📰 AWS Weekly – Issue #159 | 19 January 2025

▪️ Billing accepts payments in 8 new local currencies
▪️ CloudFormation User Notifications | GA
▪️ CodeBuild test splitting and parallelism
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️configurable groupings and filters in dashboards
     ▫️new real-time dashboard
▪️ Connect
     ▫️outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling | Preview
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool moved to a new dedicated page
▪️ EC2 Flex new larger instance sizes
▪️ EC2 Image Builder Windows ISO files to AMIs
▪️ ElastiCache Service Quotas
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor now supports log filtering
▪️ Encryption SDK Golang is now generally available
▪️ Management Console
     ▫️CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience
     ▫️simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
▪️ Marketplace Tax Collection and Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland
▪️ MemoryDB now supports Service Quotas
▪️ MSK additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers
▪️ MSK Connect updating connector configuration
▪️ Partner Connections multi-partner opportunities
▪️ Q Developer CloudZero plugin | GA
▪️ Redshift two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
▪️ Resource Explorer +29 new resource types
▪️ S3 Tables +5 additional AWS Regions
▪️ Security Hub Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
▪️ Step Functions +36 services including AWS End User Messaging
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal and Core larger General Purpose bundles