Issue #151

Issue #151

▪️ Amplify full-stack AI kit for Amazon Bedrock

▪️ API Gateway Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs

▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Capacity Unit Reservation

▪️ Application Discovery Service

     ▫️data from commercially available discovery tools

     ▫️integration with Application Migration Service

     ▫️now supports AWS PrivateLink

     ▫️Certificate Authority advertisement

     ▫️cross-zone enabled zonal shift and zonal autoshift

     ▫️header modification for enhanced traffic control and security

     ▫️Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift

▪️ Application Signals OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces

▪️ App Studio is now generally available

▪️ AppSync Bedrock integration in AppSync GraphQL

▪️ AppSync cross account sharing of GraphQL APIs

▪️ Aurora MySQL supports R7i instances

▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 scaling to zero capacity

▪️ B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets

▪️ Backup S3 adds new restore parameter

▪️ Batch multiple EC2 Launch Templates per Compute Environment

▪️ Bedrock

     ▫️Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings

     ▫️Flows | GA

     ▫️Prompt Optimization | Preview

▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases binary vector embeddings to build RAG app

▪️ Billing and Cost Management Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer

▪️ Chatbot

     ▫️chat with via Microsoft Teams and Slack

     ▫️SDK | GA

     ▫️support case management via Microsoft Teams and Slack

▪️ CLI PKCE-based authorization for single sign-on

▪️ CloudFormation

     ▫️Guard domain specific language

     ▫️Recycle Bin rules

▪️ CloudFormation Hooks

     ▫️Cloud Control API resource configurations evaluation

     ▫️custom AWS Lambda functions

     ▫️stack and change set target invocation points

▪️ CloudFront

     ▫️additional log formats and destinations for access logs

     ▫️VPC origins

     ▫️Anycast Static IPs

     ▫️Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming

     ▫️now supports gRPC delivery

     ▫️origin modifications using CloudFront Functions

▪️ CloudTrail AppSync GraphQL APIs data plane logging

▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhanced analytics and cross-account data access

▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals

     ▫️Runtime Metrics

     ▫️troubleshoot NodeJS applications

▪️ CloudWatch full visibility into application transactions

▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor adds Local Zones support for VPC subnets

▪️ CloudWatch Log Insights field indexes and enhanced log group selection

▪️ CloudWatch Logs transform and enrich logs

▪️ CloudWatch Metrics

     ▫️End User Messaging support

     ▫️for Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)

▪️ CloudWatch RUM percentile aggregations

▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics

     ▫️automatically deletes Lambda resources associated with canaries

     ▫️Playwright runtime to create canaries with NodeJS

▪️ Cognito

     ▫️Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys

     ▫️new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus

     ▫️passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins

▪️ Compute Optimizer

     ▫️rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora

     ▫️ idle resource recommendation

▪️ Connect Contact Lens custom dashboards

▪️ Connect

     ▫️+9 languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling

     ▫️Email | GA

     ▫️granular disconnect reasons for chats

     ▫️new personalized and proactive engagement capabilities

▪️ Controllers for Kubernetes for Private CA | GA

▪️ Control Tower Hooks management for proactive controls

▪️ Database Migration ServiceAuto migration of EC2 databases to RDS

▪️ DMS improved performance for data validation

▪️ DynamoDB attribute-based access control | GA

▪️ EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs customized delete protection

▪️ EC2

     ▫️lineage information for your AMIs

     ▫️New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection

     ▫️provisioning control to launch instances on On-Demand Capacity

▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling

     ▫️Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift

     ▫️highly responsive scaling policies

▪️ ECS 

    ▫️configure software version consistency

     ▫️predictive scaling

     ▫️speeds up MTTR after an infrastructure event with AZ rebalancing

▪️ EFS cross-account Replication

▪️ EKS

     ▫️enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring

     ▫️managed node groups now support AWS Local Zones

     ▫️simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons

▪️ ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency

▪️ Elastic Beanstalk

     ▫️support for Node.js 22

     ▫️support for Ruby 3.3

     ▫️support for Windows Bundled Logs

▪️ EMR 7.4 Release

▪️ End User Messaging

     ▫️cost allocation tags for SMS

     ▫️integration with EventBridge

     ▫️message feedback tracking

     ▫️phone number block/allow rules

▪️ Glue Data Catalog Apache Iceberg automatic table optimization through Amazon VPC

▪️ Glue

     ▫️gen-AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark | Preview

     ▫️gen-AI upgrades for Apache Spark | Preview

     ▫️up to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications

▪️ HealthOmics

     ▫️call caching and intermediate file access

     ▫️Cross Account Data Store Read Access

▪️ IoT Device Management Commands feature

▪️ IoT SiteWise new generative AI-powered industrial assistant

▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adding Regions to existing Keyspaces

▪️ Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand streams writing up to 10GB/s

▪️ Lake Formation named LF-Tag expressions

▪️ Lambda

     ▫️Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs)

     ▫️S3 as a failed-event destination for asynchronous and stream event sources

     ▫️SnapStart for Python and .NET functions

     ▫️support for Node.js 22

     ▫️supports Application Signals (APM)

▪️ Managed Flink new Kinesis Data Streams connector

▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for update

▪️ Management Console

     ▫️favorite & recently used applications

     ▫️Visual Update | Preview

▪️ Marketplace

     ▫️enhanced purchase order support

     ▫️improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers

▪️ MQ is now available | (Malaysia) region

▪️ MWAA smaller environment size

▪️ Neptune Analytics Seamless Graph Data Import and Export

▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion

     ▫️Lambda for custom data transformation

     ▫️writing security data to Security Lake

▪️ OpenSearch Serverless

     ▫️Binary Vector search and FP16 cost savings features

     ▫️Includes SQL API Support

     ▫️supports point in time (PIT) search

▪️ OpenSearch Service

     ▫️Custom Plugins

     ▫️Disk-optimized vector engine

     ▫️now scales to 1000 data nodes on a single cluster

     ▫️UltraWarm vector engine

▪️ Open Source RDS PG & MyQSL Drivers Advanced NodeJS Driver | GA

▪️ Outposts

     ▫️Self-service capacity management

     ▫️static stability by EC2 instance store

▪️ Partner Central

     ▫️business planning feature

     ▫️enhanced account linking experience with Marketplace

     ▫️Gain new insights into your sales pipeline

▪️ Partner Network automates Foundational Technical Reviews with Bedrock

▪️ Polly more synthetic generative voices

▪️ Q Business

     ▫️answers from tables embedded in documents

     ▫️browser extension

     ▫️integrations to Asana | Preview

     ▫️integration to Google Calendar | Preview

     ▫️reuse recently uploaded files in a conversation

     ▫️SES Mail Manager email delivery

     ▫️Smartsheet connector | GA

▪️ Q Developer

     ▫️Chat Customizations | GA

     ▫️CloudFormation troubleshooting

     ▫️Console Service as a context for the chat

▪️ Q

     ▫️account resources chat in the AWS Console Mobile App

     ▫️generative SQL in Redshift Query Editor

▪️ Quantum Embark advisory program for customers new to quantum computing

▪️ QuickSight

     ▫️fine grained permissions for IAM Identity Center users

     ▫️font customization for visuals

     ▫️import visual capability | Preview

     ▫️launches Highcharts visual | Preview

     ▫️launches Image component

     ▫️launches Layer Map

▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments

     ▫️Green storage fully performant prior to switchover

     ▫️minor version upgrade for RDS for PostgreSQL

     ▫️storage volume shrink

▪️ RDS Database Preview Aurora for PostgreSQL 17

▪️ RDS for MySQL MySQL 8.4 LTS release

▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL

     ▫️17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22

     ▫️pgvector 0.8.0

▪️ Redshift

     ▫️Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka

     ▫️enhance security by changing default behavior

     ▫️Query Editor V2 Increases Maximum Result Set and Export size to 100MB

▪️ re:Post Private contextual knowledge via Bedrock

▪️ Resilience Hub summary view

▪️ Resource Explorer Find security, compliance, and operating metrics

▪️ S3 ConnectorPyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint

▪️ S3 Express One Zone

     ▫️ability to append data to an object

     ▫️S3 Lifecycle expirations

▪️ S3 Mountpoint high performance shared cache

▪️ Shield Advanced is now available | (Malaysia) Region

▪️ SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K

▪️ Step Functions simplifies DX with Variables and JSONata transformations

▪️ STS ECDSA-based signatures of OIDC tokens

▪️ Systems Manager

     ▫️Simplifying node management

     ▫️Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10

▪️ Timestream for LiveAnalytics Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs)

▪️ User Notifications new SDK

▪️ VPC

     ▫️Block Public Access

     ▫️enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations

     ▫️IP Address Manager | (Malaysia) Region

▪️ VPC Lattice now supports ECS

▪️ Wickr | (Malaysia) Region

▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser inline data redaction

▪️ WorkSpaces support for Rocky Linux

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