☑️ 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

🎮 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 #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 #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 #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 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 #152 | 1 December 2024

▪️ Amplify passwordless authentication with Cognito
▪️ AppConfig automatic rollback safety from third-party alerts
▪️ Artifact enhances agreements with improved access control and tracking
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️custom orchestration
     ▫️InlineAgents for streamlined integrations
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
     ▫️Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 now generally available
     ▫️Delivers enhanced root cause insights to explain cost anomalies
▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhances log analysis with AI-powered features
▪️ CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles
▪️ CodePipeline publishing ECR image and InspectorScan as new actions
▪️ Connect
     ▫️Launches calibrations for agent performance evaluations
     ▫️Enables agents to self-assign tasks
▪️ Control Tower prescriptive backup plans to landing zone capabilities
▪️ DataZone enhances data access governance with enforced metadata rules
▪️ DMS now supports Data Masking
▪️ EBS Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots
▪️ ECR increases repository limit to 100,000
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Capacity Blocks now support instant start times and extensions
     ▫️Supports future-dated capacity reservations
     ▫️C7g instances now available in more regions
     ▫️R7g instances now available in Middle East (Bahrain)
▪️ EFS up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system
▪️ EMR advanced scaling in managed scaling
▪️ FSx for Lustre Elastic Fabric Adapter and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage
▪️ Partner Assistant a gen AI-powered virtual assistant for partners
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️Introduces AI-powered product summaries and comparisons
     ▫️Enables self-service KYC for sellers
▪️ Q
     ▫️Developer adds natural language cost analysis
     ▫️Launches private sharing with Q Apps
     ▫️Transforms embedded SQL from Oracle to PostgreSQL
▪️ QuickSight prompted reports and reader scheduling for pixel-perfect reports
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️Launches multi-adapter model inference
     ▫️Introduces scale-down-to-zero inference for cost savings
▪️ S3
     ▫️Adds conditional writes and deletes for greater control
     ▫️Express One Zone now supports conditional deletes
▪️ WorkSpaces introduces Idle Disconnect Timeout

🔜 Part 2 | Issue #153 re:Invent 2024

▪️  Partners Partner Connections | Preview
▪️  Partners Security Incident Response
▪️  Partners Security Lake Ready Specialization
▪️  Partners solution discovery and procurement
▪️  PartyRock upcoming free daily use
▪️  PrivateLink access to VPC resources
▪️  Q Business +50 actions for popular business applications and platforms
▪️  Q Business databases and data warehouses insights | Preview
▪️  Q Business extract insights from visual elements within documents
▪️  Q Developer announces automatic unit test generation
▪️  Q Developer can now automate code reviews
▪️  Q Developer generate documentation within your source code
▪️  Q Developer guide SageMaker Canvas users through ML development
▪️  Q Developer operational investigation capability | Preview
▪️  Q Developer transformation capabilities for mainframe modernization | Preview
▪️  Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET porting | Preview
▪️  Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware | Preview
▪️  Q GitLab Duo | Preview
▪️  Q index enhances software vendors’ AI experiences
▪️  Q in QuickSight scenarios analysis capability | Preview
▪️  Q QuickSight unifies insights from structured and unstructured data
▪️  RDS Performance Insights On-demand Analysis in new regions
▪️  S3 Access Grants integrate with AWS Glue
▪️  S3 Metadata manage your metadata | Preview
▪️  S3 new default data integrity protections
▪️  S3 Storage Browser | GA
▪️  S3 storage classes for AWS Dedicated Local Zones
▪️  S3 Tables Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads
▪️  SageMaker Data and AI Governance
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod recipes
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod Task governance | GA
▪️  SageMaker Lakehouse and Glue expands data connectivity
▪️  SageMaker Lakehouse
▪️  SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls in Athena federated queries
▪️  SageMaker Lakehouse & Redshift zero-ETL integrations from 8 apps
▪️  SageMaker next generation
▪️  SageMaker Partner AI Apps
▪️  SageMaker scaling of Generative AI Inference
▪️  SageMaker SDK enhances training and inference workflows
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio Bedrock IDE | Preview
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio | Preview
▪️  Security Incident Response for general availability
▪️  Transfer Family web apps
▪️  Verified Access secure access to resources over non-HTTPS | Preview
▪️  VPC Lattice TCP support with VPC Resources

🔜 Part 1 | Issue #153 re:Invent 2024

▪️  AI Service Cards responsible generative AI
▪️  Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering
▪️  Aurora a quick create vector store in Bedrock Knowledge Bases
▪️  Aurora DSQL new serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability | Preview
▪️  AWS Glue 5.0
▪️  Bedrock Data Automation | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Guardrails multimodal toxicity detection for image content | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases auto-generated query filters for improved retrieval
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases custom connectors and ingestion of streaming data
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases now processes multimodal data
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports GraphRAG | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG evaluation Preview
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases streaming responses with RetrieveAndGenerateStream API
▪️  Bedrock Knowledge Bases structured data retrieval
▪️  Bedrock latency-optimized inference for FM
▪️  Bedrock Marketplace +100 models to Amazon Bedrock
▪️  Bedrock Model Distillation | Preview
▪️  Bedrock Model Evaluation LLM-as-a-judge | Preview
▪️  Bedrock multi-agent collaboration
▪️  Bedrock Nova foundation models
▪️  Bedrock preview of prompt caching
▪️  Bedrock Rerank API to improve accuracy of RAG applications
▪️  Clean Rooms multiple clouds and data sources
▪️  CloudWatch centralized visibility into telemetry configurations
▪️  CloudWatch Container Insights enhanced observability for ECS
▪️  CloudWatch Database Insights
▪️  CloudWatch network performance monitoring for AWS workloads using flow monitors
▪️  CloudWatch OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
▪️  Config now supports a service-linked recorder
▪️  Connect ability to record audio during IVR and other automated interactions
▪️  Connect AI assistant for customer segments and trigger-based campaigns
▪️  Connect AI guardrails for Amazon Q in Connect
▪️  Connect collect sensitive customer data within chats
▪️  Connect Contact Lens built-in dashboards to analyze conversational AI bot performance
▪️  Connect Contact Lens categorizes your contacts using generative AI
▪️  Connect Contact Lens external voice
▪️  Connect Contact Lens now automates agent performance evaluations using gen- AI
▪️  Connect external voice transfers
▪️  Connect gen-AI powered self-service with Amazon Q in Connect
▪️  Connect new intraday forecast dashboards
▪️  Connect Salesforce Contact Center | Preview
▪️  Connect simplified conversational AI bot creation
▪️  Connect WhatsApp Business messaging
▪️  Control Tower managed controls using declarative policies
▪️  Databricks on AWS streamlined deployment experience
▪️  Data Lineage is now generally available in DataZone and next generation of Amazon SageMaker
▪️  Data Transfer Terminal for high-speed data uploads
▪️  DMS Schema Conversion now uses generative AI
▪️  DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency
▪️  DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with SageMaker Lakehouse
▪️  EC2 P5en optimized for gen-AI and HPC | GA
▪️  EC2 Trn2 instances | GA
▪️  EC2 Allowed AMIs to enhance AMI governance
▪️  EC2 I8g instances
▪️  EC2 next-gen high density Storage Optimized I7ie instances
▪️  Education Equity Initiative to boost education for underserved learners
▪️  EKS Auto Mode
▪️  EKS Hybrid Nodes
▪️  Elastic VMware Service announce | Preview
▪️  EventBridge & Step Functions integration with private APIs
▪️  Glue Data catalog now automates generating statistics for new tables
▪️  GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection
▪️  Invoice Configuration announce
▪️  Kendra GenAI Index
▪️  Marketplace Deploy GROW with SAP
▪️  Marketplace EC2 Image Builder components from ISV
▪️  MemoryDB Multi-Region | GA
▪️  OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Security Lake
▪️  Oracle Database@AWS is now in limited preview
▪️  Organizations declarative policies
▪️  Outposts third-party block storage arrays
▪️  Partners Consumer Goods Competency
▪️  Partners Digital Sovereignty Competency

☑️ Issue #154 | 15 December 2024

▪️  AppStream 2.0 save user preferences between streaming sessions
▪️  Backup cross-account management in opt-in Regions
▪️  Bedrock Guardrails
      ▫️ reduces pricing by up to 85%
      ▫️ Spanish and French languages
▪️  Cloud Map Service Level Attributes
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ holiday overrides for Hours of operation
      ▫️ push notifications for mobile chat
▪️  Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan
▪️  DynamoDB FIPS 140-3 interface VPC and Streams endpoints
▪️  EC2
      ▫️ bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
      ▫️ High Memory U7i Instances with 6TiB and 8TiB of memory
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect Gateway source-specific multicast
▪️  IoT Core for LoRaWAN new feature enhancements
▪️  IVS Thumbnails Recording for Real-Time Streaming
▪️  Lex new multilingual speech recognition models
▪️  MQ now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️  OpenSearch Service r7gd instances +6 regions
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20241121
▪️  RDS for SQL Server new custom parameters for native backup and restore
▪️  Redshift auto and incremental refresh of Materialized Views for zero-ETL integrations
▪️  Research and Engineering Studio v2024.12
▪️  Resource Explorer +59 new resource types
▪️  Resource Groups +405 more resource types
▪️  SageMaker AI availability of P5e and G6e instances for Inference
▪️  Security Hub PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard
▪️  SES
      ▫️ Deterministic Easy DKIM
      ▫️ Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience
▪️  Toolkit for VS Code CloudWatch Logs Live Tail

✅ Issue #155 | 22 December 2024

▪️ AppStream 2.0
     ▫️ client for macOS
     ▫️ Rocky Linux Application and Desktop streaming
▪️ AppSync GraphQL new resolver utilities for Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL
▪️ AWS Invoices self-service feature to update business names
▪️ Backup
     ▫️ dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
     ▫️ search and item-level recovery
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
     ▫️ Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model
▪️ Billing and Cost Management custom billing views
▪️ Bottlerocket Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ +64 languages for Amazon Q in Connect agent assistance
     ▫️ agent schedule data in analytics data lake
     ▫️ built-in capabilities for customer authentication within chats
     ▫️ CloudTrail support for Agent Status configuration
     ▫️ deletion of queues and routing profiles from the admin website
     ▫️ improved agent hierarchy configuration interface with CloudTrail
     ▫️ multi-party chat
▪️ Connect Tasks now support durations up to 30 days
▪️ DataSync configuration updates for all supported storage locations
▪️ DMS Kerberos auth for Oracle and SQL Server Source Endpoints
▪️ DocumentDB NVMe-backed R6gd Instances
▪️ EBS Local Snapshots for AWS Dedicated Local Zones
▪️ EC2 High Memory U7inh Instance
▪️ ECS Fargate network fault injection experiments
▪️ EKS
     ▫️ expands catalog of upgrade insight checks
     ▫️ Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now updates environment status when invalid
▪️ EventBridge API destinations proactive OAuth token refresh
▪️ Glue +16 native connectors for applications
▪️ Glue Data Catalog advanced automatic optimization for Iceberg tables
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper now supports TPM 2.0
▪️ IoT Device Management high-throughput device connectivity status queries
▪️ IoT Greengrass v2.14 new lightweight edge runtime with <5MB of memory
▪️ Location Service now supports IPv6
▪️ Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over IPv6
▪️ Marketplace Professional Services product detail pages
▪️ Marketplace self-service promotional media on seller product detail pages
▪️ MSK Connect Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7
▪️ Network Firewall IPv6 Service Endpoints
▪️ ParallelCluster 3.12 custom image build enhancements
▪️ Parallel Computing Service
     ▫️ CloudFormation support
     ▫️ Slurm version 24.05
▪️ Partner Central Analytics New insights and reporting for resell revenue
▪️ PrivateLink cross-region connectivity +14 additional Regions
▪️ Q Business
     ▫️ analytics dashboard with conversation insights
     ▫️ is now SOC compliant
▪️ QuickSight Launches Unique Key for Dataset
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment MySQL Innovation Release 9.1
▪️ RDS for Db2 multiple databases within an instance
▪️ RDS Proxy caching_sha2_password auth for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
▪️ Recycle Bin Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support
▪️ re:Post now supports Spanish and Portuguese
▪️ Resilience Hub
     ▫️ CloudWatch alarm detection for application resilience
     ▫️ tailored AWS Fault Injection Service recommendations
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity
▪️ Transfer Family additional controls over AS2 message attributes
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal now supports Global Accelerator
▪️ WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India

⭐️ Issue #157 | 5 January 2025

▪️ Application Discovery Services IPv6 endpoints
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
▪️ FSx for Lustre is now available in Malaysia Region
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in Malaysia Region
▪️ FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Malaysia Region
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server is now available in Malaysia Region
▪️ Location Service is now available in Malaysia Region
▪️ WAF Console adds new Top Insights Visualizations

❌ Issue #158 | 12 January 2025

▪️ AWS Region new region Thailand ap-southeast-7 with 3AZs
▪️ CodeBuild batch builds with reserved capacity and Lambda compute
▪️ Compute Optimizer idle and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️agent performance evaluations for email contacts
     ▫️free trials for conversational analytics and performance evaluations
▪️ DynamoDB configurable point-in-time-recovery periods
▪️ End User Messaging self-service sender ID registration support +19 countries
▪️ Local Zone in New York City | GA
▪️ Marketplace disbursement pause notifications
▪️ MSK Connect PrivateLink support
▪️ RDS Preview Environment for MariaDB Innovation Release 11.7
▪️ SageMaker Code Editor IDE Q Developer
▪️ Systems Manager +20 runbook recommendations in Chatbot