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Issue #45 | 7 November – 13 November 2022

▪️ Amazon Time Sync public NTP service | guide
▪️ AppConfig achieves FedRAMP High Authority To Operate
▪️ Athena Query Result Reuse to accelerate queries
▪️ Aurora logical replication cache
▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in 20 regions
▪️ Backup VMware to EC2 workloads restore
▪️ Billing Conductor recurring custom line items
▪️ Certificate Manager ECDSA P-256 TLS certificates support
▪️ CloudTrail delegated administrator account
▪️ CloudTrail Lake Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK) encryption
▪️ CloudWatch Logs export to SSE-KMS encrypted S3 buckets
▪️ Config 14 new resource types
▪️ EC2
| attribute-based instance type selection for ASG, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
| macOS Ventura support
| placement groups cross-account sharing
| price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
▪️ ECS task scale-in protection | blog
▪️ ElastiCache IPv6 support | Redis 7 support
▪️ EventBridge New Scheduler | new
▪️ Firewall Manager import existing Network Firewall resources
▪️ Ground Station Customer Provided Ephemeris | in preview
▪️ IoT Device Defender audit check of revoked intermediate CA
▪️ Kendra is now FedRAMP High Compliant
▪️ Keyspaces Murmur3Partioner support
▪️ Lambda new Telemetry API | blog
▪️ Lightsail domain registration and DNS autoconfiguration
▪️ OpenSearch Service cross-VPC connectivity with PrivateLink
▪️ Polly Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish | VPC Support | GA
▪️ Private 5G multiple radio-units support
▪️ QuickSight send SPICE consumption metrics to CloudWatch
▪️ RDS for SQL Access to Transaction Log Backups
▪️ RDS new GP3 storage volumes support: no multi-az
▪️ Resource Explorer resource search and discovery service | GA
▪️ SageMaker Canvas
| correlation matrices for advanced data analysis
| customer managed keys for time series forecast models
| Stable Diffusion and Bloom models
| TensorFlow Text Classification algorithms
▪️ Secrets Manager API RPS limit increase
▪️ Security Hub CIS Benchmark 1.4.0
▪️ SNS subnoscription filter policies quota increase by 50x
▪️ VPC IPv6 Subnet default GR now supports multiple addresses
▪️ Wavelength Zone in Manchester
▪️ Well-Architected Tool speed up reviews with workload discovery
▪️ WorkSpaces WSP protocol API
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Issue #46 | 14 November – 20 November 2022
🔖 Part #1

▪️ Amplify Flutter Web and Desktop support for API, Analytics, Storage | Preview
▪️ Amplify In-app messaging notifications for React and React Native | GA
▪️ AppFlow Glue Data Catalog integration
▪️ Application Load Balancers turning off cross zone load balancing per target group
▪️ AppSync JavaScript support for GraphQL API resolvers
▪️ Athena
| Apache Iceberg table operations and file format support
| IBM Db2 connector
| Lake Formation fine-grained access control
▪️ Audit Manager search-based filtering and grouping
▪️ AWS re:Post community leaderboard
▪️ AWS SDK SAP ABAP | Preview
▪️ Billing Conductor billing entity pricing rules
▪️ Catalog API Tag-Based Authorization of resources
▪️ Chatbot command aliases
▪️ Chime SDK Alexa skill calling | new console experience
▪️ CloudFormation AWS Organization resource management
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets event notifications via EventBridge
▪️ CloudFront JA3 fingerprint headers
▪️ CloudWatch Application Insights SAP NetWeaver apps
▪️ CloudWatch RUM custom events
▪️ Connect
| multiple search terms through the profile search API
| manage saved reports
| monitoring live contacts API
▪️ Console Home new Applications widget
▪️ Contact Lens real-time email notifications
▪️ Database Migration Service IPv6 support
▪️ EC2
| Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is GA
| increases size limit for AMI store and restore operations 1TB->5TB
| preserve customer created tags during image copy
▪️ ECS/EKS centralized logging support for Windows containers
▪️ EKS Blueprints App2Container Support
▪️ EKS/EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.24
▪️ ElastiCache
| IAM Authentication for Redis clusters
| simplifies password rotations with Secrets Manager
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect high-fidelity color workloads
▪️ EMR on EKS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) controller | GA
▪️ EventBridge enhanced filtering capabilities
▪️ Fargate storage utilization monitoring
▪️ FinSpace
| access data from other AWS Analytics Services
| connections to customer networks
▪️ Forecast predictions for products with no historical data
▪️ HealthLake enhanced analytics feature
▪️ IAM multiple MFA devices
▪️ Incident Manager
| incident coordination
| PagerDuty
▪️ Interactive Video Service Stream Chat logging
▪️ IoT Device Defender Security Hub integration
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Issue #46 | 14 November – 20 November 2022
🔖 Part #2

▪️ IoT Device Management
| browser-based SSH via Secure Tunneling
| up to 12 query terms for more granular search and monitoring
▪️ IoT ExpressLink Technical Specification v1.1 released
▪️ IoT TwinMaker
| Athena data connector
| camera view and sub-model selection
| Knowledge Graph | GA
▪️ Lake Formation cross-account sharing to direct IAM principals
▪️ Lambda
| native AOT tooling support for .NET apps
| Node.js 18 support
▪️ Lex DTMF slot settings
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 200M active metrics per workspace
▪️ Managed Workflow
| container, queue, and database metrics
| Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now HIPAA eligible
▪️ MemoryDB for Redis is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant
▪️ Microservice Extractor for .NET
| AI-powered automated refactoring recommendations
| Web Forms, WCF to .NET on Linux
▪️ Migration Hub
| Refactor Spaces is now integrated with CloudHedge OmniDeq
| Refactor Spaces now automatically handles DNS changes
▪️ NAT Gateway select Private IP for Network Address Translation
▪️ Nitro System now supports previous generation of instances
▪️ OpenSearch Service OpenSearch version 2.3
▪️ Personalize measure the recommendations impact
▪️ Polly Polish and Arabic TTS
▪️ Pricing Calculator modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads
▪️ Proton
| CDK through CodeBuild provisioning
| launches dashboard
▪️ QuickSight
| launches Textbox
| line and marker customization options for line charts
| Small Multiples for line, bar and pie charts
▪️ RDS Custom for Oracle Oracle Multitenant
▪️ RDS events now include attributes for filtering with SNS
| RDS for Oracle EFS integration
| RDS for SQL Server Cross Region Read Replica
| RDS for SQL Server linked server to Oracle
▪️ Redshift
| CONNECT BY SQL construct
| concurrency scaling for write workloads | GA
▪️ Resilience Hub integration with SNS & Trusted Advisor
▪️ S3 ACLs usage (at the request-level) coming to S3 server access logs and CloudTrail
▪️ S3 Glacier 10x restore throughput when retrieving large data volumes
▪️ S3 Storage Lens organization-wide visibility with 34 new metrics
▪️ SageMaker Autopilot SageMaker Studio batch inference
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart AlexaTM 20B model
▪️ SAM CLI Terraform support for Lambda local testing and debugging
Issue #47 | 21 November – 27 November 2022

▪️ Backup SAP HANA databases on EC2
▪️ CloudFront continuous deployment support
▪️ Connect configurable Lex timeouts
▪️ Control Tower Config rules compiance status
▪️ EBS Rule Lock for Recycle Bin
▪️ EC2 SQL Server 2022 AMIs
▪️ EMR
     ▫️ long running fault-tolerant SQL queries and checkpointing on S3 or HDFS
     ▫️ Manage Table metadata in Glue Data Catalog when running Flink workloads
▪️ EMR on EKS Jupyter Notebooks Spark properties configuration
▪️ EMR Serverless
     ▫️ cross-account S3 access
     ▫️ DynamoDB reading and writing data
     ▫️ Graviton2 support
▪️ EventBridge new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules
▪️ Glue Crawlers Snowflake support
▪️ IAM Identity Center session management capabilities for CLI/SDK
▪️ IoT RoboRunner is now generally available
▪️ Kinesis Data Analytics Flink version 1.15
▪️ Managed Grafana
     ▫️ visualizing Prometheus Alertmanager rules
     ▫️ VPC hosted data sources
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ cluster points for Geospatial Visual
     ▫️ connectivity to Databricks
     ▫️ dashboards now available for seller reporting and insights in Marketplace
     ▫️ launches admin asset management console
     ▫️ NULL in parameter
▪️ RDS Custom for Oracle Oracle Home customization
▪️ Rekognition new pre-trained labels, and introduces color detection
▪️ S3 Select improves query performance by up to 9x when using Trino
▪️ SageMaker Autopilot additional metrics for Ensemble training mode
▪️ Secrets Manager every 4 hours secrets rotation
▪️ Service Catalog syncing IaC templates from GitHub/Bitbucket
▪️ SNS payload-based message filtering
▪️ Textract any document signatures detection
▪️ X-Ray SQS + Lambda traces
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Issue #48 | 28 Nov - 04 Dec, re:Invent 2022 | Part #1
▪️ AI Service Cards a new resource for responsible AI
▪️ Amazon Braket Algorithm Library access pre-built quantum algorithms
▪️ Amazon Verified Permissions permissions management and authorization service | Preview
▪️ AppConfig Agent easier feature flags and runtime configuration
▪️ AppFlow now supports over 50 Connectors
▪️ Application Composer visually design and build serverless applications | Preview
▪️ Application Migration Service application-centric migrations, wave planning, and more
▪️ Athena Spark support
▪️ Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift
▪️ AWS Marketplace streamline vendor risk assessments with Vendor Insights
▪️ Backup
     ▫️ application-aware data protection for apps defined with CloudFormation
     ▫️ centralized reporting
     ▫️ delegation of organization-wide backup administration
     ▫️ legal hold capability for extended data retention
     ▫️ Redshift support
▪️ CloudTrail Lake AWS Config configuration items
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ cross-account observability
     ▫️ Internet Monitor Preview
▪️ CloudWatch Logs detect and protect sensitive data-in-transit
▪️ CodeCatalyst new service | Preview
▪️ CodeWhisperer Enterprise administrative controls, simple sign-up, C#/Typenoscript
▪️ Comprehend
     ▫️ classification and entity extraction directly from a variety of document formats
     ▫️ semi-structured document processing
▪️ Compute Optimizer external metrics from observability partners
▪️ Config proactive compliance
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️ agent performance evaluation forms | Preview
     ▫️ conversational analytics for chat
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling | GA
     ▫️ step-by-step guides in agent workspace | Preview
▪️ Control Tower
     ▫️ account customization
     ▫️ comprehensive controls management | Preview
▪️ Data Exchange
     ▫️ for Amazon S3 | Preview
     ▫️ for AWS Lake Formation | Preview
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion
▪️ DocumentDB Elastic Clusters | GA
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ C6in instances
     ▫️ C7gn instances
     ▫️ Hpc6id instances
     ▫️ Inf2 instances | Preview
     ▫️ R7iz instances
     ▫️ Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express
     ▫️ M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances
     ▫️ Microsoft Office AMIs
     ▫️ Spot Ready Software Products
     ▫️ Torn Write Prevention for I4i instances, EBS, and RDS
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Issue #48 | 28 Nov - 04 Dec, re:Invent 2022 | Part #2

▪️ EFS
     ▫️ 1-Day Lifecycle Management Policy
     ▫️ Elastic Throughput
     ▫️ up to 60% read / 40% write lower latencies
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery cross-Region and cross-Availability Zone failback
▪️ Elastic Load Balancing new application availability
▪️ EventBridge Pipes point-to-point integration | GA
▪️ Firewall Manager FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP simplifies access to Multi-AZ FS from on-premises and peered networks
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP x2 maximum throughput capacity and SSD IOP/fs
▪️ FSx for OpenZFS new gen
▪️ GameLift customer-managed compute with GameLift Anywhere
▪️ Glue
     ▫️ custom visual transforms
     ▫️ Data Lake Frameworks (Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
     ▫️ Ray new engine for Glue Preview
     ▫️ Glue Data Quality | Preview
     ▫️ Glue v4.0 with Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10
▪️ GuardDuty RDS Protection | Preview
▪️ IoT Core new Device Location feature
▪️ IoT Device Management Jobs scheduling configuration
▪️ IoT MQTT5 General Availability
▪️ Kendra
     ▫️ expanded language support for semantic search
     ▫️ HTML documents tabular search
▪️ Kinesis Data Firehose data stream delivery to OpenSearch Serverless
▪️ KMS launches External Key Store
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ Amazon Inspector support
     ▫️ SnapStart for Java functions
▪️ Local Zones Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Muscat | GA
▪️ Macie automated sensitive data discovery
▪️ Marketplace for containers direct deployment to EKS clusters
▪️ Network Manager Global Network real-time performance monitoring
▪️ Nitro Enclaves EKS and Kubernetes
▪️ Omics new service | GA
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless | Preview
▪️ Organizations delegated administrator
▪️ Outposts is now available in Qatar, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago
▪️ Partners
     ▫️ Glue Delivery
     ▫️ Graviton Delivery
     ▫️ MSK Delivery Managed Streaming
     ▫️ SageMaker Ready Software Products
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ Expanded API capabilities | GA
     ▫️ Paginated Reports
▪️ QuickSight Q
     ▫️ automated data preparation
     ▫️ new "Why" and "forecast" questions
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ Aurora PostgreSQL Trusted Language Extensions
     ▫️ Blue/Green Deployments
     ▫️ Optimized Reads up to 50% faster queries on RDS for MySQL
     ▫️ Optimized Writes up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost
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Issue #48 | 28 Nov - 04 Dec, re:Invent 2022 | Part #3

▪️ Redshift
     ▫️ auto-copy from Amazon S3
     ▫️ centralized access control with Lake formation | Preview
     ▫️ Dynamic Data Masking | Preview
     ▫️ EMR integration for Apache Spark
     ▫️ Informatica Data Loader integration
     ▫️ integration for Apache Spark
     ▫️ RA3 clusters Multi-AZ | Preview
     ▫️ real-time streaming ingestion for KDS and MSK | GA
     ▫️ speed up data warehouse migrations | Preview
▪️ Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
▪️ S3 Access Points cross-account access permission delegation
▪️ S3 Multi-Region Access Points failover controls enable active-passive configurations and customer-initiated failovers
▪️ SageMaker Autopilot automate MLOps workflows with SageMaker Pipelines
▪️ SageMaker Data Wrangler
     ▫️ built-in data preparation in notebooks
     ▫️ now supports over 40 third-party applications as data sources
     ▫️ real-time and batch inference and additional configs to processing jobs
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ geospatial ML | Preview
     ▫️ new ML governance tools
     ▫️ shadow testing
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart share ML artifacts within your organization
▪️ SageMaker Studio
     ▫️ automatic conversion of notebook code to production-ready jobs
     ▫️ real time collaboration
     ▫️ UI redesign
▪️ Security Lake new service | Preview
▪️ SimSpace Weaver new service | Preview
▪️ Step Functions large-scale parallel workflows
▪️ Supply Chain new service | Preview
▪️ Textract Analyze Lending
▪️ Transcribe real-time Call Analytics API
▪️ Verified Access new service | Preview
▪️ VPC Lattice new service | Preview
▪️ VPC Reachability Analyzer cross-account network reachability analysis
▪️ Wickr general availability
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Issue #49 | 5 December – 11 December, 2022

▪️ Billing Conductor Global Free Tier Pricing Rules
▪️ Braket adjoint gradient computation, runtime improvements, cost savings
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks wildcard config
▪️ CloudShell is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant
▪️ Config drift detection in Config Recorder
▪️ Contact Lens manage rules with Connect APIs
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection alerts include account name
▪️ Cost Management refresh Savings Plans
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Metric Math for Target Tracking Policies
▪️ ECS Service Connect Fargate on Graviton support
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP
     ▫️ extends NVMe read cache support to Single-AZ file systems
     ▫️ new ease-of-use features
     ▫️ Nitro-based encryption of data in transit
     ▫️ receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
▪️ Glue sensitive data detection is available in 18 additional Regions
▪️ IAM Identity Center FedRAMP High authorization in GovCloud
▪️ IoT Device Defender Audit potential misconfiguration in IoT Policies
▪️ IoT TwinMaker asset synchronization with IoT SiteWise
▪️ Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Logz.io
▪️ Lex Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish
▪️ Location Service is now HITRUST CSF certified
▪️ Managed Grafana CloudFormation support
▪️ NoSQL Workbench DDB
     ▫️ creating data models directly from sample data model templates
     ▫️ DynamoDB Local
▪️ QuickSight billion-row dataset with SPICE
▪️ RDS Proxy Aurora Global Database primary and secondary regions
▪️ SageMaker Data Wrangler EMR Presto as a big data query engine
▪️ SageMaker Feature Store Apache Iceberg table format
▪️ SageMaker Model Training support for ml.p4de instances | Preview
▪️ SageMaker Studio Fine-grained DAC with Lake Formation/EMR
▪️ Security Hub Control Tower integration
▪️ Systems Manager change request CloudTrail events
▪️ Transcribe Custom Language Models for German/Japanese
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Issue #50 | 12 December – 18 December, 2022

▪️ Amplify Library for Android v2.0 | Javanoscript v5.0
▪️ AppFlow
     ▫️ 4 new connectors
     ▫️ Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source
▪️ Athena new connector for AWS MSK and Kafka
▪️ Backup
     ▫️ schedule-based network throttling for VMware
     ▫️ VMware vSphere tags
▪️ Chime SDK launches pre-built CodeSandbox developer experience
▪️ Cloud WAN simplify security inspection with Appliance Mode support
▪️ CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ bulk user import now includes agent hierarchy and tags
     ▫️ resource tags access controls for routing profiles, users
▪️ Control Tower concurrent account provisioning operations
▪️ Copilot ECS Service Connect
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection percentage-based thresholds
▪️ DataSync tags usage in task executions
▪️ DevOps Guru for RDS detects SQL load changes
▪️ EBS direct APIs now supports IPv6
▪️ EC2 Calculator dedicated instance pricing
▪️ ECS container port ranges for port mapping
▪️ EKS
     ▫️ add-ons now supports advanced configuration
     ▫️ automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers
▪️ EMR new Console
▪️ EMR on EKS Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark
▪️ EMR Serverless jobs CloudWatch metrics
▪️ Fraud Detector Data Models Explorer
▪️ Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 traffic
▪️ IQ public profiles for companies
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams edge recording and scheduled cloud streaming | Preview
▪️ Location Service Open Data Maps | Preview
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ free trials for SaaS usage-based pricing products
     ▫️ notify sellers and customers when a private offer is created
▪️ Neptune “Concise Bounded Denoscription” queries for SPARQL query language
▪️ Neptune ML Real-time inductive inference
▪️ Personalize new limits: more users and longer histories of interactions
▪️ Pricing Calculator bulk estimation of EC2 instances
▪️ QuickSight Q Topic migration APIs | Preview
▪️ RDS for Oracle copying option groups during in-region cross-account snapshot copy
▪️ RDS Proxy PostgreSQL major version 14
▪️ Route 53 threat intelligence sourced from Recorded Future
▪️ S3 Block Public Access and disable ACL for all new buckets in April 2023
▪️ SageMaker Canvas Bring ML Models built anywhere
▪️ SageMaker Data Wrangler now auto-generates feature-level visualizations
▪️ SageMaker Experiments new capabilities to manage ML experiments
▪️ SageMaker Feature Store offline store Python SDK
▪️ SageMaker Ground Truth synthetic data now supports dynamic 3D environments
▪️ Storage Gateway S3 File Gateway Terraform modules
▪️ Timestream AWS Backup support
▪️ Translate
     ▫️ batch translation language detection
     ▫️ S3 nested folders files
▪️ Trusted Advisor new fault tolerance checks
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Issue #51 🎄 | 19 December – 25 December, 2022

▪️ Athena enhances read support for Delta Lake table format
▪️ Batch adds visibility for terminated and cancelled jobs
▪️ Compute Optimizer Fargate support
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ allows contact center managers to join ongoing calls
     ▫️ Edge Chromium support
     ▫️ enhanced controls for redacting PII Contact Lens
     ▫️ JSON content-type in chat messages
▪️ Console Home
     ▫️ new Security widget
     ▫️ Systems Manager widget
▪️ EC2 DescribeImages API now supports pagination
▪️ ECS CloudWatch alarms integration to improve safety for deployments
▪️ EKS Anywhere
     ▫️ cluster lifecycle automation with GitOps and IaC tools
     ▫️ on Nutanix
     ▫️ single-node clusters on bare metal
▪️ EKS PrivateLink
▪️ EMR Serverless account-level vCPU-based per-region quotas
▪️ FinSpace web and data access events now available in CloudTrail
▪️ Glue Crawlers Delta Lake Tables
▪️ IoT Core Rules Engine supports Protobuf
▪️ IoT Device Client new V1.8 via ECR with enhanced functionality
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams ingestion and storage support WebRTC | Preview
▪️ License Manager commercial Linux subnoscriptions discovery and governance
▪️ Lookout for Equipment label feedback API
▪️ Managed Prometheus VPC endpoint policies
▪️ Migration Hub Orchestrator importing virtual machine images
▪️ Migration Hub Refactor Spaces enables Lambda aliases as service endpoints
▪️ Neptune Workbench JupyterLab notebooks
▪️ Nimble Studio
     ▫️ configurable persistent storage and new EBS volumes
     ▫️ EBS Snapshots with Auto Backup
▪️ Open-Source
     ▫️ Fortuna a library for uncertainty quantification of ML models
     ▫️ Organizations centrally manage region opt-in settings on AWS accounts
     ▫️ Renate a python library for automatic model re-training
▪️ ParallelCluster Multi-AZ support and other important features
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server CloudFormation Templates
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ integration with Secrets Manager
     ▫️ renaming Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys
▪️ RDS on AWS Outposts read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL
▪️ RDS Optimized Writes R6g, and R6gd instances
▪️ Rekognition adds labels and improves accuracy of existing labels for video
▪️ Rekognition improves accuracy of content moderation for images
▪️ Resource Scheduler Systems Manager Quick Setup
▪️ ROSA Management Console experience for satisfying ROSA prerequisites
▪️ SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning better reproducibility
▪️ Security Hub +9 new security best practice controls
▪️ Transcribe Speech to Text: Swedish and Vietnamese
▪️ Transfer Family built-in PGP decryption for file uploads
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