Issue #46 | 14 November – 20 November 2022
🔖 Part #3

▪️ Service Catalog
| AppRegistry support for automatic associations based on tags
| sharing of principal names
▪️ Service Management Connector
| Incident Manager with JSMC Incidents
| provisioning Service Catalog products in JSMC
| Security Hub bidirectional integration JSMC
▪️ SQS attribute-based access control
▪️ Step Functions simplify cross-account access
▪️ Systems Manager OpsCenter managing OpsItems across accounts
▪️ Transcribe Thai and Hindi languages for streaming audio
▪️ Transfer Family Drummond Group AS 2 Pre-Certification
▪️ Translate Tagging Support for Parallel Data and Custom Terminology
▪️ Trusted Advisor Resilience Hub new checks
▪️ WorkDocs Delete Previous Versions
▪️ WorkSpaces
| certificate-based authentication
| Integration with SAML 2.0 | GA
| Multi-Region Resilience
| WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol 2.0
| Zoom Meeting Media Plugin for Windows | GA

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

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#/Typescript
▪️ 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

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

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

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

Issue #50 | 12 December – 18 December, 2022

▪️ Amplify Library for Android v2.0 | Javascript 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 Description” 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

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 subscriptions 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

Issue #53 | 02 January 2023 – 08 January, 2023

▪️ Application Auto Scaling better visibility into scaling decisions
▪️ App Runner get secrets and configs from Secrets & Systems Manager
▪️ CloudFront removal of response headers
▪️ CloudWatch Logs removes Log Stream transaction quota and SequenceToken requirement
▪️ DynamoDB  Kinesis Data Streams in 11 additional Regions
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling forecasts frequently for more accurate predictive scaling
▪️ EMR Serverless Custom images
▪️ Neptune graph-explorer, an open-source visual exploration tool for low-code
▪️ Private Certificate Authority Matter PKI Compliance Customer Guide
▪️ S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects

Issue #54 | 09 January 2023 – 15 January, 2023

▪️ AppConfig allows tracking of stale feature flags
▪️ Clean Rooms | Preview
▪️ CloudFormation Fn::FindInMap supports default values and additional intrinsic functions
▪️ CloudFront request header order and header count headers
▪️ CloudShell HIPAA eligible
▪️ Config  +22 new resource types
▪️ Elemental MediaLive POIS signal conditioning
▪️ Kendra
     ▫️ Google Drive Connector
     ▫️ Intelligent Ranking for self-managed OpenSearch
     ▫️ MS Exchange Connector with email-messaging search
     ▫️ MS Teams Connector with messaging search
     ▫️ S3 connector with VPC support
▪️ Lambda Maximum Concurrency for SQS as an event source
▪️ Location Service GrabMaps in Southeast Asia
▪️ Network Firewall reject action for TCP traffic
▪️ Nitro Enclaves support for multiple enclaves
▪️ Personalize
     ▫️ tag based resource authorization
     ▫️ “Trending-Now” recipe
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ MariaDB 2x faster queries with Optimized Reads
     ▫️ new SSL/TLS certificates and certificate controls
     ▫️ restore snapshots from Multi-AZ with two readable standbys
▪️ Resource Groups now emits lifecycle events
▪️ Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift | GA
▪️ S3 Storage Lens tiered pricing for cost-effective monitoring at scale

Issue #55 🧧16 January 2023 – 22 January, 2023

▪️ Billing Conductor SKU pricing rules
▪️ Chime SDK up to 250 video streams per WebRTC session
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ cross-account Metric Streams
     ▫️ enhanced error visibility for Embedded Metric Format (EMF)
▪️ Connect long lasting, persistent chat experiences
▪️ Detective new AWS managed IAM policies
▪️ EC2 ConnTrack Utilization metric
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling recommendations about activating predictive scaling policy
▪️ EC2 Image Builder
     ▫️ CIS Benchmarks for AMI security hardening
     ▫️ custom AMIs Marketplace subscription
▪️ EC2 Launch Templates Systems Manager parameters for AMIs
▪️ ECS new default console experience
▪️ EFS 1K Access Points per FS
▪️ EMR 30% faster to launch on EC2 cluster in a private subnet
▪️ EMR Serverless account-level vCPU-based service quota
▪️ Fault Injection Simulator increased quotas for target resources
▪️ Kendra MS Yammer Connector
▪️ Marketplace Console new private offers page
▪️ Network Firewall IPv6 support
▪️ OpenSearch Service enhanced dry run for configuration changes
▪️ RDS for MariaDB enforcing SSL/TLS connections
▪️ S3 File Gateway
     ▫️ DOS attributes support
     ▫️ maximum file shares per gateway from 10 to 50
▪️ SAM CloudFormation Linter
▪️ Systems Manager  cross-account/region patching with Patch Policies

Issue #56 | 23 January 2023 – 29 January, 2023

▪️ AMS change response for Config Rules
▪️ AppFlow +10 new connectors
▪️ Control Tower comprehensive controls management
▪️ Detective VPC Flow Logs visualizations for EKS workloads
▪️ EFS new max Access Points per file system from 120 to 1000
▪️ Elemental MediaLive timecode burn-in
▪️ Fault Injection Simulator Pause I/O action for EBS volumes
▪️ Lambda runtime management controls
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless general availability
▪️ Open Source Porting Advisor for Graviton | repo
▪️ Partnership Conversational AI Competency Partner's implement high-quality chatbot solutions
▪️ Personalize simplifies onboarding with data insights
▪️ Polly +5 new male NTTS voices
▪️ Pricing Calculator
     ▫️ access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates
     ▫️ optimized pricing estimation for EC2 Dedicated Hosts
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ Increased field limits and performance improvements for Pivot table
     ▫️ launches data bars for tables
▪️ RDS Multi-AZ two readable standbys for RDS PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication
▪️ SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning specify environment variables for tuning jobs
▪️ VPC IP Address Manager
     ▫️ contiguous IPv6 CIDRs blocks
     ▫️ now manages IPs in your network outside your AWS Organization

📩 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

📩 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

📩 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

📩 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

🟢 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

⚡️ 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

☁️ 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