📆 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
▪️ 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
▪️ 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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▪️ 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
▪️ 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
▪️ 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
▪️ 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
▪️ 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
📆 Issue #204 | 1 December 2025
▪️ Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage
▪️ AWS Health event triage
▪️ Bedrock Reserved Service tier
▪️ CloudWatch deletion protection for logs
▪️ Compute Optimizer unused NAT Gateway recommendations
▪️ EMR and Glue
▫️audit context support with Lake Formation
▫️write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls
▪️ Glue
▫️5.1
▫️zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams new cost effective warm storage tier
▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search
▪️ Lex LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding
▪️ Marketplace API MCP Server
▪️ Quick Research trusted third-party industry intelligence
▪️ S3 Block Public Access organization-level enforcement
▪️ SageMaker AI Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
▫️custom Kubernetes labels and taints
▫️Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing
▫️programmatic node reboot and replacement
▪️ Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage
▪️ AWS Health event triage
▪️ Bedrock Reserved Service tier
▪️ CloudWatch deletion protection for logs
▪️ Compute Optimizer unused NAT Gateway recommendations
▪️ EMR and Glue
▫️audit context support with Lake Formation
▫️write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls
▪️ Glue
▫️5.1
▫️zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams new cost effective warm storage tier
▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search
▪️ Lex LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding
▪️ Marketplace API MCP Server
▪️ Quick Research trusted third-party industry intelligence
▪️ S3 Block Public Access organization-level enforcement
▪️ SageMaker AI Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
▫️custom Kubernetes labels and taints
▫️Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing
▫️programmatic node reboot and replacement
▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview
▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI
▪️ Amazon Nova Act automate production UI workflows
▪️ Amazon Nova Forge Build your own Frontier Models using Nova
▪️ Amazon Q now can analyze SES email sending
▪️ API Gateway adds MCP proxy support
▪️ AWS AI Factories new service
▪️ AWS AI League 2026 Championship
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent frontier agent for operational excellence | Preview
▪️ AWS Interconnect
▫️last mile | Preview
▫️multicloud | Preview
▪️ AWS MCP Server in Preview
▪️ AWS Security Agent AI agent for proactive app security | Preview
▪️ AWS Support AI-powered operations with the human expertise you trust
▪️ AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization
▪️ Bedrock
▫️Amazon Nova 2
▫️+18 fully managed open-weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date
▫️Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3
▫️Responses API from OpenAI
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy, Evaluations (preview) and more
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Multimodal retrieval | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms synthetic dataset generation training custom ML training
▪️ CloudWatch GenAI observability now supports Amazon AgentCore Evaluations
▪️ CloudWatch
▫️incident reports now support Five Whys analysis
▫️simplified enablement of AWS CloudTrail events
▫️unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data
▪️ Connect
▫️agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions
▫️agent workspace now supports custom visual themes
▫️AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service
▫️AI-powered case summaries
▫️AI-powered predictive insights | Preview
▫️automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases
▫️automated performance evaluations for self-service interactions
▫️creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs
▫️custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time
▫️enhances its agent assistance capabilities
▫️granular access controls for performance evaluations
▫️improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents
▫️integrates with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
▫️automatically select relevant contacts for performance evaluation
▫️launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
▫️native testing and simulation capabilities | Preview
▫️simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows
▫️streams messages for AI-powered interactions
▫️third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service
▫️WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
▪️ Connect Chat agent-initiated workflows
▪️ Connect Chat in-flight data redaction and message processing
▪️ Connect Customer Profiles new segmentation capabilities | Beta
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder
▪️ Database Savings Plans with up to 35% savings
▪️ EC2
▫️C8a Instances New Compute-Optimized
▫️C8ine instances | Preview
▫️General purpose M8azn instances | Preview
▫️M4 Max Mac instances | Preview
▫️M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors | Preview
▫️Memory optimized X8i instances | Preview
▫️new memory optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances
▫️new memory-optimized X8aedz Instances
▫️P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
▫️Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost generative AI training
▪️ EKS Capabilities
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
▫️Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023
▫️Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning for Spark workloads
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Amazon S3 access
▪️ Glue Apache Iceberg based materialized views
▪️ GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now supports EC2 and ECS
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot generate IAM policies from code
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📍Issue #206 | 15 December 2025
▪️ Application Migration Service supports IPv6
▪️ Aurora DSQL cluster creation in seconds
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL integration with Kiro powers
▪️ Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0
▪️ CloudWatch SDK optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
▪️ Cognito identity pools connectivity with AWS PrivateLink
▪️ DataSync increases scalability+performance for on-prem file transfers
▪️ DataSync Terraform support for Enhanced mode
▪️ ECS Fargate custom container stop signals
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless same-slot WATCH command
▪️ GameLift Servers AI powered assistance in Console
▪️ Partner Central opportunity deal sizing
▪️ Quick Suite Quick Research with Quick Flows
▪️ RDS and Aurora resource tagging for Automated Backups
▪️ Shield network security director with multi-account analysis
▪️ Spatial Data Management accelerate spatial-data insights
▪️ Support Center Console screen sharing for troubleshooting
▪️ Systems Manager Validate best practice compliance for SAP ABAP
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser introduces Web Content Filtering
▪️ Application Migration Service supports IPv6
▪️ Aurora DSQL cluster creation in seconds
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL integration with Kiro powers
▪️ Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0
▪️ CloudWatch SDK optimized JSON, CBOR protocols
▪️ Cognito identity pools connectivity with AWS PrivateLink
▪️ DataSync increases scalability+performance for on-prem file transfers
▪️ DataSync Terraform support for Enhanced mode
▪️ ECS Fargate custom container stop signals
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless same-slot WATCH command
▪️ GameLift Servers AI powered assistance in Console
▪️ Partner Central opportunity deal sizing
▪️ Quick Suite Quick Research with Quick Flows
▪️ RDS and Aurora resource tagging for Automated Backups
▪️ Shield network security director with multi-account analysis
▪️ Spatial Data Management accelerate spatial-data insights
▪️ Support Center Console screen sharing for troubleshooting
▪️ Systems Manager Validate best practice compliance for SAP ABAP
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser introduces Web Content Filtering
🎄 Issue #207 | 22 December 2025
▪️ ACM automated certificate management for Kubernetes
▪️ Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities
▪️ Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports
▪️ Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23
▪️ AWS Databases now available on the Vercel Marketplace
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation instruction optimization for your document blueprints
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
▫️ cost allocation using users’ attributes
▫️ cost allocation Tags support for Account Tags
▫️ PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards
▫️ reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
▪️ Billing Conductor enhanced custom line item controls
▪️ Clean Rooms
▫️ change requests for existing collaborations
▫️ publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge
▪️ Connect
▫️ additional details within real-time metric alerts
▫️ multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
▪️ Control Tower 176 new AWS Security Hub controls
▪️ Direct Connect resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
▪️ ECR creating repositories on push
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances
▪️ ECS weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
▪️ EKS enhanced network security policies
▪️ IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
▪️ IoT event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
▪️ Marketplace mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging
▪️ MSK Connect dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors
▪️ MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9
▪️ OpenSearch Service
▫️ announces new OI2 instances
▫️ now offers a new multi-tier storage
▪️ Payment Cryptography
▫️ is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
▫️ reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
▪️ Quick Suite
▫️ browser extension now supports Quick Flows
▫️ now supports memory for chat agents
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1
▪️ RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
▪️ Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
▪️ Redshift Serverless dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 | GA
▪️ Route 53 detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times
▪️ Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack
▪️ SES announces email validation
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications
▫️ additional health and performance metrics
▫️ Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
▫️ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
▪️ WorkSpaces now supports IPv6
▪️ ACM automated certificate management for Kubernetes
▪️ Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities
▪️ Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports
▪️ Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23
▪️ AWS Databases now available on the Vercel Marketplace
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation instruction optimization for your document blueprints
▪️ Billing and Cost Management
▫️ cost allocation using users’ attributes
▫️ cost allocation Tags support for Account Tags
▫️ PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards
▫️ reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less
▪️ Billing Conductor enhanced custom line item controls
▪️ Clean Rooms
▫️ change requests for existing collaborations
▫️ publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge
▪️ Connect
▫️ additional details within real-time metric alerts
▫️ multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
▪️ Control Tower 176 new AWS Security Hub controls
▪️ Direct Connect resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs
▪️ ECR creating repositories on push
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances
▪️ ECS weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
▪️ EKS enhanced network security policies
▪️ IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
▪️ IoT event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
▪️ Marketplace mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging
▪️ MSK Connect dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors
▪️ MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9
▪️ OpenSearch Service
▫️ announces new OI2 instances
▫️ now offers a new multi-tier storage
▪️ Payment Cryptography
▫️ is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
▫️ reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
▪️ Quick Suite
▫️ browser extension now supports Quick Flows
▫️ now supports memory for chat agents
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1
▪️ RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
▪️ Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
▪️ Redshift Serverless dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 | GA
▪️ Route 53 detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times
▪️ Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack
▪️ SES announces email validation
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications
▫️ additional health and performance metrics
▫️ Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
▫️ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
▪️ WorkSpaces now supports IPv6
🎄 Issue #208 | 29 December 2025
▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
▪️ CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services
▪️ Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages
▪️ Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
▪️ ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
▪️ End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer | Preview
▪️ GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling
▪️ GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace ennoscriptments across accounts
▪️ Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2
▪️ Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities
▪️ Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor
▪️ Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
▪️ Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers
▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
▪️ CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services
▪️ Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages
▪️ Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
▪️ ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
▪️ End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer | Preview
▪️ GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling
▪️ GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace ennoscriptments across accounts
▪️ Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2
▪️ Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities
▪️ Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor
▪️ Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
▪️ Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers
▪️ Clean Rooms detailed monitoring for collaboration queries
▪️ CloudWatch simplified import of CloudTrail Lake
▪️ Connect filtering metrics based on custom business dimensions
▪️ Connect store nested JSON object and looping arrays
▪️ OpenSearch UI supports CMK and increased metadata size
▪️ WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
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▪️ Amazon MQ certificate based auth with mTLS for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ Amazon Quick 3rd-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library
▪️ Client VPN onboarding with Quickstart setup
▪️ Config +21 resource types
▪️ EC2 Capacity Manager now includes Spot interruption metrics
▪️ EMR Serverless job run level cost allocation
▪️ Fargate and ECS Managed Instances tmpfs mounts
▪️ Lambda .NET 10 runtime
▪️ Lightsail larger managed database bundles
▪️ Marketplace Seller Reporting now provides collections visibility
▪️ MQ HTTP based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ Amazon MQ certificate based auth with mTLS for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ Amazon Quick 3rd-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library
▪️ Client VPN onboarding with Quickstart setup
▪️ Config +21 resource types
▪️ EC2 Capacity Manager now includes Spot interruption metrics
▪️ EMR Serverless job run level cost allocation
▪️ Fargate and ECS Managed Instances tmpfs mounts
▪️ Lambda .NET 10 runtime
▪️ Lightsail larger managed database bundles
▪️ Marketplace Seller Reporting now provides collections visibility
▪️ MQ HTTP based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers
Issue #211 | 19 Jan 2026
▪️ Amazon Inspector Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage
▪️ Bedrock API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions
▪️ Billing Console Enhanced Transactions view
▪️ Clean Rooms parameters in PySpark analysis templates
▪️ Connect
▫️agent scheduling metrics in data lake
▫️agent screen recording status tracking
▫️recurring overrides for hours of operation
▪️ Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation
▪️ Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
▪️ Data Exports granular operation visibility for Bedrock model usage
▪️ EBS up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
▪️ EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances
▪️ IoT Device Management Wi-Fi Simple Setup for managed integrations
▪️ Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
▪️ Lex
▫️configurable voice activity detection sensitivity
▫️improved speech recognition models for English
▪️ Outposts
▫️multiple LGW routing domains
▫️S3 on Outposts is now available on second-generation
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift Serverless queue-based query resource management
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod service quotas before creating clusters on console
▪️ VPC IPAM policies now support RDS and Application Load Balancers
▪️ Amazon Inspector Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage
▪️ Bedrock API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions
▪️ Billing Console Enhanced Transactions view
▪️ Clean Rooms parameters in PySpark analysis templates
▪️ Connect
▫️agent scheduling metrics in data lake
▫️agent screen recording status tracking
▫️recurring overrides for hours of operation
▪️ Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation
▪️ Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
▪️ Data Exports granular operation visibility for Bedrock model usage
▪️ EBS up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
▪️ EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances
▪️ IoT Device Management Wi-Fi Simple Setup for managed integrations
▪️ Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
▪️ Lex
▫️configurable voice activity detection sensitivity
▫️improved speech recognition models for English
▪️ Outposts
▫️multiple LGW routing domains
▫️S3 on Outposts is now available on second-generation
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift Serverless queue-based query resource management
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod service quotas before creating clusters on console
▪️ VPC IPAM policies now support RDS and Application Load Balancers
Issue #212 | 26 January 2026
▪️ Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages
▪️ AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions
▪️ Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
▪️ Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL
▪️ Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides
▪️ Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
▪️ Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat
▪️ EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection
▪️ EC2 M4 Max Mac instances | GA
▪️ ECR cross-repository layer sharing
▪️ EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks
▪️ EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways
▪️ EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection
▪️ Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation
▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables
▪️ Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets
▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds
▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2
▪️ RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration
▪️ RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support
▪️ Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs
▪️ Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle noscripts debugging
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subnoscriptions
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps
▪️ Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages
▪️ AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions
▪️ Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
▪️ Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL
▪️ Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides
▪️ Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
▪️ Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat
▪️ EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection
▪️ EC2 M4 Max Mac instances | GA
▪️ ECR cross-repository layer sharing
▪️ EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks
▪️ EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways
▪️ EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection
▪️ Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation
▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables
▪️ Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets
▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds
▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2
▪️ RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration
▪️ RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support
▪️ Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs
▪️ Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle noscripts debugging
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subnoscriptions
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps
Issue #213 | 1 Feb 2026
▪️ AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs | Preview
▪️ Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching
▪️ Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API
▪️ Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers
▪️ Connect granular access controls for cases
▪️ Deadline Cloud editing job name and denoscription
▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service
▪️ ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35
▪️ EventBridge 1 MB payload size
▪️ GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances
▪️ IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
▪️ Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables
▪️ Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings
▪️ Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints
▪️ Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products
▪️ Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement
▪️ Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
▪️ RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs
▪️ S3 Change the server-side encryption type
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection
▪️ WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances
▪️ AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs | Preview
▪️ Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching
▪️ Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API
▪️ Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers
▪️ Connect granular access controls for cases
▪️ Deadline Cloud editing job name and denoscription
▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service
▪️ ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35
▪️ EventBridge 1 MB payload size
▪️ GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances
▪️ IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
▪️ Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables
▪️ Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings
▪️ Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints
▪️ Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products
▪️ Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement
▪️ Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
▪️ RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs
▪️ S3 Change the server-side encryption type
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection
▪️ WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances