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📩 Issue #57 | 30 January 2023 – 03 February, 2023

▪️ AppConfig integration with Secrets Manager and KMS
▪️ AppFlow +4 new data connectors
▪️ App Runner now supports HTTP 1.0 protocol
▪️ Artifact on-demand access to 3rd party compliance reports | GA
▪️ Athena Google Cloud Storage data source connector
▪️ Bottlerocket network bonding and VLAN tagging
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets list of Regions for stack instances of a stack set
▪️ CloudTrail Lake ingestion of activity events from non-AWS sources
▪️ CloudWatch simplified metric extraction from structured logs
▪️ Connect CloudFormation support
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Credential Guard on Windows
     ▫️ replace root volumes for quick instance restoration on Mac
▪️ ElastiCache for Redis 99.99% availability SLA
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Dolby E audio decoding
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor timeline logs for Channel Assembly
▪️ Glue Studio Visual ETL +5 new transforms
▪️ IoT Core Rules Engine batching of device logs from Cloudwatch
▪️ Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support
▪️ MemoryDB for Redis 99.99% availability SLA
▪️ NAT Gateway 55K -> 440K concurrent connections to a unique destination
▪️ Omics PrivateLink & CloudFormation support
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ enable SAML during domain creation
     ▫️ simplifies remote reindex for VPC domains
▪️ Open Source
     ▫️ Chime SDK now offers a Windows client library
     ▫️ SAM ‘sam list’ command
▪️ Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists
▪️ Panorama simplifies ordering of Panorama Appliances
▪️ Polly +2 US English NTTS voices
▪️ QuickSight launches Radar chart
▪️ RDS for Oracle additional cipher suites for OEM Agent and SSL option
▪️ RDS increasing storage when creating read replicas/restoring from snapshots
▪️ SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning new completion criteria for tuning jobs
▪️ SageMaker use your own training image
▪️ Snow Family
▫️ IMSV2 EC2 instances on Snow
▫️ software updates on AWS Snowcone
▪️ Systems Manager integration of Automation with Change Calendar
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📩 Issue #58 | 6 Feb 2023 – 12 Feb, 2023

▪️ CloudFormation Spotlight tab for curated content
▪️ CloudFront OAC with Elemental MediaStore origins
▪️ Cloud Map up to 20K ECS tasks in a single Service Connect namespace
▪️ CloudWatch high resolution metric extraction from structured logs
▪️ Console Mobile Application more regions support
▪️ Control Tower Landing Zone 3.1
▪️ EC2 C7g metal instances are now available
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling
     ▫️ instance refresh for standby and scale-in protected EC2 instances
     ▫️ instance refresh now supports rollback
▪️ ElastiCache for Redis
     ▫️ auto scaling in six new regions
     ▫️ enhanced I/O multiplexing
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect EventBridge event notifications
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor fast schedule updates in Channel Assembly
▪️ EMR on EKS job execution retries
▪️ EMR Serverless
     ▫️ larger worker sizes
     ▫️ HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, and PCI DSS workloads
▪️ Fraud Detector Cold Start model training for customers with limited historical data
▪️ Glue Crawlers MongoDB Atlas
▪️ Lambda CloudWatch metrics for asynchronous invocations
▪️ Launch Wizard SAP S/4HANA Foundation/2022 auto-deployment
▪️ Lex Network of Bots
▪️ Polly +2 new Japanese NTTS voices
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL seg extension support
▪️ SAM connectors as a resource parameter
▪️ Service Management Connector Jira Service Management customer portal
▪️ SimSpace Weaver CloudFormation support
▪️ SNS X-Ray active tracing support
▪️ Systems Manager
     ▫️ Change Calendar more comprehensive calendar view of operational events
     ▫️ Change Manager more flexible way of approving change requests
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📩 Issue #59 | 13 Feb 2023 – 19 Feb, 2023

▪️ App Runner service level concurrency, CPU, Memory metrics
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights increased quotas
▪️ Cognito identity pool data events in CloudTrail
▪️ Connect granular access controls for real-time metrics
▪️ Control Tower customisations request tracing through AFT workflow
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Dedicated Hosts automated maintenance on rare degradation
     ▫️ ENA Express now supports 15 new Instances
     ▫️ M7g and R7g Instances
▪️ ECS improves accuracy of Service Load Balancing
▪️ EventBridge event buses integration with Service Quotas
▪️ Fraud Detector AFD-Lists to optimize fraud prevention strategies
▪️ GameLift publish events to encrypted SNS topics
▪️ Incident Detection and Response New Relic integration
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams for DynamoDB Global tables CloudFormation support
▪️ Managed Grafana network access control
▪️ MQ KMS for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ Network Firewall  tag-based resource groups
▪️ Organizations programmatically manage enabled/disabled opt-in regions
▪️ Pinpoint SMS and voice spending metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ PostgreSQL tcn extension support
     ▫️ SQL Database Activity Streams | blog
▪️ Resource Access Manager increased default quota values
▪️ Snow Family EKS Anywhere support
▪️ Step Functions EMR Serverless integration
▪️ Systems Manager enable by default across all EC2 instances
▪️ Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for ElastiCache for Redis and MemoryDB
▪️ VPC Resource Map | GA
▪️ WAF
     ▫️ Captcha ten additional languages
     ▫️ Fraud Control account Takeover Protection now allows inspection of origin responses
▪️ WorkSpaces Core Workspot Cloud PCs
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📩 Issue #60 | 20 Feb 2023 –  26 Feb, 2023

▪️ App Runner
     ▫️ HTTP to HTTPS redirect
     ▫️ WAF support
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ RUM customer defined metrics
     ▫️ Synthetics new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9
▪️ Connect Cases VPC PrivateLink support
▪️ Detective
     ▫️ export data from Summary page panels and search results
     ▫️ interactive workshop for investigating potential security issues
▪️ EC2  Torn Write Prevention(TWP) at Im4gn/Is4gen and EBS regions
▪️ ECS faster Cluster Auto Scaling
▪️ EKS Kubernetes version 1.25
▪️ Forecast built-in holiday data for 251 countries
▪️ Fraud Detector Smart Data Validation
▪️ Glue Crawlers integration with Lake Formation
▪️ Lex Console Vertical specific bot templates
▪️ OpenSearch Service schedule service software updates during off-peak hours
▪️ QuickSight RBAC with Run-as IAM Role for S3 and Athena
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ MariaDB Cross-Region Automated Backups
     ▫️ MySQL Cross-Region Automated Backups
     ▫️ Oracle early notifications of Auto minor Version Upgrades (AmVU)
▪️ Resilience Hub application change capabilities and simplified APIs
▪️ SageMaker Model Monitor from SageMaker Model Dashboard
▪️ SAM connectors multiple destinations
▪️ Security Hub
     ▫️ +7 security best practice controls
     ▫️ Consolidated Control Findings and Controls View
▪️ Systems Manager backup SAP HANA databases
▪️ Telco Network Builder telco network builder automation service | blog
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️ CloudFormation and enhanced monitoring capabilities for AS2
     ▫️ send AS2 messages over HTTPS
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🟢 Issue #61 | 27 Feb 2023 – 05 Mar, 2023

▪️ Aurora Serverless v1 customer configurable maintenance windows
▪️ CloudShell modular variant of Tools for PowerShell
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor general availability
▪️ Comprehend simplifies custom model retraining and management
▪️ Control Tower a progress tracker for landing zone setup and upgrades
▪️ Detective graph visualization for interactive security investigations
▪️ DevOps Guru Proactive Insights for RDS
▪️ DocumentDB MongoDB 5.0 wire protocol and client-side field level encryption
▪️ ECS deletion of inactive task definition revisions
▪️ Elemental MediaConvert now Ingests FLAC and Animated GIF Inputs
▪️ EMR Serverless application log encryption with Customer Managed Keys
▪️ Inspector Code scans for Lambda | Preview
▪️ IoT SiteWise Time-Weighted Average and Standard Deviation
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s
▪️ KMS FIPS 140-2 enabled interface VPC endpoint
▪️ Lake Formation extends Data Filters to all regions for supported services
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ DocumentDB change streams as an event source
     ▫️ Powertools for .NET is now generally available
▪️ Lightsail for Research Scilab, RStudio, and Jupyter apps | New
▪️ Managed Blockchain (AMB) Ethereum Token-Based Access | GA
▪️ Marketplace search autocomplete suggestions
▪️ Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU
▪️ Open Service Graviton2 (C6g, M6g, R6g) instances support in four additional regions
▪️ Private CA open-source samples for Matter compliant certificate authorities
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL major version PostgreSQL 15
▪️ RDS for SQL Server cross-region Automated Backups with encryption
▪️ Redshift ROLLUP/CUBE and GROUPING SETS in GROUP BY clause | GA
▪️ SageMaker Autopilot select algorithms while launching ML experiment
▪️ SAM Rust build support | Preview
▪️ Service Catalog disassociate and delete products in one-action
▪️ SimSpace Weaver IAM Identity Center
▪️ Timestream batch loading data support
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⚡️ Issue #62 | 06 Mar 2023 –  12 Mar, 2023

▪️ Application Composer is now generally available
▪️ Aurora cross-region DR capabilities in more regions
▪️ Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition  AD auth
▪️ Config +18 new resource types
▪️ Connect new API for customers to access historical metrics
▪️ Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor target recommendations
▪️ DynamoDB table deletion protection
▪️ EC2 create AMI with UEFI and Legacy BIOS on boot | blog
▪️ Elemental MediaConvert enhanced color processing
▪️ EMR on EKS emitting customer metrics for managed endpoints
▪️ Glue
     ▫️ faster and simpler permissions setup
     ▫️ Job Monitoring continuous logs
     ▫️ Streaming ETL
▪️ IAM roles with credentials control props for EC2
▪️ IoT Device Management Jobs maintenance window feature
▪️ Kinesis Data Firehose data delivery to ELK
▪️ Lambda up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage in 6 additional regions
▪️ License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and admin support
▪️ Location Service Open Data Maps
▪️ Migration Hub Refactor Spaces environments without a network bridge
▪️ QuickSight enhances the developer experience with SDK 2.0
▪️ RDS for MariaDB RDS Optimized Writes
▪️ Redshift 200K tables in a single cluster
▪️ Redshift Serverless lower data warehouse base capacity configuration
▪️ Resource Explorer +12 new resource types
▪️ Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud announces IPv6 support
▪️ SageMaker Data Wrangler EMR Hive as a big query engine
▪️ Security Hub NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
▪️ SES email receiving metrics for better visibility and control
▪️ Systems Manager Favorites for documents and runbooks
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☁️ Issue #63 | 13 Mar 2023 – 19 Mar, 2023

▪️ Amazon Linux 2023 is GA
▪️ Application Auto Scaling Metric Math for Target Tracking policies
▪️ Backup VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
▪️ Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
▪️ Chime SDK Amazon Voice Focus for carriers
▪️ CloudWatch Logs VPC Flow Logs metadata
▪️ CodeBuild small GPU machine type
▪️ Connect Wisdom Microsoft SharePoint Online
▪️ Database Migration Service
     ▫️ Glue Data Catalog when migrating to S3
     ▫️ S3 data validation
▪️ Data Exchange S3 is now generally available
▪️ EC2 in-place OS updates on M1 Mac instances
▪️ EMR fine-grained access controls with Lake Formation
▪️ GameLift updated console UX
▪️ GuardDuty RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora is GA
▪️ Kendra
     ▫️ Confluence Cloud Connector
     ▫️ Confluence Server Connector
     ▫️ Microsoft SharePoint Cloud Connector
     ▫️ SharePoint OnPrem Connectors
▪️ Keyspaces client-side timestamps
▪️ Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations binary analysis
▪️ Neptune
     ▫️ graph summary API
     ▫️ R6i instances
     ▫️ Slow Query Logs
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ introduces security analytics
     ▫️ OpenSearch version 2.5
▪️ QuickSight hide collapsed columns control for Pivot table
▪️ S3
     ▫️ Mountpoint a high performance open source file client
     ▫️ Multi-Region Access Points cross-account support
     ▫️ Object Lambda CloudFront to tailor content for end users
     ▫️ Outposts local S3 Replication on Outposts
     ▫️ simplified private connectivity from on-premises networks
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🌥 Issue #64 | 20 Mar 2023 – 26 Mar, 2023

▪️ Application Auto Scaling resource tagging
▪️ Application Load Balancer TLS 1.3
▪️ Aurora cross-region disaster recovery capabilities | Melbourne
▪️ Backup for Amazon S3 is now available in Jakarta anв UAE
▪️ Batch configurable Ephemeral Storage on  Fargate
▪️ Clean Rooms general availability
▪️ CloudFormation language extensions transform +5 regions
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ multiple SAML 2.0 identity providers
     ▫️ Tasks custom task templates in flows
▪️ Corretto 20 | GA
▪️ Detective increased quota limits for data volumes
▪️ Direct Connect location in Muscat, Oman
▪️ DocumentDB Elastic Clusters +3 regions
▪️ EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idnmetal instances
▪️ ECS contextual failure reasons for task launches with capacity providers
▪️ Edge location in Peru
▪️ EMR EC2 C7g (Graviton3) instances
▪️ EMR on EKS
     ▫️ EG pod placement for managed endpoints
     ▫️ managed and self-managed node groups
▪️ GameLift per-second billing
▪️ IAM Listing tool for testing new Billing, Cost Management and Account console permissions
▪️ IVS multiple hosts in live streams
▪️ OpenSearch Service log patterns, metrics and Jaeger traces
▪️ RDS Proxy PostgreSQL major version 15
▪️ Redshift new getting started UX
▪️ Resilience Hub EKS support
▪️ S3 Event Notifications  EventBridge `GovCloud Regions`
▪️ SageMaker Data Wrangler OAuth based access to Snowflake
▪️ Security Hub +3 regions
▪️ Security Lake +3 additional regions | Preview
▪️ Service Catalog availability | Middle East (UAE) Region
▪️ SNS set content-type request headers for HTTP/S notifications
▪️ Thinkbox Deadline 10.2
▪️ VPC
     ▫️ DNS Query Logging now available in Jakarta region
     ▫️ Reachability Analyzer Gateway Load Balancers, Network Firewalls and PrivateLink
▪️ WorkDocs Search Resources API
▪️ WorkSpaces BYOL Windows 11
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☁️  Issue #65  |  27 Mar 2023 –  02 Apr, 2023

▪️ Athena minimum encryption to enhance query result security
▪️ Batch user-defined pod labels on EKS
▪️ Blu Insights user access with single sign-on
▪️ Bottlerocket FireLens support
▪️ Chatbot search of AWS resources and AWS content
▪️ Chime SDK
     ▫️ call analytics
     ▫️ Lex chatbots support
▪️ CloudFront HTTP status and response generation using CloudFront Functions
▪️ Cloud Map enables service editing in AWS Console
▪️ CloudShell Console Toolbar | GA
▪️ Compute Optimizer
     ▫️ +61 new EC2 instance types
     ▫️ EC2 instances with non-consecutive utilization data
     ▫️ HDD and io2 Block Express EBS volume types
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ expanded JSON attribute support in flows
     ▫️ step-by-step guides in agent workspace
▪️ Copilot full customization with CDK or YAML overrides
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection auto configured for all new Cost Explorer users
▪️ DataSync copying data from Azure Blob Storage | Preview
▪️ DataZone new data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data | Preview
▪️ DevOps Guru for RDS RDS for PostgreSQL
▪️ Direct Connect new location in Mumbai, India
▪️ EC2 Image Builder real-time build tracking and improves build speeds for image pipelines
▪️ EKS domainless gMSA authentication for Windows containers
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery automated replication of new disks
▪️ EventBridge and Pipes ACK Controllers
▪️ Glue Studio visual ETL adds 10 new visual transforms
▪️ GuardDuty
     ▫️ monitor EKS containers runtime activity
     ▫️ simplifies enforcement of threat detection across all accounts
▪️ IoT Core Sidewalk deeper integration
▪️ Kendra Featured Results
▪️ Launch Wizard SAP NetWeaver JAVA Stack deployment
▪️ License Manager improved license visibility and distribution across your organization
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 500M active metrics per workspace
▪️ MGN inventory import and export, server status dashboard, and new modernization actions
▪️ Network Firewall support for ingress TLS inspection
▪️ NICE DCV 2023.0 with RHEL9 support
▪️ Omics batch variant store imports
▪️ RDS Custom gp3 storage volumes support
▪️ re:Post now includes AWS Knowledge Center articles
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ Canvas NLP and CV use cases
     ▫️ Python SDK set default values for parameters
▪️ SAM Accelerate Toolkits for JetBrains and VS Code
▪️ Simple Email Service
     ▫️ delivery and engagement graphs
     ▫️ now detects gaps in BIMI configuration
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN better visibility and control of VPN tunnel maintenance updates
▪️ SNS Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB
▪️ Systems Manager Incident Manager on-call schedules
▪️ VPC Lattice general availability
▪️ Well-Architected Tool Consolidated Report and Enhanced Search functionality
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☁️  Issue #66 | 9 April 2023

▪️  Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 15
▪️  Amplify Library for Swift macOS Support is GA
▪️  App Runner +7 new compute configurations
▪️  Athena external data sources
▪️  Aurora PostgreSQL 14.7, 13.10, 12.14, and 11.19 versions
▪️  Billing Conductor pricing change
▪️  CDK policies validations during synthesis
▪️  CloudFront S3 Object Lambda Access Point origin
▪️  CodeCatalyst Dev Environments GitHub repositories support
▪️  Competency Partners Cloud Operations
▪️  Config 23 new resource types
▪️  Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for Amazon MemoryDB
▪️  EC2
      ▫️  EPYC3 instances now support EBS-optimized
      ▫️  Graviton2-based instances are available in additional regions
      ▫️  On-Demand Capacity Reservations – Utilization Notifications
▪️  ElastiCache for Redis new cluster creation UX
▪️  EMR on EKS Spark with Java 11
▪️  Glue  available in AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich)
▪️  Kendra Microsoft OneDrive Connector
▪️  Lambda introduces response payload streaming
▪️  Migration Hub High Availability SAP HANA systems
▪️  Monitron extends data stream with closure codes and status from sensors
▪️  MWAA Shell Launch Scripts
▪️  Network Firewall IPv6-only subnets
▪️  NICE DCV DCV and DCV Extension SDK | GA
▪️  Proton Git management of service configurations
▪️  RDS
     ▫️  add ElastiCache cache from Console
      ▫️  Custom for SQL Server Multi-AZ deployments
      ▫️  MySQL up to 15 read replicas for RDS Multi-AZ with 2 readable standbys
▪️  Resource Explorer export Search Results in csv
▪️  S3
      ▫️   beginning to apply two security best practices to all new buckets by default
      ▫️  object replication status
▪️  SageMaker
      ▫️  is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
      ▫️  sharing predictions with QuickSight
      ▫️  Canvas 45+ data sources for no-code ML
      ▫️  Feature Store hard deletion in online store
▪️  Security Hub +4 new security best practice controls
▪️  Service Catalog Terraform open source
▪️  Supply Chain general availability
▪️  SWF PrivateLink support
▪️  Systems Manager Distributor New Relic Infrastructure Monitoring agent
▪️  Textract
      ▫️  AnalyzeDocument - Tables feature
      ▫️  Bulk Document Uploader
▪️  Trusted Advisor
      ▫️  fault tolerance checks for ECS
      ▫️  introduces Engage for Enterprise On-Ramp Support customers | Preview
▪️  VPC bring your own IP in 2 additional AWS Regions
▪️  WorkSpaces Core introduces MS Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle
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🌤 Issue #67 | 16 April 2023

▪️   AppFlow +6 connectors
▪️   AppSync EventBridge support
▪️   Backup +3 new regions
▪️   Chime SDK
       ▫️  updated video background blur and replacement
       ▫️  updates Service Level Agreement
▪️   CodeWhisperer is now generally available
▪️   Competency Media & Entertainment Competency
▪️   Config advanced queries supports 27 new resource types
▪️   Connect
       ▫️  agents to handle voice calls, chats, and tasks concurrently
       ▫️  Voice ID multiple fraudster watchlists per Voice ID domain
▪️   EC2
       ▫️  I4i  available in additional regions
       ▫️  Inf2 optimized for generative AI| GA
       ▫️  Trn1n optimized for network-intensive generative AI models | GA
▪️   EC2 Image Builder vulnerability detection with Amazon Inspector for custom images
▪️   EC2 Serial Console EC2 bare metal instances
▪️   ECS/Batch Split Cost Allocation Data
▪️   ECS Linux containers AL2023 and gMSA
▪️   ECS on Fargate supports extensible ephemeral storage for Windows Tasks
▪️   EKS Kubernetes version 1.26
▪️   Elemental MediaConnect Gateway
▪️   Elemental MediaConvert media metrics
▪️   Firewall Manager +6 WAF features
▪️   FSx for Lustre is now available in three additional regions
▪️   FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in three additional regions
▪️   FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the 3 additional regions
▪️   GameLift adds support for Unreal Engine 5
▪️   Glue visual ETL new native Redshift capabilities
▪️   Ground Station Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency
▪️   GuardDuty +3 threat detections to Alert Customers on Suspicious DNS Traffic
▪️   IoT Core MQTT5 Shared Subscriptions and new CloudWatch metrics
▪️   Lambda SnapStart for Java functions in 6 additional regions
▪️   MSK is now available in Hyderabad, Spain, and Zurich Regions
▪️   MWAA Apache Airflow version 2.5
▪️   Pinpoint PrivateLink support
▪️   QuickSight Row Level Security tags with OR condition
▪️   RDS Optimized Reads up to 2X faster queries on RDS for PostgreSQL
▪️   Redshift enhances string query performance by up to 63x
▪️   Rekognition Face Liveness to deter fraud in facial verification
▪️   SageMaker Inference Recommender improves usability and launches new features
▪️   Service Management Connector AWS Support and Automation integrations in Jira Cloud
▪️   WAF
       ▫️  increases web ACL capacity units limits
       ▫️  larger request body inspections for CloudFront distributions
▪️   Well-Architected Framework strengthens prescriptive guidance
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☁️ Issue #68 | 23 April 2023

▪️  Amazon Corretto Quarterly Updates | aarch64 Alpine Linux  is GA
▪️  Amplify Flutter web and desktop support | GA
▪️  Amplify Push Notifications for mobile and cross platform apps
▪️  Backup SAP HANA databases on EC2
▪️  Chime SDK Hindi and Thai languages for live transcription
▪️  CloudFormation Template Sync Controller for Flux
▪️  CodeCatalyst
      ▫️ Dev Environment dashboard | Preview
      ▫️ General Availability
▪️  Competency Manufacturing and Industrial
▪️  Comprehend improves accuracy of document classification using layout data
▪️  Connect Customer Profiles now shows cases information in the agent workspace
▪️  Control Tower +7 additional Regions
▪️  DocumentDB ODBC driver to connect from BI tools
▪️  DynamoDB up to 50 concurrent table restores
▪️  EC2 Ubuntu Pro operating system in a subscription-included model
▪️  EFS up to 10 GiB/s of throughput
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery simplifies launch settings management
▪️  EMR enhanced error details
▪️  EMR Serverless  job-level billed resources for efficient cost management
▪️  Glue monitor usage of Glue resources
▪️  GuardDuty support for AWS Lambda
▪️  Inspector deep inspection of EC2 instances
▪️  IoT Core for LoRaWAN public network and roaming with Everynet | Preview
▪️  Kafka Distro for OpenTelemetry support
▪️  Lake Formation Apache Hive Metastore resources
▪️  Lambda Python 3.10 runtime
▪️  Migration Hub Refactor Spaces +7 regions
▪️  Partner Central  redesigned opportunity management
▪️  Personalize
      ▫️ enables popularity tuning for similar item recommendations
      ▫️ integration with SageMaker Data Wrangler
      ▫️ Kafka Sink connector to ingest real-time data with ease
▪️  RDS events now include tags for filtering and routing
▪️  Redshift
      ▫️ MERGE SQL command | GA
      ▫️ centralized access control for data sharing with Lake Formation
      ▫️ Dynamic Data Masking | GA
▪️  SageMaker organize models in the Model Registry with Collections
▪️  SageMaker Studio Lab combats bots with CAPTCHA
▪️  SAM CLI local testing support for API Gateway Lambda authorizers
▪️  Snowball Edge Compute Optimized S3 compatible storage
▪️  Systems Manager Incident Manager collaboration with MS Teams
▪️  VPC Prefix Lists +3 regions
▪️  WAF
      ▫️ Captcha JavaScript API support
▪️  WAF Ready Partner Offerings
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Issue #69 | 30 April 2023

▪️  AppSync TypeScript and source maps in JavaScript resolvers
▪️  Athena Provisioned Capacity
▪️  CloudWatch Logs data protection in all Commercial Regions
▪️  CloudWatch new console capabilities and data visualizations
▪️  Connect
      ▫️  Contact Lens evaluation capabilities is now generally available
      ▫️  reduces Japan toll-free inbound minute rate
      ▫️  reduces South Korea DID rates
▪️  DataSync Discovery general availability
▪️  EC2
      ▫️  C6id, M6id, R6id instances are now available in additional regions
      ▫️  now supports AMD SEV-SNP
▪️  Elemental Link UHD Dolby Digital and Digital Plus
▪️  Fault Injection Simulator EC2 Instance disk fill
▪️  Firewall Manager multiple administrators
▪️  Global Accelerator +2 edge locations
▪️  Glue Crawlers creating partition indexes
▪️  IoT Core Device Advisor MQTT over WebSocket
▪️  IoT TwinMaker data overlays and text annotations in 3D scenes
▪️  Keyspaces supports IN operator for SELECT queries
▪️  Lambda Java 17
▪️  License Manager upgrading of EC2 Instances from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro OS
▪️  Location Service long distance matrix routing
▪️  Managed Grafana workspace configuration with version 9.4
▪️  MQ RabbitMQ  3.10.20 and 3.9.27
▪️  MSK multi-VPC private connectivity and cross-account access
▪️  Network Firewall ingress TLS inspection +8 regions
▪️  OpenSearch Service OpenSearch Ingestion
▪️  QuickSight two suites of data ingestion APIs
▪️  RDS M7g and R7g db instances
▪️  Resource Access Manager fine-grained customer managed permissions
▪️  Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud are now available in three new AWS Regions
▪️  S3 now applies two security best practices to all new buckets by default
▪️  SageMaker
      ▫️  accelerates local ML code conversion to remote jobs
      ▫️  hosted TensorBoard experience
▪️  Support in Korean
▪️  Systems Manager CDK applications support
▪️  Verified Access is now generally available
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📹 Issue #70 | 7 May 2023

▪️  AppSync GraphQL Private API
▪️  Aurora Serverless v1 PostgreSQL 13
▪️  Aurora Serverless v2 +4 regions
▪️  Backup cross-region backups +4 regions
▪️  Batch dashboard customization on the console
▪️  CloudWatch Metric Streams filtering by metric name
▪️  CloudWatch Synthetics Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 4.0
▪️  Compute Optimizer
      ▫️  filtering by tags
      ▫️  identifies and filters Microsoft SQL Server workloads
▪️  Сonfig +23 resource types
▪️  Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling is now available in Canada Central
▪️  Console Mobile Application launches push notifications
▪️  Console Web User Notifications general availability
▪️  Device Farm Rooted Android Private Devices
▪️  Direct Connect new location in Phoenix
▪️  EC2 VSS application-consistent backups now supports PowerShell logging
▪️  EFS Replication is now available in all AWS Regions
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect SRT failover support
▪️  Elemental MediaConvert video passthrough
▪️  EMR on EKS
      ▫️  self-hosted notebooks for managed endpoints
      ▫️  vertical autoscaling to auto-tune application resources
▪️  GuardDuty Malware Protection on-demand scanning
▪️  Health now publishes service health events to EventBridge in primary and backup Regions
▪️  Inspector now allows customers to search its vulnerability intelligence database
▪️  IoT Core TLS 1.3 support through Configurable Endpoints
▪️  Kendra content-based query suggestions
▪️  Local Zones in Auckland is GA
▪️  MSK Kafka version 3.4.0
▪️  Network Firewall
      ▫️  Reject action in stream exception policy
      ▫️  Suricata HOME_NET variable override
▪️  OpenSearch Service Multi-AZ with Standby
▪️  QuickSight launches dataset parameters to optimize slicing and dicing experiences
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL pgvector for simplified ML model integration
▪️  Redshift ra3.xlplus instances in Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific Regions
▪️  Rekognition
      ▫️  face occlusion detection to improve identity verification accuracy
      ▫️  improves accuracy of content moderation for images and videos
▪️  Resilience Hub Trusted Advisor and Amazon DynamoDB support
▪️  Route 53 Application Recovery Controller Zonal shift + 18 Regions
▪️  SageMaker ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 instances for model deployment
▪️  Sagemaker Data Wrangler image data preparation
▪️  Security Hub
      ▫️  +4 integration partners
      ▫️  detailed tracking of finding changes with finding history feature
▪️  SimSpace Weaver Snapshots generally available
▪️  SNS
      ▫️  FIFO topics +5 regions
      ▫️  message data protection +5 regions
▪️  VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) +2 regions
▪️  Well-Architected Tool Service Catalog AppRegistry integration
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🚩 Issue #71 | 14 May 2023

▪️  App Mesh PrivateLink
▪️  Athena Apache Hudi 0.12.2
▪️  Aurora I/O-Optimized
▪️  Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL Graviton3 based R7g instance family
▪️  Backup now supports User Notifications
▪️  CloudFront one-click security protections with WAF
▪️  CloudTrail Lake enhances query support for all Presto SQL SELECT functions
▪️  CodeWhisperer extension in JupyterLab and SageMaker Studio
▪️  Connect Contact Lens supervisor alerts on agent performance
▪️  Direct Connect in Atlanta Georgia and Lagos, Nigeria
▪️  EC2 I4g storage-optimized instances
▪️  ElastiCache for Redis enabling Cluster Mode configuration on existing clusters
▪️  EMR Serverless available in China Regions
▪️  Glue Crawler custom JDBC drivers
▪️  Glue large instance types | GA
▪️  IoT Core registry adds additional CloudFormation resource types
▪️  IoT SiteWise
      ▫️  auto compute aggregated asset property values 15-min intervals
      ▫️  enhances optimized storage in hot path data
▪️  IVS monitor the health of live streams with multiple hosts
▪️  Kinesis Data Firehose OpenSearch Service document ID
▪️  Lambda X-Ray tracing for SnapStart-enabled functions
▪️  Managed Service for Prometheus  +4 regions
▪️  Management Console Private Access | GA
▪️  Marketplace self-service listing feature for single AMI products
▪️  MemoryDB for Redis
      ▫️  IAM Authentication
      ▫️  Redis 7
      ▫️  simplifies creating new clusters in Console
▪️  Network Firewall ingress TLS inspection is now available in all regions
▪️  Open-Source Cedar language for access control
▪️  QuickSight
      ▫️  new scatterplot options
      ▫️  State Persistence + Bookmarks for embedded dashboards
      ▫️  VPC Connections via public APIs with Multi-AZ
▪️  RDS M6g and R6g database instances +4 regions
▪️  Redshift Data Sharing now available in China Regions
▪️  SageMaker
      ▫️  Autopilot training ML models with weights, +8 objective metrics
      ▫️  Canvas operationalize ML models in production
      ▫️  notebooks now support ml.p4d, ml.p4de and ml.inf1 instances
      ▫️  Serverless Inference Provisioned Concurrency
      ▫️  Studio CodeGuru Security plugin  | Preview
▪️  Service Management Connector provisioning with Terraform
▪️  SNS faster automatic deletion of unconfirmed subscriptions
▪️  Systems Manager optimize compute costs of the applications
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Issue #72 | 21 May 2023

▪️  Braket new trapped-ion quantum computer named Aria from IonQ
▪️  Clean Rooms is now HIPAA eligible
▪️  CloudFront stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error cache control directives
▪️  Config advanced queries +62 resource types
▪️  Control Tower +28 proactive controls
▪️  Cost Categories Usage Type dimension support
▪️  Data Exchange User Notifications | GA
▪️  DataSync copy data to and from S3 compatible storage on Snow
▪️  Detective investigations for additional AWS services
▪️  Device Farm VPC integration for Private Devices
▪️  Distro for OpenTelemetry advanced sampling
▪️  EC2 C6in + 20 regions
▪️  Elemental MediaTailor query parameter pass through
▪️  Global Accelerator extends TCP termination to IPv6 traffic
▪️  IoT SiteWise formula builder improvements
▪️  Kendra
      ▫️  Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Connector
      ▫️  Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise Connector
      ▫️  Alfresco Enterprise Connector
      ▫️  Alfresco PaaS Connector
      ▫️  Gmail Connector to enable messaging search
▪️  MQ +4 regions
▪️  Neptune Serverless CloudFormation support
▪️  Omics
      ▫️  direct upload to Omics storage and automatic variant data parsing
      ▫️  EventBridge integration
      ▫️  Graphical Processing Units for workflows
      ▫️  pre-built bioinformatic workflows with predictable pricing
▪️  QuickSight Common Sub-expression Elimination for SPICE performance optimization
▪️  RDS M6i and R6i database instances +16 regions
▪️  RDS for Oracle April 2023 Release Update for 19c
▪️  Rekognition eye gaze direction detection in Face APIs
▪️  Systems Manager
      ▫️  Distributor  CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent
      ▫️  Patch Manager now supports Alma Linux
      ▫️  Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu 22.04
▪️  Textract updates its Queries feature within Analyze Document API
▪️  Timestream unloading data to S3
▪️  WAF rate-based rules to support request headers and composite keys
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☁️ Issue #73 | 28 May 2023

🟠 Amplify Authenticator UI Library for Swift and Android
🟠 AppSync Merged APIs for GraphQL federation
🟠 Athena updates data source connectors to improve performance and reduce cost
🟠 Aurora
     ▫️  MySQL improves performance and failover recovery time when binlog is enabled
     ▫️  PostgreSQL improves availability of read replicas
🟠 Backup restoring resources with tags
🟠 Chatbot CloudWatch dashboards and Logs Insights in chat channels
🟠 CloudFormation StackSets available in (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich)
🟠 Cognito  new console experience for identity pools
🟠 Connect Contact Lens theme detection
🟠 Connect provides contact records and events for external third-party calls
🟠 Copilot Static Site pattern to host single-page web applications
🟠 EC2
     ▫️  C7g instances are now available in Singapore
     ▫️  M1 Mac instances beta macOS versions
🟠 EKS Kubernetes version 1.27
🟠 ElastiCache for Redis data tiering now supports auto scaling
🟠 Elemental MediaPackage Low-Latency HLS
🟠 GameLift improves FleetIQ game session placement logic
🟠 Global Accelerator Hyderabad and UAE endpoints
🟠 IAM Identity Center temporary elevated access capabilities
🟠 KMS HSMs upgraded to FIPS 140-2 Security Level 3
🟠 MWAA is now SOC Compliant
🟠 ParallelCluster GPU instance health checks and RHEL8 support
🟠 RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️  minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20
     ▫️  Rust to build high performance database functions
     ▫️  up to 15 read replicas for RDS Multi-AZ with 2 readable standby-s
     ▫️  16 Beta 1 | Preview
🟠 RDS Performance Insights enhanced console experience
🟠 Redshift auto-commit statements in stored procedure
🟠 re:Post multiple email addresses
🟠 SageMaker JumpStart fine-tuning of Foundation Models with domain adaptation
🟠 SES  convert standard to dedicated IPs
🟠 Translate real time document translation
🟠 Wickr is now HIPAA eligible
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☁️ Issue #74 – 4 June 2023

🟠 AppStream 2.0 DCV Extension SDK
🟠 Billing and Cost Management Invoice Summary
🟠 Database Migration Service Serverless general availability
🟠 Detective investigations for new threat detections
🟠 Direct Connect
     ▫️ location in Bogotá, Colombia
     ▫️ location in Inzai, Japan
     ▫️ location in Santiago, Chile
🟠 EC2 IMDS Packet Analyzer simplifies migration to IMDSv2
🟠 ECR pull through cache for registry.k8s.io as upstream
🟠 Elemental MediaTailor delivery of client-side overlay ads
🟠 EventBridge open-source connector for Kafka Connect
🟠 Fault Injection Simulator new actions for EKS and ECS
🟠 Fraud Detector Event Orchestration with EventBridge
🟠 HealthLake interoperability-related ONC and CMS patient access rules
🟠 Interactive Video Service advanced channel types for flexible input encoding
🟠 IoT FleetWise S3 support
🟠 Lambda Kafka and Amazon MQ event sources in four additional regions
🟠 Managed Grafana is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant
🟠 Marketplace Management Portal fine-grained seller permissions access
🟠 Personalize now offers more flexibility in model training
🟠 Polly +2 female NTTS voices in Irish English and Danish
🟠 Pricing Calculator visibility of point in time cost estimations
🟠 RDS for MySQL Optimized Reads on Multi-AZ with 2 readable standby-s
🟠 RDS for Oracle converting instances to CDB architecture
🟠 RDS for PostgreSQL HypoPG for creating hypothetical indexes
🟠 Route 53 GuardDuty threat intelligence
🟠 SageMaker Ground Truth Plus human feedback and fine-tuning data for Generative AI
🟠 Security Lake is now generally available
🟠 Service Catalog wildcards in IAM principal name associations
🟠 Shield Advanced CloudFormation support
🟠 Snow Family quickens multi-PB data migration with new 210TB device
🟠 SNS X-Ray active tracing for FIFO topics
🟠 VPC IP Address Manager customizable dashboard with new insights
🟠 WorkSpaces NICE DCV Extension SDK
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☁️. Issue #75 – 11 June 2023

🟠 Athena for Apache Spark
     ▫️ Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake
     ▫️ custom Java libraries
🟠 Billing and Cost Management scripts to bulk updates policies | scripts
🟠 CloudFormation StackSets
     ▫️ programmatic trust access with AWS Organizations
     ▫️ skips suspended accounts
🟠 CloudTrail Lake selective start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events
🟠 CloudWatch Logs
     ▫️ data protection account level policy configuration
     ▫️ Live Tail
🟠 Config
     ▫️ advanced queries support +30 resource types
     ▫️ recording exclusions by resource type
🟠 Connect Customer Profiles  exports profile updates in real-time
🟠 Control Tower
     ▫️ account access configuration flexibility
     ▫️ Account Factory Single Region Terraform
🟠 Database Migration Service enhanced homogeneous migration capabilities
🟠 DocumentDB 5.0 t3.medium and r5 instances
🟠 EMEA SARL daily invoice consolidation
🟠 EMR on EKS Spark Operator and spark-submit
🟠 FinSpace Managed kdb Insights | GA
🟠 Glue Data Quality is now generally available
🟠 Glue for Ray is now generally available
🟠 IoT Device Management Software Package Catalog
🟠 Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Multi-Region Replication
🟠 KMS importing asymmetric and HMAC keys
🟠 Lambda
     ▫️ Ruby 3.2 runtime
     ▫️ SnapStart for Java +7 regions
🟠 Lex Test Workbench
🟠 Mainframe Modernization HIPAA eligible
🟠 Managed Microsoft AD simplifies administrative tools access
🟠 Marketplace FedRAMP auth for Vendor Insights security profiles
🟠 Migration Hub Refactor Spaces flexibility routing with path parameters
🟠 MWAA in-place version upgrades
🟠 Polly +female NTTS voice in Belgian Dutch (Flemish)
🟠 QuickSight
     ▫️ APIs to automate and accelerate assets deployment
     ▫️ geospatial heatmap for points on maps
     ▫️ standardized user level cost and usage data
🟠 RDS Custom for SQL Server Bring Your Own Media
🟠 RDS for Oracle April 2023 Release Update for 21c
🟠 Redshift Serverless query scheduling and SSO
🟠 SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning automatically chooses tuning configs
🟠 SageMaker Canvas retraining ML models, automating prediction workflows
🟠 SageMaker JumpStart Falcon 40B model
🟠 SageMaker Pipelines Selective Executions
🟠 SQS dead-letter queue redrive
🟠 Timestream Customer Defined Partition Keys
🟠 Trusted Advisor new checks for EFS
🟠 WAF Header Order match statement for request inspection
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☁️ Issue #76 | 18 June 2023

▪️  AppFlow 4 new data connectors
▪️  Audit Manager 3rd party risk assessments and CSV exports
▪️  Clean Rooms Cloudformation and Analysis Builder
▪️  CloudShell +12 regions
▪️  CloudTrail Lake curated dashboards for visualizing top CloudTrail trends
▪️  CodeGuru Security is now available in preview
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ Contact Lens screen recording
      ▫️ new contact lifecycle events for callbacks
      ▫️ search APIs for three more resources
▪️  Control Tower  +10 Security Hub controls
▪️  Detective extends finding groups to Amazon Inspector
▪️  DynamoDB Database Encryption SDK  | Preview
▪️  EC2 Instance Connect supports SSH and RDP connectivity without public IP address
▪️  EC2 M7a instances | Preview
▪️  ECR Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) v3 scanning
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery VPC configurations recovery
▪️  EMR on EKS container log rotation for Apache Spark
▪️  EMR price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for EC2 Spot Instances
▪️  Global Accelerator endpoint in Jakarta region
▪️  Global Partner Security Initiative
▪️  GuardDuty enhances console experience with findings summary view
▪️  IAM Identity Center automated user provisioning from Google Workspace
▪️  Inspector
      ▫️ Code Scans for Lambda function | GA
      ▫️ Software Bill of Materials export capability
▪️  Location Service
      ▫️ geofence metadata
      ▫️ place categories
▪️  Marketplace built-in partner software automates installation for customers
▪️  OpenSearch Service skip unavailable clusters during cross-cluster search
▪️  Partner Central Partner Analytics Dashboard
▪️  Payment Cryptography new service
▪️  Personalize VPC endpoints
▪️  RDS for Oracle migration via RMAN Transportable Tablespaces
▪️  Rekognition improves face search accuracy with user vectors
▪️  S3 dual-layer server-side encryption for compliance workloads
▪️  Security Hub
      ▫️ +6 security controls
      ▫️ automation rules
▪️  Step Functions integration with VPC Lattice and other services
▪️  Transfer Family quantum-safe key exchange for SFTP
▪️  Verified Permissions is now generally available
▪️  WAF Fraud Control account creation fraud prevention and reduced pricing
▪️  Well-Architected introduces Profiles
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