🎄 Issue #207 | 22 December 2025

▪️ ACM automated certificate management for Kubernetes
▪️ Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities
▪️ Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports
▪️ Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23
▪️ AWS Databases now available on the Vercel Marketplace
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation instruction optimization for your document blueprints
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
     ▫️ cost allocation using users’ attributes
     ▫️ cost allocation Tags support for Account Tags
     ▫️ PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards
     ▫️ reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
▪️ Billing Conductor enhanced custom line item controls
▪️ Clean Rooms
     ▫️ change requests for existing collaborations
     ▫️ publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ additional details within real-time metric alerts
     ▫️ multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
▪️ Control Tower 176 new AWS Security Hub controls
▪️ Direct Connect resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
▪️ ECR creating repositories on push
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances
▪️ ECS weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
▪️ EKS enhanced network security policies
▪️ IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
▪️ IoT event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
▪️ Marketplace mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging
▪️ MSK Connect dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors
▪️ MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ announces new OI2 instances
     ▫️ now offers a new multi-tier storage
▪️ Payment Cryptography
     ▫️ is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
     ▫️ reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
▪️ Quick Suite
     ▫️ browser extension now supports Quick Flows
     ▫️ now supports memory for chat agents
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1
▪️ RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
▪️ Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
▪️ Redshift Serverless dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 | GA
▪️ Route 53 detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times
▪️ Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack
▪️ SES announces email validation
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications
     ▫️ additional health and performance metrics
     ▫️ Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
     ▫️ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
▪️ WorkSpaces now supports IPv6