💎 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

📰 AWS Weekly – Issue #159 | 19 January 2025

▪️ Billing accepts payments in 8 new local currencies
▪️ CloudFormation User Notifications | GA
▪️ CodeBuild test splitting and parallelism
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️configurable groupings and filters in dashboards
     ▫️new real-time dashboard
▪️ Connect
     ▫️outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling | Preview
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool moved to a new dedicated page
▪️ EC2 Flex new larger instance sizes
▪️ EC2 Image Builder Windows ISO files to AMIs
▪️ ElastiCache Service Quotas
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor now supports log filtering
▪️ Encryption SDK Golang is now generally available
▪️ Management Console
     ▫️CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience
     ▫️simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
▪️ Marketplace Tax Collection and Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland
▪️ MemoryDB now supports Service Quotas
▪️ MSK additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers
▪️ MSK Connect updating connector configuration
▪️ Partner Connections multi-partner opportunities
▪️ Q Developer CloudZero plugin | GA
▪️ Redshift two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
▪️ Resource Explorer +29 new resource types
▪️ S3 Tables +5 additional AWS Regions
▪️ Security Hub Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
▪️ Step Functions +36 services including AWS End User Messaging
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal and Core larger General Purpose bundles

🔄 Issue #160 | 26 January 2025

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.6
▪️ Bedrock Flows preview of multi-turn conversation
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Luma AI's Ray2 visual AI model
     ▫️multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
▪️ Client VPN concurrent VPN connections
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
     ▫️execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL
▪️ CloudWatch Observability one step onboarding for EKS workloads
▪️ Connect
     ▫️audio optimization for Citrix and WorkSpaces virtual desktops
     ▫️daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads
▪️ Corretto January 2025 quarterly updates
▪️ Edge Location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.32
▪️ ElastiCache 1-click connectivity setup between EC2 and your cache
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️default support of EC2 Launch Template
     ▫️better scaling and deployment speeds for Windows with EC2 Fast-launch
▪️ EventBridge direct delivery to cross-account targets
▪️ IoT SiteWise null and NaN data types
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
     ▫️automated version archiving for AMI and container products
▪️ Neptune open-source GraphRAG toolkit
▪️ Q Business insights from images uploaded in chat
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️History Mode for zero-ETL integrations
     ▫️new SQL features for zero-ETL integrations
▪️ Resource Groups +172 more resource types
▪️ SNS FIFO Topics high-throughput mode
▪️ Transfer Family custom directory locations to store AS2 files

📌 Issue #161 | 2 February 2025

▪️ Amazon Lex Assisted Slot Resolution regions and model access
▪️ Amplify TypeScript Data client in server-side AWS Lambda functions
▪️ AppStream 2.0 admin consent for linking OneDrive for Business
▪️ Availability Zones supports Zone Groups
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights historical OS process snapshots
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics IPv6 support
▪️ CodeBuild project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys
▪️ Connect agent time off scheduling up to 24 months in the future
▪️ Connect Cases more granular search and customizable case list views
▪️ DataSync Kerberos authentication
▪️ Deadline Cloud
     ▫️configurable limits to effectively manage fixed resources
     ▫️Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift
▪️ EBS new resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots
▪️ EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️.NET 9 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️PHP 8.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect content quality metrics
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor bring your own ads (BYOA) via VAST responses
▪️ EMR Serverless Public Subnets
▪️ EventBridge event source discovery in the console
▪️ Glue connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications
▪️ Health IPv6 support
▪️ Lex Global Resiliency CloudFormation and existing alias replication
▪️ Managed Notifications
     ▫️general availability
     ▫️support in Console Mobile App
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus cross-account ingestion
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️self-service listing for AMI products with CloudFormation templates
     ▫️self-service seller onboarding for demo and private offer requests
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️agent now runs builds and tests to validate generated code in real time
     ▫️Pro tier adds automated user onboarding emails
▪️ Q in QuickSight Dashboard Q&A
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server up to 64TiB and 256K IOPS with io2 volumes
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses
     ▫️enhanced query monitoring
▪️ S3 Metadata is GA
▪️ S3 Tables 10,000 tables per table bucket
▪️ S3 Tables schema definition support to the CreateTable API
▪️ SES Mail Manager address and domain lists
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDb Storage Scaling

🛡 Issue #162 | 9 February 2025

▪️ AppSync CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
▪️ Batch access control and management of Batch on EKS
▪️ CloudFormation stack seamless refactoring
▪️ CodeBuild integrates with Buildkite
▪️ Connect agent state config management
▪️ Connect Cases conditionally required fields
▪️ Connect Contact Lens automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
▪️ Database Migration Service Serverless S3 source endpoint | GA
▪️ Data Lifecycle Manager IPv6 support
▪️ DocumentDB one-click connectivity with CloudShell
▪️ EC2 automated recovery of MS SQL Server with VSS
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor new log destinations and lower cost
▪️ FSx IPv6 support on FSx Service APIs
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 price reduction
▪️ IAM Identity Center improved error messages and CloudTrail logging
▪️ IAM support for encrypted SAML assertions
▪️ Marketplace Channel Partner private offers custom payment schedules
▪️ Personalize IPv6 support
▪️ Q Business orchestration for user query management
▪️ Q Developer simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions
▪️ Q Developer troubleshoots Console errors in all Commercial regions
▪️ RDS for Oracle January 2025 Release Update
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in December 2024
▪️ Step Functions 100K state machines and activities per AWS account
▪️ Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map
▪️ Toolkit for VS Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB
▪️ Verified Access Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols
▪️ Wickr dedicated space to organize and access files

📌 Issue #163 | 16 February 2025

▪️ AppSync
    ▫️ Comprehensive context object mocking
    ▫️ GraphQL operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses
▪️ CloudFormation support for Transfer Family web apps
▪️ CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints | GA
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals Runtime Metrics for .NET Applications
▪️ CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL
▪️ CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
    ▫️ automated actions based on hold times and agent interaction time
    ▫️ dashboard with aggregated insights on agent performance evaluations
▪️ Deadline Cloud Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
▪️ DynamoDB auto-approval of quota adjustments
▪️ ECS update services from short to long ARNs
▪️ EFS up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system
▪️ EKS Secrets and Configuration Provider for Pod Identity
▪️ EBS full snapshot size information in Console and API
▪️ FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades
▪️ HealthScribe GIRPP note template for behavioral health
▪️ Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning
▪️ Lambda APM for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals
▪️ Network Load Balancer removing availability zones
▪️ Polly new voice in Singaporean English
▪️ Q Developer upgrade to Java 21
▪️ RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in January 2025
▪️ Redshift Serverless reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet
▪️ SES tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager

➡️ Issue #164 | 23 February 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting IAM roles for SSR apps
▪️ AppStream 2.0 Certificate-Based Authentication for multi-session fleets
▪️ Billing
    ▫️ Backup Payment Methods for invoices
    ▫️ China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account
▪️ CodePipeline
    ▫️ native Amazon EC2 deployment support
    ▫️ native Amazon EKS deployment support
▪️ Data Firehose delivery streams CDK L2 construct
▪️ DMS Multi-ENI networking for homogeneous migrations
▪️ DMS Serverless comprehensive premigration assessments
▪️ ECS higher CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Windows Server 2025 environments
▪️ EMR dynamic reconfiguration for instance fleets
▪️ Lake Formation with EMR on EKS fine-grained access control
▪️ MSK Kafka version 3.8
▪️ Network Firewall automated domain lists and insights
▪️ Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replica support
▪️ WAF Data Protection and logging experience

⏲ Issue #165 | 2 March 2025

▪️ Batch resource aware scheduling
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Amazon Nova Creative Models now in Asia Pacific
     ▫️ Amazon Nova understanding models now in Europe and Asia Pacific
     ▫️ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
     ▫️ Session Management APIs | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails increase in service quota limits
▪️ Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
▪️ Cloudwatch Application Signals cross-account application monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights
     ▫️ support for RDS databases
     ▫️ on-demand analysis for RDS MySQL/MariaDB
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed
     ▫️ managed webhooks in GitHub Enterprise
     ▫️ merging parallel test reports and new compute options
     ▫️ support for macOS 15.2
▪️ CodePipeline new console experience for viewing pipeline releases
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ agents to exchange shifts with each other
     ▫️ interactive welcome messages when starting chats
     ▫️ reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam
▪️ Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ EC2 Fleet Block Device Mapping overrides
▪️ EC2 Time-based Copy for AMIs
▪️ ECS additional IAM condition keys
▪️ EKS Anywhere extended support for Kubernetes versions
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️ Corretto 17 and 21 with Tomcat 11
     ▫️ Ruby 3.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ IoT Device Defender certificate lifecycle management
▪️ Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Network Firewall enhanced policy management and console features
▪️ Q Business M365 for Word and Outlook integrations
▪️ RDS for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i instances types
▪️ RDS for Oracle Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025
▪️ RDS visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs
▪️ SageMaker Canvas Q Developer is now GA
▪️ Verified Permissions Cedar JSON entity format
▪️ WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas

ℹ️ Issue #166 | 9 March 2025

▪️ Amplify HttpOnly cookies for server-rendered Next.js
▪️ API Gateway HTTP APIs, mTLS, multi-level base path mappings, and WAF in more regions
▪️ Application Load Balancer integration with VPC IPAM
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Data Automation | GA
     ▫️ latency-optimized inference for Nova Pro FM
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases supports GraphRAG | GA
▪️ Bottlerocket
     ▫️ default bootstrap container image
     ▫️ NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) for Kubernetes workloads
     ▫️ supports Neuron accelerated instance types
▪️ CloudWatch RUM resource-based policy support for data ingestion access
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ Node 22, Python 3.13, and Go 1.23
     ▫️ non-container builds in on-demand fleets
▪️ CodeConnections Sharing of Connections
▪️ Cognito access token customization for M2M authorization flows
▪️ Connect Contact Lens dynamically update the questions on an evaluation form
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ multiple agent proficiencies in a single routing step
     ▫️ outbound campaigns now supports Brazil
▪️ EKS envelope encrypts all Kubernetes API data by default
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP no longer charges for SnapLock licensing
▪️ GameLift Streams
▪️ HealthOmics NVIDIA L4 and L40S GPUs and expanded CPU options
▪️ IAM Access Analyzer IPv6 support
▪️ IoT Device Management managed integrations | Preview
▪️ IoT SiteWise MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways
▪️ Lambda CloudWatch Logs Live Tail in VS Code IDE
▪️ Lex Confirmation and Alphanumeric slot types for Korean
▪️ Outposts high throughput, network-intensive workloads | Preview
▪️ Q Business insights from audio and video data
▪️ Q Developer new CLI agent
▪️ Redshift Data API SSO with IAM Identity Center
▪️ SageMaker Hyperpod Flexible Training Plans instant start times and multiple offers
▪️ Secrets Manager higher API Requests per Second limits
▪️ SES Vade advanced email security Add On for Mail Manager
▪️ Step Functions Workflow Studio for the VS Code IDE
▪️ Transfer Family reduced login latency for SFTP servers
▪️ WAF JA4 fingerprinting and aggregation on JA3 and JA4 fingerprints for rate-based rules
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints

ℹ️ Issue #167 | 16 March 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting deployment skew protection support
▪️ AppSync Events publishing over WebSocket for real-time pub/sub
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Redshift zero-ETL multiple integrations
▪️ Backup logically air-gapped vault support for FSx
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ DeepSeek-R1
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 fine-tuning
     ▫️ multi-agent collaboration
▪️ CodeBuild organization and enterprise level GitHub self-hosted runners
▪️ CodeConnections support for new condition key
▪️ CodePipeline
     ▫️ CodeBuild and Commands rule for stage level condition
     ▫️ invoking pipeline execution with a new action type
▪️ Config EC2 Allowed AMIs
▪️ Connect global telephony coverage
▪️ Data Firehose real-time streaming data into Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ ECR ECR to ECR pull through cache
▪️ ECS GPU-Optimized AMI for Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ EMR on EKS EKS Pod Identity
▪️ EMR Serverless FedRAMP High authorization
▪️ EventBridge IAM execution role support to all targets
▪️ GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper for rapid onboarding
▪️ Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0
▪️ Inspector ECR support for minimal container base images and enhanced detections
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams IPv6 support
▪️ Open Source Serverless Land Patterns in VS Code
▪️ RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in February 2025
▪️ Route 53 Traffic Flow new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
▪️ S3 Access Grants simplify authentication when using both IAM and Identity Provider permissions
▪️ S3 Tables
     ▫️ Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
     ▫️ create and query table support in the S3 console
     ▫️ integration with SageMaker Lakehouse | GA
▪️ SageMaker Inference rolling update for inference component endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Bedrock’s capabilities | GA
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio | GA
▪️ Service Reference Information resources and condition keys
▪️ Verified Access FedRAMP High and Moderate authorization
▪️ WAF PCI DSS4.0 compliance protection with partner solutions
▪️ Wickr new Admin Console

📌 Issue #169 | 30 March 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting WAF Protection | GA
▪️ Amplify
    ▫️ samples to Deploy Storage Browser for S3
     ▫️ Shared Keychain support for Swift
▪️ Application Recovery Controller FIS recovery action for zonal autoshift
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import introduces real-time cost transparency
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails industry-leading image content filters | GA
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Opensearch Managed Cluster for vector storage
▪️ CloudFormation targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
▪️ CodeBuild custom cache keys for S3 caching
▪️ Connected Mobility Solution new features
▪️ Database Insights customization of its metrics dashboard
▪️ DataZone metadata rules for publishing
▪️ Dedicated Local Zones gp3 and io1 ebs volumes
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion IBM Db2 for z/OS to RDS for Db2 conversion
▪️ DynamoDB percentile statistics for request latency
▪️ DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink support
▪️ EC2 more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
▪️ EKS enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect NDI® outputs
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler PrivateLink support
▪️ GameLift Servers next-gen EC2 instances
▪️ IAM dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
▪️ Keyspaces Multi-Region support for User Defined Types (UDTs)
▪️ Lambda Ruby 3.4
▪️ Marketplace new seller experiences for ML products
▪️ Network Firewall pass action rule alerts and JA4 filtering
▪️ Network Manager support PrivateLink and IPv6
▪️ Open Source Corretto 24 | GA
▪️ Parallel Computing Service Terraform support
▪️ Polly New Korean voice
▪️ Q Business upgrades for Slack and Teams Integrations
▪️ Q in QuickSight Scenarios capability | GA
▪️ RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.2 in Preview Environment
▪️ RDS for SQL Server linked servers to Teradata databases
▪️ Route 53 Profiles IPv6 Service Endpoints
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod multi-head node support in Slurm
▪️ SageMaker metadata rules to enforce standards and improve data governance

⏲ Issue #170 | 6 April 2025
▪️ API Gateway support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
▪️ App Studio prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export
▪️ Backup support for Redshift Serverless
▪️ Billing & Cost Management MFA is required for new card registration in Japan
▪️ CDK
     ▫️ CDK L2 Construct for Cognito Identity Pools | GA
     ▫️ Construct Library for EventBridge Scheduler | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms Spark SQL aggregation and list analysis rules
▪️ CloudFront VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals Monitor service dependencies with SLOs
▪️ CloudWatch Logs maximum log event size to 1 MB
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ additional Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) configuration
     ▫️ agent’s adherence work schedules in a calendar view
     ▫️ supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️ conversational analytics in 34 new languages
     ▫️ enable or disable sentiment analysis
▪️ EKS
     ▫️ Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups
     ▫️ new catalog of community add-ons
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk get secrets and configs from Secrets/Systems Manager
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Anywhere SMPTE 2110 inputs
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor new pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
▪️ End User Messaging phone number registration +18 new countries
▪️ IAM Identity Center sessions and TIP management for MS AD
▪️ IoT Device SDK for Swift | Developer Preview
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ Japan Marketplace Facilitator Rule
     ▫️ VAT and supports Korean Won
▪️ Neptune 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines enhanced autoscaling
▪️ OpenSearch Service Q Developer | GA
▪️ Outposts Asset level capacity management
▪️ Payment Cryptography exchanging cryptographic keys using ECDH
▪️ Q Business Browser Extension
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ dashboard versioning and publish any analysis to any dashboard
     ▫️ now supports Highlighting
     ▫️ embedded Q
     ▫️ scheduling and alerts in embedded dashboards
▪️ RAM IPv6 support
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️ configurable cipher suites
     ▫️ Extended Support for 11.22-rds.20250220, 12.22-rds.20250220
▪️ RDS Proxy TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
▪️ Resource Explorer +32 resource types
▪️ SageMaker +9 visual ETL transforms
▪️ Security Lake
     ▫️ achieves FedRamp High and Moderate authorization
     ▫️ IPv6 support
▪️ SES attachments in sending APIs
▪️ SES Mail Manager incoming connections from VPCs via PrivateLink
▪️ SNS IPv6 support
▪️ Step Functions SDK integrations with Backup Search , +137 additional APIs
▪️ VPC Route Server | GA