Issue #149

This week’s AWS updates bring exciting and long-awaited changes that enhance efficiency, cost management, and development workflows. 

CloudFront now waives charges for requests blocked by WAF, reducing costs for secure applications, while EC2 Auto Scaling introduces precise provisioning control to improve availability zone balance. Application Discovery adds deeper network insights with an Agentless Collector, and CodePipeline launches open-source starter templates, streamlining project setup. ECS finally supports service versioning and deployment history, offering better tracking and rollback options, and Location Service expands capabilities with Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps, advancing location-based applications. Additionally, SES adds inline template support for send email APIs, simplifying email customization workflows.

Dive in to explore these impactful updates and optimize your cloud solutions.

▪️ Application Discovery Agentless Collector  discovers network connections ▪️ Bedrock Prompt Management | GA

▪️ Clean Rooms ML privacy-enhanced model training and inferencing

▪️ CloudFront removes charges for requests blocked by WAF

▪️ CodeBuild additional compute types for reserved capacity

▪️ CodePipeline open-source starter templates for simplified setup

▪️ DataZone

     ▫️achieves HITRUST certification

     ▫️adds meaning-based Semantic search

     ▫️updates pricing and removes user-level subscription fee

▪️ EC2

     ▫️Auto Scaling provisioning control for zone balance

     ▫️Windows Server 2025 AMIs

▪️ ECS service versioning and deployment history

▪️ Kinesis Client Library 3.0 reduces compute costs by up to 33% for stream processing

▪️ Lambda JSON logging support for .NET runtime

▪️ Location Service Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps

▪️ MSK Express brokers now GA

▪️ Mainframe Modernization FedRAMP Moderate and SOC compliance

▪️ OpenSearch Service Extended Support for engine versions

▪️ Partner Central improved self-guided experience

▪️ Polly introduces six new synthetic generative voices

▪️ QuickSight OAuth with Starburst via API/CLI

▪️ RDS for Oracle October 2024 Release Update

▪️ RDS for SQL Server minor version support for October 2024

▪️ Redshift Serverless expands high capacity (1024 RPUs) availability

▪️ Route 53 adds CIDR block configuration based on Internet Monitor

▪️ S3 Access Grants integrates with Redshift

▪️ SES adds inline template support for send email APIs

▪️ SNS now delivers to Data Firehose endpoints in six more regions

▪️ Verified Permissions new API for multiple policies

▪️ Well-Architected enhanced implementation guidance