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Issue #219 | 16 March 2026 ▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with GitHub and Amazon ▪️ Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for EKS ▪️ Backup RDS Multi-AZ clusters to 17 Regions ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory streaming notifications for long-term memory ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime stateful MCP server features ▪️ Bedrock observability of First Token Latency and Quota Consumption ▪️ CDK Mixins is now generally available ▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities ▪️ CloudWatch Logs increased query concurrency and API limits ▪️ Connect AI-powered manager assistance (Preview) ▪️ Connect AI-powered predictive insights ▪️ Connect case data in analytics data lake ▪️ Connect conversational analytics for email ▪️ Connect integrated workflows for managers to coach agents ▪️ Connect select different From email addresses when sending emails ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs ▪️ Glue zero-ETL integrations with DynamoDB ▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere post-quantum digital certificates ▪️ Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust ▪️ LZA MCP Server AI-assisted configuration management ▪️ Neptune Database adds native spatial data support ▪️ Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud ▪️ OpenSearch Service in-place volume increases for all volume sizes ▪️ OpenSearch UI Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains ▪️ PrivateLink Private CA Connector for SCEP ▪️ Quick Suite User Preferences for chat personalization ▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available ▪️ S3 account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio faster data preview in Visual ETL ▪️ SAM Kiro power serverless application development ▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Issue #218 | 9 March 2026 ▪️ Batch configurable scale down delay ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Policy | GA ▪️ Bedrock Mistral AI Devstral 2 ▪️ CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default ▪️ Config +30 resource types ▪️ Connect Health Agentic AI Built for Healthcare ▪️ Database Savings Plans OpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis ▪️ Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode ▪️ EventBridge Scheduler a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API ▪️ GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection ▪️ HealthLake data transformation agent for automated CCDA-to-FHIR data conversion | Preview ▪️ IAM simplified role creation and setup in service workflows ▪️ Lambda Kiro Power durable functions development ▪️ Lightsail OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant ▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion      ▫️Prometheus as a sink      ▫️unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data ▪️ OpenSearch Service capacity optimized blue/green deployments ▪️ Organizations Multi-party approval with approval team baselining ▪️ Redshift      ▫️new array functions for semi-structured data processing      ▫️reusable templates for COPY operations ▪️ Redshift Serverless datashare permissions during restore ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod      ▫️API-driven Slurm configuration      ▫️comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio      ▫️AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs      ▫️light mode support for IAM-based domains      ▫️metadata sync with third-party catalogs      ▫️remote connection from Kiro IDE ▪️ Security Hub Shield network security director findings

Issue #217 | 2 March 2026 ▪️ AppConfig integrates with New Relic for automated rollbacks ▪️ Aurora DSQL Playground for interactive database exploration ▪️ Automated Reasoning policies now include references to the source document ▪️ AWS Deadline Cloud running tasks together in chunks ▪️ AWS Elemental Inference announcement ▪️ Backup Neptune to five additional AWS Regions ▪️ Bacs Direct Debit as a payment method for UK customers ▪️ Bedrock     ▫️announces OpenAI-compatible Projects API     ▫️batch inference now supports the Converse API format     ▫️server-side tool execution with AgentCore Gateway ▪️ CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL ▪️ CloudWatch logs centralization rules now support customizable destination log group structure ▪️ Cognito client secret management with secret rotation and custom secrets ▪️ Compute Optimizer AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots ▪️ Connect dynamic dialing mode switching for outbound campaigns ▪️ DSQL      ▫️new integrations for Visual Studio Code SQLTools and DBeaver     ▫️new support for Tortoise, Flyway, and Prisma ▪️ EC2 Image Builder wildcard support and simplified IAM ▪️ ECS Managed Instances EC2 Capacity Reservations ▪️ EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source ▪️ EventBridge Scheduler adds resource count metrics for quota monitoring ▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot is now available as a Kiro Power ▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview ▪️ Lightsail expands blueprint selection with a new WordPress blueprint ▪️ Location Service LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance ▪️ Marketplace multiple purchases of SaaS and Professional Services products ▪️ MediaConvert new video probe API and UI ▪️ Network Firewall firewall state change notifications through EventBridge ▪️ Observabilitynow available as a Kiro power ▪️ OpenSearch Service new insights for improved cluster stability ▪️ Q Developer generative AI-based artifacts ▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations ▪️ Resource Access Manager maintaining shares when accounts change organizations ▪️ S3 AWS source region information in server access logs ▪️ Security Agent penetration tests on shared VPCs across AWS accounts ▪️ Security Hub Extended plan for pay-as-you-go partner solutions ▪️ Trusted Advisor unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer ▪️ VPC Encryption Controls announces pricing ▪️ WAF AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications extends support for 4K resolution

Issue #216 | 23 Feb 2026 ▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL Kiro powers and AI agent skills ▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL new Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authentication ▪️ Amazon Aurora Server-Side Encryption at Rest ▪️ Backup PrivateLink support for SAP HANA ▪️ Bedrock Claude Sonnet 4.6 ▪️ Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs ▪️ Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity ▪️ Clean Rooms remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogs ▪️ Connect agent time-off requests in draft schedules ▪️ Connect Cases AWS Service Quotas ▪️ Connect multi-line text fields on case templates ▪️ DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0 ▪️ EC2 nested virtualization ▪️ EC2 new high performance computing Hpc8a instances ▪️ Glue 5.1 is now available in 18 additional regions ▪️ HealthImaging additional metrics for monitoring data stores ▪️ Managed Grafana KMS customer managed keys ▪️ MSK dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for existing clusters ▪️ OpenSearch Service Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instances ▪️ OpenSearch Service storage optimized i7i instances ▪️ RDS for Oracle January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle

Issue #215 | 16 Feb 2026 ▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL identity columns and sequence objects ▪️ Athena 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity ▪️ Aurora Global Database managed minor version upgrades ▪️ Backup cross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults ▪️ Batch Job Queue and Share Utilization Visibility ▪️ Bedrock      ▫️AgentCore Browser now supports proxy configuration      ▫️+6 fully-managed open weights models      ▫️expands support for AWS PrivateLink ▪️ CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue ▪️ Connect      ▫️after contact work timeout configuration for tasks, chats, and emails      ▫️audio enhancements for noisy environments      ▫️auto-accept for tasks, chats, and emails      ▫️granular access controls for analytics dashboards      ▫️in-app notifications to surface critical operational alerts to business users      ▫️real time AI-powered overviews and recommended next actions for Tasks ▪️ DynamoDB Resource Control Policies ▪️ ECR additional metrics for monitoring repositories ▪️ EKS Auto Mode Enhanced Logging ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk GitHub Actions ▪️ HealthOmics Kiro Power and Kiro IDE extension for bioinformatics workflow development ▪️ Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing ▪️ MSK      ▫️broker logs on Express Brokers      ▫️new APIs and console integration ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups ▪️ Outposts EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances ▪️ Payment Cryptography Achieves Cartes Bancaires Approval ▪️ RDS      ▫️backup configuration when restoring snapshots      ▫️latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ Redshift allocating extra compute for automatic optimizations ▪️ S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod node actions from the console ▪️ Support Center Console now supports 7 additional languages

Issue #214 | 9 Feb 2026 ▪️ Aurora DSQL indexes on the NUMERIC data type ▪️ AWS Batch unmanaged compute environments for Amazon EKS ▪️ AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple ▪️ Batch Array Job Status Summary in ListJobs API ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles ▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 4.6 ▪️ Bedrock Structured outputs ▪️ CloudFront mutual TLS support for origins ▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals integration with Kiro powers ▪️ Connect APIs to test and simulate voice interactions ▪️ Connect appeals workflow for agent performance evaluations ▪️ Connect Cases CSV uploads to map related field options ▪️ Connect improved wait time estimates ▪️ DynamoDB global tables with replication across multiple AWS accounts ▪️ EC2 and VPC now display related resources for security groups ▪️ EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances ▪️ EC2 capacity blocks for ML can be shared across multiple accounts ▪️ ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments ▪️ ECS Managed Instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud ▪️ Glue native REST API connector for universal data integration ▪️ HealthImaging adds JPEG XL support ▪️ IAM Identity Center account access and application use in multiple AWS Regions ▪️ IAM Identity Center Multi-party requires OTP verification for voting ▪️ Lightsail memory-optimized instance bundles ▪️ Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar ▪️ Marketplace localized billing for Professional Services from AWS EMEA ▪️ Network Firewall announces new price reductions ▪️ Quick Suite Easy Resolution of Ambiguous Map Locations ▪️ RDS enhanced console experience to connect to a database ▪️ Redshift autonomics for multi-cluster environments ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Production-Ready Drug Discovery and Robotics Pipelines with NVIDIA NIMs ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Apache Spark lineage ▪️ STS validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI ▪️ WorkSpaces launches Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles ▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports custom domain

Issue #213 | 1 Feb 2026 ▪️ AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs | Preview ▪️ Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching ▪️ Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API ▪️ Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers ▪️ Connect granular access controls for cases ▪️ Deadline Cloud editing job name and description ▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service ▪️ ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric ▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35 ▪️ EventBridge 1 MB payload size ▪️ GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances ▪️ IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6 ▪️ Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables ▪️ Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings ▪️ Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints ▪️ Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products ▪️ Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement ▪️ Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering ▪️ RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes ▪️ RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs ▪️ S3 Change the server-side encryption type ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink ▪️ Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP ▪️ WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection ▪️ WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances

Issue #212 | 26 January 2026 ▪️ Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates ▪️ Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers ▪️ AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages ▪️ AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions ▪️ Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 ▪️ Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL ▪️ Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides ▪️ Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation ▪️ Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat ▪️ EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection ▪️ EC2 M4 Max Mac instances | GA ▪️ ECR cross-repository layer sharing ▪️ EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks ▪️ EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways ▪️ EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection ▪️ Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation ▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables ▪️ Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets ▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds ▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2 ▪️ RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration ▪️ RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support ▪️ Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs ▪️ Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subscriptions ▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps ▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps

Issue #211 | 19 Jan 2026 ▪️ Amazon Inspector Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage ▪️ Bedrock API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions ▪️ Billing Console Enhanced Transactions view ▪️ Clean Rooms parameters in PySpark analysis templates ▪️ Connect      ▫️agent scheduling metrics in data lake      ▫️agent screen recording status tracking      ▫️recurring overrides for hours of operation ▪️ Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation ▪️ Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel ▪️ Data Exports granular operation visibility for Bedrock model usage ▪️ EBS up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours ▪️ EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances ▪️ IoT Device Management Wi-Fi Simple Setup for managed integrations ▪️ Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams ▪️ Lex      ▫️configurable voice activity detection sensitivity      ▫️improved speech recognition models for English ▪️ Outposts      ▫️multiple LGW routing domains      ▫️S3 on Outposts is now available on second-generation ▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ Redshift Serverless queue-based query resource management ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod service quotas before creating clusters on console ▪️ VPC IPAM policies now support RDS and Application Load Balancers

Issue #210 | 12 January 2026 ▪️ Amazon MQ certificate based auth with mTLS for RabbitMQ brokers ▪️ Amazon Quick 3rd-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library ▪️ Client VPN onboarding with Quickstart setup ▪️ Config +21 resource types ▪️ EC2 Capacity Manager now includes Spot interruption metrics ▪️ EMR Serverless job run level cost allocation ▪️ Fargate and ECS Managed Instances tmpfs mounts ▪️ Lambda .NET 10 runtime ▪️ Lightsail larger managed database bundles ▪️ Marketplace Seller Reporting now provides collections visibility ▪️ MQ HTTP based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers

🗓 Issue #209 | 5 January 2026 ▪️ Clean Rooms detailed monitoring for collaboration queries ▪️ CloudWatch simplified import of CloudTrail Lake ▪️ Connect filtering metrics based on custom business dimensions ▪️ Connect store nested JSON object and looping arrays ▪️ OpenSearch UI supports CMK and increased metadata size ▪️ WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

🎄 Issue #208 | 29 December 2025 ▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano ▪️ CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services ▪️ Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages ▪️ Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor ▪️ ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs ▪️ End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer | Preview ▪️ GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling ▪️ GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging ▪️ Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC ▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts ▪️ Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2 ▪️ Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities ▪️ Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor ▪️ Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations ▪️ Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale ▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization ▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers

🎄 Issue #207 | 22 December 2025 ▪️ ACM automated certificate management for Kubernetes ▪️ Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities ▪️ Artifact enables access to previous versions of compliance reports ▪️ Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23 ▪️ AWS Databases now available on the Vercel Marketplace ▪️ Bedrock Data Automation instruction optimization for your document blueprints ▪️ Billing and Cost Management      ▫️ cost allocation using users’ attributes      ▫️ cost allocation Tags support for Account Tags      ▫️ PDF export and CSV data download for Dashboards      ▫️ reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less ▪️ Billing Conductor enhanced custom line item controls ▪️ Clean Rooms      ▫️ change requests for existing collaborations      ▫️ publishes events for member invitations and table readiness to EventBridge ▪️ Connect      ▫️ additional details within real-time metric alerts      ▫️ multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms ▪️ Control Tower 176 new AWS Security Hub controls ▪️ Direct Connect resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group ▪️ EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs ▪️ ECR creating repositories on push ▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances ▪️ ECS weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate ▪️ EKS enhanced network security policies ▪️ IoT Core adds message batching to HTTP rule action ▪️ IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads ▪️ IoT event-based logging to help optimize observability costs ▪️ Marketplace mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging ▪️ MSK Connect dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors ▪️ MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9 ▪️ OpenSearch Service      ▫️ announces new OI2 instances      ▫️ now offers a new multi-tier storage ▪️ Payment Cryptography      ▫️ is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support      ▫️ reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing ▪️ Quick Suite      ▫️ browser extension now supports Quick Flows      ▫️ now supports memory for chat agents ▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 ▪️ RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3 ▪️ Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS ▪️ Redshift Serverless dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 | GA ▪️ Route 53 detailed metrics for Resolver endpoints ▪️ SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times ▪️ Security Incident Response introduces integration with Slack ▪️ SES announces email validation ▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications      ▫️ additional health and performance metrics      ▫️ Elastic fleets powered by Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS      ▫️ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025 ▪️ WorkSpaces now supports IPv6

📍Issue #206 | 15 December 2025 ▪️ Application Migration Service supports IPv6 ▪️ Aurora DSQL cluster creation in seconds ▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL integration with Kiro powers ▪️ Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0 ▪️ CloudWatch SDK optimized JSON, CBOR protocols ▪️ Cognito identity pools connectivity with AWS PrivateLink ▪️ DataSync increases scalability+performance for on-prem file transfers ▪️ DataSync Terraform support for Enhanced mode ▪️ ECS Fargate custom container stop signals ▪️ ElastiCache Serverless same-slot WATCH command ▪️ GameLift Servers AI powered assistance in Console ▪️ Partner Central opportunity deal sizing ▪️ Quick Suite Quick Research with Quick Flows ▪️ RDS and Aurora resource tagging for Automated Backups ▪️ Shield network security director with multi-account analysis ▪️ Spatial Data Management accelerate spatial-data insights ▪️ Support Center Console screen sharing for troubleshooting ▪️ Systems Manager Validate best practice compliance for SAP ABAP ▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser introduces Web Content Filtering

✔️ re:Invent 2025 | Issue #205 ▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview ▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI ▪️ Amazon Nova Act automate production UI workflows ▪️ Amazon Nova Forge Build your own Frontier Models using Nova ▪️ Amazon Q now can analyze SES email sending ▪️ API Gateway adds MCP proxy support ▪️ AWS AI Factories new service ▪️ AWS AI League 2026 Championship ▪️ AWS DevOps Agent frontier agent for operational excellence | Preview ▪️ AWS Interconnect      ▫️last mile | Preview      ▫️multicloud | Preview ▪️ AWS MCP Server in Preview ▪️ AWS Security Agent AI agent for proactive app security | Preview ▪️ AWS Support AI-powered operations with the human expertise you trust ▪️ AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization ▪️ Bedrock      ▫️Amazon Nova 2      ▫️+18 fully managed open-weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date      ▫️Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3      ▫️Responses API from OpenAI ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy, Evaluations (preview) and more ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming ▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Multimodal retrieval | GA ▪️ Clean Rooms synthetic dataset generation training custom ML training ▪️ CloudWatch GenAI observability now supports Amazon AgentCore Evaluations ▪️ CloudWatch      ▫️incident reports now support Five Whys analysis      ▫️simplified enablement of AWS CloudTrail events      ▫️unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data ▪️ Connect      ▫️agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions      ▫️agent workspace now supports custom visual themes      ▫️AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service      ▫️AI-powered case summaries      ▫️AI-powered predictive insights | Preview      ▫️automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases      ▫️automated performance evaluations for self-service interactions      ▫️creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs      ▫️custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time      ▫️enhances its agent assistance capabilities      ▫️granular access controls for performance evaluations      ▫️improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents      ▫️integrates with Bedrock Knowledge Bases      ▫️automatically select relevant contacts for performance evaluation      ▫️launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support      ▫️native testing and simulation capabilities | Preview      ▫️simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows      ▫️streams messages for AI-powered interactions      ▫️third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service      ▫️WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns ▪️ Connect Chat agent-initiated workflows ▪️ Connect Chat in-flight data redaction and message processing ▪️ Connect Customer Profiles new segmentation capabilities | Beta ▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder ▪️ Database Savings Plans with up to 35% savings ▪️ EC2      ▫️C8a Instances New Compute-Optimized      ▫️C8ine instances | Preview      ▫️General purpose M8azn instances | Preview      ▫️M4 Max Mac instances | Preview      ▫️M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors | Preview      ▫️Memory optimized X8i instances | Preview      ▫️new memory optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances      ▫️new memory-optimized X8aedz Instances      ▫️P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72      ▫️Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost generative AI training ▪️ EKS Capabilities ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk      ▫️Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023      ▫️Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023 ▪️ EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning for Spark workloads ▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Amazon S3 access ▪️ Glue Apache Iceberg based materialized views ▪️ GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now supports EC2 and ECS ▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot generate IAM policies from code

📆 Issue #204 | 1 December 2025 ▪️ Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage ▪️ AWS Health event triage ▪️ Bedrock Reserved Service tier ▪️ CloudWatch deletion protection for logs ▪️ Compute Optimizer unused NAT Gateway recommendations ▪️ EMR and Glue      ▫️audit context support with Lake Formation      ▫️write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls ▪️ Glue      ▫️5.1      ▫️zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources ▪️ Kinesis Video Streams new cost effective warm storage tier ▪️ Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search ▪️ Lex LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding ▪️ Marketplace API MCP Server ▪️ Quick Research trusted third-party industry intelligence ▪️ S3 Block Public Access organization-level enforcement ▪️ SageMaker AI Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod      ▫️custom Kubernetes labels and taints      ▫️Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing      ▫️programmatic node reboot and replacement

📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #3 ▪️ Parallel Computing Service      ▫️is now HIPAA eligible      ▫️now supports Slurm REST API ▪️ Payments Cryptography post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit ▪️ Polly additional languages and region support ▪️ PrivateLink cross-region connectivity for AWS Services ▪️ Q Developer enhanced cost management capabilities ▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization now includes tables and pivot tables ▪️ Quick Sight expands Dashboard Theme Customization ▪️ RDS for Oracle October 2025 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle ▪️ RDS for SQL Server now supports Resource Governor ▪️ RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Web Edition ▪️ Redshift      ▫️Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables      ▫️SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation      ▫️writing to Apache Iceberg tables ▪️ Route 53 AWS PrivateLink support ▪️ Route 53 DNS Firewall protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks ▪️ Route 53 DNS support for IPv6 API service endpoint ▪️ Route 53 Profiles Resolver query logging configurations ▪️ S3      ▫️attribute-based access control      ▫️new bucket-level setting to standardize encryption types used in your buckets      ▫️post-quantum TLS key exchange on S3 endpoints ▪️ SageMaker Catalog      ▫️column-level metadata forms and rich descriptions      ▫️enforces metadata rules for glossary terms for asset publishing ▪️ SageMaker Data Agent analytics and AI/ML development ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod running IDEs and Notebooks to accelerate AI development ▪️ SageMaker      ▫️notebooks with a built-in AI agent      ▫️one-click onboarding of existing datasets ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio      ▫️adds EMR on EKS support with SSO capabilities      ▫️long-running sessions with corporate identities ▪️ Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing | GA ▪️ Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets ▪️ Security Incident Response agentic AI-powered investigation ▪️ Security Incident Response now offers metered pricing with free tier ▪️ Security Token Service Now Supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) ▪️ Site-to-Site VPN      ▫️announces VPN Concentrator      ▫️BGP logging for VPN tunnels      ▫️simplify remote connectivity ▪️ Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API ▪️ Tag Policies Validate and enforce required tags in CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi ▪️ Transfer Family      ▫️Terraform module to automate scanning of transferred files      ▫️Terraform module to integrate with a custom identity provider      ▫️web apps now support VPC endpoints ▪️ Transform Automates Landing Zone Acceleration Network Configuration ▪️ Transit Gateway Flexible Cost Allocation ▪️ VPC Encryption Controls and further raises the bar on data encryption ▪️ VPC IPAM      ▫️automates IP assignments from Infoblox IPAM      ▫️policies to enforce IP allocation strategy ▪️ WAF announces Web Bot Auth support ▪️ Well-Architected Lenses AI and ML workloads ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications new instance types and configurable storage options

📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #2 ▪️ Cost Explorer 18-month forecasting and explainable AI-powered forecasts ▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency ▪️ Data Exports FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available ▪️ Device Farm Fully Managed Appium Endpoint ▪️ Directory Service AWS PrivateLink for private VPC connectivity ▪️ DMS Schema Conversion adds SAP (Sybase) ASE to PostgreSQL support with generative AI ▪️ DynamoDB multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes ▪️ EBS Volumes Recycle Bin ▪️ EC2 AMI ancestry for complete AMI lineage visibility ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling      ▫️introduces instance lifecycle policy      ▫️root volume replacement through instance refresh      ▫️synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group ▪️ EC2 Fleet new encryption attribute for instance type selection ▪️ EC2 Image Builder      ▫️auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience      ▫️flexible AMI distribution capabilities      ▫️Lambda and Step functions ▪️ EC2      ▫️Mac instances now support Apple macOS Tahoe      ▫️Microsoft SQL Server 2025      ▫️P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs      ▫️reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments ▪️ ECR      ▫️archive storage class for rarely accessed container images      ▫️dual-stack endpoints now support AWS PrivateLink      ▫️managed container image signing ▪️ ECS and EKS      ▫️enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the Console      ▫️fully managed MCP servers in preview ▪️ ECS Express Mode ▪️ ECS Managed Instances adds configurable scale-in delay ▪️ EKS      ▫️enhanced container network observability      ▫️introduces Provisioned Control Plane ▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router ▪️ EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format ▪️ EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview) ▪️ FSx for Lustre improves directory listing performance by up to 5x ▪️ FSx for Windows File Server File Server Resource Manager ▪️ Glue      ▫️additional SAP entities as zero-ETL integration sources      ▫️DynamoDB connector with Spark DataFrame support      ▫️supports CloudFormation and CDK for zero-ETL integrations ▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available ▪️ HealthImaging adds native JPEG 2000 Lossless support ▪️ IAM      ▫️enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)      ▫️launches aws:SourceVpcArn condition key for region-based access control      ▫️temporary delegation ▪️ IoT Core variable setting and error handling capabilities ▪️ Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers ▪️ Lambda      ▫️adds support for Python 3.14      ▫️Kafka event source mapping integration in Amazon MSK Console      ▫️new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications      ▫️optimize costs up to 90% for Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM ▪️ Lex extends wait & continue feature in 10 new languages ▪️ License Manager license asset groups for centralized software asset management ▪️ Lightsail Nginx blueprint ▪️ Location Service Address Form Solution Builder ▪️ Marketplace estimated tax and invoicing entity information ▪️ MSK Console viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs ▪️ MWAA Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows ▪️ NAT Gateway now supports regional availability ▪️ Network Firewall      ▫️Active threat defense now enabled by default      ▫️flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway      ▫️Managed Rules from AWS Partners available in AWS Marketplace ▪️ Network Load Balancer Weighted Target Groups ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless      ▫️adds AWS PrivateLink for management console      ▫️backup and restore through the AWS Management Console      ▫️now adds audit logs for data plane APIs ▪️ OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility ▪️ Oracle Database@AWS KMS integration with Oracle Transparent Data Encryption ▪️ Organizations      ▫️direct account transfers between organizations      ▫️upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS

📆 Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025 Part #1 ▪️ Amazon Athena cost and performance controls for Capacity Reservations ▪️ Amazon Inspector organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies ▪️ Amazon Linux Supplementary Packages ▪️ Amazon MQ LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ ▪️ Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2 ▪️ API Gateway REST APIs      ▫️response streaming      ▫️private integration with Application Load Balancer ▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS ▪️ Application Load Balancer      ▫️launches Target Optimizer      ▫️now supports Health Check Logs ▪️ AppStream 2.0 now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) ▪️ Athena auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations ▪️ Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks ▪️ Aurora DSQL      ▫️database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume      ▫️integrated query editor in the AWS Management Console      ▫️launches new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that simplify IAM authorization      ▫️statement-level cost estimates in query plans ▪️ AWS CLI and SDK console authentication ▪️ Backup      ▫️Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering      ▫️backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault      ▫️low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Marketplace adds A2A server support ▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import OpenAI GPT OSS models ▪️ Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing ▪️ Bedrock Guardrails      ▫️adds support for coding use cases      ▫️Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation ▪️ Bedrock Priority and Flex inference service tiers ▪️ Billing      ▫️E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals      ▫️Get Invoice PDF API      ▫️India customers can now use UPI to sign-up and automate monthly payments ▪️ Billing Transfer multi-organization billing and cost management ▪️ Braket introduces spending limits feature for quantum processing units ▪️ Braket new quantum processor from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) ▪️ Builder Center Workshops ▪️ Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer ▪️ CloudFormation      ▫️drift-aware change sets      ▫️early validation and simplified troubleshooting      ▫️intelligent authoring in IDEs ▪️ CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering ▪️ CloudFront      ▫️Regional Edge Cache (REC) metadata, raw query string retrieval, and advanced origin overrides      ▫️CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens      ▫️flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security      ▫️now supports TLS 1.3 for origin connections ▪️ CloudTrail      ▫️data event aggregation to simplify security monitoring      ▫️Insights for data events to automatically detect anomalies in data access ▪️ Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments ▪️ CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery ▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements ▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights      ▫️Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS      ▫️Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS ▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights cross-account cross-region monitoring ▪️ CloudWatch      ▫️In-Console Agent Management on EC2      ▫️real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications      ▫️scheduled queries in Logs Insights ▪️ Compute Optimizer automation rules ▪️ Connect      ▫️conversational analytics for voice and chat bots      ▫️enhanced Instance-to-Instance communication      ▫️monitoring of contacts queued for callback      ▫️multi skill agent scheduling      ▫️outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls      ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling ▪️ Control Tower      ▫️+7 new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules      ▫️introduces a controls-dedicated experience ▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection      ▫️accelerates anomaly identification      ▫️expands AWS managed monitoring

📆 Issue #202 | 17 November 2025 ▪️ ALB client credential flow with JWT verification ▪️ Aurora Global Database RDS Blue/Green deployments ▪️ AWS CUR 2.0 EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring ▪️ Backup now supports Amazon EKS ▪️ Braket notebook instances now support CUDA-Q natively ▪️ Builder Center Spaces ▪️ CloudFormation Hooks granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary ▪️ CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics ▪️ CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting ▪️ CloudWatch Logs Network Load Balancer access logs ▪️ Connect Cases conditional field visibility and dependent options ▪️ Connect metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers ▪️ Control Tower automatic enrollment of accounts ▪️ DocumentDB version 8.0 ▪️ EC2 Mac instances DCV supports ▪️ ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments ▪️ EventBridge      ▫️enhanced visual rule builder      ▫️targeting SQS fair queues ▪️ Fault Injection Service (FIS) new test scenarios for partial failures ▪️ Health EventBridge gives more flexibility and higher resilience ▪️ IoT Core location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices ▪️ IoT Services VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity ▪️ IPv6 ▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches ▪️ Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer ▪️ Lambda      ▫️adds support for Java 25      ▫️adds support for Rust      ▫️Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM) ▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka ▪️ Marketplace agreement EventBridge notifications ▪️ MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost ▪️ Network Load Balancer QUIC protocol in passthrough mode ▪️ Parallel Computing Service Slurm CLI Filter plugins ▪️ Private CA post-quantum digital certificates ▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18 ▪️ S3 Express One Zone Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) ▪️ S3 Mountpoint now included in Amazon Linux 2023 ▪️ S3 Tables CloudWatch metrics ▪️ SageMaker Catalog read and write access to Amazon S3 ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio catalog notifications ▪️ Security Incident Response communication preferences ▪️ Site-to-Site VPN 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels ▪️ Transform Landing Zone Accelerator network configuration