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✔️ re:Invent 2025 | Issue #205

▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview
▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI
▪️ Amazon Nova Act automate production UI workflows
▪️ Amazon Nova Forge Build your own Frontier Models using Nova
▪️ Amazon Q now can analyze SES email sending
▪️ API Gateway adds MCP proxy support
▪️ AWS AI Factories new service
▪️ AWS AI League 2026 Championship
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent frontier agent for operational excellence | Preview
▪️ AWS Interconnect
     ▫️last mile | Preview
     ▫️multicloud | Preview
▪️ AWS MCP Server in Preview
▪️ AWS Security Agent AI agent for proactive app security | Preview
▪️ AWS Support AI-powered operations with the human expertise you trust
▪️ AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Amazon Nova 2
     ▫️+18 fully managed open-weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date
     ▫️Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3
     ▫️Responses API from OpenAI
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy, Evaluations (preview) and more
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Multimodal retrieval | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms synthetic dataset generation training custom ML training
▪️ CloudWatch GenAI observability now supports Amazon AgentCore Evaluations
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️incident reports now support Five Whys analysis
     ▫️simplified enablement of AWS CloudTrail events
     ▫️unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data
▪️ Connect
     ▫️agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions
     ▫️agent workspace now supports custom visual themes
     ▫️AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service
     ▫️AI-powered case summaries
     ▫️AI-powered predictive insights | Preview
     ▫️automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases
     ▫️automated performance evaluations for self-service interactions
     ▫️creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs
     ▫️custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time
     ▫️enhances its agent assistance capabilities
     ▫️granular access controls for performance evaluations
     ▫️improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents
     ▫️integrates with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
     ▫️automatically select relevant contacts for performance evaluation
     ▫️launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
     ▫️native testing and simulation capabilities | Preview
     ▫️simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows
     ▫️streams messages for AI-powered interactions
     ▫️third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service
     ▫️WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
▪️ Connect Chat agent-initiated workflows
▪️ Connect Chat in-flight data redaction and message processing
▪️ Connect Customer Profiles new segmentation capabilities | Beta
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder
▪️ Database Savings Plans with up to 35% savings
▪️ EC2
     ▫️C8a Instances New Compute-Optimized
     ▫️C8ine instances | Preview
     ▫️General purpose M8azn instances | Preview
     ▫️M4 Max Mac instances | Preview
     ▫️M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors | Preview
     ▫️Memory optimized X8i instances | Preview
     ▫️new memory optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances
     ▫️new memory-optimized X8aedz Instances
     ▫️P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
     ▫️Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost generative AI training
▪️ EKS Capabilities
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning for Spark workloads
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Amazon S3 access
▪️ Glue Apache Iceberg based materialized views
▪️ GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now supports EC2 and ECS
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot generate IAM policies from code
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🎄 Issue #207 | 22 December 2025

▪️ ACM automated certificate management for Kubernetes
▪️ Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities
▪️ Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports
▪️ Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23
▪️ AWS Databases now available on the Vercel Marketplace
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation instruction optimization for your document blueprints
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
     ▫️ cost allocation using users’ attributes
     ▫️ cost allocation Tags support for Account Tags
     ▫️ PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards
     ▫️ reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
▪️ Billing Conductor enhanced custom line item controls
▪️ Clean Rooms
     ▫️ change requests for existing collaborations
     ▫️ publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ additional details within real-time metric alerts
     ▫️ multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
▪️ Control Tower 176 new AWS Security Hub controls
▪️ Direct Connect resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
▪️ ECR creating repositories on push
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances
▪️ ECS weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
▪️ EKS enhanced network security policies
▪️ IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
▪️ IoT event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
▪️ Marketplace mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging
▪️ MSK Connect dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors
▪️ MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ announces new OI2 instances
     ▫️ now offers a new multi-tier storage
▪️ Payment Cryptography
     ▫️ is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
     ▫️ reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
▪️ Quick Suite
     ▫️ browser extension now supports Quick Flows
     ▫️ now supports memory for chat agents
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1
▪️ RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
▪️ Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
▪️ Redshift Serverless dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 | GA
▪️ Route 53 detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times
▪️ Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack
▪️ SES announces email validation
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications
     ▫️ additional health and performance metrics
     ▫️ Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
     ▫️ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
▪️ WorkSpaces now supports IPv6
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🎄 Issue #208 | 29 December 2025

▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
▪️ CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services
▪️ Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages
▪️ Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
▪️ ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
▪️ End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer | Preview
▪️ GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling
▪️ GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts
▪️ Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2
▪️ Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities
▪️ Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor
▪️ Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
▪️ Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers
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Issue #212 | 26 January 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages
▪️ AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions
▪️ Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
▪️ Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL
▪️ Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides
▪️ Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
▪️ Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat
▪️ EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection
▪️ EC2 M4 Max Mac instances | GA
▪️ ECR cross-repository layer sharing
▪️ EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks
▪️ EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways
▪️ EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection
▪️ Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation
▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables
▪️ Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets
▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds
▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2
▪️ RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration
▪️ RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support
▪️ Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs
▪️ Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subscriptions
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps
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Issue #213 | 1 Feb 2026

▪️ AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs | Preview
▪️ Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching
▪️ Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API
▪️ Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers
▪️ Connect granular access controls for cases
▪️ Deadline Cloud editing job name and description
▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service
▪️ ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35
▪️ EventBridge 1 MB payload size
▪️ GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances
▪️ IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
▪️ Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables
▪️ Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings
▪️ Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints
▪️ Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products
▪️ Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement
▪️ Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
▪️ RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs
▪️ S3 Change the server-side encryption type
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection
▪️ WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances
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Issue #214 | 9 Feb 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL indexes on the NUMERIC data type
▪️ AWS Batch unmanaged compute environments for Amazon EKS
▪️ AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple
▪️ Batch Array Job Status Summary in ListJobs API
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 4.6
▪️ Bedrock Structured outputs
▪️ CloudFront mutual TLS support for origins
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals integration with Kiro powers
▪️ Connect APIs to test and simulate voice interactions
▪️ Connect appeals workflow for agent performance evaluations
▪️ Connect Cases CSV uploads to map related field options
▪️ Connect improved wait time estimates
▪️ DynamoDB global tables with replication across multiple AWS accounts
▪️ EC2 and VPC now display related resources for security groups
▪️ EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances
▪️ EC2 capacity blocks for ML can be shared across multiple accounts
▪️ ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ Glue native REST API connector for universal data integration
▪️ HealthImaging adds JPEG XL support
▪️ IAM Identity Center account access and application use in multiple AWS Regions
▪️ IAM Identity Center Multi-party requires OTP verification for voting
▪️ Lightsail memory-optimized instance bundles
▪️ Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar
▪️ Marketplace localized billing for Professional Services from AWS EMEA
▪️ Network Firewall announces new price reductions
▪️ Quick Suite Easy Resolution of Ambiguous Map Locations
▪️ RDS enhanced console experience to connect to a database
▪️ Redshift autonomics for multi-cluster environments
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Production-Ready Drug Discovery and Robotics Pipelines with NVIDIA NIMs
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Apache Spark lineage
▪️ STS validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI
▪️ WorkSpaces launches Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports custom domain
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Issue #215 | 16 Feb 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL identity columns and sequence objects
▪️ Athena 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity
▪️ Aurora Global Database managed minor version upgrades
▪️ Backup cross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults
▪️ Batch Job Queue and Share Utilization Visibility
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️AgentCore Browser now supports proxy configuration
     ▫️+6 fully-managed open weights models
     ▫️expands support for AWS PrivateLink
▪️ CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
▪️ Connect
     ▫️after contact work timeout configuration for tasks, chats, and emails
     ▫️audio enhancements for noisy environments
     ▫️auto-accept for tasks, chats, and emails
     ▫️granular access controls for analytics dashboards
     ▫️in-app notifications to surface critical operational alerts to business users
     ▫️real time AI-powered overviews and recommended next actions for Tasks
▪️ DynamoDB Resource Control Policies
▪️ ECR additional metrics for monitoring repositories
▪️ EKS Auto Mode Enhanced Logging
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk GitHub Actions
▪️ HealthOmics Kiro Power and Kiro IDE extension for bioinformatics workflow development
▪️ Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing
▪️ MSK
     ▫️broker logs on Express Brokers
     ▫️new APIs and console integration
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups
▪️ Outposts EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances
▪️ Payment Cryptography Achieves Cartes Bancaires Approval
▪️ RDS
     ▫️backup configuration when restoring snapshots
     ▫️latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift allocating extra compute for automatic optimizations
▪️ S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod node actions from the console
▪️ Support Center Console now supports 7 additional languages
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Issue #217 | 2 March 2026

▪️ AppConfig integrates with New Relic for automated rollbacks
▪️ Aurora DSQL Playground for interactive database exploration
▪️ Automated Reasoning policies now include references to the source document
▪️ AWS Deadline Cloud running tasks together in chunks
▪️ AWS Elemental Inference announcement
▪️ Backup Neptune to five additional AWS Regions
▪️ Bacs Direct Debit as a payment method for UK customers
▪️ Bedrock
    ▫️announces OpenAI-compatible Projects API
    ▫️batch inference now supports the Converse API format
    ▫️server-side tool execution with AgentCore Gateway
▪️ CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
▪️ CloudWatch logs centralization rules now support customizable destination log group structure
▪️ Cognito client secret management with secret rotation and custom secrets
▪️ Compute Optimizer AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots
▪️ Connect dynamic dialing mode switching for outbound campaigns
▪️ DSQL
     ▫️new integrations for Visual Studio Code SQLTools and DBeaver
    ▫️new support for Tortoise, Flyway, and Prisma
▪️ EC2 Image Builder wildcard support and simplified IAM
▪️ ECS Managed Instances EC2 Capacity Reservations
▪️ EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler adds resource count metrics for quota monitoring
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot is now available as a Kiro Power
▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview
▪️ Lightsail expands blueprint selection with a new WordPress blueprint
▪️ Location Service LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance
▪️ Marketplace multiple purchases of SaaS and Professional Services products
▪️ MediaConvert new video probe API and UI
▪️ Network Firewall firewall state change notifications through EventBridge
▪️ Observabilitynow available as a Kiro power
▪️ OpenSearch Service new insights for improved cluster stability
▪️ Q Developer generative AI-based artifacts
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations
▪️ Resource Access Manager maintaining shares when accounts change organizations
▪️ S3 AWS source region information in server access logs
▪️ Security Agent penetration tests on shared VPCs across AWS accounts
▪️ Security Hub Extended plan for pay-as-you-go partner solutions
▪️ Trusted Advisor unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer
▪️ VPC Encryption Controls announces pricing
▪️ WAF AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications extends support for 4K resolution
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Issue #218 | 9 March 2026

▪️ Batch configurable scale down delay
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Policy | GA
▪️ Bedrock Mistral AI Devstral 2
▪️ CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default
▪️ Config +30 resource types
▪️ Connect Health Agentic AI Built for Healthcare
▪️ Database Savings Plans OpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API
▪️ GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection
▪️ HealthLake data transformation agent for automated CCDA-to-FHIR data conversion | Preview
▪️ IAM simplified role creation and setup in service workflows
▪️ Lambda Kiro Power durable functions development
▪️ Lightsail OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion
     ▫️Prometheus as a sink
     ▫️unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data
▪️ OpenSearch Service capacity optimized blue/green deployments
▪️ Organizations Multi-party approval with approval team baselining
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️new array functions for semi-structured data processing
     ▫️reusable templates for COPY operations
▪️ Redshift Serverless datashare permissions during restore
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
     ▫️API-driven Slurm configuration
     ▫️comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio
     ▫️AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs
     ▫️light mode support for IAM-based domains
     ▫️metadata sync with third-party catalogs
     ▫️remote connection from Kiro IDE
▪️ Security Hub Shield network security director findings
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Issue #219 | 16 March 2026

▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with GitHub and Amazon
▪️ Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for EKS
▪️ Backup RDS Multi-AZ clusters to 17 Regions
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory streaming notifications for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime stateful MCP server features
▪️ Bedrock observability of First Token Latency and Quota Consumption
▪️ CDK Mixins is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities
▪️ CloudWatch Logs increased query concurrency and API limits
▪️ Connect AI-powered manager assistance (Preview)
▪️ Connect AI-powered predictive insights
▪️ Connect case data in analytics data lake
▪️ Connect conversational analytics for email
▪️ Connect integrated workflows for managers to coach agents
▪️ Connect select different From email addresses when sending emails
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
▪️ Glue zero-ETL integrations with DynamoDB
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere post-quantum digital certificates
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
▪️ LZA MCP Server AI-assisted configuration management
▪️ Neptune Database adds native spatial data support
▪️ Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ OpenSearch Service in-place volume increases for all volume sizes
▪️ OpenSearch UI Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains
▪️ PrivateLink Private CA Connector for SCEP
▪️ Quick Suite User Preferences for chat personalization
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available
▪️ S3 account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio faster data preview in Visual ETL
▪️ SAM Kiro power serverless application development
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Windows Server 2025
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Issue #220 | 23 March 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
▪️ Amazon Inspector  Windows KB-based findings
▪️ AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports shell command execution
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the AG-UI protocol
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime WebRTC real-time bidirectional streaming
▪️ Bedrock Minimax M2.5 and GLM 5
▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
▪️ Blu Insights is now AWS Transform for mainframe refactor
▪️ CloudWatch Logs log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
▪️ CloudWatch organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement
▪️ Config  +75 new managed rules
▪️ Connect new generative text-to-speech voices and expands to new regions
▪️ Connect enables agents to forward email contacts to external email addresses
▪️ Connect voice AI agents now supports 13 new languages
▪️ DataSync AWS Secrets Manager for all location types
▪️ EC2 Fleet interruptible Capacity Reservations
▪️ EC2 NIXL with EFA to accelerate LLM inference at scale
▪️ ECR pull through cache for Chainguard
▪️ EKS 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect adds support for NDI® inputs
▪️ Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata
▪️ Neptune reading S3 data using openCyper
▪️ Neuron support for Dynamic Resource Allocation with Amazon EKS
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.5
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server adds ability to view and schedule new OS updates
▪️ Redshift new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads by up to 7x performance
▪️ S3 Tables Simplified permissions and materialized views
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod idle resource sharing for dynamic cluster utilization
▪️ SageMaker Training Plans extending of existing capacity commitments without workload reconfiguration
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom metadata filters
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio supports aggregated view of data lineage
▪️ Security Agent downloading penetration testing reports
▪️ Security Agent now available with Service Quotas
▪️ SimpleDB exporting domain data to Amazon S3
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations
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Issue #221 | 30 March 2026

▪️ AppConfig enhanced targeting during feature flag rollout
▪️ Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building Ruby applications
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL creating and connecting to a database in seconds
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
▪️ Batch AMI status and supports AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events
▪️ Batch quota management and preemption for SageMaker Training jobs
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Chrome policies and custom root CA
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime managed session storage for persistent agent FS state | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer
▪️ CloudWatch Logs data protection, OpenSearch PPL/ SQL for the Infrequent Access ingestion class
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion GenAI +10 regions
▪️ GameLift Servers next-generation EC2 instance families
▪️ HealthImaging study-level fine-grained access control
▪️ HealthOmics batch run operations
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances file descriptor limit to 4K
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs
▪️ Management Console settings to control service and Region visibility
▪️ Parallel Computing Service slurmdbd and cgroups settings
▪️ Polly +10 voices, 2 regions, and Bidirectional Streaming API
▪️ Route 53 Profiles granular IAM permissions for resource and VPC associations
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless reinforcement fine-tuning for 12 additional models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning for Slurm-orchestrated clusters
▪️ SageMaker Studio Kiro and Cursor IDEs as remote IDEs
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio remote connection from Cursor IDE
▪️ Serverless Accelerate AI-assisted development with Agent Plugin
▪️ Step Functions +28 new service integrations, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
▪️ Storage Gateway Terraform modules now support Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Advanced Metrics
▪️ Transfer Family AS2 now supports receipts of MDNs asynchronously
▪️ Valkey automatic query caching with Advanced JDBC Wrapper
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Issue #222 | 6 Apr 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL new connectors .NET and Rust apps
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent is now generally available
▪️ AWS Sustainability Console carbon emissions tracking
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails cross-account safeguards | GA
▪️ CloudFront BYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration
▪️ CloudFront SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
▪️ CloudWatch Security Hub CSPM findings with org-wide enablement
▪️ CloudWatch Logs lookup query command
▪️ CloudWatch multi-account and region log centralization based on data source
▪️ CloudWatch OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
▪️ CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)
▪️ CloudWatch PromQL querying with Query Studio Preview
▪️ CloudWatch S3 Express One Zone metrics
▪️ Cluster Insights OpenSearch Service Console and EventBridge events
▪️ Connect tag-based access control for quick responses
▪️ Connect testing and simulation capabilities to chats
▪️ Deadline Cloud configurable job scheduling modes for queues
▪️ Deadline Cloud new fleet scaling configurations for render farms
▪️ Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics for BGP monitoring
▪️ Direct Connect now supports CloudFormation
▪️ ECS Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 instance store
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless IPv6 and dual stack connectivity
▪️ End User Messaging Notify
▪️ End User Messaging RCS for Business
▪️ HealthOmics VPC-connected workflows
▪️ Kiro Powers Spark troubleshooting and upgrade agents
▪️ Lightsail compute-optimized instance bundles
▪️ Location Service GrabMaps with enhanced APIs for Southeast Asia
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Multi-Region replication for Opt-In regions
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Flink 2.2
▪️ Marketplace sellers can now self-serve refunds and agreement cancellations
▪️ OpenSearch Service agentic AI for log analytics
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sub-millisecond network latency for high performance applications
▪️ Organizations organization paths in API responses
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement Marketplace Metering for certain Marketplace products
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string for certain AWS services
▪️ Private CA utilization metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ RDS for Oracle cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent charting capabilities and support for materialized views
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent geo-specific inference for Japan and Australia
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Observability for AWS Glue jobs via CloudWatch metrics
▪️ Secrets Manager custom input for AWS KMS keys
▪️ Service Availability Updates
▪️ SES Mail Manager enhanced security and email processing
▪️ Transform automated codebase analysis | GA
▪️ Transform new AWS-managed transformations to modernize code at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications improves multi-session fleet management
Issue #223 | 13 Apr 2026

▪️  Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance | Preview
▪️  Bedrock AgentCore Browser OS-level interaction capabilities
▪️  Bedrock Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)
▪️  Bedrock cost allocation by IAM user and role
▪️  Bedrock Data Automation custom vocabulary
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Dashboards Now Supports Scheduled Email Delivery
▪️  Certificate Manager native certificate search
▪️  CloudWatch drop and conditional processing
▪️  CloudWatch new compliance and governance capabilities
▪️  Cost Explorer Natural Language Query capabilities powered by Amazon Q
▪️  Deadline Cloud monitor creation in multiple regions
▪️  EC2 Capacity Manager tag-based dimensions
▪️  EKS EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools
▪️  IoT Greengrass SDK for C, C++, and Rust applications
▪️  IVS Real-Time Streaming redundant ingest
▪️  Lambda expands response streaming support to all commercial AWS Regions
▪️  Location Service contour line density, traffic visualization, and 3D terrain
▪️  Marketplace Discovery API for programmatic access to catalog data
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression
▪️  OpenSearch Service Graviton4 based i8ge instances
▪️  OpenSearch Service Managed Prometheus and agent tracing
▪️  Open Source Smithy-Java client framework | GA
▪️  Private CA customer managed permissions for cross-account sharing
▪️  Quick Sparklines for Inline Trend Visualization in Tables
▪️  RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy
▪️  RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️  RTB Fabric health checks for real-time bidding workloads
▪️  S3 buckets accessible as file systems
▪️  S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate
▪️  S3 new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod gang scheduling for distributed training workloads
▪️  SageMaker serverless workflows to Identity Center domains
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio notebook import/export and developer acceleration
▪️  Timestream for InfluxDB Customer-Defined Maintenance Windows
▪️  Transfer Family IPv6 for connectors and web apps
▪️  Verified Permissions policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates
▪️  WorkSpaces Advisor now available for AI-powered troubleshooting
▪️  WorkSpaces Personal unique DNS names for PrivateLink
Issue #224 | 20 Apr 2026

▪️  Amazon FSx copying file system backups across AWS opt-in Regions
▪️  Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building PHP applications
▪️  Bedrock Claude Opus 4.7
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries with parameters
▪️  CloudWatch RUM available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Deadline Cloud AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for render jobs
▪️  EC2 C8gn, M8gn, R8gn higher EBS-optimized performance
▪️  EC2 C8in and C8ib instances
▪️  ECR Pull Through Cache Now Supports Referrer Discovery and Sync
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6
▪️  Interconnect last mile | GA
▪️  Interconnect multicloud | GA
▪️  Managed Grafana creating Grafana 12.4 workspaces
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Derived Source for storage optimization
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for ACL support for S3
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for Google Drive knowledge bases
▪️  Quick multi-account sign-in within the same browser
▪️  Quick Sheet Tooltips for Rich, Contextual Data Exploration
▪️  Redshift key performance optimization for Top-K queries
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod flexible instance groups
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Qwen3.5-9B, and Qwen3.5-27B
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments for foundation models
▪️  Secrets Manager hybrid post-quantum TLS to protect secrets from quantum threats
▪️  Transform is now available in Kiro and VS Code