AWS Weekly

💎 Issue #151 | 24 Nov 2024 | Part 3/3


▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments
     ▫️Green storage fully performant prior to switchover
     ▫️minor version upgrade for RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️storage volume shrink
▪️ RDS Database Preview Aurora for PostgreSQL 17
▪️ RDS for MySQL MySQL 8.4 LTS release
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
     ▫️pgvector 0.8.0
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka
     ▫️enhance security by changing default behavior
     ▫️Query Editor V2 Increases Maximum Result Set and Export size to 100MB
▪️ re:Post Private contextual knowledge via Bedrock
▪️ Resilience Hub summary view
▪️ Resource Explorer Find security, compliance, and operating metrics
▪️ S3 Connector PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint
▪️ S3 Express One Zone
     ▫️ability to append data to an object
     ▫️S3 Lifecycle expirations
▪️ S3 Mountpoint high performance shared cache
▪️ Shield Advanced is now available | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
▪️ Step Functions simplifies DX with Variables and JSONata transformations
▪️ STS ECDSA-based signatures of OIDC tokens
▪️ Systems Manager
     ▫️Simplifying node management
     ▫️Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10
▪️ Timestream for LiveAnalytics Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs)
▪️ User Notifications new SDK
▪️ VPC
     ▫️Block Public Access
     ▫️enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations
     ▫️IP Address Manager | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ VPC Lattice now supports ECS
▪️ Wickr | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser inline data redaction
▪️ WorkSpaces support for Rocky Linux

💎 Issue #151 | 24 Nov 2024 | Part 2/3

▪️ ECS
     ▫️configure software version consistency
     ▫️predictive scaling
     ▫️speeds up MTTR after an infrastructure event with AZ rebalancing
▪️ EFS cross-account Replication
▪️ EKS
     ▫️enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring
     ▫️managed node groups now support AWS Local Zones
     ▫️simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons
▪️ ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️support for Node.js 22
     ▫️support for Ruby 3.3
     ▫️support for Windows Bundled Logs
▪️ EMR 7.4 Release
▪️ End User Messaging
     ▫️cost allocation tags for SMS
     ▫️integration with EventBridge
     ▫️message feedback tracking
     ▫️phone number block/allow rules
▪️ Glue Data Catalog Apache Iceberg automatic table optimization through Amazon VPC
▪️ Glue
     ▫️gen-AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark | Preview
     ▫️gen-AI upgrades for Apache Spark | Preview
     ▫️up to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications
▪️ HealthOmics
     ▫️call caching and intermediate file access
     ▫️Cross Account Data Store Read Access
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands feature
▪️ IoT SiteWise new generative AI-powered industrial assistant
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adding Regions to existing Keyspaces
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand streams writing up to 10GB/s
▪️ Lake Formation named LF-Tag expressions
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs)
     ▫️S3 as a failed-event destination for asynchronous and stream event sources
     ▫️SnapStart for Python and .NET functions
     ▫️support for Node.js 22
     ▫️supports Application Signals (APM)
▪️ Managed Flink new Kinesis Data Streams connector
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for update
▪️ Management Console
     ▫️favorite & recently used applications
     ▫️Visual Update | Preview
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️enhanced purchase order support
     ▫️improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers
▪️ MQ is now available| (Malaysia) region
▪️ MWAA smaller environment size
▪️ Neptune Analytics Seamless Graph Data Import and Export
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion
     ▫️Lambda for custom data transformation
     ▫️writing security data to Security Lake
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️Binary Vector search and FP16 cost savings features
     ▫️Includes SQL API Support
     ▫️supports point in time (PIT) search
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️Custom Plugins
     ▫️Disk-optimized vector engine
     ▫️now scales to 1000 data nodes on a single cluster
     ▫️UltraWarm vector engine
▪️ Open Source RDS PG & MyQSL Drivers Advanced NodeJS Driver | GA
▪️ Outposts
     ▫️Self-service capacity management
     ▫️static stability by EC2 instance store
▪️ Partner Central
     ▫️business planning feature
     ▫️enhanced account linking experience with Marketplace
     ▫️Gain new insights into your sales pipeline
▪️ Partner Network automates Foundational Technical Reviews with Bedrock
▪️ Polly more synthetic generative voices
▪️ Q Business
     ▫️answers from tables embedded in documents
     ▫️browser extension
     ▫️integrations to Asana | Preview
     ▫️integration to Google Calendar | Preview
     ▫️reuse recently uploaded files in a conversation
     ▫️SES Mail Manager email delivery
     ▫️Smartsheet connector | GA
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️Chat Customizations | GA
     ▫️CloudFormation troubleshooting
     ▫️Console Service as a context for the chat
▪️ Q
     ▫️account resources chat in the AWS Console Mobile App
     ▫️generative SQL in Redshift Query Editor
▪️ Quantum Embark advisory program for customers new to quantum computing
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️fine grained permissions for IAM Identity Center users
     ▫️font customization for visuals
     ▫️import visual capability | Preview
     ▫️launches Highcharts visual | Preview
     ▫️launches Image component
     ▫️launches Layer Map

💎 Issue #151 | 24 Nov 2024 | Part 1/3

▪️ Amplify full-stack AI kit for Amazon Bedrock
▪️ API Gateway Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs
▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Capacity Unit Reservation
▪️ Application Discovery Service
     ▫️data from commercially available discovery tools
     ▫️integration with Application Migration Service
     ▫️now supports AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️Certificate Authority advertisement
     ▫️cross-zone enabled zonal shift and zonal autoshift
     ▫️header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
     ▫️Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift
▪️ Application Signals OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces
▪️ App Studio is now generally available
▪️ AppSync Bedrock integration in AppSync GraphQL
▪️ AppSync cross account sharing of GraphQL APIs
▪️ Aurora MySQL supports R7i instances
▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 scaling to zero capacity
▪️ B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets
▪️ Backup S3 adds new restore parameter
▪️ Batch multiple EC2 Launch Templates per Compute Environment
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings
     ▫️Flows | GA
     ▫️Prompt Optimization | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases binary vector embeddings to build RAG app
▪️ Billing and Cost Management Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
▪️ Chatbot
     ▫️chat with via Microsoft Teams and Slack
     ▫️SDK | GA
     ▫️support case management via Microsoft Teams and Slack
▪️ CLI PKCE-based authorization for single sign-on
▪️ CloudFormation
     ▫️Guard domain specific language
     ▫️Recycle Bin rules
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks
     ▫️Cloud Control API resource configurations evaluation
     ▫️custom AWS Lambda functions
     ▫️stack and change set target invocation points
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️additional log formats and destinations for access logs
     ▫️VPC origins
     ▫️Anycast Static IPs
     ▫️Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming
     ▫️now supports gRPC delivery
     ▫️origin modifications using CloudFront Functions
▪️ CloudTrail AppSync GraphQL APIs data plane logging
▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhanced analytics and cross-account data access
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals
     ▫️Runtime Metrics
     ▫️troubleshoot NodeJS applications
▪️ CloudWatch full visibility into application transactions
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor adds Local Zones support for VPC subnets
▪️ CloudWatch Log Insights field indexes and enhanced log group selection
▪️ CloudWatch Logs transform and enrich logs
▪️ CloudWatch Metrics
     ▫️End User Messaging support
     ▫️for Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)
▪️ CloudWatch RUM percentile aggregations
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics
     ▫️automatically deletes Lambda resources associated with canaries
     ▫️Playwright runtime to create canaries with NodeJS
▪️ Cognito
     ▫️Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
     ▫️new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus
     ▫️passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
▪️ Compute Optimizer
     ▫️rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora
     ▫️ idle resource recommendation
▪️ Connect Contact Lens custom dashboards
▪️ Connect
     ▫️+9 languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling
     ▫️Email | GA
     ▫️granular disconnect reasons for chats
     ▫️new personalized and proactive engagement capabilities
▪️ Controllers for Kubernetes for Private CA | GA
▪️ Control Tower Hooks management for proactive controls
▪️ Database Migration ServiceAuto migration of EC2 databases to RDS
▪️ DMS improved performance for data validation
▪️ DynamoDB attribute-based access control | GA
▪️ EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs customized delete protection for Amazon
▪️ EC2
     ▫️C7i-flex and M7i-flex | (Malaysia) Region
     ▫️lineage information for your AMIs
     ▫️New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection
     ▫️provisioning control to launch instances on On-Demand Capacity
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling highly responsive scaling policies

📰 Issue #150 | 17 November 2024

▪️ Application Load Balancer integrates CloudFront with built-in WAF
▪️ Backup
     ▫️Now supports Amazon Neptune in three new Regions
     ▫️Allows copying S3 backups across Regions/accounts in opt-in Regions
     ▫️Supports resource type and multiple tag selections in backup policies
▪️ Bottlerocket AMIs preconfigured for FIPS 140-3 cryptographic modules
▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhances log analysis with AI-powered features
▪️ CodeBuild supports Windows Docker builds in reserved capacity fleets
▪️ Control Tower introduces drift resolution for optional controls
▪️ DynamoDB
     ▫️Warm throughput for tables and indexes
     ▫️Reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables
▪️ ECS introduces service versioning and deployment history
▪️ EventBridge improves end-to-end latency by up to 94%
▪️ Glue available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
▪️ IAM
     ▫️Identity Center supports search by permission set name
     ▫️Allows customization of unused access analysis in Access Analyzer
     ▫️Centrally manage root access permissions
▪️ Kinesis
     ▫️Adds CloudFormation support for resource policies
     ▫️Supports data ingestion via OpenSearch Ingestion
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️Adds Python 3.13 support
     ▫️Supports CMK encryption for Zip artifacts
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️Supports OpenSearch version 2.17
     ▫️Introduces support for new third-party plugins
▪️ QuickSight adds self-serve brand customization
▪️ RDS
     ▫️Supports PostgreSQL major version 17
     ▫️Adds new minor version 8.0.40 for MySQL
▪️ S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per account
▪️ Step Functions introduces Infrastructure as Code template generation
▪️ Transit Gateway enhances visibility metrics and Path MTU support

🎮 Issue #149 | 10 November 2024

▪️ Application Discovery Agentless Collector  discovers network connections
▪️ Bedrock Prompt Management | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms ML privacy-enhanced model training and inferencing
▪️ CloudFront removes charges for requests blocked by WAF
▪️ CodeBuild additional compute types for reserved capacity
▪️ CodePipeline open-source starter templates for simplified setup
▪️ DataZone
     ▫️achieves HITRUST certification
     ▫️adds meaning-based Semantic search
     ▫️updates pricing and removes user-level subscription fee
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Auto Scaling provisioning control for zone balance
     ▫️Windows Server 2025 AMIs
▪️ ECS service versioning and deployment history
▪️ Kinesis Client Library 3.0 reduces compute costs by up to 33% for stream processing
▪️ Lambda JSON logging support for .NET runtime
▪️ Location Service Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps
▪️ MSK Express brokers now GA
▪️ Mainframe Modernization FedRAMP Moderate and SOC compliance
▪️ OpenSearch Service Extended Support for engine versions
▪️ Partner Central improved self-guided experience
▪️ Polly introduces six new synthetic generative voices
▪️ QuickSight OAuth with Starburst via API/CLI
▪️ RDS for Oracle October 2024 Release Update
▪️ RDS for SQL Server minor version support for October 2024
▪️ Redshift Serverless expands high capacity (1024 RPUs) availability
▪️ Route 53 adds CIDR block configuration based on Internet Monitor
▪️ S3 Access Grants integrates with Redshift
▪️ SES adds inline template support for send email APIs
▪️ SNS now delivers to Data Firehose endpoints in six more regions
▪️ Verified Permissions new API for multiple policies
▪️ Well-Architected enhanced implementation guidance

💎 Issue #148 | 3 November 2024

▪️ Amplify Integration with S3 for static website hosting
▪️ AppSync new serverless WebSocket APIs
▪️ Aurora rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL R7i database instances
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database generally available
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Fine-tuning for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku | GA
     ▫️ Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and 70B models available for fine-tuning
     ▫️ cost allocation tags on inference profiles
▪️ Billing India customers can set up automated recurring payments
▪️ Blu Age Runtime non managed +11 regions
▪️ Clean Rooms Spark SQL support with configurable compute size
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ Monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance
     ▫️ New metrics for monitoring I/O latency of EBS volumes
▪️ CodeBuild retrying builds automatically
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ published forecast data in analytics data lake
     ▫️ callbacks when using Chats and Tasks
▪️ DataSync Increases performance and scalability for data transfers
▪️ DataZone Expands data access with tools like Tableau, Power BI, and more
▪️ Deadline Cloud budget-related events
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Mac Instances macOS Sequoia
     ▫️ M8g Instances Available in Dallas Local Zone
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling final validation time for instance refresh
▪️ Edge Locations New edge location in Qatar
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
▪️ EMR enhanced protection for in-transit data in version 7.3
▪️ Glue Studio Data preparation experience available in additional regions
▪️ Incident Detection and Response +16 regions
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) User-Defined Types
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ Supports Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions
     ▫️ Enhances application building with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
▪️ Marketplace New look for product detail pages
▪️ MemoryDB for Valkey new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
▪️ Network Firewall configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ OpenSearch Service dedicated coordinator nodes
▪️ Partner Central dedicated Slack channels for collaboration on co-selling opportunities
▪️ Payment Cryptography card issuing use cases
▪️ Q Developer inline chat to streamline developer experience
▪️ RDS M7i and R7i database instances
▪️ RDS Performance Insights Data API for Aurora MySQL
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️ serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimization
     ▫️ incremental refresh on Materialized Views for data lake tables
     ▫️ Bedrock for generative AI
     ▫️ Auto-copy | GA
▪️ Redshift Data API CSV result format
▪️ Route 53 HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support
▪️ S3 Service Quotas support in GovCloud Regions
▪️ SageMaker Notebook Instances JupyterLab 4 notebooks
▪️ SES Mail Manager enhancements to improve interoperability, security, and compliance
▪️ Supply Chain embedded Analytics powered by QuickSight
▪️ Trust & Safety Center Available on rePost
▪️ VPC
     ▫️ DNS Query Logging available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
     ▫️ new security group sharing features
▪️ WAF Available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
▪️ WorkMail Supports multi-factor authentication
▪️ WorkSpaces WSP Enables desktop traffic over TCP/UDP port 443

💾 Issue #147 | 27 October 2024

▪️ Application Recovery Controller
     ▫️ Zonal shift and autoshift for two new multi-AZ resources
     ▫️ EKS now supports Application Recovery Controller
▪️ Aurora
     ▫️ Global Database writer endpoint
     ▫️ Global Database tagging support for global clusters
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Custom Model Import | GA
     ▫️ Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and computer use available
▪️ Billing Conductor
     ▫️ RI and Savings Plans coverage and utilization reports
     ▫️ Pro forma budgets integration
▪️ CloudWatch higher quotas to Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern Analysis
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ iOS and Android Chat SDKs for in-app chat experiences
     ▫️ screen sharing
▪️ Console Mobile App Seamless link experience
▪️ DMS Homogenous migrations via CLI, SDK, and API
▪️ ECS Enhanced monitoring via Application Signals
▪️ EC2 Image Builder Apple macOS
▪️ EFA Updates for scalability with AI/ML applications
▪️ EKS Endpoints support IPv6 connectivity
▪️ Firewall Manager Retrofitting existing WAF WebACLs
▪️ IAM Identity Center Simplifies service calls with single identity context
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ New Code-OSS-based code editor in console
     ▫️ Custom serializer for Java runtimes
▪️ Launch Wizard Integration with Systems Manager for SAP
▪️ Mainframe Modernization managed runtimes
▪️ MWAA Simplifies interaction with Airflow REST API
▪️ Q Business New analytics and conversation insights
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ Custom for SQL Server supports Windows Authentication
     ▫️ RDS for Oracle supports APEX Version 24.1
▪️ Redshift Query profiler for monitoring and diagnostics
▪️ Research and Engineering Studio Version 2024.10
▪️ SES TLS version for outgoing messages with AutoTags
▪️ Timestream Query Insights for LiveAnalytics
▪️ WAF Bot and Fraud Control RuleGroup in 6 additional Regions

🙂 Issue #146 | 20 October 2024

▪️ AppStream 2.0 custom shared network storage
▪️ Bedrock Model Evaluation custom model imports
▪️ CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI
▪️ CodeBuild managed network ACLs
▪️ CodePipeline
     ▫️ introduces skipping stages
     ▫️ automatic retry on stage failure
▪️ Corretto October 2024 quarterly updates
▪️ Data Exchange adds APIs for data grants
▪️ DataZone
     ▫️ adds IAM Identity Center account support
     ▫️ introduces project-specific designations
▪️ DMS Serverless adds MongoDB and DocDB as sources
▪️ DynamoDB
     ▫️ zero-ETL integration with Redshift GA
     ▫️ user experience enhancements
▪️ EFS up to 60 GiB/s read throughput
▪️ EKS NVIDIA & AWS Neuron instance types with AL2023
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk adds Python 3.12 support
▪️ Finch expands support to Linux
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ console supports real-time log analytics
     ▫️ surfaces key function insights via CloudWatch dashboard
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ now supports 4 new currencies and non-US bank accounts
     ▫️ adds notifications for private marketplace
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ subfolders in restricted folders
     ▫️ expands integration with EventBridge
     ▫️ scheduled reports via API
     ▫️ programmatic export and import of shared folders
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ M7g and R7g instances in additional Regions
     ▫️ MariaDB supports 11.4 with new password validation options
     ▫️ Multi-AZ with two readable standbys supports AWS IAM authentication
▪️ Redshift refresh interval in zero-ETL integration
▪️ SageMaker Studio supports G6e instance types
▪️ SES configurability for max email delivery time
▪️ S3 adds region and bucket filtering in ListBuckets API
▪️ Transcribe adds streaming transcription in 30 new languages
▪️ Ubuntu Pro now available for EC2 Spot Instances
▪️ Verified Permissions HIPAA eligible

📹 13 October 2024 | Issue #145

▪️ Bedrock Model Evaluation support for evaluating custom models
▪️ CloudFront support for JA4 fingerprinting
▪️ CodePipeline introduces new getting started experience
▪️ Connect adds personalized guidance for agents in Q
     ▫️ launches prompt customizations for Q
     ▫️ supports customer’s initial chat message to personalize experience
     ▫️ Contact Lens dashboards add customization
▪️ Corretto EOL extended for versions 8 and 11
▪️ Deadline Cloud adds job resubmission support
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey | GA
▪️ End User Messaging Social brings conversations to WhatsApp
▪️ Lambda detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and S3
▪️ Marketplace organization-wide views of agreements and spend
▪️ MemoryDB for Valkey | GA
▪️ Mountpoint for S3 CSI driver introduces access controls for Kubernetes pods
▪️ Network Load Balancer cross-zone enabled with zonal shift/autoshift
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless flat object type, geospatial features, multi-term aggregation, etc
▪️ Polly introduces four new synthetic generative voices
▪️ Policy Management workflow automation with service reference information
▪️ Q Business supports integration with Smartsheet
▪️ Redshift 
     ▫️ GA for data sharing with data lake tables
     ▫️ introduces query identifiers for performance monitoring
▪️ Resource Explorer new API to list resource inventory
▪️ Service Authorization Reference workflow automation
▪️ VPC Lattice now available in 3 additional Regions
▪️ WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory available to purchase in UK

⭐️ Issue #144 | 6 October 2024

▪️ AppStream 2.0
     ▫️  increases application settings storage limit
     ▫️  enables automatic time zone redirection
     ▫️  adds printer redirection and regional settings
▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 supports up to 256 ACUs
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases stops ingestion jobs
▪️ B2B Data Interchange adds outbound X12 EDI support
▪️ Chatbot supports centralized account access with Slack & Teams
▪️ CloudShell extends recent capabilities to all commercial regions
▪️ CodePipeline introduces general-purpose compute action
▪️ Compute Optimizer supports 80 new EC2 instance types
▪️ Connect
     ▫️  adds outbound SMS contacts
     ▫️  multi-day copy and paste of agent schedules
     ▫️  forecasts workloads with one contact
▪️ Connect Contact Lens adds read-only permissions
▪️ Data Firehose delivers streams to Apache Iceberg in S3
▪️ DCV (formerly NICE DCV) supports Ubuntu 24.04
▪️ EC2 supports post-launch CPU optimization
▪️ ElastiCache reserved nodes flexibility
▪️ EventBridge new event delivery latency metric
▪️ HealthOmics adds sample-based partitioning for variant stores
▪️ Inspector enhances Lambda standard scanning
▪️ IoT Core removes TLS ALPN requirement, adds custom authorizers
▪️ MSK supports AWS PrivateLink for APIs
▪️ Network Load Balancer launches CloudWatch Internet Monitor
▪️ Partner Central
     ▫️  adds VMware SPI for Managed Services
     ▫️  supports Marketplace private offer association
▪️ Prometheus supports IPv6
▪️ Q in QuickSight generates personalized data stories
▪️ Q Business now HIPAA eligible
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️  announces mTLS support for MSK
     ▫️  launches RA3.large instances
▪️ Route 53 Resolver supports DoH with SNI validation
▪️ S3 adds Service Quotas support for general purpose buckets
▪️ Security Hub launches 7 new security controls
▪️ SES adds HTTPS tracking for custom domains
▪️ Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB available in 3 new regions
▪️ Timestream InfluxDB advanced configuration
▪️ Virtual Private Cloud supports BYOIP and BYOASN in Local Zones
▪️ WorkSpaces supports file transfer between sessions and local devices

☑️ Issue #143 | 29 September 2024

▪️ Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports AL 2023
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 generative AI models | GA
▪️ CloudTrail Network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
▪️ CodePipeline pipeline variable check rule for stage level condition
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Instance Connect supports IPv6
     ▫️ C8g and M8g Instances
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Introduces bandwidth reduction filter
▪️ ElastiCache AWS Resilience Hub extends support
▪️ EKS Kubernetes version 1.31
▪️ FSx for Lustre performance metrics and enhanced monitoring dashboard
▪️ Grafana Managed Grafana now supports silences for alerts
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control
▪️ Lambda tagging of Event Source Mappings and Code Signing Config
▪️ MSK Multi-VPC private connectivity with any auth
▪️ MWAA Apache Airflow version 2.10
▪️ Outposts Announcing availability in Kuwait
▪️ Redshift Data sharing governed through Lake Formation GA + 11 regions
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 17.0 now available in Database preview environment
     ▫️ Oracle now supports Management Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2
     ▫️ Performance Insights now supports queries run through Data API
▪️ S3 To apply a default minimum object size for Lifecycle transition rules
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ SageMaker Studio supports automatic shutdown of idle applications
     ▫️ Customize model deployment software and driver versions
     ▫️ MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 generative AI models | GA in SageMaker JumpStart
     ▫️ Region Expansion of P4d instances on Studio notebooks
▪️ Serverless Application Repository supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ SNS
     ▫️ Delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging
     ▫️ Share SMS resources across multiple AWS accounts
▪️ WorkSpaces
     ▫️ Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Pools bundles with WSP for Windows
     ▫️ Secure Browser supports FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography
     ▫️ Secure Browser announces new session management dashboard

✅️ Issue #142 | 22 September 2024

▪️ Amplify long-running tasks with asynchronous server-side function calls
▪️ Chatbot interact with Bedrock agents from Microsoft Teams and Slack
▪️ CloudFormation Git sync now supports PR workflows
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics canary tag replication
▪️ CodeBuild managed GitLab runners
▪️ Corretto Version 23 | GA
▪️ Cost Management DynamoDB reserved capacity purchase recommendations
▪️ Database Migration Service enhanced monitoring
▪️ Deadline Cloud additional sort fields for steps, tasks, and workers
▪️ Directory Service user and group management via APIs and Console
▪️ EC2 Introduces X8g instances
▪️ Elemental MediaConvert On-demand volume discount pricing
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery recovery to Local Zones
▪️ Keyspaces add-column for multi-Region tables
▪️ Mainframe Modernization binary transfer and better performance
▪️ Neuron Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI), NxD Training, and JAX
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ i4g & i4i instances
     ▫️ OR1 instances for existing domains
▪️ Private CA SCEP for mobile devices
▪️ Q GA of generative SQL for Redshift
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ SQL Server Minor Versions in September 2024
     ▫️ Performance Insights for Aurora cluster-level config
▪️ Redshift enhanced VPC routing warehouses in zero-ETL integration
▪️ SDK for Swift general availability
▪️ SES automated complaint rate recommendations
▪️ S3 Express One Zone KMS with customer managed keys
▪️ Transfer Family Increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors

☑️ Issue #141 | 15 September 2024

▪️ Application Migration Service Trend Micro post-launch action
▪️ Aurora R7g +15 regions
▪️ Backup Audit Manager new control to audit resources inside logically air-gapped vault
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases cross-region inference
▪️ Cognito User pools now offer email as a MFA option
▪️ Connect
    ▫️ Launches AWS CloudFormation support for agent status
    ▫️ Expands AWS CloudFormation support for agent hierarchies
▪️ Container Insights SageMaker HyperPod node health observability on EKS
▪️ EC2
    ▫️ P5e instances via EC2 Capacity Blocks | GA
    ▫️ R6in and R6idn instances are now available in an additional region
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk IPv6 inbound traffic to service endpoints
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect input thumbnail images
▪️ Elemental MediaLive MediaLive Anywhere for live video encoding on your own hardware
▪️ Elemental Media Services live AV1 encoding
▪️ EMR on EC2 intelligent subnet selection
▪️ EventBridge Pipes customer managed KMS keys
▪️ Glue Data Catalog storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ IAM Identity Center language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal
▪️ IoT SiteWise
   ▫️ Secondary sensor support through CloudRail
    ▫️ Adds support for 100+ protocols through Litmus Edge
▪️ MSK cross-cluster replication with support for identical topic names
▪️ Network Firewall supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ OpenSearch Service OpenSearch version 2.15
▪️ QuickSight Direct Query for Google BigQuery connector
▪️ RDS
    ▫️ MySQL zero-ETL integration with Redshift | GA
   ▫️ SQL Server minor versions 2019 CU28, 2022 CU14
▪️ Redshift
    ▫️ altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration
    ▫️ Serverless now supports a higher base capacity of 1024 Redshift Processing Units
▪️ SageMaker
   ▫️ sticky session routing for inference
   ▫️ EKS support in SageMaker HyperPod for scaling foundation model development
▪️ WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities

💾 Issue #140 | 8 September 2024

▪️ AppSync DEBUG and INFO logging levels
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ Transcriptions in 10 new languages
     ▫️ automate agent performance evaluations
▪️ DataZone AI recommendations for descriptions
▪️ DynamoDB Support for Attribute-Based Access Control
▪️ EBS Direct APIs support IPv6 in PrivateLink
▪️ ECS Graviton-based Spot compute with Fargate
▪️ Fault Injection Service Introduces additional safety control
▪️ Gateway Load Balancer configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
▪️ Network Load Balancer configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ For Oracle supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration
     ▫️ Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in preview environment
     ▫️ For MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26
▪️ Redshift Session reuse with Data API
▪️ S3
     ▫️ StorageBrowser Amplify UI React component
     ▫️ Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ Introduces sagemaker-core: a new object-oriented SDK
     ▫️ Use Apache Spark on EMR Serverless
▪️ SES adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager
▪️ Timestream
     ▫️ Enhanced managed features for InfluxDB
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools support bringing Windows 10/11 licenses
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals support request-based SLOs
▪️ Bedrock Stability AI’s Top 3 text-to-image models added
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Supports Apache Flink 1.20

🔗 Issue #139 | 1 September 2024

▪️ Amplify new function capabilities with scheduled cron jobs and streaming logs
▪️ AppConfig deletion protection for additional guardrails
▪️ Backup Cross-Region backup with Neptune
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ cross-region inference
     ▫️ Knowledge Bases support Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models
▪️ Braket Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system
▪️ Config Conformance packs available +12  Regions
▪️ Control Tower Organizational Units can contain up to 1,000 accounts
▪️ Deadline Cloud Windows Server 2022 in service-managed fleets
▪️ EC2 Status checks support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
▪️ EMR Managed Scaling is Application Master placement aware
▪️ IoT SiteWise Models support versioning
▪️ Location Service Migration SDK
▪️ Mobile App Streamlined Federated and SSO sign-in
▪️ Network Firewall GeoIP Filtering
▪️ OpenSearch Service Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances
▪️ Parallel Computing Service Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
▪️ Personalize automatic solution training
▪️ Polly +2 locales: Czechia and Switzerland
▪️ Q Business IAM federation
▪️ QuickSight sharing views of embedded dashboards
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ For PostgreSQL Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240808
     ▫️ For MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240808
▪️ Redshift Serverless supports PrivateLink
▪️ Research and Engineering Studio Version 2024.08 now | GA
▪️ SageMaker reuse of names of previously deleted Projects
▪️ Security Hub +8 new security controls
▪️ Step Functions Announces Validation API
▪️ WAF support lower rate limits
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Entra ID and Intune on WorkSpaces Personal

⭐️ Issue #138 | 25 August 2024

▪️ Amplify multiple bucket support for Storage
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price
     ▫️ Knowledge Bases supports Claude 3.5 Sonnet
▪️ CloudFormation resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator
▪️ CloudHSM new hsm2m.medium instance type
▪️ CodeBuild Mac builds
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ new ways to configure callbacks
     ▫️ an audit trail for changes to an agent performance evaluation
▪️ Direct Connect Announces new location and expansion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
▪️ DocumentDB
     ▫️ Global Clusters introduces Switchover
     ▫️ Global Clusters introduces Failover
▪️ EMR prioritized and capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategies for EC2 instances
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler provides higher default service quotas
▪️ IAM Supports PrivateLink in all commercial Regions
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ Supports function-level configuration for recursive loop detection
     ▫️ Supports encryption of filter criteria for event source mappings
▪️ Lightsail Introduces browser-based SSH/RDP support for IPv6-only instances bundles
▪️ Q Provides more details about user subscriptions and associated resources
▪️ Route 53 Resolver Endpoints available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
▪️ S3
     ▫️ No longer charges for several HTTP error codes
     ▫️ Supports conditional writes
     ▫️ Adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ Pipelines provides a drag-and-drop UI to easily create ML workflows
     ▫️ Canvas supports data flows import, and faster data prep for ML

☑️ Issue #137 | 18 August 2024

▪️ Batch  cancelling queued jobs
▪️ Bedrock  Blueprints simplify agent-based automation
▪️ CloudFormation  Git sync supports PR workflows
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor  dashboard and traffic suggestions
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ GitHub Apps
     ▫️ multiple access tokens via Secrets Manager
▪️ Console Mobile App  Expanded service support
▪️ Control Tower  landing zone version selection
▪️ DataZone  domain units and authorization policies
▪️ ECS  restarts container without task relaunch
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ G6e instances | GA
     ▫️ On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify
▪️ EMR  S3 Express One Zone storage class
▪️ Ground Station  Digital twin | GA
▪️ Karpenter  Version 1.0
▪️ Lightsail  larger Windows instance bundle
▪️ Neptune
     ▫️ Analytics supports openCypher queries over RDF Graphs
     ▫️ PropertyGraphStore to build more reliable GraphRAG applications
▪️ QuickSight  CMK for Data Source Information
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ RDS for MySQL 8.0.39
     ▫️ RDS for SQL Server 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, 2019 GDR, 2022 GDR
▪️ Redshift  Query Editor V2 supports query import
▪️ SageMaker Canvas  no-code ML and data preparation at petabyte-scale
▪️ Transit Gateway  Supports Cost Allocation Tags

📹 Issue #136 | 11 August 2024

▪️ Aurora
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
     ▫️ pgvector 0.7.0
▪️ Backup Logically air-gapped vault | GA
▪️ Bedrock Titan Image Generator v2
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals supports Bedrock
▪️ CodeBuild three new Arm-based compute types
▪️ Cognito
     ▫️ disallow password reuse and stream security events
     ▫️ detect additional risks and cover custom authentication flows
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ audio optimization for WorkSpaces cloud desktops
     ▫️ additional agent scheduling staffing rules
▪️ Control Tower 2 new descriptive control APIs
▪️ DataZone business use case-based grouping with data products
▪️ ECR New version of basic scanning | GA
▪️ EFS up to 30 GiB/s (50% increase) of read throughput
▪️ Elastic Load Balancing Trust Store supports cross-account sharing using Resource Access Manager
▪️ EMR v7.2 supports Apache Spark 3.5.1
▪️ Glue
     ▫️ ML-powered Glue Data Quality capability | GA
     ▫️ Data Catalog views | GA with Athena and Redshift
▪️ Marketplace new dashboard and data feed to track customer agreement and renewals for sellers
▪️ Migration Acceleration Program Simplified VMware funding experience in Partner Central
▪️ QuickSight nested filters
▪️ Resilience Hub Improved resource grouping capabilities
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ Oracle supports July 2024 Release Update
     ▫️ PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20
     ▫️ Db2 supports loading data from S3
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 available in preview environment
▪️ Sagemaker Jumpstart-powered large language models available in Redshift ML
▪️ Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device offers lower capacity pricing option
▪️ Timestream Terraform support for InfluxDB deployments
▪️ Verified Permissions Improves support for OIDC identity providers
▪️ VPC private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets
▪️ WorkSpaces
     ▫️ G4dn Personal bundles with WSP for Windows
     ▫️ Thin Client supports WorkSpaces Pools

⭐️ Issue #135 | 4 Aug 2024

▪️ Application Migration Service New Relic post-launch action
▪️ AppStream 2.0 RHEL Application and Desktop streaming
▪️ Bedrock FedRAMP High authorization
▪️ Billing Create an AWS Account using your bank account available in Germany
▪️ CloudFormation Git sync status changes
▪️ CloudWatch new dimensions for EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations
▪️ CodeBuild VPC-connectivity on Windows
▪️ CodePipeline stage level conditions to implement pipeline gates
▪️ Connect agents to view pre-approved windows when scheduling time off
▪️ Connect configure when whisper flows are used
▪️ Connect Contact Lens downloadable screen recordings
▪️ Connect Inbound DID calling in Vietnam
▪️ Data Exchange purchase order support for private offers
▪️ DataZone PCI DSS Certification
▪️ EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups aliases for AMIs
▪️ EC2 Graviton-based instances now support hibernation
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery Flexible Instance Types launch setting
▪️ Elemental MediaLive SRT caller input
▪️ End User Messaging SMS, MMS, push, and text to voice messaging
▪️ IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens Industrial Edge GA
▪️ Lake Formation EMR Serverless fine-grained access control
▪️ MQ ActiveMQ version 5.18
▪️ Neptune Analytics new smaller capacity units
▪️ Q Business cross-region AWS IAM Identity Center access
▪️ RDS for MySQL supports LTS v 8.4 in RDS Database preview environment
▪️ RDS for SQL Server integration of transaction log backup with DMS
▪️ Redshift drivers for supporting single sign-on with AWS IAM Identity Center
▪️ Systems Manager launches API support for Quick Setup
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Visual Studio
▪️ WorkSpaces Thin Client Carbon Trust verification

⭐️ Issue #134 | 28 July 2024

▪️  AWS APN self-guided journey for Services Path
▪️  Amazon MQ quorum queues for RabbitMQ 3.13
▪️  AppConfig feature flag targets, variants, and splits
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️ Meta Llama 3.1
      ▫️ Mistral Large 2
      ▫️ Meta Llama 3.1 405B | GA
▪️  Clean Rooms new capabilities for entity resolution, ML modeling, privacy, and analysis controls
▪️  CloudTrail CloudWatch RUM PutRumEvents API
▪️  Connect Contact Lens
      ▫️ gen AI-powered summaries within seconds after a contact ends
      ▫️ new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics
▪️  Cost Categories “Billing Entity” dimension
▪️  DataSync agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions
▪️  DocumentDB
      ▫️ change streams on reader instances
      ▫️ improvements to document compression
▪️  ECR repository creation templates | GA
▪️  ECS Amazon Linux 2023 and more for on-premises container workloads
▪️  EKS new controls for Kubernetes version support policy
▪️  EMR 24 months support
▪️  GameLift AWS Nigeria Local Zone
▪️  HealthImaging enhanced copy and update capabilities
▪️  KMS increases default service quotas for cryptographic operations
▪️  Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica | GA
▪️  Open Source Signer Notation plugin for container image signing
▪️  SageMaker faster auto-scaling for Generative AI models
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Meta Llama 3.1
▪️  Step Functions Customer Managed Keys
▪️  VPC IPAM BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry