🌐 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

🌐 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 #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 #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

📆 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 #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

📆 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