🌐 Issue #185 | 21 July 2025

▪️ AppStream 2.0 expands support for GPU based instances
▪️ AWS AI League new
▪️ AWS API MCP Server now available
▪️ AWS Free Tier now offers $200 in credits and 6-month free plan
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ AgentCore now available in preview
     ▫️ Image-to-video generation support for Luma AI's Ray2
     ▫️ on-demand deployment for custom Amazon Nova
     ▫️ TwelveLabs models
▪️ Clean Rooms ML now supports Parquet file format
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ adds generative AI observability | Preview
     ▫️ SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)
▪️ Connect agent workspace now includes real-time agent performance metrics
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
▪️ DataSync now supports IPv6
▪️ Deadline Cloud
     ▫️ Chaos V-Ray
     ▫️ Unreal Engine in Service-Managed Fleets
▪️ DocumentDB up to 10 secondary Region clusters
▪️ DynamoDB local major version release version 3.0.0
▪️ DynamoDB Streams new API feature for faster and more efficient stream shard discovery
▪️ EBS visibility into EBS volume initialization status
▪️ EC2 High Memory U7i instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance
▪️ ECS enables built-in blue/green deployments
▪️ EKS up to 100,000 worker nodes per cluster
▪️ EventBridge enhanced logging for improved observability
▪️ Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Private Link
▪️ Glue
     ▫️ new workers for larger and memory intensive workloads
     ▫️ zero-ETL integrations from DynamoDB and eight applications to S3 Tables
▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now available in Preview
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless DX
     ▫️ debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code
     ▫️ low latency processing for Kafka events
▪️ Marketplace Introducing AI agents and tools
▪️ MemoryDB FIS action to pause multi-Region cluster replication
▪️ MSK MCP Server
▪️ Nova Sonic support for French, Italian, German
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ integration with Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL
     ▫️ integration with Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL
▪️ Outposts booting EC2 instances from external storage arrays
▪️ Price List API
     ▫️ +4 new Query Filters
     ▫️ MCP Server
▪️ Private CA issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA
▪️ Q in QuickSight Custom Instructions for Topics | GA
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports change data capture
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️ automatic refresh of materialized views on Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️ cascading refresh of nested materialized views
▪️ S3
     ▫️ compaction of Apache Avro and ORC formats for Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️ external access summary for all your buckets
▪️ S3 Metadata existing objects and reduces price by up to 33%
▪️ S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
▪️ S3 Vectors cloud object storage with storing and querying vectors | Preview
▪️ SageMaker AI Customize Amazon Nova
▪️ SageMaker Catalog support S3 general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker
    ▫️ visual workflows builder
    ▫️ data processing jobs
    ▫️ Integration with Amazon QuickSight
    ▫️ simplifies data management with automated lakehouse onboarding and metadata ingestion
    ▫️ streamlines S3 Tables workflow experience
▪️ SNS
   ▫️ enhances cross-Region delivery capabilities
   ▫️ expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
▪️ SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
▪️ Transform mainframe introduces enhanced code refactoring and business logic capabilities
▪️ VPC CNI higher bandwidth and network performance per pod