📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #2
▪️ Cost Explorer 18-month forecasting and explainable AI-powered forecasts
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
▪️ Data Exports FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available
▪️ Device Farm Fully Managed Appium Endpoint
▪️ Directory Service AWS PrivateLink for private VPC connectivity
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion adds SAP (Sybase) ASE to PostgreSQL support with generative AI
▪️ DynamoDB multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
▪️ EBS Volumes Recycle Bin
▪️ EC2 AMI ancestry for complete AMI lineage visibility
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling
     ▫️introduces instance lifecycle policy
     ▫️root volume replacement through instance refresh
     ▫️synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 Fleet new encryption attribute for instance type selection
▪️ EC2 Image Builder
     ▫️auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience
     ▫️flexible AMI distribution capabilities
     ▫️Lambda and Step functions
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Mac instances now support Apple macOS Tahoe
     ▫️Microsoft SQL Server 2025
     ▫️P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs
     ▫️reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
▪️ ECR
     ▫️archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
     ▫️dual-stack endpoints now support AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️managed container image signing
▪️ ECS and EKS
     ▫️enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the Console
     ▫️fully managed MCP servers in preview
▪️ ECS Express Mode
▪️ ECS Managed Instances adds configurable scale-in delay
▪️ EKS
     ▫️enhanced container network observability
     ▫️introduces Provisioned Control Plane
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router
▪️ EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format
▪️ EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview)
▪️ FSx for Lustre improves directory listing performance by up to 5x
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server File Server Resource Manager
▪️ Glue
     ▫️additional SAP entities as zero-ETL integration sources
     ▫️DynamoDB connector with Spark DataFrame support
     ▫️supports CloudFormation and CDK for zero-ETL integrations
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available
▪️ HealthImaging adds native JPEG 2000 Lossless support
▪️ IAM
     ▫️enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
     ▫️launches aws:SourceVpcArn condition key for region-based access control
     ▫️temporary delegation
▪️ IoT Core variable setting and error handling capabilities
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️adds support for Python 3.14
     ▫️Kafka event source mapping integration in Amazon MSK Console
     ▫️new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
     ▫️optimize costs up to 90% for Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM
▪️ Lex extends wait & continue feature in 10 new languages
▪️ License Manager license asset groups for centralized software asset management
▪️ Lightsail Nginx blueprint
▪️ Location Service Address Form Solution Builder
▪️ Marketplace estimated tax and invoicing entity information
▪️ MSK Console viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs
▪️ MWAA Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows
▪️ NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
▪️ Network Firewall
     ▫️Active threat defense now enabled by default
     ▫️flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway
     ▫️Managed Rules from AWS Partners available in AWS Marketplace
▪️ Network Load Balancer Weighted Target Groups
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️adds AWS PrivateLink for management console
     ▫️backup and restore through the AWS Management Console
     ▫️now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
▪️ OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS KMS integration with Oracle Transparent Data Encryption
▪️ Organizations
     ▫️direct account transfers between organizations
     ▫️upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS