📝 Issue #100 | re:Invent 2023 2/3

Day 1
▪️  Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
▪️  Amazon One Enterprise identity service for enterprise access control | Preview
▪️  AppFabric build cross-app with gen-AI | Preview
▪️  Application Composer Step Functions Workflow Studio integration
▪️  AppSync  support Aurora clusters configured with the RDS Data API
▪️  B2B Data Interchange
▪️  Backup
      ▫️ EBS Snapshots Archive
      ▫️ restore testing
▪️  Braket Braket Direct
▪️   CodeCatalyst
      ▫️ custom blueprints
      ▫️ Enterprise Tier
▪️  Control Tower +65 new controls to help meet digital sovereignty requirements
▪️  EFS Replication now supports failback
▪️  ElastiCache Serverless
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery
      ▫️ DR drill validation automation
      ▫️ in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
▪️  Fault Injection Service Multi-Account Experiments
▪️  Glue Data Catalog multi engine views with AWS Analytics Engines
▪️  Healthscribe is now generally available
▪️  Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for EC2
▪️  Mainframe Modernization
      ▫️ Application Testing | Preview
      ▫️ Data Replication Precisely is now available for IBM i
      ▫️ File Transfer with BMC | GA
      ▫️ Replatform NTT DATA
      ▫️ Virtualization for SPARC with Stromasys
▪️  MSK Graviton3-based M7g instances for new provisioned clusters
▪️   Partner-Led Support enhanced capabilities
▪️  RDS Db2 | GA
▪️  Redshift
      ▫️ incremental refresh for materialized views on data lake tables | Preview
      ▫️ Multidimensional Data Layouts to optimize your query performance | Preview
      ▫️ new fine-grained access control capabilities to nested objects  | Preview
      ▫️ Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimizations | Preview
▪️  S3
      ▫️ automatically accelerate data transfer for ML training
      ▫️ Mountpoint for CSI driver | GA
▪️  SageMaker new LMI DLC with TensorRT-LLM support
▪️  SDK
      ▫️ Kotlin  | GA
      ▫️ Rust | GA
▪️  Security Hub major dashboard enhancements
▪️  Security Hub
      ▫️ new central configuration capabilities
      ▫️ new finding enrichment
▪️  SQS
      ▫️ FIFO dead-letter queue redrive
      ▫️ increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput mode
▪️  Support AWS Countdown with a premium tier

Day 2
▪️  Amazon Q
      ▫️ a new generative AI–powered assistant  | Preview
      ▫️ Connect offers gen-AI powered agent assistance in real-time
      ▫️ Console Mobile App | Preview
      ▫️ expert capabilities for AWS | Preview
      ▫️ feature development capability in CodeCatalyst | Preview
      ▫️ optimal EC2 instance selection for your workload
      ▫️ QuickSight simplifies data exploration with Generative BI capabilities | Preview
▪️  Athena accelerate data lake queries with S3 Express One Zone
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️ Boost gen-AI app development with Agents
      ▫️ continued pre-training | Preview
      ▫️ fine-tune Meta Llama 2, Cohere Command Light, Titan FMs
      ▫️ Knowledge Bases | GA
      ▫️ Safeguard gen-AI apps with Guardrails | Preview
▪️  Chatbot Amazon Q conversations in Teams and Slack
▪️  Connect Contact Lens provides gen-AI powered contact summarization | Preview
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ Contact Lens real-time conversational analytics for chat
      ▫️ gen-AI powered customer data mapping
      ▫️ in-app, web, and video calling
      ▫️ no-code UI builder to configure step-by-step guides
      ▫️  now supports two-way SMS
      ▫️ zero-ETL analytics | Preview
▪️  DataZone AI recommendations for denoscriptions | Preview
▪️  DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with OpenSearch Preview
▪️  EC2 new R8g instances powered by Graviton4 processors | Preview
▪️  EMR accelerate data processing and analysis with S3 Express One Zone
▪️  Redshift
      ▫️ zero-ETL integration with Aurora PostgreSQL | Preview
      ▫️ zero-ETL integration with DynamoDB Preview
      ▫️ zero-ETL integration with RDS for MySQL Preview
▪️  S3
      ▫️ Express One Zone storage class
      ▫️ Mountpoint now supports the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class

📝 Issue #100 | re:Invent 2023 3/3

Day 3
▪️ AI Service Cards advance responsible AI
▪️ Amazon Q generative SQL is now available in Redshift Query Editor | Preview
▪️ AWS Marketplace
      ▫️ APIs for sellers
      ▫️ Partner CRM Connector
      ▫️ SaaS Quick Launch
▪️ Bedrock
      ▫️ batch inference
      ▫️ Claude 2.1 foundation model from Anthropic | GA
      ▫️ Evaluate, compare, and select the best FMs | Preview
      ▫️ Llama 2 70B foundation model
      ▫️ Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 foundation model from Stability AI | GA
      ▫️ Titan Image Generator foundation model | Preview
      ▫️ Titan Multimodal Embeddings foundation model | GA
      ▫️ Titan Text models—Express and Lite | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms Differential Privacy | Preview
▪️ DocumentDB vector search
▪️ MemoryDB for Redis vector search | Preview
▪️ Neptune Analytics | GA
▪️ OpenSearch
      ▫️ OR1 instances
      ▫️ zero-ETL integration with S3 | Preview
      ▫️ Serverless Vector engine  | GA
▪️ Partner Network
      ▫️ AWS Resilience Competency
      ▫️ Built-in Competency Partner software automates Installation for customers
      ▫️ new Amazon EKS Ready Specialization
      ▫️ Request a Cyber Insurance Quote
      ▫️ Solution Building Enablement
▪️ Redshift
      ▫️ Apache Iceberg support | GA
      ▫️ metadata security to simplify multi-tenant applications
      ▫️ row-level security enhancements | GA
      ▫️ Serverless enhanced manageability and usability features
▪️ SageMaker
      ▫️ better SDK tooling and UX for model deployment
      ▫️ Clarify now supports foundation model (FM) evaluations | Preview
      ▫️ HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure for distributed training at scale
   ▫️ new inference capabilities to reduce costs and latency
      ▫️ Canvas Leverage FMs for business analysis at scale
      ▫️ Canvas natural language instructions for data preparation
      ▫️ Model Training  smart sifting of data | Preview
      ▫️ Notebook create jobs API
      ▫️ Pipelines simplified DX for AI/ML workflows

Day 4
▪️  AppConfig Agent write to disk, backups, and permission mapping
▪️  Application Composer IDE extension
▪️  AWS Console myApplications: view and manage your applications
▪️  CloudWatch Application Signals Observe your applications | Preview
▪️  EC2 Hibernate C7a, C7i, R7a, R7i and R7iz Instances
▪️  Fault Injection Service AZ Availability: Power Interruption and Cross-Region: Connectivity
▪️  FreeRTOS modular and composable OTA libraries
▪️  Inspector enhances container image security by integrating with developer tools
▪️  Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal autoshift
▪️  SageMaker
      ▫️ new setup and onboarding experience
      ▫️ Distribution Code Editor based on Code-OSS and JupyterLab
      ▫️ Studio Bring your own EFS volume to JupyterLab and CodeEditor
      ▫️ Studio faster fully-managed notebooks in JupyterLab
      ▫️ Studio New and improved
      ▫️ Studio VS Code OSS based Editor

☁️ Issue #101 | 10 December 2023

▪️  Amazon Q in preview on Console Mobile App for iOS
▪️  CloudWatch
      ▫️  Cross-Account Metrics Insights
      ▫️  Metric Streams OpenTelemetry 1.0.0
▪️  CodeDeploy now provides zonal deployment for EC2
▪️  Connect
      ▫️  +24 contact and agent metrics to access programmatically
      ▫️  new capabilities for measuring answered or abandoned contacts
      ▫️  Customer Profiles calculated attributes that turn customer data into actionable insights
▪️  Direct Connect new location in Vancouver, Canada
▪️  DMS RDS Db2 as a target endpoint
▪️  EC2
      ▫️  Instance Connect  RHEL, CentOS, and MacOS
      ▫️  M7i-flex and M7i instances + 8 Regions
▪️  Elemental MediaLive
      ▫️  color space conversion with custom tone mapping
      ▫️  image overlays for individual outputs
▪️  FinSpace Managed kdb Insights
      ▫️  a wider set of customer kdb applications
      ▫️  now works with TorQ framework
▪️  IoT  new no-code dashboard application
▪️  Lambda
      ▫️  now scale up to 12X faster
      ▫️  simplifies connectivity to RDS and RDS Proxy
▪️  Mainframe Modernization new controls for managed runtimes
▪️  Migration Hub Orchestrator replatforming applications to ECS
▪️  OpenSearch Service Migration Assistant
▪️  QuickSight enhances SPICE ingestion performance by up to 4x with parallel ingestion
▪️  Redshift
      ▫️  Advisor sort and distribution key recommendations
      ▫️  extends SUPER data type column size support to 16 MB
▪️  Rekognition
      ▫️  Face APIs version 7 for improved accuracy and lower latency
      ▫️  improves Face Liveness accuracy and user experience
▪️  Resilience Hub customer compliance with ISO and SOC
▪️  SageMaker Canvas comprehensive data preparation capabilities
▪️  Secrets Manager 99.99% Service Level Agreement
▪️  SNS configuring delivery status logging with AWS CloudFormation
▪️  Textract updates to AnalyzeDocument - Forms

🟢Issue #102 | 17 December 2023

▪️  Amplify Connect GraphQL APIs to existing MySQL and PostgreSQL DBs
▪️  AppConfig now supports PrivateLink
▪️  AppStream 2.0 Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images
▪️  Athena user identities for data access and audit
▪️  AWS Inc.
      ▫️ 3D-Secure authentication in Malaysia
      ▫️ Card Verification Value (CVV)
▪️  Billing Conductor margin analysis reports for AWS services
▪️  CloudFormation template generation for EventBridge Pipes
▪️  CloudShell migrated to AL2023
▪️  CloudWatch
      ▫️ Cross-Account Metrics Insights
      ▫️ Logs custom data identifiers
      ▫️ Logs streaming API support for Live Tail
      ▫️ Synthetics Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 6.1
▪️  CodeCatalyst managed package repository
▪️  CodeDeploy application stop hooks during EC2 Auto Scaling Group scale-ins
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ Cases creating rules for monitoring and updating your cases
      ▫️ more granular access controls (using tags) for your instances
      ▫️ more granular billing
      ▫️ Tasks pausing/resuming of tasks
▪️  Control Tower Landing Zone updates managed policies and controls
▪️  Cost Anomaly Detection extends CloudFormation region support
▪️  Data Exchange data grants for sharing data across organizations
▪️  DevOps Guru FedRAMP Moderate compliance
▪️  DocumentDB 1-click EC2 connectivity with EC2 instance
▪️  EBS CloudFormation support for Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots
▪️  EC2 Image Builder image workflows to customize image creation process
▪️  EC2
      ▫️ Inf2 instances | GA
      ▫️ M6id instances additional regions
      ▫️ M7g  instances additional regions
▪️  EMR on EC2 high-availability instance fleets configuration
▪️  EMR Serverless Middle East (UAE) Region
▪️  FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights
      ▫️ Dataviews for sharing database caches across kdb clusters
      ▫️ running multiple kdb processes on shared compute
      ▫️ Tickerplants for real-time analytics
▪️  IoT Core allows customers to use their own CAs with fleet provisioning
▪️  IoT TwinMaker Auto Query feature
▪️  Kinesis Data Firehose delivery of decompressed CloudWatch Logs to destinations
▪️  Lambda
      ▫️ additional concurrency metric for improved quota monitoring
      ▫️ Python 3.12 runtime
▪️  Linux KVM and VMWare images with AL2023.3
▪️  Monitron cost visibility at the project and site level
▪️  MQ RabbitMQ version 3.10.25
▪️  MSK IAM support to all programming languages for existing clusters
▪️  RDS for MariaDB 10.11.6, 10.6.16, 10.5.23, 10.4.32
▪️  RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2022 CU10
▪️  SES notifications for delivery improvement recommendations
▪️  SNS
      ▫️ sending SMS from Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
      ▫️ SMS from Israel (Tel Aviv)
▪️  Systems Manager Fleet Manager EBS volume management
▪️  Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.1

☁️ Issue #103 | 24 December 2023

▪️   Application Discovery Service storage monitoring for VMware
▪️   AppSync GraphQL API configuration
▪️   Audit Manager PCI 4.0 for automated evidence collection
▪️   Aurora PostgreSQL
       ▫️ delegating extension management to lower privileged users
       ▫️ h3-pg for geospatial indexing
       ▫️ HypoPG extension for creating hypothetical indexes
       ▫️ integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI
       ▫️ RDS Data API
▪️   Aurora supports PostgreSQL 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17
▪️   AWS India  save cards in AWS for faster invoice payments
▪️   Backup Audit Manager new control to audit restore time targets
▪️   Backup SAP HANA High Availability databases on EC2
▪️   Chime SDK new high-definition video modes
▪️   Clean Rooms customer compliance with ISO and SOC
▪️   Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2023
▪️   CloudFront 4096-bit RSA TLS certificates
▪️   CloudWatch
       ▫️ alarms adds Lambda as an alarm state change action
       ▫️ Container Insights cross-account observability for EKS
       ▫️ Network Monitor is now generally available
▪️   CodeCatalyst Dev Environments
       ▫️ SSH support
       ▫️ VPC support
▪️   CodeCommit Customer Managed Key (CMK) support
▪️   Cognito customize access tokens
▪️   Config 1000 AWS Config rules per AWS Region per account
▪️   Connect
       ▫️ agent workspace supports contextual views for third-party apps | `Preview
       ▫️ granular access controls (using resource tags) for hours of operation
       ▫️ granular access controls (using resource tags) for prompts
       ▫️ routing contacts according to the proficiency of agents
       ▫️ Contact Lens new API to search for contacts
       ▫️ Tasks link and track tasks and associated contacts
▪️  Console Mobile App integrated mobile experience
▪️  Direct Connect
       ▫️ location in Canberra, Australia
       ▫️ locations in Calgary, Canada
▪️  DynamoDB local adds support for two DynamoDB API features
▪️  EC2 HPC instances now available in additional regions
▪️  ECR wildcards in lifecycle policies
▪️  EFA support for Open MPI 5.0
▪️  EKS introduces upgrade insights
▪️  EKS simplified controls for IAM cluster access management
▪️  EMR Serverless fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation | Preview
▪️  FSx for NetApp ONTAP NetApp System Manager to manage your file systems
▪️  FSx for OpenZFS on-demand data replication across AWS Regions and accounts
▪️  Ground Station new antenna location in Alaska
▪️  Keyspaces DML query auditing with AWS CloudTrail
▪️  Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region
▪️  Launch Wizard Automate deployment of SAP systems on ASE databases
▪️  Managed Service for Prometheus customer managed KMS keys
▪️  Marketplace read API that can get details on multiple entities at once
▪️  Network Firewall egress TLS inspection is now available in all regions
▪️  Neuron PyTorch 2.1 and Llama-2-70b model inference
▪️  OpenSearch Service multimodal support for Neural Search
▪️  ParallelCluster 3.8 EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
▪️  RDS for Db2 X2iedn instances
▪️  RDS new UX RDS Recommendations
▪️  RDS Performance Insights  recommendations when metrics breach advisable thresholds
▪️  Redshift SSO with QuickSight and Lake Formation
▪️  Route 53 Resolver Endpoints
      ▫️ DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
      ▫️ now in Canada West (Calgary) Region
▪️  SageMaker model parallelism now provides up to 20% speed up with less code change
▪️  Security Hub +15 new security controls
▪️  VPC Bring Your Own IP in 3 AWS Local Zones

📹 Issue #105 | 7 January 2024

▪️  AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questions
▪️  Cognito identity pools enhances quota management in AWS Service Quotas
▪️  Connect launches granular access controls for historical metrics
▪️  EC2 Serial Console available in all Local Zones
▪️  ECS Service Connect is now available in three additional AWS Regions
▪️  Lightsail simplified WordPress setup
▪️  Marketplace simplified and reduced listing fees for sellers
▪️  OpenSearch Service TLS 1.3 and perfect forward secrecy
▪️  SageMaker Feature Store provisioned capacity mode
▪️  Systems Manager SSM Agent version update in the context of an Application
▪️  Systems Manager Ubuntu 23.04, Debian 12, MacOS 14, and SUSE SP5
▪️  WorkSpaces supports certificate-based authentication on Web Access

📑 Issue #106 | 13 Jan 2024

▪️   AWS Console Mobile App
       ▫️  enhanced sign in experience for Android
       ▫️  integrated mobile experience
▪️   Backup protecting FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes
▪️   CloudWatch Logs account level subnoscription filter
▪️   CodeBuild X-Large Linux compute type
▪️   Config +22 new resource types
▪️   Connect
       ▫️  audio optimization for Citrix cloud desktops
       ▫️  outbound campaigns voice dialing API | GA
▪️   ECS
       ▫️  Fargate now integrate with Amazon EBS
       ▫️  improves deployment monitoring responsiveness
▪️   ElastiCache
       ▫️  additional sizes of network-optimized C7gn nodes
       ▫️  now supports Memcached 1.6.22
▪️   EMR backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables
▪️   EMR Studio customer managed KMS key encryption for workspace storage
▪️   EventBridge AppSync as a target of EventBridge Buses
▪️   Kinesis Data Firehose delivering data to Splunk clusters using ALB
▪️   Lambda SnapStart for Java functions in 5 additional regions
▪️   Location Service additional places content in Maps
▪️   Marketplace Insights new dashboard for sellers showing product usage
▪️   Open Job Denoscription an open specification for portable render jobs
▪️   OpenSearch Service hybrid query score normalization
▪️   RDS for Db2 up to 5,000 database users
▪️   RDS for MySQL Innovation Release version 8.2
▪️   RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU24
▪️   ROSA hosted control planes (HCP) | GA
▪️   Route 53
       ▫️  expands geoproximity routing
       ▫️  Resolver DNS Firewall query type filtering
▪️   SageMaker now supports M7i, C7i, and R7i instances for ML Inference

❌ Issue #107 | 21 January 2024

▪️ Amazon Corretto January, 2024 quarterly updates
▪️ CodeBuild reserved capacity
▪️ Connect contact center managers can join ongoing chats
▪️ ECS managed instance draining
▪️ Elastic File System higher read IOPS
▪️ EMR Studio simplified create experience with improved start times
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server increases maximum IOPS level to 400,000
▪️ Kinesis Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming | Preview
▪️ Location Service CloudFormation support for API keys and resource management
▪️ Marketplace new future dated agreements feature
▪️ Migration Hub Journeys Prenoscriptive Guided Migration & Modernization
▪️ Network Load Balancer RSA 3072-bit, ECDSA 256/384/521-bit certificates via Certificate Manager
▪️ Open Source Redis client GLIDE | Preview
▪️ Private CA issue ISO/IEC mobile driver’s license certificates
▪️ RDS
     ▫️Db2 Cross-Region Automated Backups
     ▫️MySQL multi-source replication
     ▫️SQL Server Supports TempDB configuration replication
▪️ S3 on Outposts enables support for IPv6
▪️ SNS FCM HTTP V1 API for delivering mobile push notifications
▪️ Supply Chain
     ▫️N-Tier Visibility
     ▫️Supply Planning
     ▫️Sustainability
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️static IP addresses for SFTP connectors
     ▫️static IPs for sending AS2 messages and MDNs

🟠Issue #108 | 28 January 2024

▪️  Billing Conductor account-scoped custom line items
▪️  Cognito Provisioned capacity for API limits
▪️  Competency Small and Medium Business (SMB)
▪️  ECS Service Connect
      ▫️ automatic traffic encryption
      ▫️ configurable timeout
▪️  EKS Kubernetes version 1.29
▪️  Inspector CIS Benchmark assessments for operating systems in EC2 instances
▪️  IVS audio-only pricing for Low-Latency Streaming
▪️  Keyspaces provisioned capacity mode for Multi-Region Replication tables
▪️  Lightsail IPv6 instance bundles
▪️  Marketplace resell third-party professional services
▪️  Payment Cryptography additional options for importing and exporting keys
▪️  Private CA revocation for Matter certificates
▪️  RDS Custom SQL Server 2022
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL croaring-rs and num-bigint crates for Trusted Language Extensions
▪️  SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Delete API
▪️  Step Functions integration +33 services including Amazon Q
▪️  Systems Manager syncing inventory data to and from AWS opt-in Regions
▪️  VPC idempotency for route table and network ACL creation

ℹ️ Issue #109 | 4 Feb 2024

▪️   AppFabric ISO, PCI, and SOC compliant
▪️   Aurora PostgreSQL version 16
▪️   CloudTrail AppConfig data events
▪️   Cognito signing, encryption, and Identity Provider-initiated SSO for SAML federation
▪️   Connect Cases audit history
▪️   Control Tower DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
▪️   DataZone CloudFormation and HIPAA eligibility
▪️   EC2
       ▫️  750 hours of free Public IPv4
       ▫️  Capacity Blocks for ML expands to P4d instances
       ▫️  new price protection for attribute based instance selection
▪️   EventBridge Event Bus event matching with Open Source Event Ruler v1.50
▪️   Finch is now available on Windows
▪️   FSx for OpenZFS up to 400,000 IOPS
▪️   Glue Amazon Q | Preview
▪️   IVS playback restriction policies
▪️   Managed Blockchain Query access to non-finalized blockchain data
▪️   Marketplace self-service flows for sellers to list third-party EKS add-ons
▪️   Monitron enable static IP for gateways network configuration
▪️   RDS for Db2 EBCDIC collation sequence
▪️   Rekognition new moderation labels and accuracy of content moderation for images
▪️   Research and Engineering Studio version 2024.01

✔️ Issue #111 | 18 Feb 2024

▪️   ACE multiple solution tagging
▪️   API Gateway TLS 1.3
▪️   AppStream 2.0
       ▫️  administrative controls for limiting clipboard
       ▫️  session noscripts and Audio Out on multi-session fleets
▪️   AppSync +12 CloudWatch metrics
▪️   Batch private registry on ECS compute environments
▪️   CodeCatalyst pull request approval rules
▪️   Control Tower
       ▫️  Account Factory for Terraform
       ▫️  0register Organizational Units API
▪️   Data Firehose selecting a TZ for bucket prefixes
▪️   DocumentDB
       ▫️  maintenance notifications
       ▫️  text search
▪️   EMR on EC2 retrieval of 10,000 steps completed within last 7 days
▪️   GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring protects clusters running in shared VPC
▪️   Marketplace managing Private Marketplace catalogs for OU
▪️   MSK in-place version upgrades for Tiered Storage enabled clusters
▪️   OpenSearch Service
       ▫️  Serverless TLS 1.3 and perfect forward secrecy
       ▫️  update cluster volume without blue/green
▪️   Open Source  libraries and tools for Open Job Denoscription
▪️   Polly Neural Turkish Voice: Burcu
▪️   RDS for Db2 audit logging
▪️   RDS for MySQL version 8.0.36
▪️   Redshift INTERVAL data type and Continue Handler statements in stored procedure
▪️   SimSpace Weaver Messaging API
▪️   Wickr try premium features for free

☑️ Issue #112 | 25 Feb 2024

▪️  Amplify Hosting custom SSL certificates/TLS
▪️  CloudFront Embedded Points of Presence
▪️  Connect time zone support for agent shift profiles
▪️  DocumentDB
      ▫️  Elastic Clusters automatic backups and snapshot copying
      ▫️  Elastic Clusters readable secondaries, and start and stop clusters
      ▫️  Partial Indexes
      ▫️  vector search with HNSW index
▪️  EC2 regional expansion of G5 instances and SageMaker notebooks
▪️  Elastic Beanstalk Windows 2022
▪️  HealthOmics additional information for workflow runs
▪️  Incident Detection and Response five minute response time for critical incidents
▪️  Location Service Maps SDK Metal-based rendering for iOS applications
▪️  MWAA Airflow version 2.8
▪️  Neptune
      ▫️  data APIs in the AWS SDK
      ▫️  I/O-Optimized
      ▫️  OpenSearch 2.3, 2.5, and Serverless
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
▪️  Resilience Hub PCI compliant
▪️  Resource Explorer +65 resource types
▪️  Supply Chain Demand Planning Demand Driver-Based Forecasting
▪️  Systems Manager Parameter Store cross-account sharing

🖼 Issue #113 | 3 March 2023
▪️   AppConfig CDK L2 constructs
▪️   Backup restore testing for Amazon Aurora continuous backups
▪️   Batch multi-container jobs
▪️   Bedrock
       ▫️  hybrid search in Knowledge Bases
       ▫️  Mistral AI foundation models | GA
▪️   Connect
       ▫️  case management metrics
▫️ DID & Toll Free calling in Venezuela
▪️   Data Firehose message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs
▪️   DeepRacer League 2024
▪️   EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance for VMware Cloud | GA
▪️   ECS Fargate packaged Blu Age runtime
▪️   EKS Amazon Linux 2023
▪️   EventBridge API content-type header customization
▪️   Kinesis Data Streams query data in Console
▪️   Lambda
       ▫️  configuring stream and queue-based event sources
       ▫️  .NET 8 Runtime
▪️   Lex QnAIntent | GA
▪️   Location Service authentication library for iOS and Android
▪️   Migration Hub Orchestrator custom templates
▪️   NoSQL Workbench cloning tables
▪️   OpenSearch Ingestion Terraform support
▪️   OpenSearch Serverless control access to VPC endpoints
▪️   Q for Business metadata boosting for Q&A fine tuning
▪️   RDS for MariaDB 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, 10.4.33
▪️   RDS Multi-AZ deployments w 2-read standbys supports gp3
▪️   Redshift scoped permissions and object-level privileges in data sharing
▪️   Resource Groups +161 resource types
▪️   SageMaker S3 Express One Zone
▪️   Security Lake
       ▫️  audit logs from EKS
       ▫️  OCSF 1.1.0 and Apache Iceberg
▪️   WAF ruleMatchDetails for Regex rules
▪️   WorkSpaces Web CloudWatch performance metrics

🌟 Issue #114 | 10 March 2024

▪️   AppConfig Extensions dynamic parameters
▪️   AppFabric Box and IBM Security® Verify
▪️   Application Load Balancer Resource Map support
▪️   Aurora MySQL
       ▫️  integration with AWS Bedrock
       ▫️  v3.06 compatible with MySQL 8.0.34 | GA
▪️   Batch on EKS private EKS clusters
▪️   Bedrock Claude 3 Sonnet model
▪️   CloudWatch Metric Streams daily metrics
▪️   Competency Partners Generative AI
▪️   Cost Categories revamped UI
▪️   EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances are now available
▪️   ECS Fargate gMSA authentication for Linux containers
▪️   FSx for NetApp ONTAP x2 max throughput capacity to 72 GBps
▪️   HealthImaging import of large DICOMs and high-throughput HTJ2K
▪️   HealthLake expands search parameter support
▪️   Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins upgrade
▪️   MQ RabbitMQ version 3.11.28
▪️   Neptune DoD Impact Level 4/5
▪️   OpenSearch Serverless time-series workloads up to 10TB
▪️   RDS Custom for SQL Server X2iedn and R5b instances
▪️   RDS io2 Block Express for consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability
▪️   RDS Multi-AZ Deployments security certificate rotation 2 readable standbys
▪️   re:Post re:Post Live
▪️   SageMaker Canvas refreshed homepage
▪️   SES support for headers when sending email
▪️   VPC adjust preferred lease time with DHCPv6
▪️   WAF
       ▫️  enhances rate-based rules
       ▫️  larger up to 64KB request body inspections for regional resources
▪️   Wickr FedRAMP High authorization
▪️   WorkSpaces WebAuthn for in-session authentication
▪️   X-Ray data events in AWS CloudTrail

✅ Issue #115 | 17 March 2024

▪️   Application Load Balancer enables configuring HTTP client keepalive duration
▪️   Backup restore testing for EBS Snapshots Archive
▪️   Batch alerts to detect and react to jobs stuck in RUNNABLE state
▪️   Bedrock Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku Model
▪️   CloudFormation
       ▫️ new validation checks for stack operations
       ▫️ up to 40% faster stack creation
▪️   CloudWatch Automatic Workspaces dashboard
▪️   CloudWatch Container Insights NVIDIA GPUs on EKS
▪️   CloudWatch Synthetics
       ▫️  30-day historical data on canary runs
       ▫️  NodeJS 7.0 and Python 3.0
▪️   DynamoDB local upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17
▪️   EC2 tagging when registering or copying AMIs
▪️   EFS up to 20 GiB/s of throughput
▪️   Fault Injection Service target preview for experiments
▪️   Marketplace Resale Authorization Service-linked role
▪️   MSK Replicator replicating existing data on Kafka topics
▪️   ParallelCluster RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9 and dynamic cluster capacity updates
▪️   RDS for SQL Server minor version 2019 CU25 and 2022 CU11
▪️   S3 Connector for PyTorch writing checkpoints with PyTorch Lightning
▪️   S3 Mountpount CSI driver now supports Bottlerocket
▪️   S3 on Outposts reduces first-byte latencies for object API requests
▪️   SageMaker Canvas Fine-tuned FMs
▪️   SES guided onboarding
▪️   Timestream InfluxDB | GA
▪️   Verified Permissions increases default quotas for authorization APIs

📂 Issue #116 | 24 March 2024

▪️ AMB Query listing UTXOs on Bitcoin blockchain networks
▪️ Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift supports data filtering and CloudFormation
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets ListStackSetAutoDeploymentTargets API
▪️ CodeArtifact Package Group Configuration
▪️ CodeBuild custom images for AWS Lambda compute
▪️ CodeCatalyst Bedrock GenAI chatbot blueprint
▪️ Corretto 22 is now generally available
▪️ DataZone enhancements Redshift integration
▪️ DynamoDB
     ▫️  PrivateLink support
     ▫️  resource-based policies
▪️ EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts visibility into supported macOS versions
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor program rules in Channel Assembly
▪️ EMR Serverless FedRAMP Moderate compliance
▪️ FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights kdb database maintenance
▪️ Flink Managed Service
     ▫️  adds in-place version upgrades
     ▫️  Apache Flink 1.18
▪️ License Manager track IBM Db2 licenses on RDS
▪️ MSK Connect delete worker configurations and tagging resources
▪️ RDS Multi-AZ deployments with readable standby now support C6gd
▪️ SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference
▪️ Savings Plans 7-day window to return
▪️ Secrets Manager support for Redshift Serverless data warehouse
▪️ WorkMail Audit Logging

✅️ Issue #117 | 31 March 2024

▪️  Amazon Linux AL2023.4 and EKS optimized AMI
▪️  AppFabric Dynatrace support
▪️  Aurora PostgreSQL Reserved Instances for Optimized Reads
▪️  B2B Data Interchange
      ▫️  additional finance, transportation, supply chain X12 transactions
      ▫️  sends events to EventBridge
▪️  Batch multi-container jobs via Console
▪️  Bedrock
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases Claude 3 Sonnet
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases customize prompts and number of retrieval results
      ▫️  Knowledge Bases metadata filtering
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports CloudFormation
▪️  Chime SDK new API endpoints for media pipelines in Seoul, Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo, Canada, and London
▪️  CloudFormation Console visualization of stacks in Application Composer
▪️  CloudWatch Logs increased default quotas
▪️  CodeBuild GitLab and GitLab Self Managed
▪️  CodeCatalyst workflows runtime image selection
▪️  CodeConnections formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections
▪️  Compute Optimizer
      ▫️  +51 EC2 instance types
      ▫️  memory customizability
▪️  Connect
      ▫️  agent workspace supports 3-rd party apps | GA
      ▫️  forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling | GA +4reg
      ▫️  guided chat experiences using step-by-step guides
      ▫️  Contact Lens automates agent performance evaluations
      ▫️  Contact Lens gen AI-powered post-contact summaries  | GA
▪️  Cost Allocation Tags support retroactive up to 12 months application
▪️  DataZone AI recommendations for denoscriptions | GA
▪️  DynamoDB Import from S3 - up to 50K S3 objects in a single bulk import
▪️  EC2
      ▫️  C7gn metal instance is now available
      ▫️  ECS-Optimized AMIs support AL2 Kernel 5.10 for GPU and Inf Instances
      ▫️  set IMDSv2 as default for all new instance launches in your account
      ▫️  VSS Managed Policies for valid application consistent backups
▪️  ECR improved version of basic scanning | Preview
▪️  ElastiCache Serverless more controls for scaling
▪️  EventBridge Confluent Cloud integration in the AWS console
▪️  Global Accelerator
      ▫️  +5 CloudWatch metrics
      ▫️  enable sharing BYOIP space across accounts
▪️  GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring | GA
▪️  IAM Roles Anywhere credentials that are valid for up to 12 hours
▪️  IoT Core  LoRaWAN adds metrics monitoring capability
▪️  Lens Catalog +4 Well-Archictected lenses
▪️  Lightsail AlmaLinux 9 blueprint
▪️  Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports CloudFormation
▪️  Marketplace Sellers Tax dashboard | GA
▪️  Partners Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners
▪️  RDS Custom for Oracle X2iezn instances
▪️  SageMaker Canvas new pricing for training tabular models
▪️  SageMaker Console migrate existing domains
▪️  Systems Manager RHEL 8.9 and 9.3

☑️ Issue #118 | 7 April 2024

▪️ Application Migration Service migration of UEFI servers
▪️ AppStream 2.0 IdP-initiated sessions using the Windows client
▪️ AppSync increases existing service quota and adds subnoscription service quotas
▪️ Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift now in additional regions
▪️ B2B Data Interchange HIPAA eligible and supports X12 version 5010 HIPAA transactions
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️  Knowledge Bases now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️  Mistral Large foundation model
▪️ Clean Rooms ML is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor cross-account observability
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️  now supports cross-account anomaly detection
     ▫️  tagging alarms with AWS CloudFormation
▪️ CodeCatalyst adding tasks to issues
▪️ Cognito secure access to APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
▪️ Console Mobile Application CloudWatch custom dashboards
▪️ DataZone
     ▫️  integration with Glue Data Quality
     ▫️  integration with Lake Formation hybrid mode
▪️ Deadline Cloud 2D and 3D visual assets render management service
▪️ EC2
     ▫️  G6 instances | GA
     ▫️  per-second billing for RHEL-based instances
▪️ EKS extended support is now generally available
▪️ EMR on EC2 gracefully replaces unhealthy core nodes
▪️ EventBridge Learn page and other console enhancements
▪️ IVS Low-Latency Streaming supports SRT ingest
▪️ Lambda support for Ruby 3.3
▪️ Management Console Private Access in all commercial regions
▪️ Marketplace demo and private offer requests for products
▪️ OpenSearch
     ▫️  Ingestion enrichment of streaming data with geographical location
     ▫️  doubles storage for OR1 and expands +4 regions
▪️ Partner Analytics is now Analytics and Insights
▪️ RDS for SQL Server Single-AZ Read Replica
▪️ Research and Engineering Studio version 2024.04
▪️ Resilience Hub FSx for Windows and Trust Advisor
▪️ SageMaker Studio Code Editor custom images
▪️ SageMaker support P5, C6i, C7i, M6i, M7i, R6i, and R7i instance types
▪️ Systems Manager Chef 11-18 recipes on Windows
▪️ Transcribe Spanish language for PII identification and redaction
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️  predefined security policies for SFTP connectors
     ▫️  workshop for building SFTP based solutions
▪️ VPC CNI automatic subnet discovery

📹 Issue #119 | 14 April 2024

▪️ AppSync forwards request headers to Lambda custom authorizer functions
▪️ AWS India customers can now use UPI (Unified Payments Interface) to make payments
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases
     ▫️ Claude 3 Haiku
     ▫️ support for CloudFormation and Service Quotas
▪️ Braket experimental capabilities for QuEra device via Braket Direct
▪️ Clean Rooms Differential Privacy | GA
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️ Common Media Client Data (CMCD) fields in real-time logs
     ▫️ launch CloudWatch Internet Monitor
     ▫️ Origin Access Control (OAC) for AWS Elemental MediaPackage Origin
     ▫️ Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins
▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights observability for Windows containers on EKS
▪️ CloudWatch RUM +11 Regions | GA
▪️ Detective investigations for GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring
▪️ Elemental
     ▫️ MediaLive CMAF Ingest output group
     ▫️ MediaTailor HLS Interstitials for VOD streams
▪️ EMR on EKS simplified access management controls
▪️ HealthImaging search parameters and extended search API responses
▪️ KMS more flexible automatic key rotation
▪️ Lambda Kafka event sources in +4 regions
▪️ Location Service Tracking SDK for iOS and Android
▪️ Media Services workflow monitor
▪️ Neuron speculative decoding
▪️ OpenSearch Service update node count without blue/green
▪️ Outposts Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
▪️ RDS for MySQL rds_superuser_role for easier implementation of role based privileges
▪️ Resource Explorer +10 Regions
▪️ Route 53 support for 18 additional Top-Level Domains
▪️ Step Functions Optimized Integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert
▪️ Transfer Family new workshop for SFTP