​​⭐ Top 20 AWS 2023.Q1 updates

The ranking is based on public data — the popularity of announcements on Reddit and Twitter.

1️⃣ Amazon Linux 2023
2️⃣ S3 SSE by default starting in January 5, 2023
3️⃣ S3 Block Public Access + disable ACLs by default starting today
4️⃣ ALB + TLS 1.3
5️⃣ RDS + Secrets Manager
6️⃣ ECS + deletion of inactive task definitions
7️⃣ Lambda + maximum concurrency for SQS
8️⃣ VPC Resource Map
9️⃣ Mountpoint for Amazon S3
🔟 NAT Gateway’s + concurrent connections
11 AWS Clean Rooms + GA
12 VPC Lattice + GA
13 DynamoDB + table deletion protection
14 Network Firewall + ingress TLS inspection
15 Enable SSM by default across all EC2 instances in an account
16 Changes to AWS Billing/Cost Management/Account Permissions
17 Cost Anomaly Detection + automatically configured
18 GuardDuty + threat detection across all AWS accounts
19 M7g and R7g EC2 Instances
20 RDS for PostgreSQL 15

Bonus:

▫️ AWS Modular Data Center for DoD
▫️ New AWS Region — Melbourne, Australia
▫️ In the Works – AWS Region in Malaysia
▫️ AWS Cost CLI: CLI tool for AWS cost analysis
▫️ EC2 t4g.small is free (again) until the end of the year!

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