🐧 Issue #176 | 18 May 2025

▪️ Bedrock Guardrails cross-region inference
▪️ CodeBuild support for remote Docker servers
▪️ CodePipeline
     ▫️ deploying to AWS Lambda with traffic shifting
     ▫️ Deploy Spec file in EC2 deploy action
▪️ Cognito OIDC prompt parameter
▪️ Control Tower account-level reporting for baseline APIs
▪️ Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets now support configuration scripts
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ EC2 Fast Launch
     ▫️ ENA queue allocation for your network interfaces
     ▫️ P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs now generally available
▪️ ECS EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
▪️ Glue Studio additional file types and single file output
▪️ HealthOmics output mapping files for CWL workflows
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams IPv6 support to VPC endpoints
▪️ Lightsail IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion increases memory for an OCU to 15 GB
▪️ Parallel Computing Service accounting with Slurm version 24.11
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1
▪️ SageMaker Catalog governance for S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ CloudFormation support for domain features
     ▫️ move project across domain units
     ▫️ Unified Studio now allows you to bring your own image (BYOI)
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Code Editor (VS Code based)
▪️ SES Mail Manager Debug Logging for traffic policies
▪️ Transform
     ▫️ Mainframe | GA
     ▫️ migration assessment capabilities
     ▫️ .NET | GA
     ▫️ VMware | GA
▪️ VPC CloudTrail logging for VPC resources created by default
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools AlwaysOn running mode

🖋 Issue #177 | 25 May 2025

▪️ Aurora Global Database up to 10 secondary Region clusters
▪️ Aurora reduces cross-Region Global DB Switchover under 30 seconds
▪️ AWS service changes, a dozen services EOL
▪️ Bedrock
    ▫️ Agents Metrics in CloudWatch
    ▫️ Claude 4
    ▫️ Data Automation generating custom insights from videos
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals auto-monitor support for EKS workloads
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights support for Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics safe canary updates and automatic retries
▪️ CodeBuild new IAM condition keys
▪️ Control Tower Enabled controls view for centralized visibility
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications
▪️ Deadline Cloud Foundry Nuke version 16
▪️ Deadline Cloud Monitor multiple languages support
▪️ DMS introduces Data Resync for improved migration accuracy
▪️ DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
▪️ EC2 Mac configurable System Integrity Protection (SIP) settings
▪️ EC2 Public DNS names IPv6 support
▪️ EC2 Scheduled Events customer-initiated reboot migrations
▪️ ECS container exit reason message up to 1024 characters
▪️ EKS Dashboard cross-org/region multi-cluster view of EKS
▪️ HealthImaging
    ▫️ DICOMweb QIDO-RS search and enhanced data management
    ▫️ DICOMweb series level metadata retrievals
▪️ Inspector container security by mapping ECR images to running containers
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus query insights and control capabilities
▪️ Marketplace Sellers can now receive disbursements for partially paid invoices
▪️ MSK Kafka version 4.0
▪️ Organizations IPv6 support
▪️ RDS Custom for Oracle R7i and M7i instances
▪️ RDS easy retrieval of engine lifecycle support dates
▪️ RDS for Oracle credential management with Secrets Manager
▪️ Transfer Family ML-KEM quantum-resistant key exchange for SFTP

⏲ Issue #178 | 1 June 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting customizable build instances
▪️ Aurora DSQL is now generally available
▪️ AWS AMI RHEL 10
▪️ Backup
    ▫️ Aurora DSQL support
    ▫️ EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support
▪️ CDK Toolkit Library | GA
▪️ CloudTrail Lake event enrichment and expanded event size
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring
▪️ Cost Explorer new Cost Comparison feature
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Savings Plans and reservations preferences
▪️ DataSync accelerates cross-cloud data transfers
▪️ DocumentDB 99.99% Service Level Agreement
▪️ EKS and EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.33
▪️ EKS configuration insights for Hybrid Nodes
▪️ EMR Spark capabilities for Lake Formation tables with full table access
▪️ FSx for Lustre new storage class
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP write-back mode for FlexCache volumes
▪️ GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
▪️ IVS Real-Time Streaming participant replication
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 95 day time range queries
▪️ MWAA update environments without interrupting task execution
▪️ Neptune MCP Server
▪️ Network Firewall Adds Support for Multiple VPC Endpoints
▪️ Neuron NxD Inference GA, new features, and improved tools
▪️ OpenSearch Service support for Script Plugins
▪️ Pricing Calculator discounts and purchase commitment | GA
▪️ Redshift cluster relocation is on by default for RA3 clusters
▪️ S3 Express One Zone granular access controls with S3 Access Points
▪️ S3 Mountpoint automatically mount your S3 buckets using fstab
▪️ Secrets Manager support for cost allocation tags for secrets
▪️ Security Hub NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2
▪️ Serverless and Containers MCP Server

🗃 Issue #180 | 15 June 2025

▪️ Amazon Nova Sonic adds support for Spanish language
▪️ API Models open-source
▪️ AppSync Default Encryption for GraphQL API Caching
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports Qwen models
▪️ CloudTrail S3 DeleteObjects API
▪️ Cloud WAN simplifies network operations with Security Group Referencing and enhanced DNS support
▪️ CloudWatch EBS detailed performance statistics
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ calculated attributes
     ▫️ communication limits for Outbound Campaigns
     ▫️ Customer Profiles for Travel and Hospitality
     ▫️ profile explorer for unified customer views
▪️ Console Mobile Application CloudWatch Log Insights
▪️ Control Tower
     ▫️ +7 compliance frameworks
     ▫️ service-linked AWS Config managed Config rules
▪️ Deadline Cloud worker performance monitoring
▪️ DynamoDB Streams Kinesis Client Library (KCL) 3.0
▪️ ECS updating capacity provider configuration for ECS services
▪️ EFS IPv6
▪️ EKS Pod Identity cross-account access
▪️ Elastic VMware Service
     ▫️ Amazon EVS | Preview
     ▫️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ KMS post-quantum ML-DSA digital signatures
▪️ Lex conversational accuracy with LLM-Assisted NLU
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ Fin program for purchases for all US customers
     ▫️ Private Marketplace management in the console
▪️ MSK Express Brokers v3.8
▪️ Open Source pgactive: active-active replication extension
▪️ Powertools for AWS Lambda Bedrock Agents Function utility
▪️ Q Developer
    ▫️ IDE plugins with MCP tools
    ▫️ Java upgrade selective transformation in | Preview
    ▫️ Pro Tier upgrades for Builder IDs
▪️ RDS Custom Cumulative Update 18 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
▪️ RDS for DB2 cross region standby replicas
▪️ S3 Tables storage cost visibility for individual tables
▪️ SageMaker GPU-accelerated instances price reductions
▪️ Verified Permissions reduces authorization request price by up to 97%
▪️ WAF automatic application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection

✅ Issue #181 | 22 June 2025

▪️ Amazon Inspector code security to shift security left in development
▪️ Amazon Verified Permissions Express.js developers can now add authorization in minutes
▪️ Backup Multi-party approval support for logically air-gapped vaults
▪️ Certificate Manager public certificates you can use anywhere
▪️ CloudFront smart defaults and automation
▪️ Competency reimagined MSSP
▪️ Compute Optimizer idle EC2 Auto Scaling groups with GPU instances
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling ability to filter out instance details from the DescribeAutoScalingGroups API
▪️ ECR enhanced scanning now surfaces image use status
▪️ GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection EKS support
▪️ IAM Access Analyzer identifies who in your AWS organization can access your AWS resources
▪️ IAM enforces MFA for root users across all account types
▪️ IVS Real-Time Streaming E-RTMP multitrack video ingest
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events
     ▫️ SnapStart for Python and .NET functions +23 regions
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ enhanced selling authorization experience for ISVs
     ▫️ license type conversions
▪️ Network Firewall
     ▫️ active threat defense
     ▫️ Transit Gateway native integration
▪️ Parallel Computing Service Job Completion Metadata Logging
▪️ Partnership updated Government Competency
▪️ RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.3
▪️ S3 Express One Zone atomic renaming of objects with a single API call
▪️ S3 more context for 403 Access Denied errors for Organizations
▪️ SageMaker AI M7i, C7i, and R7i for SageMaker Model Training and SageMaker Processing
▪️ Savings Plans One Year plans for P5 and P5en
▪️ Security Hubrisk prioritization and response at scale | Preview
▪️ Shield network security director | Preview
▪️ Valkey GLIDE 2.0 with support for Go, OpenTelemetry, and pipeline batching
▪️ WAF reduces web application security configuration steps and provides expert-level protection

🖋 Issue #182 | 29 June 2025

▪️ Bedrock Flows preview of persistent long-running execution and inline-code
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails tiers for content filters and denied topics
▪️ Braket dynamic circuit capabilities on IQM Garnet
▪️ CloudWatch Investigations | GA
▪️ Cognito introduces WAF support for Managed Login
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now includes location-based emissions
▪️ EMR on EKS Service Quotas
▪️ End User Messaging Service Quotas
▪️ EventBridge CodeBuild batch builds as a target
▪️ Firewall Manager WAF L7 DDOS managed rules
▪️ FSx for OpenZFS S3 access
▪️ GameLift Servers UDP ping beacons
▪️ Glue Data Catalog usage metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ Glue Lake Formation tables with full table access
▪️ HealthOmics automatic input parameter interpolation for Nextflow
▪️ IoT Device Management managed integrations | GA
▪️ Neptune Analytics GraphStorm for Scalable Graph Machine Learning
▪️ Private CA IPv6 support
▪️ Q Developer Java upgrade transformation CLI | GA
▪️ re:Post and re:Post Private Intelligent Search
▪️ Route 53 capacity utilization metric for Resolver endpoints
▪️ Route 53 Resolver DNS delegation for private hosted zones
▪️ S3 sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ SageMaker automatic synchronization from Git to S3
▪️ SageMaker custom transport to OpenLineage
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs
▪️ Security Incident Response integration with EventBridge
▪️ Service Reference Information annotations for service actions
▪️ Time Sync Service Nanosecond Hardware Packet Timestamps
▪️ VPC raises default Route Table capacity
▪️ WAF Resource-level DDoS protection for ALB
▪️ WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances simplify VDI migrations
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal PrivateLink for streaming traffic

🗃 Issue #183 | 6 July 2025

▪️ Amazon Q AWS Connect +7 languages for proactive recommendations
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL up to 256 TiB of storage volume
▪️ B2B Data Interchange
    ▫️ configuration capabilities for generated EDI documents
    ▫️ splitting of inbound EDI documents
▪️ Bedrock Citations API and PDF support
▪️ Clean Rooms incremental and distributed training for custom modeling
▪️ CloudFront support for HTTPS DNS records
▪️ CloudWatch PutMetricData API now supports CloudTrail data event logging
▪️ Config rules add classifications from Control Tower Control Catalog
▪️ Connect
    ▫️ additional APIs to update and delete cases
    ▫️ audio treatment while customers wait in queue
    ▫️ custom work labels for agent schedules
    ▫️ enhanced flow designer UI editing features
    ▫️ include agent activities from third-party applications when evaluating agent performance
    ▫️ segment creation from imported files
▪️ Control Tower support for AWS PrivateLink
▪️ EBS gp3 volumes for second-generation Outposts racks
▪️ ECS
    ▫️ Optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs
    ▫️ Task ID in unhealthy service events
▪️ Fargate SOCI Index Manifest v2 for greater deployment consistency
▪️ HealthImaging
    ▫️ DICOMweb BulkData
    ▫️ DICOMweb STOW-RS data imports
▪️ Keyspaces Change Data Capture (CDC) Streams
▪️ Neptune Graph Explorer Native Query Support for Gremlin and openCypher
▪️ Nova Canvas virtual try-on and style options for image generation
▪️ Q Business ability to customize responses
▪️ Q-Index seamless application-level authentication
▪️ QuickSight
    ▫️ 2B row SPICE dataset
    ▫️ Trusted Identity Propagation (TIP) for Athena Direct Query
▪️ RDS Custom for Oracle Multi-AZ deployments
▪️ Redshift Serverless 4 RPU Minimum Capacity Option
▪️ Rekognition Face Liveness accuracy improvements and new challenge setting for improved UX
▪️ Route 53 capacity utilization metric for Resolver endpoints
▪️ S3 Express One Zone tags for cost allocation and attribute-based access control
▪️ SageMaker Catalog AI recommendations for descriptions of custom assets
▪️ SageMaker
    ▫️ HyperPod training operator
    ▫️ integration with Aurora MySQL, RDS for MySQL
▪️ SNS delivery to Data Firehose +3 regions
▪️ Textract accuracy and feature updates to DetectDocumentText and AnalyzeDocument APIs
▪️ Transfer Family support for IPv6 endpoints
▪️ Transform EBS costs, .NET complexity and expands chat guidance

🌐 Issue #184 | 13 July 2025

▪️ Amazon Q can now query service data in AWS Console
▪️ AWS Builder Center builder.aws.com | GA
▪️ AWS Oracle Database is now generally available
▪️ AWS Specialization badges now display categories
▪️ Bedrock API keys for streamlined development
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals MCP servers
▪️ Connect parallel AWS Lambda execution in flows
▪️ EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers
▪️ IoT Greengrass v2.15 introduces updates to both nucleus and nucleus lite
▪️ Neptune Analytics Mem0 for graph-native memory in GenAI applications
▪️ Network Firewall Native AWS Transit Gateway support in all regions
▪️ QuickSight granular access customization for exports and reports
▪️ RDS Custom Cumulative Update 19 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
▪️ S3 Tables Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
▪️ SageMaker AI Fully managed MLflow 3.0
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
     ▫️ CLI and SDK for AI Workflows
     ▫️ new observability capability
     ▫️ open-weights model deployment
▪️ SageMaker Studio remote connections from VS Code
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN IPv6 addresses on outer tunnel IPs
▪️ VPC Lattice support for Oracle Database@AWS

✅ Issue #186 | 27 July 2025

▪️ Amazon MQ Graviton3-based M7g instances for RabbitMQ
▪️ Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
▪️ Audit Manager evidence collection for better compliance insights
▪️ Braket new 54-qubit quantum processor from IQM
▪️ CloudWatch adds IPv6 support
▪️ Connect
     ▫️CloudFormation for message template attachments
     ▫️CloudFormation for quick responses
     ▫️launches forecast editing UI
     ▫️per-day pricing for external voice connectors
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub account names in optimization opportunities
▪️ Deadline Cloud resource endpoints for connecting shared storage to service-managed fleets
▪️ EC2 skipping the OS shutdown when stopping or terminating instances
▪️ ECR exceptions to tag immutability
▪️ ElastiCache
     ▫️Bloom filter
     ▫️Valkey 8.1
▪️ EMR Serverless Inline Runtime Permissions for job runs
▪️ Glue Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a data source
▪️ HealthOmics
     ▫️3-rd Git repository support for workflow creation
     ▫️readme file support
▪️ IoT SiteWise Query API advanced SQL support and ODBC driver
▪️ MSK up to 5x more partitions on Express Brokers
▪️ Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement
▪️ RDS for Db2 group-based authorization with self-managed Active Directory
▪️ RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Redshift
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Redshift | GA
▪️ Redshift Serverless 2-AZ Subnet Configurations
▪️ Service Reference Information actions for last accessed services
▪️ SQS fair queues for multi-tenant workloads
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 24xlarge memory-optimized instances

✅ Issue #189 | 17 August 2025

▪️ Athena CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ Batch now supports Graviton-based Spot compute with Fargate
▪️ Bedrock Expanded Context Window for Sonnet 4
▪️ Billing and Cost Management Console new recommended actions
▪️ Braket support for program sets
▪️ Business Agentic RAG to enhance accuracy and explainability
▪️ Certificate Manager supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks Managed Controls and Hook Activity Summary
▪️ Cloud Map cross-account service discovery
▪️ Config 10 new resource types
▪️ Connect
     ▫️an API for real-time position in queue
     ▫️recurring activities in agent schedules
     ▫️Cases automatically update cases upon creation
     ▫️Outbound Campaigns multi-profile campaigns and enhanced phone number retry sequencing
▪️ Deadline Cloud new cost-saving compute option
▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Cape Town, South Africa
▪️ DocumentDB Extended Support for Version 3.6
▪️ DynamoDB
     ▫️CloudWatch Contributor Insights mode exclusively for throttled keys
     ▫️more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
     ▫️more granular throttle error exceptions
▪️ EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations New Sharing/Targeting Capabilities
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP decreasing your SSD storage capacity
▪️ FSx for ONTAP allows decreasing SSD capacity
▪️ FSx for OpenZFS supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ IAM Identity Center user background sessions with SageMaker Studio
▪️ IoT Core DeleteConnection API to streamline MQTT connections
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD increases directory sharing limits
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus support resource policies
▪️ Marketplace new incentives for ISVs selling
▪️ Neptune integrates with Cognee for graph-native memory in GenAI Apps
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless kNN Byte vector and new data types
▪️ Q Business Response Events for enhanced chat transparency
▪️ QuickSight limits on calculated fields
▪️ RDS for Db2 cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases
▪️ Resource Explorer Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️AI P6e-GB200 UltraServers
     ▫️HyperPod
          ▫️fine-grained quota allocation of compute resources
          ▫️new cluster setup experience
          ▫️Topology Aware Scheduling of LLM tasks
          ▫️custom AMIs
     ▫️Studio trusted identity propagation
▪️ Security Incident Response membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
▪️ Systems Manager Automation enhances runbook execution control and updates free tier
▪️ VPC IPv4 ingress routing for large IP Pools
▪️ WorkSpaces Bring Your Own License

✅️Issue #192 | 7 September 2025

▪️ Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.9
▪️ AWS Console centrally manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Simplified Cache Management for Anthropic’s Claude models
     ▫️three new condition keys to govern API keys
▪️ Clean Rooms
     ▫️configurable compute size for PySpark jobs
     ▫️new data providers to existing collaborations
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks Managed Controls and Hook Activity Summary
▪️ CloudFront TLS security policy with post-quantum support
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️query alarms now support monitoring metrics individually
     ▫️querying metrics data up to two weeks old
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics multi-browser support for application testing
▪️ Connect detailed disconnect reasons
▪️ Control Tower Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Deadline Cloud Automating Job Attachments Downloads
▪️ EC2 AMI Usage
▪️ GuardDuty new custom entity lists
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus quota visibility via Service Quotas and CloudWatch
▪️ Management Console ECS Exec is now available
▪️ MediaConvert Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS)
▪️ MQ OAuth 2.0 plugin for RabbitMQ
▪️ Neptune Database Public Endpoints for simplified development access
▪️ Neptune Zep to Power Long-Term Memory for GenAI Applications
▪️ Open Source scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18 Beta RC1
▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances with 25% lower pricing compared to equivalent virtualized instances
▪️ RDS Proxy Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ SageMaker Catalog governed classification with restricted terms
▪️ Systems Manager Validate best practice compliance for SAP
▪️ Transform for VMware flexible network management and broader AWS Region coverage
▪️ User Notifications Organizational Notification Configurations | GA

✅️ Issue #193 | 14 September 2025

▪️ Athena single sign-on support for drivers
▪️ Backup selective backup of ACLs and ObjectTags in S3 backups
▪️ Bedrock synchronous inference with Marengo Embed 2.7
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️ECDSA support for signed URLs
     ▫️support for IPv6 origins
▪️ CloudTrail MCP Server for enhanced security analysis
▪️ CloudWatch Network Monitoring flow visibility between Regions
▪️ CloudWatch Observability Access Manager VPC Endpoints
▪️ Config resource tags for IAM Policies
▪️ Connect agents manually assign themselves Tasks, Emails, and Chats
▪️ Direct Connect 4-byte Autonomous System numbers for Virtual interfaces
▪️ EC2
     ▫️M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances | GA
     ▫️New EFA metrics
▪️ ECS
     ▫️enhances task definition editing in the Console with Q Developer
     ▫️Service Connect adds support for cross-account workloads
▪️ HealthImaging OIDC authentication for DICOMweb APIs
▪️ IoT SiteWise retraining of anomaly detection models
▪️ IVS private ingest via interface VPC endpoints
▪️ LocalStack VS Code integration
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD LDAPS and Smart Card with AWS Private CA
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector logs now available in CloudWatch Logs
▪️ Neptune Analytics graph store in NetworkX
▪️ Q in Connect selecting LLMs directly in Connect Web UI
▪️ RDS Proxy support of end-to-end IAM authentication
▪️ S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits | Malware Protection
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod Managed Tiered Checkpointing
▪️ SageMaker notebooks now support P6-B200 instance type
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio
     ▫️Custom Blueprints | GA
     ▫️improved AI assistance
     ▫️remote connection from VS Code
▪️ WAF free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume

✅ Issue #194 | 21 September 2025

▪️ Amazon Keyspaces now(), uuid() functions in SELECT and Duration data type
▪️ AppStream 2.0 fractional GPU instances
▪️ AWS FIS inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️DeepSeek-V3.1 model
     ▫️on-demand deployment for custom Meta Llama models
     ▫️OpenAI open weight models expand to new regions
     ▫️Qwen3 models
     ▫️Stability AI Image Services
▪️ Budgets custom time periods
▪️ CloudWatch Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization
▪️ Connect Cases date range filters in the case list view
▪️ Connect search contacts using agent hierarchy filters
▪️ EC2 detailed performance stats on all NVMe local volumes
▪️ End User Messaging supports CloudFormation for SMS
▪️ EventBridge extends Customer Managed Key support to rule filter patterns and input transformers
▪️ EVS HCX migration over public internet
▪️ Lex
     ▫️enhanced confirmation and currency built-in slots to 10 additional languages
     ▫️gen-AI based enhanced natural +8 languages
▪️ Network Firewall enhances console, monitoring, and security features
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion cross-account ingestion
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless Disk-Optimized Vectors
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️Derived Source for storage optimization
     ▫️Star-Tree Index
     ▫️version 3.1
▪️ Open Source Corretto 25 | GA
▪️ Organizations
     ▫️account state information for member accounts
     ▫️full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)
▪️ Parallel Computing Service EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
▪️ Q Developer CLI remote MCP servers
▪️ RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
▪️ Redshift Multidimensional Data Layouts | GA
▪️ S3 Batch Operations managing buckets or prefixes in a single step
▪️ S3 conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
     ▫️autoscaling using Karpenter
     ▫️health monitoring agent support for Slurm clusters
▪️ SiteWise MCP Server for Simplified Modeling
▪️ Step Functions
     ▫️expands data source options and improves observability for Distributed Map
     ▫️IPv6 with dual-stack endpoints
▪️ Storage Gateway supports IPv6

✉️ Issue #195 | 28 Sepetember 2025

▪️ Amazon Nova Act extension: Build and test AI agents within your IDE
▪️ AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets | Local file redirection
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore, Browser, Code Interpreter supports VPC, PrivateLink, CloudFormation, tagging
▪️ Billing View cost management data from multiple organizations
▪️ Clean Rooms incremental ID mapping with AWS Entity Resolution
▪️ CloudWatch resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
▪️ Compute Optimizer +99 new Amazon EC2 instance types
▪️ Connect
     ▫️associate custom attributes with interaction segments
     ▫️flow designer now supports analytics mode
▪️ Connect Contact Lens sensitive data redaction +7 languages
▪️ EBS increased max size/performance of GP3 volumes
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Allowed AMIs setting adds new params
     ▫️instance attestation
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling forced cancellation of instance refreshes
▪️ IAM Identity Center customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
▪️ License Manager supports shared Managed Active Directory
▪️ Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
▪️ RDS cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18.0
▪️ RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances
▪️ S3 Tables Preview in the S3 console
▪️ X-Ray Adaptive Sampling for automatic optimized error detection

❤ Issue #196 | 6 October 2025

▪️ AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release
▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with Google
▪️ B2B Data Interchange new transformation status reporting
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation enhancing transcriptions
▪️ Bedrock
▫️ Cohere’s Embed v4
▫️ Sonnet 4.5
▪️ Billing and Costs self-service invoice correction feature
▪️ Clean Rooms
▫️ collaboration with cross-region data sources
▫️ data access budgets
▪️ CloudWatch Application map | GA
▪️ Cognito terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
▪️ Connect
▫️ agent screen recording for ChromeOS
▫️ agent time-off balance data in analytics data lake
▫️ customize service level calculations
▫️ dashboards filtering and comparing metrics by any time range
▫️ gen-AI-powered email conversation overviews and suggested responses
▫️ get customer input on outbound calls
▪️ DataSync VPC endpoint policies
▪️ Detective PrivateLink for private API access
▪️ Directory Service
▫️ API-driven Managed Microsoft AD edition upgrades
▫️ IPv6 support for Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling
▫️ now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▫️ PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
▫️ enhanced capabilities for managing image pipelines
▪️ EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint now supports IPv6 connectivity
▪️ ECS
▫️ announces IPv6-only support
▫️ Managed Instances
▫️ one-click event capture and event history querying
▪️ End User Messaging onboarding progress alerts via Slack, Email, EventBridge destination
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ GameLift Servers view and connect to instances in the console
▪️ GameLift Streams IPv6 support for streaming Windows applications
▪️ Glue adds write operations for 3-rd party connectors
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) IPv6 with dual-stack endpoints
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams IPv6 for Streams capability
▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now generally available
▪️ Managed Workflows Apache Airflow 3.0
▪️ Neptune Database GraphStorm for scalable graph machine learning
▪️ Network Firewall Reject and Alert actions for stateful domain list rule groups
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion batch AI inference
▪️ Outposts external block volumes from Dell and HPE storage arrays
▪️ Parallel Computing Service
▫️ dynamic cluster updates
▫️ now supports node reboot via Slurm
▫️ Slurm customization capabilities
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio single sign-on support for interactive Spark sessions
▪️ Secrets Manager PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
▪️ SNS FIPS 140-3 endpoints
▪️ Step Functions now supports Service Quotas
▪️ Storage Gateway VPC endpoint policies
▪️ Transfer Family
▫️ additional IAM condition keys
▫️ VPC endpoint policies and FIPS VPC endpoints
▪️ Transform Terraform for VMware network automation