✅️ Issue #193 | 14 September 2025

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

✅ Issue #194 | 21 September 2025

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

✉️ Issue #195 | 28 Sepetember 2025

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

❤ Issue #196 | 6 October 2025

▪️ AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release
▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with Google
▪️ B2B Data Interchange new transformation status reporting
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation enhancing 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

✅️ Issue #197 | 13 October 2025

▪️ 20+ Services Moving to Sunset & Maintenance
▪️ Client VPN is now supporting MacOS Tahoe
▪️ Connect
     ▫️agent schedule adherence notifications
     ▫️copy and bulk edit of agent scheduling configuration
     ▫️new case APIs to link related cases, add custom related items, and search across them
▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Kansas City, MO
▪️ DynamoDB Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ EBS io2 Block Express supports China Regions
▪️ EC2
     ▫️C8i and C8i-flex instances
     ▫️M8a Instances
▪️ EKS and EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.34
▪️ Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative Boundaries
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️enhanced pricing dimension capabilities for sellers
     ▫️Japan consumption tax support for Channel Partner Private Offers
     ▫️new currencies for usage-based private offers
▪️ Q Developer understand service prices and estimate workload costs
▪️ Quick Suite agentic AI-powered workspace
▪️ RDS for Db2 native database backups
▪️ SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Service Quotas Automatic quota management | GA
▪️ VPC Lattice configurable IP addresses for Resource Gateways

➡️ 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

📆 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

✔️ 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