​​Weekly Summary on AWS (January 16-22)

🔸 CloudWatch Application Insights + Microsoft AD & SharePoint
🔸 DRS (AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery) + failback
🔸 DynamoDB + ReturnConsumedCapacity
🔸 FinSpace + Spark 3.1.2
🔸 FSx for NetApp ONTAP + CloudWatch
🔸 EMR
• Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog
• Iceberg
🔸 GuardDuty + detection of EC2 credentials used from another AWS account
🔸 Location Service
• Matrix routing
• Request-based pricing for all customer use cases
🔸 Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations + Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
🔸 MQ + RabbitMQ 3.8.26
🔸 Security Hub
• Trusted Advisor adds 111 checks
• Integration with AWS Health
🔸 SSM Automation
• Execute runbooks from Slack
• Outbound webhooks for 3-d party tools
🔸 SageMaker Pipelines
• EMR integration for large scale data processing
• Parallelism Configuration
🔸 AWS Client VPN + banner text and maximum session duration
🔹 Wavelength Zones + Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles and Minneapolis

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (January 23-29)

🔸 Chime SDK + background replacement
🔸 Cloud Map API + IPv6
🔸 DocumentDB
➖ 1-month free trial (t3.medium, 750 hours / 30M IOs / 5GB)
➖ $geoIntersects
➖ $geoWithin
➖ $mergeObjects
➖ $reduce
🔸 EC2 X2iezn instances (32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU)
🔸 ECS Anywhere + ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2
🔸 EFS Replication
🔸 Fraud Detector + prediction explanations
🔸 FSx for ONTAP + increase storage capacity
🔸 GuardDuty + EKS
🔸 Lightsail CDN + Lightsail Container Services
as origin
🔸 MWAA (Airflow) + version 2.2
🔸 PrivateLink + CloudWatch metrics
🔸 QuickSight + comparative and cumulative date/time calculations
🔸 RDS for PostgreSQL 14.1, 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24
🔸 RDS Performance Insights + query execution plan
🔸 S3 File Gateway + schedule-based network bandwidth throttling
🔸 SageMaker Autopilot
➖ 100 GB datasets (before - 10GB)
➖ Apache Parquet file format
🔸 Textract + single page PDF documents & JPEG 2000 encoded images
🔹 Panorama Appliances + available for purchase

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (January 30 - February 5)

🔸AppFlow + Custom Connector SDK for Python and Java
🔸Amazon Connect Chat + ChatDurationInMinutes from 1 hour to 7 days
🔸EC2 AMI + Recycle Bin
🔸FSx for OpenZFS + full-copy volumes
🔸IoT Core + per-device level logging
🔸Lambda + auto scaling improvements for MSK and self-managed Kafka
🔸Lex + multiple transcripts and confidence scores for speech input
🔸MSK (Kafka) + 1000 MiB/s per broker
🔸QuickSight + rich text formatting options for visual titles and subtitles
🔸PrivateLink
➖ ElastiCache
➖ MemoryDB
🔸RDS Custom for Oracle + version 12.1
🔸RDS for MariaDB + version 10.6
🔸SageMaker Data Wrangler + JSON, JSONL, and ORC
🔸SageMaker JumpStart + custom VPC and KMS
🔸Secrets Manager + rotation windows
🔸Step Functions Local
🔸Storage Gateway + recover previous versions of files for on-premises

Solutions:
🔹Maintaining Personalized Experiences with Machine Learning version 1.2.0
🔹MLOps Workload Orchestrator version 1.5.0

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (February 6-12)

🔸App Runner + VPC
🔸CloudFormation Hooks
🔸CloudFront + AWS-managed prefix list
🔸Connect + CloudWatch for Chat metrics
🔸Control Tower + updated support for AWS best practices and Region deny
🔸Fraud Detector Variable Geolocation enrichment
🔸Glue DataBrew
➖ E.164 phone number standardization
➖ Multi-column and custom sort as transformations
🔸Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
🔸Neptune
➖ 128 TiB of storage per cluster (up from 64 TiB)
➖ Custom models and SPARQL
🔸Organizations + centrally manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts in AWS Console
🔸PrivateLink
➖ Forecast
➖ Elemental MediaConnect
➖ SSM Incident Manager
🔸Redshift + Streaming Ingestion for Kinesis Data Streams
🔸S3 Batch Replication
🔸SageMaker Autopilot + new Model Insights for classification problems
🔸SSM Distributor + deploy Alert Logic MDR Agent
🔹ParallelCluster v3.1.1 with multi-user environments through AWS Directory Service

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (February 13-19)

🔸 Backup for S3 + general availability 💪
🔸 Braket + 80-qubit
🔸 Budgets + Auto-adjusting 👍
🔸 CloudWatch Container Insights + EKS Fargate using ADOT
🔸 CodeGuru Reviewer
➖ Detector Library
➖ Security detectors for Log-Injection Flaws ⚠️
➖ Example repositories for Java and Python
🔸 EC2 C6a instances 🎉
🔸 EFS + sub-millisecond read latencies 💥
🔸 Firewall Manager + versioning for WAF managed rule group
🔸 MQ for RabbitMQ version 3.9.13
🔸 OpsWorks for Chef Automate version 20220103112354
🔸 RDS for MariaDB + delayed replication
🔸 Redshift
➖ Concurrency Scaling + automatic WLM
➖ UNLOAD command for JSON
➖ Cross-regions data sharing
🔸 Security Hub + 13 new controls
🔸 Transfer Family + banners
🔸 WAF Fraud Control + Account Takeover Prevention 🔥
🔹 s2n-quic 👀

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (February 20-26)

🔸 Amplify + The Authenticator UI Library for Flutter
🔸 AppSync + custom response headers
🔸 App Mesh + Agent for Envoy
🔸 App Runner + Java
🔸 Billing + Payment Profiles
🔸 CloudWatch Agent
➖ Configurable Log Group Retention
➖ NVIDIA GPU Metrics
🔸 Connect Customer Profiles + high-volume ingestion of customer data
🔸 EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools + hibernating and returning instances to Warm Pools on scale-in
🔸 Firewall Manager + AWS Network Firewall Centralized Deployment Model
🔸 Glue Job Run Insights
🔸 Glue DataBrew + choose single or multiple output files
🔸 Glue Schema Registry + Protobuf
🔸 Lambda + .NET 6
🔸 QuickSight’s new community hub
🔸 RDS for MariaDB + IAM authentication
🔸 Redshift + PIVOT and UNPIVOT SQL operators
🔸 S3 + additional checksum algorithms
🔸 SageMaker + 322 popular ML models
🔸 SAM CLI + TypeScript
🔸 Transfer Family + enhancements to workflows
🔹 NICE DCV version 2022.0 and Web Client SDK version 1.1.0

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (February 27 - March 5)

🔸 Aurora PostgreSQL + cipher suites
🔸 AWS Health Dashboard
🔸 Billing
➖ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
➖ Chinese yuan payments
🔸 CloudFormation + AWS::MSK::BatchScramSecret
🔸 CloudWatch Container Insights + Helm chart using ADOT
🔸 Detective + wildcard & CIDR
🔸 FinSpace + AWS SDK and CLI
🔸 FIS (Fault Injection Simulator)
➖ Stop ECS tasks
➖ Sending logs to CloudWatch Logs or S3
🔸 FSx for OpenZFS
➖ LZ4 compression
➖ Record size
🔸 GameLift + three updates to FlexMatch
🔸 IoT SiteWise + IoT Application Kit
🔸 Kendra + spell checker for queries
🔸 Keyspaces (Cassandra) + AWS SDK
🔸 PrivateLink + AWS Backup
🔸 RDS for MySQL & PostgreSQL + Multi-AZ Deployment Option With Two Readable Standby Instances
🔸 RDS for Oracle + ALLOW_WEAK_CRYPTO* parameters
🔸 SageMaker Serverless and Asynchronous Inference + SageMaker Python SDK
🔸 Trusted Advisor Priority

🔹 Aurora PostgreSQL 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, and 10.19
🔹 AWS JDBC Driver for MySQL v1.0.0
🔹 AWS QnABot version 5.1.1
🔹 Data Provider for SAP + 4.1 (JDK11 & r6i/m6i instances)
🔹 MGN (AWS Application Migration Service) + Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2022, and Windows 10
🔹 MQ for RabbitMQ + 3.8.27
🔹 RDS for MariaDB + 10.6.7, 10.5.15, 10.4.24, 10.3.34, 10.2.43
🔹 RDS for Oracle + October 2021 PSU

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (March 6 - 12)

🔸 Amplify iOS Library + Swift
🔸 Aurora PostgreSQL + Multi Major Version Upgrade
🔸 Braket + OpenQASM 3.0
🔸 Chime SDK + live transcription with automatic language identification
🔸 Comprehend + Targeted Sentiment
🔸 DevOps Guru + CodeGuru Profiler for Lambda
🔸 DynamoDB
➖ Limit request option for PartiQL
➖ Tables Per Account 256 → 2,500
➖ Еnable management operations 50 → 500
🔸 EC2 AMI + LastLaunchedTime
🔸 EC2 + X2idn/X2iedn instances 💥
🔸 ECS Update Service API + loadBalancers, propagateTags, enableECSManagedTags, and serviceRegistries 👀
🔸 Glue DataBrew + cross-account Glue Data Catalog S3 access
🔸 Lambda + PrincipalOrgID 💪
🔸 Lightsail + S3 block public access 🎉
🔸 MSK Connect + Secrets Manager
🔸 Personalize + CloudFormation
🔸 QuickSight + auto refresh
🔸 SSM Change Manager + approve/reject multiple change requests together

🔹 Bottlerocket + NVIDIA GPUs 👍
🔹 Genomics CLI + Snakemake
🔹 RDS for MySQL + 5.7.37 and 8.0.28
🔹 RDS for Oracle + Oracle Database 21c
🔹 RDS for PostgreSQL + 14.2, 👈 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, and 10.20
🔹 RDS for SQL Server + M6i/R6i instances

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (March 13-19)

🔸 AppConfig Feature Flags + GA
🔸 App Mesh Envoy Management Service (EMS) + CloudTrail
🔸 Backup Audit Manager + 'cross-Region copy', 'cross-account copy', and 'backups protected by AWS Backup Vault Lock' controls
🔸 Billing Conductor
🔸 Chatbot + GA for management of AWS resources from Slack
🔸 Chime SDK
➖ Amazon Lex voice bots
➖ Amazon Voice Focus
🔸 Cognito + in-region SES/SNS integration
🔸 Connect + rich formatting in chat messages
🔸 Cost Anomaly Detection + AWS Chatbot
🔸 ECS Anywhere + Windows
🔸 EKS 1.21 + containerd on Windows nodes
🔸 Kendra FSx Connector for Windows File Server
🔸 KMS & ACM + latest hybrid post-quantum TLS ciphers
🔸 Lambda console + sharing test events
🔸 Location Service + HERE Explore & HERE Explore Truck map stypes
🔸 Lookout for Vision + GA & Starter Kit
🔸 RDS for PostgreSQL + mysql_fdw
🔸 Route 53 Private DNS + Geolocation and Latency-Based Routing
🔸 Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall + reducing the cost
🔸 PrivateLink + RoboMaker
🔸 Service Catalog + VPC Endpoint Policies

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​​Weekly Summary on AWS (March 20-26)

🔸 ACM Private CA + custom subject names, extensions, and name constraints
🔸 Amplify + @mapsTo to rename models while retaining data
🔸 Billing + detailed break down of costs for RDS 👀
🔸 Chime SDK + 10 000 live participants
🔸 Comprehend + extract custom entities from images and Textract JSON files
🔸 Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling
🔸 Cost Anomaly Detection + resource and tag based access management
🔸 Cost Categories + resource and tag based access controls
🔸 EC2 Metadata + autoscaling/target-lifecycle-state
🔸 ECS + warm pools for EC2 Auto Scaling
🔸 GameKit for Unreal Game Engine 🎉
🔸 GameSparks 💥
🔸 Kendra + Slack Connector
🔸 Lambda + /tmp ephemeral storage: 512 MB → 10 GB 👍
🔸 Lex + grammar slot type
🔸 Panorama
➖ CloudWatch alarms
➖ Receiving inbound messages over the local area network
➖ TensorFlow, PyTorch, and OpenCV
🔸 Proton + Terraform GA
🔸 QuickSight + Groups Management UI
🔸 RDS for PostgreSQL + tds_fdw to connect to a SQL Server
🔸 RDS Service APIs + IPv6 👈
🔸 Service Management Connector for JSM (Jira) + AWS Support
🔸 Transcribe Call Analytics + call summarization

🔹 Corretto 18
🔹 Free Tier + db.t3.micro/db.t4g.micro for RDS 💪

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