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ℹ️ Issue #171 | 13 April 2025

▪️ Aurora
     ▫️ pgvector 0.8.0 in PostgreSQL
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 16.8, 15.12, 14.17 and 13.20
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails new capabilities to build gen AI apps
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases hybrid search for Aurora PostgreSQL and MongoDB Atlas vector stores
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ new S2S model Nova Sonic
     ▫️ Nova Canvas now supports fine-tuning
     ▫️ Nova Reel 1.1
     ▫️ Pixtral Large 25.02, a multimodal model from Mistral AI
     ▫️ prompt caching | GA
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ enhanced debugging experience
     ▫️ Node 22, Python 3.13 and Go 1.24 to Lambda Compute images
▪️ Config +223 rules in Control Tower
▪️ Connect set voice and language dynamically in a contact flow
▪️ Corretto April 2025 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations
▪️ EC2 I7ie new bare metal instances sizes
▪️ ElastiCache for Memcached
     ▫️ horizontal autoscaling
     ▫️ vertical scaling
▪️ Elemental Link HD ingest rates as Link HD enters end of sale
▪️ End User Messaging IPv6 support
▪️ EventBridge Archive and Replay with Customer Managed KMS Keys
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection
▪️ Gateway Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation
▪️ IAM Identity Center new SDK plugin
▪️ Lex control intent switching during conversations
▪️ Mainframe Modernization advanced operations for runtime environments
▪️ Marketplace new fulfillment experience for container products
▪️ PartyRock Image Playground by Nova Canvas
▪️ Q Developer expands multi-language support within the IDE and CLI
▪️ RDS for Oracle M6id and R6id instances
▪️ S3 Express One Zone reduces storage and request prices
▪️ SageMaker Catalog precise technical identifier search
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Meta’s Llama 4
▪️ SageMaker Studio recovery mode for applications
▪️ SAM API Gateway Custom Domain Names for private REST APIs
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️ new config opts for SFTP connectors
     ▫️ SFTP connectors can now delete, rename or move files
▪️ VPC simplified billing for Peering
▪️ Well-Architected Tool New Guidance
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ℹ️ Issue #172 | 20 April 2025

▪️ Amazon Q GitLab Duo | GA
▪️ Application Migration Service authorized for DoD Impact Level 4 and 5
▪️ Batch ECS Exec and AWS FireLens log router
▪️ Bedrock RAG and Model Evaluations now support custom metrics
▪️ Billing customers in Europe to now can pay for their usage in advance
▪️ CloudFront Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains
▪️ CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux
▪️ CloudWatch ROSA support
▪️ Connect Cases managing service level agreements on cases
▪️ Connect Contact Lens access controls using agent hierarchies
▪️ Console Mobile Application support for Amazon Lightsail
▪️ ECS default log driver blocking mode
▪️ EventBridge Connector Kafka Connect | GA
▪️ EventBridge CMK in API destinations connections
▪️ HealthOmics Elastic Throughput for dynamic run storage
▪️ HealthOmics workflow versioning support
▪️ Lambda@Edge advanced logging controls
▪️ Lambda inbound IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus label-based active series limits
▪️ MemoryDB IPv6 support
▪️ OpenSearch Service SAML single sign-on for OpenSearch UI
▪️ Q Business hallucination mitigation in chat responses
▪️ S3 Tables SSE using KMS with customer-managed keys
▪️ Security Incident Response integration with AWS PrivateLink
▪️ STS requests now routed locally via global endpoint
▪️ Verified Permissions policy store deletion protection
▪️ Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
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➡️ Issue #174 | 4 May 2025

▪️ Amplify
     ▫️ developer tooling with refined output and CDK-style notices
     ▫️ introduces data seeding
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL major version 17
▪️ B2B Data Interchange IPv6 on B2B Data Interchange Service APIs
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Meta’s Llama 4
     ▫️ Model Distillation | GA
     ▫️ Nova Premier
     ▫️ Palmyra X5 and X4 models
▪️ Budgets additional cost metrics and filtering capabilities
▪️ Clean Rooms multiple results receivers in a collaboration
▪️ Client VPN Client Routes Enforcement
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️ Automated HTTP validated public certificates
     ▫️ SaaS Manager
▪️ CloudWatch tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
▪️ Cognito enhanced context support for machine-to-machine auth flows
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ administrator access for agent schedules
     ▫️ bulk removal of agent schedules
▪️ Connect Contact Lens new real-time adherence dashboard
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ enhanced contact information to DescribeContact API
     ▫️ post-contact completion events to Contact Event Stream
▪️ DynamoDB Accelerator R7i instances
▪️ EC2 I7i high performance Storage Optimized instances
▪️ EC2 Image Builder integrates with SSM Parameter Store
▪️ ECR IPv6 support
▪️ EKS Hybrid Nodes now supports Bottlerocket
▪️ ElastiCache Global Datastore in 15 additional Regions
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk controls for default security group management
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor recurring ad prefetch for live streaming
▪️ End User Messaging customers combat SMS pumping
▪️ Energy Data Insights Managed Support
▪️ HealthImaging DICOM video data and JPEG 2000 transcoding
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams tagging and ABAC for consumers
▪️ Launch Wizard multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE DB
▪️ MAP accelerate AI customer adoption
▪️ Neptune Database Graviton3 R7g and Graviton4 R8g instances
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ AI search flow builder
     ▫️ version 2.19
▪️ Open Source New Open-Source Advanced PostgreSQL ODBC Driver
▪️ Outposts second-generation racks
▪️ Q Business Anonymous user access
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️ CLI now supports MCP
     ▫️ new agentic coding experience in the IDE
     ▫️ Systems Manager node access approvals in chat
▪️ RDS on Outposts Generation 7i instance
▪️ Route 53 Profiles VPC endpoints
▪️ SageMaker scheduling experience for Visual ETL and Query editors
▪️ SES Mail Manager Publish to Amazon SNS Topic Rule Action
▪️ Systems Manager just-in-time node access
▪️ VPC IPAM cost distribution to AWS Organization member-accounts
▪️ VPC Lattice IPv6 for management endpoints
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Issue #175 | 11 May 2025

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.8
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation extraction of custom insights from audio
▪️ CloudWatch Network Monitoring multi-account support for flow monitors
▪️ CloudWatch RUM Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vital
▪️ CodePipeline Secrets Manager and more configurations in Commands action
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ saudio optimization for Omnissa cloud desktops
     ▫️ sexternal voice pricing changes
     ▫️ soutbound campaigns now supports Poland
▪️ EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
▪️ ECS 1-click rollbacks for service deployments
▪️ Marketplace SaaS products from all deployment locations
▪️ MSK certificate renewals on MSK Provisioned clusters
▪️ Payments Account Summary overview of AWS financial account balances
▪️ Q Developer integration in GitHub | Preview
▪️ RDS for Oracle Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 24.2
▪️ Resource Explorer +41 new resource types
▪️ SageMaker additional visual ETL transforms and S3 tables support
▪️ SageMaker AI Q Developer with custom code suggestions and workspace context
▪️ SageMaker Catalog authorization policy for asset type usage
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod integrates EventBridge to deliver status change events
▪️ SageMaker three new data sources
▪️ SES IPv6 when calling SES outbound endpoints
▪️ SQS FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
▪️ Systems Manager customization options for onboarding configuration
▪️ Verified Permissions policy store tagging
▪️ VPC Reachability Analyzer resource exclusion
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🐧 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 noscripts
▪️ 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
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🖋 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
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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
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Issue #179 | 8 June 2025

▪️ API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs
▪️ Athena managed query results to streamline analysis workflows
▪️ Backup SNS notifications and EventBridge events for backup indexes
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL
▪️ CloudWatch logs transformation for Contributor Insights
▪️ Compute Optimizer Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations
▪️ Connect hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub support Amazon Aurora
▪️ DataZone upgrade domain to SageMaker
▪️ Direct Connect location and expansion in Taipei, Republic Of China (ROC)
▪️ EC2
      ▫️ delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
      ▫️ Pricing and usage model updates for NVIDIA GPUs
▪️ EKS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes
▪️ ENA Express +120 new instances
▪️ Entity Resolution Near real-time matching
▪️ HealthOmics automatic detection of WDL workflow parameters
▪️ Invoice Summary API is GA
▪️ KMS on-demand key rotation for imported keys
▪️ Lex extends custom vocabulary feature to additional languages
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink IPv6 endpoints
▪️ Marketplace localized experience in four additional languages
▪️ Network Firewall new monitoring dashboard
▪️ OpenSearch Service Ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence
▪️ Private CA MS Active Directory child domains
▪️ Q Developer
      ▫️ agentic coding experience is now available within JetBrains and Visual Studio
      ▫️ CLI now supports Claude Sonnet 4
      ▫️ optimize AWS costs
      ▫️ Developer Chat agentic capabilities
▪️ Redshift increased concurrency for vacuum operations
▪️ Resource Groups
     ▫️ support PrivateLink
     ▫️ supports IPv6
▪️ SageMaker AI Training Jobs P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA B200 GPUs | GA
▪️ SageMaker Studio new UX with Unified Studio
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN three new capabilities for enhanced security
▪️ VPC Route Server logging enhancements
▪️ WAF ASN match support
▪️ Wickr preview for files
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🗃 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
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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
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🖋 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
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🗃 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 denoscriptions 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
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🌐 Issue #185 | 21 July 2025

▪️ AppStream 2.0 expands support for GPU based instances
▪️ AWS AI League new
▪️ AWS API MCP Server now available
▪️ AWS Free Tier now offers $200 in credits and 6-month free plan
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ AgentCore now available in preview
     ▫️ Image-to-video generation support for Luma AI's Ray2
     ▫️ on-demand deployment for custom Amazon Nova
     ▫️ TwelveLabs models
▪️ Clean Rooms ML now supports Parquet file format
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ adds generative AI observability | Preview
     ▫️ SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)
▪️ Connect agent workspace now includes real-time agent performance metrics
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection improves accuracy with model enhancements
▪️ DataSync now supports IPv6
▪️ Deadline Cloud
     ▫️ Chaos V-Ray
     ▫️ Unreal Engine in Service-Managed Fleets
▪️ DocumentDB up to 10 secondary Region clusters
▪️ DynamoDB local major version release version 3.0.0
▪️ DynamoDB Streams new API feature for faster and more efficient stream shard discovery
▪️ EBS visibility into EBS volume initialization status
▪️ EC2 High Memory U7i instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance
▪️ ECS enables built-in blue/green deployments
▪️ EKS up to 100,000 worker nodes per cluster
▪️ EventBridge enhanced logging for improved observability
▪️ Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Private Link
▪️ Glue
     ▫️ new workers for larger and memory intensive workloads
     ▫️ zero-ETL integrations from DynamoDB and eight applications to S3 Tables
▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now available in Preview
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless DX
     ▫️ debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code
     ▫️ low latency processing for Kafka events
▪️ Marketplace Introducing AI agents and tools
▪️ MemoryDB FIS action to pause multi-Region cluster replication
▪️ MSK MCP Server
▪️ Nova Sonic support for French, Italian, German
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ integration with Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL
     ▫️ integration with Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL
▪️ Outposts booting EC2 instances from external storage arrays
▪️ Price List API
     ▫️ +4 new Query Filters
     ▫️ MCP Server
▪️ Private CA issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA
▪️ Q in QuickSight Custom Instructions for Topics | GA
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports change data capture
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️ automatic refresh of materialized views on Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️ cascading refresh of nested materialized views
▪️ S3
     ▫️ compaction of Apache Avro and ORC formats for Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️ external access summary for all your buckets
▪️ S3 Metadata existing objects and reduces price by up to 33%
▪️ S3 Tables reduce compaction costs by up to 90%
▪️ S3 Vectors cloud object storage with storing and querying vectors | Preview
▪️ SageMaker AI Customize Amazon Nova
▪️ SageMaker Catalog support S3 general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker
    ▫️ visual workflows builder
    ▫️ data processing jobs
    ▫️ Integration with Amazon QuickSight
    ▫️ simplifies data management with automated lakehouse onboarding and metadata ingestion
    ▫️ streamlines S3 Tables workflow experience
▪️ SNS
   ▫️ enhances cross-Region delivery capabilities
   ▫️ expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
▪️ SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
▪️ Transform mainframe introduces enhanced code refactoring and business logic capabilities
▪️ VPC CNI higher bandwidth and network performance per pod
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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
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🌐 Issue #187 | 4 August 2025

▪️ Amazon Connect Cases detailed email content within the case activity feed
▪️ Aurora Limitless Database Insights
▪️ Aurora MySQL up to 256 TiB of storage volume
▪️ Batch scheduling SageMaker Training jobs
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation DOC/DOCX and H.265 files
▪️ Chime SDK IPv6 API endpoints
▪️ Clean Rooms now publishes events to EventBridge
▪️ CloudFront new origin response timeout controls
▪️ CloudWatch natural language query generation for OpenSearch PPL and SQL
▪️ Connect
     ▫️agent workspace enhances 3-rd party apps with new actions and workflows
     ▫️Contact Control Panel refreshed look and feel
     ▫️UI builder launches an improved UX/UI
▪️ Direct Connect
     ▫️extends MACsec functionality to supported Partner Interconnects
     ▫️Hybrid Edition for Managed Microsoft AD
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion introduces Virtual Mode
▪️ DocumentDB Serverless is Generally Available
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Lambda functions as notification targets for lifecycle hooks
▪️ EC2 force terminate for EC2 instances
▪️ Entity Resolution advanced matching using Levenshtein, Cosine, and Soundex
▪️ EventBridge IPv6 support
▪️ Glue Data Quality S3 Tables and Iceberg Tables
▪️ IoT Core adds message queuing for MQTT shared subnoscription
▪️ Lambda streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads
▪️ Location Service Migration SDK with Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps capabilities
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus default active series limit to 50M per workspace
▪️ Management Console discover, manage applications from anywhere in the Console
▪️ Marketplace enhances offer and subnoscription management
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️CLI announces custom agents
     ▫️expands multi-language support
▪️ RDS for Oracle Database Insights provides on-demand analysis
▪️ Redis OSS Extended Support for ElastiCache v4/5
▪️ S3 Access Points tags for Attribute-Based Access Control
▪️ SES tenant isolation with automated reputation policies
▪️ SNS additional message filtering operators
▪️ SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues
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