🌥 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

☁️  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

🌤 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

✨ 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

🚩 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

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

🌥 Issue #78 | 2 July 2023

▪️  Amazon Linux 2023.1 secure boot
▪️  Amplify Hosting monorepo frameworks support
▪️  AppFabric new no code service to connect SaaS applications
▪️  App Runner update and rebuild a failed service
▪️  AppStream 2.0 applications manager
▪️  Athena
      ▫️  new ODBC driver
      ▫️  querying restored data in S3 Glacier
▪️  Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Redshift | Preview
▪️  Batch ‘Min vCPUs’ for Multi-Node Parallel Jobs
▪️  CloudFormation launches Guard 3.0 with support for stateful rules
▪️  CloudWatch dashboard variables
▪️  Connect Chat
      ▫️  additional customization options for the chat widget
      ▫️  quick reply and carousel messages
      ▫️  search for tags within an instance
▪️  Database Migration Service more comprehensive pre-migration assessments
▪️  DevOps Guru encryption using customer managed keys
▪️  DynamoDB simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writes
▪️  EC2 R6a with faster EBS-optimized performance
▪️  ECS faster tasks launch on instances with prolonged shutdown
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect higher frequency metrics
▪️  Elemental MediaTailor creative ad id signaling in video manifests
▪️  FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver
▪️  GameLift Amazon Linux 2023
▪️  Glue native Snowflake connector with new ETL capabilities  | Preview
▪️  Incident Detection & Response 3rd Party Event Ingestion
▪️  IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph supports showing query results in scenes
▪️  Kendra Retrieval API
▪️  Kinesis Data Analytics Studio Flink version 1.15
▪️  Lambda
      ▫️  remote invoke with SAM CLI
      ▫️  simplifies copying environment variables in the console code editor
▪️  Marketplace transaction purchase order support for server products
▪️  Omics Common Workflow Language
▪️  OpenSearch
      ▫️  ingesting events from Security Lake
      ▫️  update cluster manager nodes without blue/green
▪️  Pinpoint time zone estimation for endpoints
▪️  Private 5G New commitment pricing | GA
▪️  RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB supports m5d, r5d, and m6gd database instances
▪️  Redshift native console integration with ThoughtSpot
▪️  Resilience Hub EC2 Support
▪️  S3
      ▫️  Mountpoint adds support for creating new files
      ▫️  query restore Glacier object status with S3 LIST API
▪️  SageMaker
      ▫️  Canvas Parquet file format support
      ▫️  Data Wrangler direct connection to Snowflake data
      ▫️  Feature Store time to live (TTL) in online store
      ▫️  improved developer productivity with RStudio
      ▫️  Neo PyTorch/TensorFlow models compilation for Inferentia 2/Trainium 1
      ▫️  Role Manager fine-grained permissions with CDK Lib within minutes
▪️  Simple Email Service metric export
▪️  Timestream free trial
▪️  Translate custom terminology feature

⛅ Issue #79 | 9 July 2023

▪️  Application Migration Service multi-account migrations
▪️  Backup expands cross-account backup AWS Region coverage
▪️  CloudWatch Cross-Account Service Quotas
▪️  CodeBuild GitHub Actions support
▪️  Config +16 resource types
▪️  Connect autorun based on agent activity
▪️  DynamoDB
      ▫️ Distributed Cache Provider .NET
      ▫️ local version 2.0
▪️  EKS increases pod density limits for Windows containers
▪️  Elemental MediaLive input thumbnail images
▪️  Glue Crawlers Apache Iceberg Tables
▪️  GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring expands OS and processor support
▪️  Mainframe Modernization Blu Age runtime deployment
▪️  OpenSearch Service higher IOPS and throughput for gp3 volumes
▪️  Personalize latest streamed data
▪️  RDS
      ▫️ PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 Preview Environment
      ▫️ PostgreSQL Multi-AZ logical replication with 2 readable standbys
▪️  SageMaker Model Cards now integrated with model versions in Registry
▪️  Systems Manager Parameter Store increases API throughput limit
▪️  Textract AnalyzeDocument - Forms

✅ Issue #80 | 16 July 2023

▪️  Aurora PostgreSQL pgvector for vector storage and similarity search & version updates
▪️  Batch on Fargate Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in CLI/SDK
▪️  CloudFront 3072-bit RSA certificates
▪️  Connect programmatically delete Routing Profiles and Queues
▪️  DMS Redshift Serverless support
▪️  DocumentDB index improvements
▪️  Elemental MediaLive
      ▫️  1-second metrics
      ▫️  alert categories in Channel Assembly
▪️  EMR on EKS programmatic execution for managed endpoints
▪️  FSx for NetApp ONTAP
      ▫️  IPSec encryption of data in transit
      ▫️  two additional monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
      ▫️  write once, read many (WORM) protection with SnapLock
▪️  Karpenter Windows containers support
▪️  Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions
▪️  Location Service
      ▫️  API Keys for Maps, Places, and Routes
      ▫️  publishing device position updates on EventBridge
▪️  Mainframe Modernization expands control and visibility of runtime
▪️  Omics FedRAMP Moderate authorization
▪️  OpenSearch Service version 2.7
▪️  Personalize add columns to existing datasets
▪️  Proton deployment history
▪️  QuickSight
      ▫️  axis customization options for small multiples and radar chart
      ▫️  unified color experience for analysis and dashboards
▪️  RDS for SQL Server self-managed Active Directory
▪️  S3 Inventory ACLs as object metadata in inventory reports

🟢 Issue #81 | 23 July 2023

▪️ Amplify JS lib better performance
▪️ AppConfig Agent simplifies feature flag and config use for EC2
▪️ CloudWatch ML backed Logs Insights pattern query command
▪️ CodeCatalyst workflows triggered by GitHub pull requests
▪️ Config advanced queries +65 resource types
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ CloudFormation support for routing profiles and queues
     ▫️ pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics
▪️ Connect Cases case assignment
▪️ Connect Wisdom chat agents
▪️ ECS domainless gMSA authentication
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor cue ad tags in Channel Assembly
▪️ EMR on EKS Apache Spark with Java 17
▪️ Fargate faster container startup using Seekable OCI
▪️ Glue Crawlers Apache Hudi Tables
▪️ IoT Device Defender monitoring of device disconnect durations
▪️ IVS rendition filtering and higher frequency thumbnails
▪️ Lake Formation delegation of LF-Tag management
▪️ Lambda & EventBridge Pipes enhanced filtering
▪️ Lex Introducing Analytics
▪️ PrivateLink CloudWatch Contributor Insights integration
▪️ Redshift QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statement
▪️ Redshift ML integration with Amazon Forecast
▪️ Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Meta Llama 2 foundation models
▪️ SNS mobile push notifications in 12 new regions
▪️ Tools Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET.
▪️ Translate real time translation of Docx files
▪️ WAF URI path aggregation key for rate-based rules