Issue #152

This week’s AWS updates bring powerful tools to simplify operations, improve governance, and save costs.

Bedrock adds custom orchestration for flexible integrations, while Control Tower introduces prescriptive backup plans for better landing zone management. EBS now supports Time-based Copy for Snapshots, and EC2 adds instant start times for Capacity Blocks and future-dated reservations.

Marketplace launches AI-powered product summaries and self-service KYC, and SageMaker brings scale-down-to-zero and multi-adapter inference to cut AI costs. S3 adds conditional writes and deletes for better bucket control, while Q introduces natural language cost analysis and private sharing with Q Apps

Let's see what else is there?

▪️ Amplify passwordless authentication with Cognito

▪️ AppConfig automatic rollback safety from third-party alerts

▪️ Artifact enhances agreements with improved access control and tracking

▪️ Bedrock

     ▫️custom orchestration

      ▫️InlineAgents for streamlined integrations

▪️ Billing and Cost Management

      ▫️Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 now generally available

      ▫️Delivers enhanced root cause insights to explain cost anomalies

▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhances log analysis with AI-powered features

▪️ CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles

▪️ CodePipeline publishing ECR image and InspectorScan as new actions

▪️ Connect

     ▫️Launches calibrations for agent performance evaluations

     ▫️Enables agents to self-assign tasks

▪️ Control Tower prescriptive backup plans to landing zone capabilities

▪️ DataZone enhances data access governance with enforced metadata rules

▪️ DMS now supports Data Masking

▪️ EBS Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots

▪️ ECR increases repository limit to 100,000

▪️ EC2

     ▫️Capacity Blocks now support instant start times and extensions

     ▫️Supports future-dated capacity reservations

     ▫️C7g instances now available in more regions

     ▫️R7g instances now available in Middle East (Bahrain)

▪️ EFS up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system

▪️ EMR advanced scaling in managed scaling

▪️ FSx for Lustre Elastic Fabric Adapter and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage

▪️ Partner Assistant a gen AI-powered virtual assistant for partners

▪️ Marketplace

     ▫️Introduces AI-powered product summaries and comparisons

     ▫️Enables self-service KYC for sellers

▪️ Q

     ▫️Developer adds natural language cost analysis

     ▫️Launches private sharing with Q Apps

     ▫️Transforms embedded SQL from Oracle to PostgreSQL

▪️ QuickSight prompted reports and reader scheduling for pixel-perfect reports

▪️ SageMaker

     ▫️Launches multi-adapter model inference

     ▫️Introduces scale-down-to-zero inference for cost savings

▪️ S3

     ▫️Adds conditional writes and deletes for greater control

     ▫️Express One Zone now supports conditional deletes

▪️ WorkSpaces introduces Idle Disconnect Timeout