☑️ 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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

📹 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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

📹 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 #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