📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #1
▪️ Amazon Athena cost and performance controls for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Amazon Inspector organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies
▪️ Amazon Linux Supplementary Packages
▪️ Amazon MQ LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ
▪️ Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2
▪️ API Gateway REST APIs
     ▫️response streaming
     ▫️private integration with Application Load Balancer
▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS
▪️ Application Load Balancer
     ▫️launches Target Optimizer
     ▫️now supports Health Check Logs
▪️ AppStream 2.0 now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Athena auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks
▪️ Aurora DSQL
     ▫️database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
     ▫️integrated query editor in the AWS Management Console
     ▫️launches new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that simplify IAM authorization
     ▫️statement-level cost estimates in query plans
▪️ AWS CLI and SDK console authentication
▪️ Backup
     ▫️Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering
     ▫️backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault
     ▫️low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Marketplace adds A2A server support
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import OpenAI GPT OSS models
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails
     ▫️adds support for coding use cases
     ▫️Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation
▪️ Bedrock Priority and Flex inference service tiers
▪️ Billing
     ▫️E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals
     ▫️Get Invoice PDF API
     ▫️India customers can now use UPI to sign-up and automate monthly payments
▪️ Billing Transfer multi-organization billing and cost management
▪️ Braket introduces spending limits feature for quantum processing units
▪️ Braket new quantum processor from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)
▪️ Builder Center Workshops
▪️ Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer
▪️ CloudFormation
     ▫️drift-aware change sets
     ▫️early validation and simplified troubleshooting
     ▫️intelligent authoring in IDEs
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️Regional Edge Cache (REC) metadata, raw query string retrieval, and advanced origin overrides
     ▫️CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens
     ▫️flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
     ▫️now supports TLS 1.3 for origin connections
▪️ CloudTrail
     ▫️data event aggregation to simplify security monitoring
     ▫️Insights for data events to automatically detect anomalies in data access
▪️ Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments
▪️ CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements
▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights
     ▫️Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS
     ▫️Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights cross-account cross-region monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️In-Console Agent Management on EC2
     ▫️real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications
     ▫️scheduled queries in Logs Insights
▪️ Compute Optimizer automation rules
▪️ Connect
     ▫️conversational analytics for voice and chat bots
     ▫️enhanced Instance-to-Instance communication
     ▫️monitoring of contacts queued for callback
     ▫️multi skill agent scheduling
     ▫️outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling
▪️ Control Tower
     ▫️+7 new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules
     ▫️introduces a controls-dedicated experience
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection
     ▫️accelerates anomaly identification
     ▫️expands AWS managed monitoring