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Issue #188 | 10 August 2025

▪️ Amazon Location Geofencing now supports multipolygon and polygon with exclusion zones
▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 up to 30% performance improvement
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 4.1
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks
▪️ Bedrock & SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI open weight models
▪️ Budgets Billing View for cross-account cost monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement
▪️ Console Mobile App access to AWS Support
▪️ Deadline Cloud Autodesk VRED
▪️ DynamoDB support for Console-to-Code
▪️ ECR 100,000 images per repository
▪️ ECS real-time log analytics via CloudWatch Logs Live Tail
▪️ EKS Hybrid Nodes expanded support for Cilium
▪️ EKS safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoints
▪️ Elastic VMware Service general availability
▪️ GameLift Streams Proton 9 runtime and increases service limits
▪️ IoT SiteWise asset model interfaces
▪️ Lambda GitHub Actions to simplify function deployment
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️automatic semantic enrichment
     ▫️backup and restore
     ▫️Hybrid Search, AI connectors, and automations
     ▫️UI Fine Grained Access Control by SAML attributes
▪️ Outposts
     ▫️new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
     ▫️service link static configuration
▪️ Parallel Computing Service
     ▫️IPv6 support
     ▫️Slurm SPANK plugins
▪️ Private CA PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
▪️ QuickSight connectivity to Apache Impala
▪️ RDS io2 Block Express now available in all commercial regions
▪️ Resource Explorer 120 new resource types
▪️ S3 Mountpoint CSI driver accelerates performance and supports SELinux
▪️ SageMaker auto optimization configuration of Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning for enhanced cluster operations
▪️ SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
▪️ Systems Manager Run Command interpolating parameters into environment variables
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
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Issue #190 | 24 August 2025

▪️ Bedrock Batch Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS inference
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models
     ▫️simplified access to OpenAI open weight models
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
     ▫️customizable Dashboards
     ▫️MCP server
▪️ Clean Rooms error message configurations for PySpark analyses
▪️ Cognito terms of use and privacy policy docs to Managed Login
▪️ Connect
     ▫️multi-user web, in-app and video calling
     ▫️out-of-the box embedding of Tasks and Emails
     ▫️recurring activities in agent schedules
▪️ EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances
▪️ EKS namespace configuration for AWS and Community add-ons
▪️ IoT Core customer-managed keys
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Customer Managed Keys (CMK)
▪️ Marketplace streamlined FX for AMI-based products
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports AI-powered forecasting
▪️ RDS
     ▫️RDS for Db2 now supports read replicas
     ▫️RDS for PostgreSQL delayed read replicas
     ▫️RDS for SQL Server Kerberos authentication with self-managed AD
▪️ S3 Express One Zone resilience testing with Fault Injection Service
▪️ S3 verify the content of stored datasets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio S3 file sharing options to projects
▪️ Security Incident Response
     ▫️achieves HITRUST Certification
     ▫️introduces integrations with ITSM
▪️ Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5
▪️ VPC IPAM in-console CloudWatch alarm management
Issue #191 | 31 August 2025

▪️ AWS Client VPN
     ▫️connectivity to IPv6 resources
     ▫️extends OS support to Windows Arm64 v5.3.0
▪️ AWS Local Zones EBS launches snapshot copy
▪️ B2B Data Interchange custom validation rules
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation +5 languages for Document Workflows
▪️ Braket local device emulator for verbatim circuits
▪️ EC2 Mac Dedicated Host Recovery and Reboot-based host maintenance
▪️ EKS introduces on-demand insights refresh
▪️ EMR announces S3A as the default connector
▪️ EMR on EC2 Apache Spark native FGAC and AWS Glue Data Catalog Views Support
▪️ End User Messaging international sending for US toll-free numbers
▪️ Fault Injection Service Aurora DSQL now supports resilience testing
▪️ GameLift Streams enhanced flexibility with default applications
▪️ HealthOmics task level timeout controls for Nextflow workflows
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus direct PagerDuty integration
▪️ Management Console assigning a color to an AWS account
▪️ MWAA downgrading to minor Apache Airflow versions
▪️ Neptune Analytics now introduces stop/start capability
▪️ Neptune BYOKG RAG with open-source GraphRAG
▪️ Network Firewall launches ReceivedBytes metric for stateless and stateful engines
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports I8g instances
▪️ Polly more synthetic generative voices
▪️ Q Developer MCP admin control
▪️ RDS
     ▫️MariaDB v11.8 with MariaDB Vector support
     ▫️Oracle new certificate authority and cipher suites for SSL and OEM Agent options
     ▫️Oracle Redo Transport Compression
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️account-agnostic, reusable project profiles
     ▫️tag-based access control for federated catalogs
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod customer managed KMS keys for EBS volumes
▪️ SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs New P5 instance with one NVIDIA H100 GPU
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform support for deploying SFTP connectors
✅️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 noscripts
▪️ 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
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✅️ 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
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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
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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 trannoscriptions
▪️ 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
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🎯 Issue #198 | 19 October 2025

▪️ Amazon AppStream 2.0 license included Microsoft applications
▪️ Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
▪️ Amazon Kinesis Data Streams new FIS actions for API errors
▪️ Application Load Balancer launches URL and Host Header Rewrite
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with SageMaker
▪️ AWS
     ▫️Immediate resource discovery within a Region
     ▫️Service Availability Updates
▪️ Backup
     ▫️backup plan management with schedule preview
     ▫️expands information in job APIs and Backup Audit Manager reports
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️AgentCore | GA
     ▫️Claude 4.5 haiku
     ▫️simplifies access with automatic enablement of serverless FMs
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails CKMS keys for Automated Reasoning checks
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights tag based access control
▪️ CloudWatch Generative AI observability | GA
▪️ Connect configurable thresholds for schedule adherence
▪️ DocumentDB now supports IPv6
▪️ EBS Volume Clones for instant volume copies
▪️ EC2 CPU options optimization for license-included instances
▪️ ECS/EKS Fluent Bit 3.0.0 based on Fluent Bit 4.1.0
▪️ ECS running Firelens as a non-root user
▪️ ElastiCache vector search
▪️ Location Service New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization
▪️ Marketplace purchase order line numbers
▪️ MSK support for Apache Kafka version 4.1
▪️ OpenSearch Service Graviton4 based (c8g,m8g,r8g and r8gd) instances
▪️ Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm v25.05
▪️ Quick Sight expands font customization for visuals
▪️ RDS CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Route 53 Profiles now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ SageMaker AI Projects custom template S3 provisioning
▪️ SAM CLI adds Finch support
▪️ Security Hub AWS Foundations Benchmark v5.0
▪️ Step Functions Diagnose with Amazon Q
▪️ Systems Manager Patch Manager security updates for Windows
▪️ Timestream now supports InfluxDB 3
▪️ Transfer Family SFTP VPC-based connectivity
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📆 Issue #199 | 27 October 2025

▪️ Aurora DSQL resource-based policies
▪️ AWS Secret-West Region is now available
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation additional formats for video and faster processing for images
▪️ CloudWatch AgentWindows Event Log Filters
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server
▪️ CloudWatch
    ▫️interactive incident reporting
     ▫️metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics bundled multi-check canaries
▪️ Connect
    ▫️automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
    ▫️granular permissions for conversation recordings and trannoscripts
     ▫️outbound campaigns supports preview dialing for greater agent control
     ▫️threaded views and includes conversation history in agent replies
▪️ Corretto October 2025 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool Scope 3 emissions data
▪️ DocumentDB Graviton4-based R8g database instances
▪️ Lambda increases maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous invocations
▪️ Parallel Computing Service rotation of cluster secret keys
▪️ Quick Sight new data preparation experience
▪️ RDS for SQL Server
     ▫️encrypting native backups using server-side encryption with (SSE-KMS)
     ▫️retaining CDC configurations when restoring database backups
▪️ RTB Fabric real-time bidding workloads
▪️ S3 CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio supports Amazon Athena workgroups
▪️ SES adds IP observability for Dedicated IP addresses (managed)
▪️ Transfer Family changing identity provider type on a server
➡️ Issue #200 | 2 November 2025

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL FIPS 140-3 compliant endpoints
▪️ Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics to all server SDKs and game engine plugins
▪️ Amazon Nova
     ▫️Multimodal Embeddings
     ▫️Web Grounding: Build accurate AI applications
▪️ Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization
▪️ Backup single-action database snapshot copy across AWS Regions and accounts
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser reduces CAPTCHAs with Web Bot Auth (Preview)
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Stability AI Image Services +4 new image editing tools
     ▫️TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0
▪️ Clean Rooms advanced configurations to optimize SQL performance
▪️ Cognito resource indicators
▪️ Connect scheduling of individual agents
▪️ DocumentDB upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
▪️ DynamoDB Accelerator now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ EBS additional performance monitoring metrics for EBS volumes
▪️ EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API
▪️ ECS built-in Linear and Canary deployments
▪️ ECS Managed available in all commercial AWS Regions
▪️ ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
▪️ EKS Split Cost Allocation Data
▪️ ElastiCache dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) service endpoints
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Corretto 25 and Tomcat 11
▪️ GameLift Streams adds AWS Health notifications for aging resources
▪️ IoT Greengrass AI agent context pack
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams 10x larger record sizes
▪️ Lightsail larger instances
▪️ Location Service new API key restrictions
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus anomaly detection
▪️ Marketplace pricing model flexibility and simplified deployment for AI agents and tools
▪️ MCP Proxy for AWS is now generally available
▪️ PrivateLink cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
▪️ RDS IPv6 support for publicly accessible databases
▪️ Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ S3 conditional write functionality to copy operations
▪️ SageMaker additional search context for search results
▪️ Serverless MCP Server tools for AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM)
▪️ Step Functions new metrics dashboard
▪️ VPC IPAM automates prefix list updates
▪️ WorkSpaces USB redirection support for DCV WorkSpaces
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📆 Issue #201 | 10 November 2025

▪️ Amazon FSx integrates with Secrets Manager
▪️ Backup KMS customer managed keys with logically air-gapped vaults
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports direct code deployment
▪️ Builder Center new Regional planning tool
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️cross-account support for VPC origins
     ▫️IPv6 support for Anycast Static IPs
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals AI-powered Synthetics debugging
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights expands anomaly detection in on-demand analysis
▪️ CloudWatch NVMe Local Volume Performance Statistics
▪️ Cognito
     ▫️removes Machine-to-Machine app client price dimension
     ▫️user pools now supports private connectivity with AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Config
     ▫️+42 new managed rules
     ▫️+52 new resource types
▪️ Connect configuration of email address aliases
▪️ Deadline Cloud support with latest 6th, 7th, and 8th gen instances
▪️ DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink supports FIPS endpoints
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools with mixed instances policies
▪️ EC2 new R8a Memory-Optimized Instances
▪️ ECS non-root container support for managed EBS volumes
▪️ End User Messaging SMS launches Carrier Lookup
▪️ Glue Schema Registry adds support for C#
▪️ IoT Greengrass v2.16 system log forwarder and TPM2.0 capabilities
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage mode
▪️ KMS Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
▪️ Marketplace transactions in Indian Rupees (INR)
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless FIPS compliant endpoints
▪️ RDS for Oracle R7i memory-optimized instances up to 64:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio
▪️ S3
     ▫️Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver add monitoring capability
     ▫️now supports tags on S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker custom tags for project resources
▪️ Service Reference Information SDK Operation to Action mapping
▪️ VPC Lattice custom domain names for resource configurations
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📆 Issue #202 | 17 November 2025

▪️ ALB client credential flow with JWT verification
▪️ Aurora Global Database RDS Blue/Green deployments
▪️ AWS CUR 2.0 EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring
▪️ Backup now supports Amazon EKS
▪️ Braket notebook instances now support CUDA-Q natively
▪️ Builder Center Spaces
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
▪️ CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics
▪️ CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Network Load Balancer access logs
▪️ Connect Cases conditional field visibility and dependent options
▪️ Connect metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
▪️ Control Tower automatic enrollment of accounts
▪️ DocumentDB version 8.0
▪️ EC2 Mac instances DCV supports
▪️ ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
▪️ EventBridge
     ▫️enhanced visual rule builder
     ▫️targeting SQS fair queues
▪️ Fault Injection Service (FIS) new test scenarios for partial failures
▪️ Health EventBridge gives more flexibility and higher resilience
▪️ IoT Core location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
▪️ IoT Services VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
▪️ IPv6
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️adds support for Java 25
     ▫️adds support for Rust
     ▫️Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
▪️ Marketplace agreement EventBridge notifications
▪️ MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost
▪️ Network Load Balancer QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
▪️ Parallel Computing Service Slurm CLI Filter plugins
▪️ Private CA post-quantum digital certificates
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
▪️ S3 Express One Zone Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ S3 Mountpoint now included in Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ S3 Tables CloudWatch metrics
▪️ SageMaker Catalog read and write access to Amazon S3
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio catalog notifications
▪️ Security Incident Response communication preferences
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels
▪️ Transform Landing Zone Accelerator network configuration
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📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #1
▪️ Amazon Athena cost and performance controls for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Amazon Inspector organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies
▪️ Amazon Linux Supplementary Packages
▪️ Amazon MQ LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ
▪️ Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2
▪️ API Gateway REST APIs
     ▫️response streaming
     ▫️private integration with Application Load Balancer
▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS
▪️ Application Load Balancer
     ▫️launches Target Optimizer
     ▫️now supports Health Check Logs
▪️ AppStream 2.0 now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Athena auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks
▪️ Aurora DSQL
     ▫️database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
     ▫️integrated query editor in the AWS Management Console
     ▫️launches new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that simplify IAM authorization
     ▫️statement-level cost estimates in query plans
▪️ AWS CLI and SDK console authentication
▪️ Backup
     ▫️Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering
     ▫️backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault
     ▫️low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Marketplace adds A2A server support
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import OpenAI GPT OSS models
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails
     ▫️adds support for coding use cases
     ▫️Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation
▪️ Bedrock Priority and Flex inference service tiers
▪️ Billing
     ▫️E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals
     ▫️Get Invoice PDF API
     ▫️India customers can now use UPI to sign-up and automate monthly payments
▪️ Billing Transfer multi-organization billing and cost management
▪️ Braket introduces spending limits feature for quantum processing units
▪️ Braket new quantum processor from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)
▪️ Builder Center Workshops
▪️ Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer
▪️ CloudFormation
     ▫️drift-aware change sets
     ▫️early validation and simplified troubleshooting
     ▫️intelligent authoring in IDEs
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️Regional Edge Cache (REC) metadata, raw query string retrieval, and advanced origin overrides
     ▫️CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens
     ▫️flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
     ▫️now supports TLS 1.3 for origin connections
▪️ CloudTrail
     ▫️data event aggregation to simplify security monitoring
     ▫️Insights for data events to automatically detect anomalies in data access
▪️ Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments
▪️ CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements
▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights
     ▫️Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS
     ▫️Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights cross-account cross-region monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️In-Console Agent Management on EC2
     ▫️real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications
     ▫️scheduled queries in Logs Insights
▪️ Compute Optimizer automation rules
▪️ Connect
     ▫️conversational analytics for voice and chat bots
     ▫️enhanced Instance-to-Instance communication
     ▫️monitoring of contacts queued for callback
     ▫️multi skill agent scheduling
     ▫️outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling
▪️ Control Tower
     ▫️+7 new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules
     ▫️introduces a controls-dedicated experience
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection
     ▫️accelerates anomaly identification
     ▫️expands AWS managed monitoring
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📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #2
▪️ Cost Explorer 18-month forecasting and explainable AI-powered forecasts
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
▪️ Data Exports FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available
▪️ Device Farm Fully Managed Appium Endpoint
▪️ Directory Service AWS PrivateLink for private VPC connectivity
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion adds SAP (Sybase) ASE to PostgreSQL support with generative AI
▪️ DynamoDB multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
▪️ EBS Volumes Recycle Bin
▪️ EC2 AMI ancestry for complete AMI lineage visibility
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling
     ▫️introduces instance lifecycle policy
     ▫️root volume replacement through instance refresh
     ▫️synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 Fleet new encryption attribute for instance type selection
▪️ EC2 Image Builder
     ▫️auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience
     ▫️flexible AMI distribution capabilities
     ▫️Lambda and Step functions
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Mac instances now support Apple macOS Tahoe
     ▫️Microsoft SQL Server 2025
     ▫️P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs
     ▫️reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
▪️ ECR
     ▫️archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
     ▫️dual-stack endpoints now support AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️managed container image signing
▪️ ECS and EKS
     ▫️enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the Console
     ▫️fully managed MCP servers in preview
▪️ ECS Express Mode
▪️ ECS Managed Instances adds configurable scale-in delay
▪️ EKS
     ▫️enhanced container network observability
     ▫️introduces Provisioned Control Plane
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router
▪️ EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format
▪️ EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview)
▪️ FSx for Lustre improves directory listing performance by up to 5x
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server File Server Resource Manager
▪️ Glue
     ▫️additional SAP entities as zero-ETL integration sources
     ▫️DynamoDB connector with Spark DataFrame support
     ▫️supports CloudFormation and CDK for zero-ETL integrations
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available
▪️ HealthImaging adds native JPEG 2000 Lossless support
▪️ IAM
     ▫️enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
     ▫️launches aws:SourceVpcArn condition key for region-based access control
     ▫️temporary delegation
▪️ IoT Core variable setting and error handling capabilities
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️adds support for Python 3.14
     ▫️Kafka event source mapping integration in Amazon MSK Console
     ▫️new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
     ▫️optimize costs up to 90% for Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM
▪️ Lex extends wait & continue feature in 10 new languages
▪️ License Manager license asset groups for centralized software asset management
▪️ Lightsail Nginx blueprint
▪️ Location Service Address Form Solution Builder
▪️ Marketplace estimated tax and invoicing entity information
▪️ MSK Console viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs
▪️ MWAA Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows
▪️ NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
▪️ Network Firewall
     ▫️Active threat defense now enabled by default
     ▫️flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway
     ▫️Managed Rules from AWS Partners available in AWS Marketplace
▪️ Network Load Balancer Weighted Target Groups
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️adds AWS PrivateLink for management console
     ▫️backup and restore through the AWS Management Console
     ▫️now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
▪️ OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS KMS integration with Oracle Transparent Data Encryption
▪️ Organizations
     ▫️direct account transfers between organizations
     ▫️upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
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📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #3

▪️ Parallel Computing Service
     ▫️is now HIPAA eligible
     ▫️now supports Slurm REST API
▪️ Payments Cryptography post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit
▪️ Polly additional languages and region support
▪️ PrivateLink cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
▪️ Q Developer enhanced cost management capabilities
▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization now includes tables and pivot tables
▪️ Quick Sight expands Dashboard Theme Customization
▪️ RDS for Oracle October 2025 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle
▪️ RDS for SQL Server now supports Resource Governor
▪️ RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Web Edition
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation
     ▫️writing to Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ Route 53 AWS PrivateLink support
▪️ Route 53 DNS Firewall protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
▪️ Route 53 DNS support for IPv6 API service endpoint
▪️ Route 53 Profiles Resolver query logging configurations
▪️ S3
     ▫️attribute-based access control
     ▫️new bucket-level setting to standardize encryption types used in your buckets
     ▫️post-quantum TLS key exchange on S3 endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Catalog
     ▫️column-level metadata forms and rich denoscriptions
     ▫️enforces metadata rules for glossary terms for asset publishing
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent analytics and AI/ML development
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod running IDEs and Notebooks to accelerate AI development
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️notebooks with a built-in AI agent
     ▫️one-click onboarding of existing datasets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio
     ▫️adds EMR on EKS support with SSO capabilities
     ▫️long-running sessions with corporate identities
▪️ Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing | GA
▪️ Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
▪️ Security Incident Response agentic AI-powered investigation
▪️ Security Incident Response now offers metered pricing with free tier
▪️ Security Token Service Now Supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN
     ▫️announces VPN Concentrator
     ▫️BGP logging for VPN tunnels
     ▫️simplify remote connectivity
▪️ Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
▪️ Tag Policies Validate and enforce required tags in CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️Terraform module to automate scanning of transferred files
     ▫️Terraform module to integrate with a custom identity provider
     ▫️web apps now support VPC endpoints
▪️ Transform Automates Landing Zone Acceleration Network Configuration
▪️ Transit Gateway Flexible Cost Allocation
▪️ VPC Encryption Controls and further raises the bar on data encryption
▪️ VPC IPAM
     ▫️automates IP assignments from Infoblox IPAM
     ▫️policies to enforce IP allocation strategy
▪️ WAF announces Web Bot Auth support
▪️ Well-Architected Lenses AI and ML workloads
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications new instance types and configurable storage options
✔️ 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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