nest individual applications as components of a larger application to make it easy to assemble and deploy new serverless architectures.
feature: StepFunctions: AWS Step Functions is now integrated with eight additional AWS services: Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Batch, AWS Glue, and Amazon SageMaker. To learn more, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/index.html
feature: XRay: GetTraceSummaries - Now provides additional information regarding your application traces such as Availability Zone, Instance ID, Resource ARN details, Revision, Entry Point, Root Cause Exceptions and Root Causes for Fault, Error and Response Time.

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feature: AppMesh: AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that makes it easy to monitor and control communications between microservices of an application. AWS

feature: AppMesh: AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that makes it easy to monitor and control communications between microservices of an application. AWS App Mesh APIs are available for preview in eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 regions.
feature: EC2: Adds the following updates: 1. You can now hibernate and resume Amazon-EBS backed instances using the StopInstances and StartInstances APIs. For more information about using this feature and supported instance types and operating systems, visit the user guide. 2. Amazon Elastic Inference accelerators are resources that you can attach to current generation EC2 instances to accelerate your deep learning inference workloads. With Amazon Elastic Inference, you can configure the right amount of inference acceleration to your deep learning application without being constrained by fixed hardware configurations and limited GPU selection. 3. AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage licenses in AWS and on premises when customers run applications using existing licenses from a variety of software vendors including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM.
feature: LicenseManager: AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage licenses in AWS and on premises when customers run applications using existing licenses from a variety of software vendors including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM. AWS License Manager automatically tracks and controls license usage once administrators have created and enforced rules that emulate the terms of their licensing agreements. The capabilities of AWS License Manager are available through SDK and Tools, besides the management console and CLI.
feature: Lightsail: This update adds the following features: 1. Copy instance and disk snapshots within the same AWS Region or from one region to another in Amazon Lightsail. 2. Export Lightsail instance and disk snapshots to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). 3. Create an Amazon EC2 instance from an exported Lightsail instance snapshot using AWS CloudFormation stacks. 4. Apply tags to filter your Lightsail resources, or organize your costs, or control access.
feature: SageMaker: Amazon SageMaker now has Algorithm and Model Package entities that can be used to create Training Jobs, Hyperparameter Tuning Jobs and hosted Models. Subscribed Marketplace products can be used on SageMaker to create Training Jobs, Hyperparameter Tuning Jobs and Models. Notebook Instances and Endpoints can leverage Elastic Inference accelerator types for on-demand GPU computing. Model optimizations can be performed with Compilation Jobs. Labeling Jobs can be created and supported by a Workforce. Models can now contain up to 5 containers allowing for inference pipelines within Endpoints. Code Repositories (such as Git) can be linked with SageMaker and loaded into Notebook Instances. Network isolation is now possible on Models, Training Jobs, and Hyperparameter Tuning Jobs, which restricts inbound/outbound network calls for the container. However, containers can talk to their peers in distributed training mode within the same security group. A Public Beta Search API was added that currently supports Training Jobs.
feature: ServiceDiscovery: AWS Cloud Map lets you define friendly names for your cloud resources so that your applications can quickly and dynamically discover them. When a resource becomes available (for example, an Amazon EC2 instance running a web server), you can register a Cloud Map service instance. Then your application can discover service instances by submitting DNS queries or API calls.

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feature: DynamoDB: Amazon DynamoDB now supports the following features: DynamoDB on-demand and transactions. DynamoDB on-demand is a flexible new bill

feature: DynamoDB: Amazon DynamoDB now supports the following features: DynamoDB on-demand and transactions. DynamoDB on-demand is a flexible new billing option for DynamoDB capable of serving thousands of requests per second without capacity planning. DynamoDB on-demand offers simple pay-per-request pricing for read and write requests so that you only pay for what you use, making it easy to balance costs and performance. Transactions simplify the developer experience of making coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. The new transactional APIs provide atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) in DynamoDB, helping developers support sophisticated workflows and business logic that requires adding, updating, or deleting multiple items using native, server-side transactions. For more information, see the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.
feature: FSx: Amazon FSx provides fully-managed third-party file systems optimized for a variety of enterprise and compute-intensive workloads.
feature: RDS: Amazon Aurora Global Database. This release introduces support for Global Database, a feature that allows a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. Customers can use the feature to replicate data with no impact on database performance, enable fast local reads with low latency in each region, and improve disaster recovery from region-wide outages. You can create, modify and describe an Aurora Global Database, as well as add or remove regions from your Global Database.
feature: SecurityHub: AWS Security Hub is a security and compliance center that correlates AWS security findings and performs automated compliance checks

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feature: CloudWatchLogs: Six new APIs added to support CloudWatch Logs Insights. The APIs are StartQuery, StopQuery, GetQueryResults, GetLogRecord, Ge

feature: CloudWatchLogs: Six new APIs added to support CloudWatch Logs Insights. The APIs are StartQuery, StopQuery, GetQueryResults, GetLogRecord, GetLogGroupFields, and DescribeQueries.
feature: CodeDeploy: Support for Amazon ECS service deployment - AWS CodeDeploy now supports the deployment of Amazon ECS services. An Amazon ECS deployment uses an Elastic Load Balancer, two Amazon ECS target groups, and a listener to reroute production traffic from your Amazon ECS service's original task set to a new replacement task set. The original task set is terminated when the deployment is complete. Success of a deployment can be validated using Lambda functions that are referenced by the deployment. This provides the opportunity to rollback if necessary. You can use the new ECSService, ECSTarget, and ECSTaskSet data types in the updated SDK to create or retrieve an Amazon ECS deployment.
feature: ComprehendMedical: The first release of Comprehend Medical includes two APIs, detectPHI and detectEntities. DetectPHI extracts PHI from your clinical text, and detectEntities extracts entities such as medication, medical conditions, or anatomy. DetectEntities also extracts attributes (e.g. dosage for medication) and identifies contextual traits (e.g. negation) for each entity.
feature: EC2: With VPC sharing, you can now allow multiple accounts in the same AWS Organization to launch their application resources, like EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Redshift clusters into shared, centrally managed VPCs.
feature: ECS: This release of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces support for blue/green deployment feature. Customers can now update their ECS services in a blue/green deployment pattern via using AWS CodeDeploy.
feature: KinesisAnalytics: Improvements to error messages, validations, and more to the Kinesis Data Analytics APIs.
feature: KinesisAnalyticsV2: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Java-based stream processing applications, in addition to the previously supported SQL. Now, you can use your own Java code in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to build and run stream processing applications. This new capability also comes with an update to the previous Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics APIs to enable support for different runtime environments and more.
feature: MarketplaceMetering: RegisterUsage operation added to AWS Marketplace Metering Service, allowing sellers to meter and entitle Docker container software use with AWS Marketplace. For details on integrating Docker containers with RegisterUsage see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/entitlement-and-metering-for-paid-products.html
feature: MediaConnect: This is the initial release for AWS Elemental MediaConnect, an ingest and transport service for live video. This new AWS service allows broadcasters and content owners to send high-value live content into the cloud, securely transmit it to partners for distribution, and replicate it to multiple destinations around the globe.
feature: Translate: This release includes the new custom terminology feature. Using custom terminology with your translation requests enables you to make sure that your brand names, character names, model names, and other unique content is translated exactly the way you need it, regardless of its context and the Amazon Translate algorithm's decision. See the documentation for more information.

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feature: EC2: Adds the following updates: 1. Transit Gateway helps easily scale connectivity across thousands of Amazon VPCs, AWS accounts, and on-pre

feature: EC2: Adds the following updates: 1. Transit Gateway helps easily scale connectivity across thousands of Amazon VPCs, AWS accounts, and on-premises networks. 2. Amazon EC2 A1 instance is a new Arm architecture based general purpose instance. 3. You can now launch the new Amazon EC2 compute optimized C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.
feature: GlobalAccelerator: AWS Global Accelerator is a network layer service that helps you improve the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global customers. Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to direct internet traffic from your users to your applications running in AWS Regions. Global Accelerator creates a fixed entry point for your applications through static anycast IP addresses, and routes user traffic to the optimal endpoint based on performance, application health and routing policies that you can configure. Global Accelerator supports the following features at launch: static anycast IP addresses, support for TCP and UDP, support for Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers and Elastic-IP address endpoints, continuous health checking, instant regional failover, fault isolating Network Zones, granular traffic controls, and client affinity.
feature: Greengrass: Support Greengrass Connectors and allow Lambda functions to run without Greengrass containers.
feature: IoTAnalytics: Added an optional list of dataset content delivery configuration for CreateDataset and UpdateDataset. DescribeDataset will now include the list of delivery configuration, and will be an empty array if none exist.
feature: Iot: As part of this release, we are extending capability of AWS IoT Rules Engine to support IoT Events rule action. The IoT Events rule action lets you send messages from IoT sensors and applications to IoT Events for pattern recognition and event detection.
feature: KMS: AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now enables customers to create and manage dedicated, single-tenant key stores in addition to the default KMS key store. These are known as custom key stores and are deployed using AWS CloudHSM clusters. Keys that are created in a KMS custom key store can be used like any other customer master key in KMS.
feature: S3: Four new Amazon S3 Glacier features help you reduce your storage costs by making it even easier to build archival applications using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage class. S3 Object Lock enables customers to apply Write Once Read Many (WORM) protection to objects in S3 in order to prevent object deletion for a customer-defined retention period. S3 Inventory now supports fields for reporting on S3 Object Lock. "ObjectLockRetainUntilDate", "ObjectLockMode", and "ObjectLockLegalHoldStatus" are now available as valid optional fields.
feature: SMS: In this release, AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) has added multi-server migration support to simplify the application migration process. Customers can migrate all their application-specific servers together as a single unit as opposed to moving individual server one at a time. The new functionality includes - 1. Ability to group on-premises servers into applications and application tiers. 2. Auto-generated CloudFormation Template and Stacks for launching migrated servers into EC2. 3. Ability to run post-launch configuration scripts to configure servers and applications in EC2. In order for SMS to launch servers into your AWS account using CloudFormation Templates, we have also updated the ServerMigrationServiceRole IAM policy to include appropriate permissions. Refer to Server Migration Service documentation for more details.

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bugfix: Config: fix useDualstack typing

bugfix: Config: fix useDualstack typing
feature: Amplify: Release of AWS Amplify: Everything you need to develop & deploy cloud-powered mobile and web apps.
feature: DataSync: AWS DataSync simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving and replicating data between on-premises storage and AWS services over the network.
feature: RoboMaker: (New Service) AWS RoboMaker is a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale.
feature: S3: The INTELLIGENT_TIERING storage class is designed to optimize storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost effective storage access tier, without performance impact or operational overhead. This SDK release provides API support for this new storage class.
feature: Snowball: AWS announces the availability of AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized to run compute-intensive applications is disconnected and physically harsh environments. It comes with 52 vCPUs, 208GB memory, 8TB NVMe SSD, and 42TB S3-compatible storage to accelerate local processing and is well suited for use cases such as full motion video processing, deep IoT analytics, and continuous machine learning in bandwidth-constrained locations. It features new instances types called SBE-C instances that are available in eight sizes and multiple instances can be run on the device at the same time. Optionally, developers can choose the compute optimized device to include a GPU and use SBE-G instances for accelerating their application performance.
feature: Transfer: AWS Transfer for SFTP is a fully managed service that enables transfer of secure data over the internet into and out of Amazon S3. SFTP is deeply embedded in data exchange workflows across different industries such as financial services, healthcare, advertising, and retail, among others.
feature: protocol: Add support for 'endpoint' trait in API operation model

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feature: AppSync: AWS AppSync now supports: 1. Pipeline Resolvers - Enables execution of one or more operations against multiple data sources in order

feature: AppSync: AWS AppSync now supports: 1. Pipeline Resolvers - Enables execution of one or more operations against multiple data sources in order, on a single GraphQL field. This allows orchestration of actions by composing code into a single Resolver, or share code across Resolvers. 2. Aurora Serverless Data Source - Built-in resolver for executing GraphQL operations with the new Aurora Serverless Data API, including connection management functionality.
feature: AutoScalingPlans: In this release, AWS Auto Scaling adds three features: 1) Predictive scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling, which analyzes your application workload history to forecast future capacity requirements, 2) an option to replace existing scaling policies that are associated with the resources in your scaling plan, and 3) an option that allows you to use predictive scaling with or without your plan's dynamic scaling feature.
feature: CloudFront: With Origin Failover capability in CloudFront, you can setup two origins for your distributions - primary and secondary, such that your content is served from your secondary origin if CloudFront detects that your primary origin is unavailable. These origins can be any combination of AWS origins or non-AWS custom HTTP origins. For example, you can have two Amazon S3 buckets that serve as your origin that you independently upload your content to. If an object that CloudFront requests from your primary bucket is not present or if connection to your primary bucket times-out, CloudFront will request the object from your secondary bucket. So, you can configure CloudFront to trigger a failover in response to either HTTP 4xx or 5xx status codes.
feature: CloudWatch: Amazon CloudWatch now supports alarms on metric math expressions.
feature: DeviceFarm: Disabling device filters
feature: MediaLive: You can now include the media playlist(s) from both pipelines in the HLS master manifest for seamless failover.
feature: QuickSight: Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, serverless, cloud business intelligence system that allows you to extend data and insights to every user in your organization. The first release of APIs for Amazon QuickSight introduces embedding and user/group management capabilities. The get-dashboard-embed-url API allows you to obtain an authenticated dashboard URL that can be embedded in application domains whitelisted for QuickSight dashboard embedding. User APIs allow you to programmatically expand and manage your QuickSight deployments while group APIs allow easier permissions management for resources within QuickSight.
feature: RDSDataService: The RDS Data API Beta is available for the MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora Serverless in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This API enables you to easily access Aurora Serverless with web services-based applications including AWS Lambda and AWS AppSync.
feature: SSM: AWS Systems Manager Distributor helps you securely distribute and install software packages.
feature: XRay: Groups build upon X-Ray filter expressions to allow for fine tuning trace summaries and service graph results. You can configure groups by using the AWS X-Ray console or by using the CreateGroup API. The addition of groups has extended the available request fields to the GetServiceGraph API. You can now specify a group name or group ARN to retrieve its service graph.

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feature: Batch: Adding multinode parallel jobs, placement group support for compute environments.

feature: Batch: Adding multinode parallel jobs, placement group support for compute environments.
feature: CloudFormation: Use the CAPABILITY_AUTO_EXPAND capability to create or update a stack directly from a stack template that contains macros, without first reviewing the resulting changes in a change set first.
feature: CloudTrail: This release supports creating a trail in CloudTrail that logs events for all AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. This helps enable you to define a uniform event logging strategy for your organization. An organization trail is applied automatically to each account in the organization and cannot be modified by member accounts. To learn more, please see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html
feature: ConfigService: In this release, AWS Config adds support for aggregating the configuration data of AWS resources into multi-account and multi-region aggregators. AWS Config adds four APIs to query and retrieve aggregated resource configurations. 1) BatchGetAggregateResourceConfig, returns the current configuration items for resources that are present in your AWS Config aggregator. 2) GetAggregateDiscoveredResourceCounts, returns the resource counts across accounts and regions that are present in your AWS Config aggregator. 3) GetAggregateResourceConfig, returns current configuration item that is aggregated for your specific resource in a specific source account and region. 4) ListAggregateDiscoveredResources, accepts a resource type and returns a list of resource identifiers that are aggregated for a specific resource type across accounts and regions.
feature: DeviceFarm: Customers can now schedule runs without a need to create a Device Pool. They also get realtime information on public device availability.
feature: EC2: Adding AvailabilityZoneId to DescribeAvailabilityZones
feature: Iot: IoT now supports resource tagging and tag based access control for Billing Groups, Thing Groups, Thing Types, Jobs, and Security Profiles. IoT Billing Groups help you group devices to categorize and track your costs. AWS IoT Device Management also introduces three new features: 1. Dynamic thing groups. 2. Jobs dynamic rollouts. 3. Device connectivity indexing. Dynamic thing groups lets you to create a group of devices using a Fleet Indexing query. The devices in your group will be automatically added or removed when they match your specified query criteria. Jobs dynamic rollout allows you to configure an exponentially increasing rate of deployment for device updates and define failure criteria to cancel your job. Device connectivity indexing allows you to index your devices' lifecycle events to discover whether devices are connected or disconnected to AWS IoT.
feature: Lambda: AWS Lambda now supports python3.7 and the Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) enhanced fan-out and HTTP/2 data retrieval features for Kinesis event sources.
feature: MediaConvert: AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added several features including support for: SPEKE full document encryption, up to 150 elements for input stitching, input and motion image insertion, AWS CLI path arguments in S3 links including special characters, AFD signaling, additional caption types, and client-side encrypted input files.
feature: RDS: This release adds a new parameter to specify VPC security groups for restore from DB snapshot, restore to point int time and create read replica operations. For more information, see Amazon RDS Documentation.
feature: WorkDocs: With this release, clients can now use the GetResources API to fetch files and folders from the user's SharedWithMe collection. And also through this release, the existing DescribeActivities API has been enhanced to support additional filters such as the ActivityType and the ResourceId.
feature: WorkSpaces: Added new APIs to Modify and Describe WorkSpaces client properties for users in a directory. With the new APIs, you can enable/disable remember me option in WorkSpaces client for users in a directory.

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feature: CodeBuild: Adding queue phase and configurable queue timeout to CodeBuild.

feature: CodeBuild: Adding queue phase and configurable queue timeout to CodeBuild.
feature: Comprehend: Amazon Comprehend Custom Classification automatically trains classification models using your text and custom labels.
feature: DMS: Settings structures have been added to our DMS endpoint APIs to support Kinesis and Elasticsearch as targets. We are introducing the ability to configure custom DNS name servers on a replication instance as a beta feature.
feature: DirectConnect: This release enables DirectConnect customers to have logical redundancy on virtual interfaces within supported DirectConnect locations.
feature: ECS: In this release, Amazon ECS introduces multiple features. First, ECS now supports integration with Systems Manager Parameter Store for injecting runtime secrets. Second, ECS introduces support for resources tagging. Finally, ECS introduces a new ARN and ID Format for its resources, and provides new APIs for opt-in to the new formats.
feature: IAM: We are making it easier for you to manage your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources by enabling you to add tags to your IAM principals (users and roles). Adding tags on IAM principals will enable you to write fewer policies for permissions management and make policies easier to comprehend. Additionally, tags will also make it easier for you to grant access to AWS resources.
feature: Pinpoint: 1. With Amazon Pinpoint Voice, you can use text-to-speech technology to deliver personalized voice messages to your customers. Amazon Pinpoint Voice is a great way to deliver transactional messages -- such as one-time passwords and identity confirmations -- to customers. 2. Adding support for Campaign Event Triggers. With Campaign Event Triggers you can now schedule campaigns to execute based on incoming event data and target just the source of the event.
feature: PinpointSMSVoice: With Amazon Pinpoint Voice, you can use text-to-speech technology to deliver personalized voice messages to your customers. Amazon Pinpoint Voice is a way to deliver transactional messages -- such as one-time passwords and appointment confirmations to customers.
feature: RAM: This is the initial release of AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) which provides you the ability to share your resources across AWS accounts or within your AWS Organization. You can now create resources centrally and use AWS RAM to share those resources with other accounts, eliminating the need to provision and manage resources in every account. When you share a resource with another account, that account is granted access. Any policies and permissions in that account apply to the shared resource.
feature: RDS: Introduces DB Instance Automated Backups for the MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database engines. You can now retain Amazon RDS automated backups (system snapshots and transaction logs) when you delete a database instance. This allows you to restore a deleted database instance to a specified point in time within the backup retention period even after it has been deleted, protecting you against accidental deletion of data. For more information, see Amazon RDS Documentation.
feature: Redshift: With this release, Redshift is providing API's for better snapshot management by supporting user defined automated snapshot schedules, retention periods for manual snapshots, and aggregate snapshot actions including batch deleting user snapshots, viewing account level snapshot storage metrics, and better filtering and sorting on the describe-cluster-snapshots API. Automated snapshots can be scheduled to be taken at a custom interval and the schedule created can be reused across clusters. Manual snapshot retention periods can be set at the cluster, snapshot, and cross-region-copy level. The retention period set on a manual snapshot indicates how many days the snapshot will be retained before being automatically deleted.
feature: Route53Resolver: This is the first release of the Amazon Route 53 Resolver API. Customers now have the ability to create and manage Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints and Amazon Route 53 Resolver rules.
feature: S3: Add support for new S3 Block Public Access bucket-level APIs. The new Block Public Access settings allow bucket owners to prevent public access to S3 data via bucket/object ACLs or bucket policies.
feature: S3Control: Add support for new S3 Block Public Access account-level APIs. The Block Public Access settings allow account owners to prevent public access to S3 data via bucket/object ACLs or bucket policies.
feature: TranscribeService: With this release, Amazon Transcribe now publicly supports transcriptions from audio sources in British English (en-GB), Australian English (en-AU), and Canadian French (fr-CA). Amazon Transcribe now also supports the following languages in Private beta: Germany German (de-DE), Brazil Portuguese (pt-BR), France French (fr-FR).

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bugfix: Endpoint Discovery: Not to inspect environmental variables in browsers

bugfix: Endpoint Discovery: Not to inspect environmental variables in browsers
feature: Batch: Adding EC2 Launch Template support in AWS Batch Compute Environments.
feature: Budgets: 1. Added budget performance history, enabling you to see how well your budgets matched your actual costs and usage. 2. Added budget performance history, notification state, and last updated time, enabling you to see how well your budgets matched your actual costs and usage, how often your budget alerts triggered, and when your budget was last updated.
feature: CloudFormation: The Drift Detection feature enables customers to detect whether a stack's actual configuration differs, or has drifted, from its expected configuration as defined within AWS CloudFormation.
feature: CodePipeline: Add support for cross-region pipeline with accompanying definitions as needed in the AWS CodePipeline API Guide.
feature: Firehose: With this release, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose allows you to enable/disable server-side encryption(SSE) for your delivery streams ensuring encryption of data at rest. For technical documentation, look at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/encryption.html
feature: Polly: Amazon Polly adds new female voices: Italian - Bianca, Castilian Spanish - Lucia and new language: Mexican Spanish with new female voice - Mia.
feature: RDS: API Update for RDS: this update enables Custom Endpoints, a new feature compatible with Aurora Mysql, Aurora PostgreSQL and Neptune that allows users to configure a customizable endpoint that will provide access to their instances in a cluster.

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