AWS Weekly

☑️ Issue #133 | 21 July 2024

▪️  Application Migration Service FedRAMP High authorization
▪️  Artifact enhanced search capability for reports
▪️  Cloud Control API IPv6
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access log class available in GovCloud Regions
▪️  Connect
       ▫️ search API for agent status
       ▫️ search API for hierarchy groups
▪️  Control Tower customization frameworks are available in opt-in regions
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect individual output stopping capability
▪️  HealthImaging DICOMweb retrievals
▪️  IAM Identity Center independent 90-days session duration for CodeWhisperer
▪️  Lambda SnapStart for ARM64 Java functions
▪️  Marketplace Catalog API (CAPI) Integration with Strongly-Typed API Schemas
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless smart caching
▪️  Private CA ARM architecture in Kubernetes
▪️  QuickSight improves controls performance
▪️  RDS Aurora new open-source Advanced MYSQL ODBC Driver
▪️  RDS for MariaDB LTS version 11.4
▪️  RDS for SQL Server password policies for SQL Server logins
▪️  SageMaker Canvas Productionize Fine-tuned Foundation Models

🎙 Issue #132 | 14 July 2024

▪️  Amazon Q
      ▫️ Apps | GA
      ▫️ scanned PDFs and embedded images in PDF documents
      ▫️ Business responses that are personalized to users
      ▫️ Developer Chatting about your AWS resources | GA
      ▫️ Developer customise code recommendations | Preview
      ▫️ Developer IDE workspace context awareness
▪️  App Studio build enterprise-grade applications with generative AI-powered assistant
▪️  AWS Graviton4 EC2 R8g instances | GA
▪️  Backup EBS Snapshots Archive in backup policies
▪️  Batch gang-scheduling on EKS using multi-node parallel jobs
▪️  Bedrock Agents
      ▫️ code interpretation | Preview
      ▫️ now retain memory | Preview
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️ Fine-tuning for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku | Preview
      ▫️ Prompt Management and Prompt Flows | Preview
      ▫️ Guardrails detect hallucinations & safeguard apps using any FM
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases
      ▫️ additional data sources | Preview
      ▫️ advanced RAG capabilities
▪️  CloudFront managed cache policies for web applications
▪️  Connect automated rotation of agent shifts
▪️  ECR EventBridge support with ECR’s replication feature
▪️  ECS
      ▫️ enforces software version consistency for containerized applications
      ▫️ enhanced stopped task error messages for easier troubleshooting
▪️  EventBridge Schema Registry PrivateLink VPC endpoints
▪️  FreeRTOS new LTS
▪️  FSx for NetApp ONTAP
      ▫️ next generation
      ▫️ NVMe-over-TCP for simpler, lower-latency shared block storage
      ▫️ read data during backup restores
▪️  FSx for OpenZFS  HA Single-AZ deployment option
▪️  Glue Data generating statistics for Apache Iceberg tables
▪️  Glue Studio no code data preparation authoring experience
▪️  IAM simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers
▪️  License Manager integrates with Red Hat Subscription Manager
▪️  Marketplace Simplified service terms
▪️  MemoryDB vector search
▪️  MWAA Apache Airflow version 2.9
▪️  Neuron Flash Attention kernel enabling high performance and large sequence lengths
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless time-series workloads up to 30TB
▪️  OpenSearch Service Natural Language Query Generation for log analysis
▪️  Open Source Valkey and Redis client library
▪️  Partner Central
      ▫️ Analytics and Insights Dashboard for MAP
      ▫️ MFA Support
▪️  PartyRock Playlist page
▪️  QuickSight a 20x higher limit for SPICE JOIN
▪️  RDS Performance Insights support for AWS PrivateLink and IPv6
▪️  S3 Express One Zone logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail
▪️  SageMaker new generative AI inference optimization capability
▪️  SageMaker Studio Amazon Q Developer
▪️  Secrets Manager open source release of Secrets Manager Agent
▪️  SQS new CloudWatch metrics for FIFO queues

⭐️ Issue #131 | 7 July 2024

▪️ Amazon Q Developer in the Visual Studio IDE | GA
▪️ AMS Accelerate Trusted Remediator
▪️ Application Migration Service Dynatrace post-launch action
▪️ Connect preferentially route contacts to specific agents within a queue
▪️ DataZone fine-grained access control
▪️ Direct Connect native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations
▪️ EKS EC2 capacity blocks for ML
▪️ Elastic Fabric Adapter supports cross-subnet communication
▪️ Lambda  new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs
▪️ Launch Wizard programmatic deployments through APIs and Cloudformation templates
▪️ MQ RabbitMQ version 3.13
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion ingesting data from self-managed sources
▪️ Partner Central Streamlined Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding and approval process
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ Db2 Private Offers on licensing through AWS Marketplace
     ▫️ PostgreSQL PL/Rust crates serde, serde_json, regex, and url
▪️ S3 Access Grants
     ▫️ integrate with open source Python frameworks
     ▫️ SageMaker Studio

📹 Issue #130 | 30 June 2024

▪️  Amazon Q  step-by-step guides
▪️  Aurora additional monitoring information during upgrades
▪️  B2B Data Interchange automated 999 acknowledgements for healthcare transactions
▪️  Bedrock AI21 Labs' Jamba-Instruct model
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers observability logs
▪️  Blu Insights accelerates migrations with new AI capabilities
▪️  CloudShell VPC Support
▪️  CloudWatch Logs account level subscription filter in 4 additional regions
▪️  CodeBuild
      ▫️ Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3
      ▫️ build timeout limit increased to 36 hours
▪️  CodeCatalyst
      ▫️ conversion of source repositories to custom blueprints
      ▫️ GitLab.com source code repositories
▪️  Control Tower API to discover landing zone operations
▪️  DataZone  API-driven, OpenLineage-compatible data lineage visualization in preview
▪️  DocumentDB IAM database authentication
▪️  ECR Open Container Initiative Image and Distribution
▪️  EKS cluster creation flexibility for networking add-ons
▪️  Elemental MediaTailor CMAF for dynamic ad transcoding
▪️  EventBridge new console dashboard
▪️  EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️  EventBridge Scheduler more universal targets including Bedrock
▪️  Flink Managed Service
      ▫️ 2 APIs to query operations
      ▫️ Flink 1.19
      ▫️ system-rollback
▪️  Glue Data Quality Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL) enhancements
▪️  GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring Ubuntu/Debian OS
▪️  IVS Real-Time Streaming up to 25,000 viewers
▪️  MSK in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G
▪️  OpenSearch Ingestion ingest streaming data from Confluent Cloud
▪️  ParallelCluster 3.10 with support for Amazon Linux 2023 and Terraform
▪️  QuickSight pixel-perfect reports with Repeating Sections
▪️  RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2
▪️  RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.37
▪️  RDS Multi-AZ 2-readable standbys snapshot export to S3
▪️  SageMaker Canvas new capabilities for time series forecasting models
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart EvolutionaryScale’s ESM3, a frontier language model family for biology
▪️  SageMaker Model Registry cross-account ML model sharing
▪️  SageMaker now supports SageMaker Studio Personalization
▪️  Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog Updates and Expansion
▪️  WorkSpaces
      ▫️ Pools
      ▫️ RHEL support

🔗 Issue #129 | 23 Jun 2024

▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️  Claude 3.5 Sonnet
      ▫️  compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed
▪️  Billing and Cost Management
      ▫️  Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub
      ▫️  Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview)
▪️  CodeArtifact Cargo, the Rust package manager
▪️  CodeBuild organization and global GitHub webhooks
▪️  CodeCatalyst
      ▫️  ability to link issues
      ▫️  analyze issues and recommend granular tasks
      ▫️  Default Role
      ▫️  GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud with Amazon Q
      ▫️  Introducing Maven, Python, and NuGet support
      ▫️  managing billing and access with a single AWS account
      ▫️  Q Developer to choose a blueprint
▪️  Compute Optimizer rightsizing for RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL
▪️  DataZone
      ▫️  achieves SOC, ISO, and CSTAR certifications
      ▫️  advanced search filtering capabilities
      ▫️  custom blueprint configurations for AWS services
▪️  Deadline Cloud Autodesk 3ds Max Usage-Based Licensing
▪️  EC2 macOS AMIs are now on Parameter Store
▪️  EKS open sources Pod Identity agent
▪️  ElastiCache Serverless snapshot and restore for Memcached
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect source stream monitoring
▪️  Elemental MediaPackage Cross-region failover
▪️  Glue
      ▫️  +13 transforms including flag duplicates
      ▫️  serverless Spark UI now supports rolling log files
      ▫️  Usage Profiles | GA
▪️  IoT TwinMaker Dynamic Scene feature
▪️  IVS Real-Time Streaming Record individual participants
▪️  KMS Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement
▪️  Launch Wizard resource and tag-based access controls
▪️  Mainframe Modernization Application Testing | GA
▪️  MWAA Custom Web Server URLs
▪️  NICE DCV Access Console
▪️  OpenSearch Ingestion customer managed VPC interface endpoints
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support
▪️  OpenSearch Service JWT authentication and authorization
▪️  RDS for MariaDB v10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, 10.4.34
▪️  RDS for Oracle memory optimized R6i instance types
▪️  RDS for SQL Server up to 64TiB and 256K IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes
▪️  Redshift VARBYTE 16MB data type
▪️  Redshift Query Editor V2 100MB file uploads
▪️  Research and Engineering Studio version 2024
▪️  SageMaker Canvas Productionize Foundation Models
▪️  SageMaker fully managed MLflow Capability
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod configurable cluster storage
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart granular access control for foundation models
▪️  SES now publishes email sending events to EventBridge
▪️  Systems Manager additional Rocky, Oracle, and Alma Linux versions
▪️  Transfer Family event-driven managed file transfer workflows

☑️ Issue #128 | 16 June 2024

▪️ Audit Manager gen-AI best practices w SageMaker support
▪️ CloudFormation adjustable timeouts for custom resources
▪️ CloudTrail Lake AI-powered natural language query generation | Preview
▪️ Cloud WAN Service Insertion to simplify security inspection at global scale
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ AI-Powered natural language query generation
     ▫️ Application Signals for APM | GA
▪️ Connect color coding for shift activities in agent scheduling
▪️ ECS Fargate encrypt ephemeral storage with customer-managed KMS keys
▪️ GuardDuty detect malware in new S3 object uploads
▪️ IAM Access Analyzer
     ▫️ policy checks for public and critical resource access
     ▫️ recommendations to refine unused access
▪️ Identity and Access Management passkey as a second authentication factor
▪️ Private CA Connector for SCEP for mobile devices | Preview
▪️ SageMaker Canvas Productionize Foundation Models
▪️ SES custom values in the Feedback-ID header

☑️ Issue #127 | 9 June 2024

▪️  API Gateway
      ▫️  integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds
      ▫️  secure APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
▪️  AppFabric now supports JumpCloud
▪️  Audit Manager common control library
▪️  Aurora MySQL 3.07 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.36) | GA
▪️  Batch Job Queue Snapshot
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases Titan Text Embeddings V2
▪️  CloudWatch GetMetricData API CloudTrail data event logging
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Live Tail streaming CLI support
▪️  CodeCatalyst
      ▫️  Bitbucket Cloud source code repositories
      ▫️  GitHub Cloud source code with blueprints
▪️  Connect
      ▫️  agent workspace launches refreshed look and feel
      ▫️  time zone support for forecasts
▪️  Console EC2 instance type finder
▪️  Data Firehose integration with Secrets Manager
▪️  DMS Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a source
▪️  Elastic Beanstalk .NET 8 on AL2023
▪️  EMR Serverless Streaming jobs
▪️  FSx for Lustre increases maximum metadata IOPS by up to 15x
▪️  HealthImaging EventBridge support
▪️  Inspector container image scanning for CodeCatalyst and GitHub Actions
▪️  IoT Device Management unified connectivity metrics dashboard
▪️  Location Service Enhanced Location Integrity features
▪️  OpenSearch Ingestion  ingesting streaming data from MSK Serverless
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless slashes entry cost in half for all collection types
▪️  Organization Centrally manage member account root email addresses
▪️  Q inline completions in the command line
▪️  SageMaker Model Registry now supports ML governance information
▪️  Tax Settings AP programmatically manage tax registration information
▪️  Timestream for LiveAnalytics now an Amazon EventBridge Pipes target
▪️  Transfer Family increases message size and throughput limits for AS2

🎙 Issue #126 | 2 Jun 2024

▪️  AppStream 2.0 Real-time audio and Microsoft Server 2022
▪️  AppSync long running events with async Lambda function invocations
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️ new Converse API
      ▫️ Powertools for Lambda (Python) Agents
▪️  CloudWatch now offers 30 days of alarm history
▪️  Cognito user pools - customize access tokens
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ Apple Messages for Business
      ▫️ Zero-ETL analytics data lake
▪️  DMS Schema Conversion New Oracle to PostgreSQL built-in system functions
▪️  DMS Serverless improved Oracle to Redshift Full Load throughput
▪️  DynamoDB local configurable maximum throughput for on-demand tables
▪️  EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
▪️  EventBridge Scheduler new API request metrics for improved observability
▪️  Marketplace amendments for AMI annual agreements
▪️  MSK
      ▫️ Kafka version 3.7
      ▫️ KRaft mode
▪️  Network Firewall increases quota for stateful rules
▪️  PartyRock Document widget
▪️  QuickSight
      ▫️ Milan, Zurich, Cape Town and Jakarta Regions
      ▫️ multi column sorting for Tables
▪️  RDS Custom for SQL Server One-click instance profile creation
▪️  RDS Multi-AZ 2 readable standbys +6 AWS regions
▪️  SageMaker Canvas up to 10x faster startup time
▪️  SAP ABAP SDK BTP edition | Preview
▪️  Supply Chain Lead Time Insights data variability
▪️  WAF Bot & Fraud Control versioning for managed rule groups

⭐️ Issue #125 | 26 May 2024

▪️  Amazon Aurora Advanced Python Wrapper driver
▪️  Bedrock Mistral Small foundation model
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Bulk Policy Migration
▪️  Chatbot tagging Chatbot resources
▪️  CloudFormation
      ▫️ accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack API
      ▫️ streamlines deployment troubleshooting with CloudTrail integration
▪️  Control Tower improves control operations at scale
▪️  Database Migration Service support for S3 Parquet as a source | GA
▪️  EKS & EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.30
▪️  EMR Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector
▪️  EMR Serverless Apache Livy endpoints
▪️  Entity Resolution customer compliance with ISO and SOC
▪️  EventBridge Event Bus improved filtering capabilities for event matching
▪️  Glue native SaaS connectivity: Salesforce connector available now
▪️  Kinesis Data Streams data plane logging to CloudTrail
▪️  Lightsail easy switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only instance bundles
▪️  Marketplace improved private offer experience
▪️  Neptune LlamaIndex support for GraphRAG applications
▪️  OpenSearch Service
      ▫️ OpenSearch version 2.13
      ▫️ releases cross cluster alerting monitors
      ▫️ zero-ETL integration with S3 now available
▪️  QuickSight
      ▫️ GetClusterCredentialswithIAM for Redshift Data Sources
      ▫️ public API for SPICE CMK Data Encryption
▪️  RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1
▪️  RDS Extended Support APIs
▪️  RDS for Db2 hourly licensing from IBM through AWS Marketplace
▪️  RDS Performance Insights provides fine grained access control
▪️  Redshift Snapshot Isolation as the default for Provisioned clusters
▪️  Resource Explorer filtering on resources that support tags
▪️  Security Lake AWS WAF logs
▪️  SES Mail Manager
▪️  Verified Permissions Cognito tokens
▪️  WorkSpaces Web is now called Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser

✈️ Issue #124 | 19 May 2024

▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases
     ▫️ configure Guardrails
     ▫️ configure inference parameters
▪️ Bottlerocket NVIDIA Fabric Manager for Multi-GPU Workloads
▪️ CodeBuild connecting to a VPC from reserved capacity
▪️ Connect Contact Lens analytics for Flows and Flow Modules
▪️ Connect creating rules for monitoring and alerting on Flow metrics
▪️ Detective EKS audit logs in Security Lake integration
▪️ EBS direct APIs now support VPC endpoint policies
▪️ EC2 C7i-flex instances
▪️ ECS VPC flow logs
▪️ EKS native support for autoscaling CoreDNS Pods
▪️ EMR
     ▫️ additional metrics for enhanced monitoring
     ▫️ now supports Trino 435, Python 3.11
▪️ EventBridge Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Event Buses
▪️ HealthImaging
     ▫️ cross-account data imports
     ▫️ retrieval of DICOM Part 10 instances
▪️ IAM Identity Center PKCE-based authorization for AWS applications
▪️ Managed Grafana version 10.4
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus inline editing of alert manager and rules configuration
▪️ MSK removal of brokers from MSK provisioned clusters
▪️ MWAA Airflow REST API with web server auto scaling
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion new UI for easy blueprint discovery
▪️ RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240408
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240418
▪️ S3 no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
▪️ Security Hub CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark 3.0
▪️ VPC Lattice TLS Passthrough
▪️ WorkSpaces Core Windows Server bundles

🎙 Issue #123 | 12 May 2024

▪️   Amplify Gen 2 | GA
▪️   Bedrock
       ▫️  Provisioned Throughput pricing model
       ▫️  Studio | Preview
       ▫️  Titan Text Premier
▪️   Budgets resource and tag-based access controls
▪️   Cognito tiered pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) usage
▪️   Connect
       ▫️  CloudTrail support for flow management pages
       ▫️  granular access controls (using resource tags) for flows and flow modules
       ▫️  UI and API support for enhanced search
       ▫️  Cases APIs for managing attachments
       ▫️  Cases managing attachments APIs
       ▫️  Contact Lens agent screen recording
       ▫️  Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations | Preview
▪️   Cost Anomaly Detection reduces anomaly detection latency by up to 30%
▪️   EC2 API retrieve the public endorsement key from NitroTPM
▪️   ECR pull through cache support for GitLab.com
▪️   ElastiCache minimum TLS version to 1.2
▪️   EMR Serverless detailed performance monitoring with Prometheus
▪️   IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph optimization
▪️   Lightsail a larger instance bundle
▪️   MemoryDB condition keys for user authentication and encryption in transit
▪️   MQ RabbitMQ version 3.12
▪️   Polly New Generative Engine with 3 synthetic English Polly voices
▪️   QuickSight launches SPICE capacity auto-purchase API
▪️   RDS for Oracle April 2024 Release Update
▪️   RDS for PostgreSQL minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
▪️   RDS for SQL Server Minor Versions 2019 CU26 and 2022 CU12 GDR
▪️   RDS Performance Insights RDS for Oracle Multitenant
▪️   Resilience Hub resilience drift detection capabilities
▪️   SageMaker now integrates DataZone

🔗 Issue #122 | 5 May 2024

▪️   Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
▪️   Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps (Preview)
▪️   Amazon Q
       ▫️  data integration in AWS Glue | GA
       ▫️  Developer | GA
       ▫️  QuickSight
       ▫️  subscription management with AWS IAM Identity Center integration
▪️   AppFabric now supports Salesforce, Azure Monitor and Google Analytics
▪️   B2B Data Interchange automated 997 and TA1 acknowledgements
▪️   Bedrock
       ▫️  Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2
       ▫️  Cohere Command R and R+
       ▫️  Knowledge Bases MongoDB Atlas for vector storage
▪️   Chime SDK Voice Connector audio streaming G.711 A-Law encoded audio
▪️   CloudWatch Internet Monitor IP prefix visibility
▪️   CloudWatch resource filtering for cross-account observability
▪️   CodeArtifact now supports RubyGems
▪️   CodeCatalyst Introducing file commit history
▪️   Config simplifies usage analysis with CloudWatch metrics
▪️   Connect Contact Lens
       ▫️  agent screen recording
       ▫️  generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview)
▪️   DynamoDB
       ▫️  AWS FIS action to pause global table replication
       ▫️  configurable maximum throughput for On-demand tables
▪️   EC2
       ▫️  new  API to retrieve the public endorsement key from NitroTPM
       ▫️  protect AMIs from accidental deregistration
       ▫️  simplifies visibility into your active AMIs
▪️   EFS increases maximum per-client throughput to 1.5 GiB/s
▪️   EMR Serverless introduces Shuffle-optimized disks delivering improved performance for I/O intensive workloads
▪️   EventBridge Pipes event delivery through AWS PrivateLink
▪️   Firewall Manager central deployment and management of VPC NACLs with common NACL policies
▪️   HealthOmics
       ▫️  cross-account sharing for private workflows
       ▫️  dynamic run storage for private workflows
▪️   Launch Wizard Automate deployment of SAP Web Dispatcher
▪️   Location Service Places integration plugin for MapLibre GL JS Geocoder
▪️   Mainframe Modernization File Transfer introduces enhanced data set discovery workflow
▪️   OpenSearch Service Route 53 alias record for custom endpoint
▪️   Personalize
       ▫️  makes it easier than ever to delete users from datasets
       ▫️  new recipes supporting larger item catalogs with lower latency
▪️   Pinpoint
       ▫️  country rules to precisely control SMS message delivery
       ▫️  multimedia messaging service (MMS)
▪️   RDS for MySQL Innovation Release version 8.3 in RDS Database Preview Environment
▪️   RDS for SQL Server SSAS Multidimensional for SQL Server 2019
▪️   Redshift Multi-AZ deployment with zero-ETL integration
▪️   Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now supports Domain Redirection
▪️   Security Hub Resource Tagging Standard
▪️   Timestream for LiveAnalytics Timestream Compute Unit (TCU)
▪️   Transcribe generative AI-powered call summarization
▪️   Trusted Advisor API to exclude resources

🎙 Issue #121 | 28 April 2024

▪️  AppFabric
      ▫️  1Password support
      ▫️  SentinelOne Singularity Cloud
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️  Custom Model Import
      ▫️  Guardrails new safety & privacy controls
      ▫️  Meta Llama 3
      ▫️  Model evaluation | GA
      ▫️  Titan Image Generator model | GA
      ▫️  Watermark detection for Titan Image Generator
▪️  Bedrock Agents
      ▫️  Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet
      ▫️  Return of Control
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases
      ▫️  multiple data sources
      ▫️  simplifies asking questions on a single document
▪️  CloudWatch Container Insights Accelerated Compute Observability on EKS
▪️  CloudWatch RUM +5 additional regions | GA
▪️  CodeBuild managed GitHub Action runners
▪️  CodeCatalyst
      ▫️  task breakdown assistance for issues assigned to Amazon Q
      ▫️  Workflow approvals
▪️  CodePipeline stage level manual and automated rollback
▪️  DataSync supports disabling task schedules
▪️  Direct Connect 25 Gbps hosted connection capacities
▪️  DynamoDB NoSQL Workbench revamped operation builder UI
▪️  EC2 dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address
▪️  Flink Managed Service restore running applications to pre-update state
▪️  GameLift includes containers support | Preview
▪️  Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for EC2  | GA
▪️  Management Console NLB in Resource Map
▪️  OpenSearch Service support for Hebrew and HanLP language analyzers
▪️  Organizations Data Lifecycle Manager default policies
▪️  QuickSight cross sheet filters and controls
▪️  RDS for Db2 Local time zone support
▪️  RDS for Oracle Kerberos authentication in additional regions
▪️  RDS Performance Insights execution plan for RDS SQL Server
▪️  Route 53 Profiles
▪️  SageMaker Clarify foundation model evaluations
▪️  Time Sync Service Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance types
▪️  Transfer Family lists files from remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors
▪️  WorkSpaces Web +2 new larger instance types

❌ Issue #120 | 21 April 2024

▪️  Amazon Corretto 2024Q1 updates
▪️  Artifact Accessibility Conformance Reports
▪️  Athena federated query pass-through
▪️  Bedrock Claude 3 Opus model
▪️  CloudFormation ChangeSets change visibility for deployments
▪️  CloudWatch Internet Monitor internet weather map
▪️  CodeCatalyst PDK blueprints
▪️  Config +35 new resource types
▪️  Data Firehose Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming
▪️ EKS Cost Allocation Data
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery Outposts Racks support
▪️  EMR on EKS supports Apache Livy
▪️  HealthOmics reading sequence stores through S3 APIs
▪️  IAM Identity Center 90-days session duration for CodeWhisperer
▪️  IAM Roles Anywhere supports modifying the mapping of certificate attributes
▪️  Mainframe Modernization advanced config for runtime environments
▪️  MWAA adds larger environment sizes
▪️  Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM
▪️  Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support
▪️  Partner Central enhanced user management capabilities & self-service tasks
▪️  Partner CRM Connector future dated agreements
▪️  Personalize automatic solution training
▪️  PrivateLink supports QuickSight
▪️  QuickSight account instances of IAM Identity Center
▪️  RDS Custom for Oracle Oracle Database Standard Edition 2
▪️  RDS for Oracle Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 23.2
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL client authentication hook for TLE
▪️  RDS for SQL v2022 CU12
▪️  Resilience Hub HIPAA eligible
▪️  SageMaker enables Projects in SageMaker Studio
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Meta Llama 3 foundation models
▪️  SageMaker Studio Notebooks interactive SQL query execution
▪️  SimSpace Weaver  SDK v1.17.0
▪️  Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira
▪️  WorkSpaces simplify BYOL account management

📹 Issue #119 | 14 April 2024

▪️ AppSync forwards request headers to Lambda custom authorizer functions
▪️ AWS India customers can now use UPI (Unified Payments Interface) to make payments
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases
     ▫️ Claude 3 Haiku
     ▫️ support for CloudFormation and Service Quotas
▪️ Braket experimental capabilities for QuEra device via Braket Direct
▪️ Clean Rooms Differential Privacy | GA
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️ Common Media Client Data (CMCD) fields in real-time logs
     ▫️ launch CloudWatch Internet Monitor
     ▫️ Origin Access Control (OAC) for AWS Elemental MediaPackage Origin
     ▫️ Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins
▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights observability for Windows containers on EKS
▪️ CloudWatch RUM +11 Regions | GA
▪️ Detective investigations for GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring
▪️ Elemental
     ▫️ MediaLive CMAF Ingest output group
     ▫️ MediaTailor HLS Interstitials for VOD streams
▪️ EMR on EKS simplified access management controls
▪️ HealthImaging search parameters and extended search API responses
▪️ KMS more flexible automatic key rotation
▪️ Lambda Kafka event sources in +4 regions
▪️ Location Service Tracking SDK for iOS and Android
▪️ Media Services workflow monitor
▪️ Neuron speculative decoding
▪️ OpenSearch Service update node count without blue/green
▪️ Outposts Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
▪️ RDS for MySQL rds_superuser_role for easier implementation of role based privileges
▪️ Resource Explorer +10 Regions
▪️ Route 53 support for 18 additional Top-Level Domains
▪️ Step Functions Optimized Integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert
▪️ Transfer Family new workshop for SFTP

☑️ Issue #118 | 7 April 2024

▪️ Application Migration Service migration of UEFI servers
▪️ AppStream 2.0 IdP-initiated sessions using the Windows client
▪️ AppSync increases existing service quota and adds subscription service quotas
▪️ Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift now in additional regions
▪️ B2B Data Interchange HIPAA eligible and supports X12 version 5010 HIPAA transactions
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️  Knowledge Bases now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️  Mistral Large foundation model
▪️ Clean Rooms ML is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor cross-account observability
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️  now supports cross-account anomaly detection
     ▫️  tagging alarms with AWS CloudFormation
▪️ CodeCatalyst adding tasks to issues
▪️ Cognito secure access to APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
▪️ Console Mobile Application CloudWatch custom dashboards
▪️ DataZone
     ▫️  integration with Glue Data Quality
     ▫️  integration with Lake Formation hybrid mode
▪️ Deadline Cloud 2D and 3D visual assets render management service
▪️ EC2
     ▫️  G6 instances | GA
     ▫️  per-second billing for RHEL-based instances
▪️ EKS extended support is now generally available
▪️ EMR on EC2 gracefully replaces unhealthy core nodes
▪️ EventBridge Learn page and other console enhancements
▪️ IVS Low-Latency Streaming supports SRT ingest
▪️ Lambda support for Ruby 3.3
▪️ Management Console Private Access in all commercial regions
▪️ Marketplace demo and private offer requests for products
▪️ OpenSearch
     ▫️  Ingestion enrichment of streaming data with geographical location
     ▫️  doubles storage for OR1 and expands +4 regions
▪️ Partner Analytics is now Analytics and Insights
▪️ RDS for SQL Server Single-AZ Read Replica
▪️ Research and Engineering Studio version 2024.04
▪️ Resilience Hub FSx for Windows and Trust Advisor
▪️ SageMaker Studio Code Editor custom images
▪️ SageMaker support P5, C6i, C7i, M6i, M7i, R6i, and R7i instance types
▪️ Systems Manager Chef 11-18 recipes on Windows
▪️ Transcribe Spanish language for PII identification and redaction
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️  predefined security policies for SFTP connectors
     ▫️  workshop for building SFTP based solutions
▪️ VPC CNI automatic subnet discovery

✅️ Issue #117 | 31 March 2024

▪️  Amazon Linux AL2023.4 and EKS optimized AMI
▪️  AppFabric Dynatrace support
▪️  Aurora PostgreSQL Reserved Instances for Optimized Reads
▪️  B2B Data Interchange
      ▫️  additional finance, transportation, supply chain X12 transactions
      ▫️  sends events to EventBridge
▪️  Batch multi-container jobs via Console
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases Claude 3 Sonnet
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases customize prompts and number of retrieval results
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases metadata filtering
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports CloudFormation
▪️  Chime SDK new API endpoints for media pipelines in Seoul, Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo, Canada, and London
▪️  CloudFormation Console visualization of stacks in Application Composer
▪️  CloudWatch Logs increased default quotas
▪️  CodeBuild GitLab and GitLab Self Managed
▪️  CodeCatalyst workflows runtime image selection
▪️  CodeConnections formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections
▪️  Compute Optimizer
      ▫️  +51 EC2 instance types
      ▫️  memory customizability
▪️  Connect
      ▫️  agent workspace supports 3-rd party apps | GA
      ▫️  forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling | GA +4reg
      ▫️  guided chat experiences using step-by-step guides
      ▫️  Contact Lens automates agent performance evaluations
      ▫️  Contact Lens gen AI-powered post-contact summaries  | GA
▪️  Cost Allocation Tags support retroactive up to 12 months application
▪️  DataZone AI recommendations for descriptions | GA
▪️  DynamoDB Import from S3 - up to 50K S3 objects in a single bulk import
▪️  EC2
      ▫️  C7gn metal instance is now available
      ▫️  ECS-Optimized AMIs support AL2 Kernel 5.10 for GPU and Inf Instances
      ▫️  set IMDSv2 as default for all new instance launches in your account
      ▫️  VSS Managed Policies for valid application consistent backups
▪️  ECR improved version of basic scanning | Preview
▪️  ElastiCache Serverless more controls for scaling
▪️  EventBridge Confluent Cloud integration in the AWS console
▪️  Global Accelerator
      ▫️  +5 CloudWatch metrics
      ▫️  enable sharing BYOIP space across accounts
▪️  GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring | GA
▪️  IAM Roles Anywhere credentials that are valid for up to 12 hours
▪️  IoT Core  LoRaWAN adds metrics monitoring capability
▪️  Lens Catalog +4 Well-Archictected lenses
▪️  Lightsail AlmaLinux 9 blueprint
▪️  Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports CloudFormation
▪️  Marketplace Sellers Tax dashboard | GA
▪️  Partners Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners
▪️  RDS Custom for Oracle X2iezn instances
▪️  SageMaker Canvas new pricing for training tabular models
▪️  SageMaker Console migrate existing domains
▪️  Systems Manager RHEL 8.9 and 9.3

📂 Issue #116 | 24 March 2024

▪️ AMB Query listing UTXOs on Bitcoin blockchain networks
▪️ Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift supports data filtering and CloudFormation
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets ListStackSetAutoDeploymentTargets API
▪️ CodeArtifact Package Group Configuration
▪️ CodeBuild custom images for AWS Lambda compute
▪️ CodeCatalyst Bedrock GenAI chatbot blueprint
▪️ Corretto 22 is now generally available
▪️ DataZone enhancements Redshift integration
▪️ DynamoDB
     ▫️  PrivateLink support
     ▫️  resource-based policies
▪️ EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts visibility into supported macOS versions
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor program rules in Channel Assembly
▪️ EMR Serverless FedRAMP Moderate compliance
▪️ FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights kdb database maintenance
▪️ Flink Managed Service
     ▫️  adds in-place version upgrades
     ▫️  Apache Flink 1.18
▪️ License Manager track IBM Db2 licenses on RDS
▪️ MSK Connect delete worker configurations and tagging resources
▪️ RDS Multi-AZ deployments with readable standby now support C6gd
▪️ SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference
▪️ Savings Plans 7-day window to return
▪️ Secrets Manager support for Redshift Serverless data warehouse
▪️ WorkMail Audit Logging

✅ Issue #115 | 17 March 2024

▪️   Application Load Balancer enables configuring HTTP client keepalive duration
▪️   Backup restore testing for EBS Snapshots Archive
▪️   Batch alerts to detect and react to jobs stuck in RUNNABLE state
▪️   Bedrock Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku Model
▪️   CloudFormation
       ▫️ new validation checks for stack operations
       ▫️ up to 40% faster stack creation
▪️   CloudWatch Automatic Workspaces dashboard
▪️   CloudWatch Container Insights NVIDIA GPUs on EKS
▪️   CloudWatch Synthetics
       ▫️  30-day historical data on canary runs
       ▫️  NodeJS 7.0 and Python 3.0
▪️   DynamoDB local upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17
▪️   EC2 tagging when registering or copying AMIs
▪️   EFS up to 20 GiB/s of throughput
▪️   Fault Injection Service target preview for experiments
▪️   Marketplace Resale Authorization Service-linked role
▪️   MSK Replicator replicating existing data on Kafka topics
▪️   ParallelCluster RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9 and dynamic cluster capacity updates
▪️   RDS for SQL Server minor version 2019 CU25 and 2022 CU11
▪️   S3 Connector for PyTorch writing checkpoints with PyTorch Lightning
▪️   S3 Mountpount CSI driver now supports Bottlerocket
▪️   S3 on Outposts reduces first-byte latencies for object API requests
▪️   SageMaker Canvas Fine-tuned FMs
▪️   SES guided onboarding
▪️   Timestream InfluxDB | GA
▪️   Verified Permissions increases default quotas for authorization APIs

🌟 Issue #114 | 10 March 2024

▪️   AppConfig Extensions dynamic parameters
▪️   AppFabric Box and IBM Security® Verify
▪️   Application Load Balancer Resource Map support
▪️   Aurora MySQL
       ▫️  integration with AWS Bedrock
       ▫️  v3.06 compatible with MySQL 8.0.34 | GA
▪️   Batch on EKS private EKS clusters
▪️   Bedrock Claude 3 Sonnet model
▪️   CloudWatch Metric Streams daily metrics
▪️   Competency Partners Generative AI
▪️   Cost Categories revamped UI
▪️   EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances are now available
▪️   ECS Fargate gMSA authentication for Linux containers
▪️   FSx for NetApp ONTAP x2 max throughput capacity to 72 GBps
▪️   HealthImaging import of large DICOMs and high-throughput HTJ2K
▪️   HealthLake expands search parameter support
▪️   Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins upgrade
▪️   MQ RabbitMQ version 3.11.28
▪️   Neptune DoD Impact Level 4/5
▪️   OpenSearch Serverless time-series workloads up to 10TB
▪️   RDS Custom for SQL Server X2iedn and R5b instances
▪️   RDS io2 Block Express for consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability
▪️   RDS Multi-AZ Deployments security certificate rotation 2 readable standbys
▪️   re:Post re:Post Live
▪️   SageMaker Canvas refreshed homepage
▪️   SES support for headers when sending email
▪️   VPC adjust preferred lease time with DHCPv6
▪️   WAF
       ▫️  enhances rate-based rules
       ▫️  larger up to 64KB request body inspections for regional resources
▪️   Wickr FedRAMP High authorization
▪️   WorkSpaces WebAuthn for in-session authentication
▪️   X-Ray data events in AWS CloudTrail