Issue #140

Welcome to this week's AWS update! This edition covers important new features and improvements across various AWS services. From enhanced security options to better compute capabilities and more control over network management, these updates are designed to optimize your cloud infrastructure. Dive into the full list of announcements below and see how they can improve your AWS environment.

▪️ AppSync DEBUG and INFO logging levels
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ Transcriptions in 10 new languages
     ▫️ automate agent performance evaluations
▪️ DataZone AI recommendations for descriptions
▪️ DynamoDB Support for Attribute-Based Access Control
▪️ EBS Direct APIs support IPv6 in PrivateLink
▪️ ECS Graviton-based Spot compute with Fargate
▪️ Fault Injection Service Introduces additional safety control
▪️ Gateway Load Balancer configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
▪️ Network Load Balancer configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ For Oracle supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration
     ▫️ Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in preview environment
     ▫️ For MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26
▪️ Redshift Session reuse with Data API
▪️ S3
     ▫️ StorageBrowser Amplify UI React component
     ▫️ Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ Introduces sagemaker-core: a new object-oriented SDK
     ▫️ Use Apache Spark on EMR Serverless
▪️ SES adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager
▪️ Timestream
     ▫️ Enhanced managed features for InfluxDB
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools support bringing Windows 10/11 licenses
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals support request-based SLOs
▪️ Bedrock Stability AI’s Top 3 text-to-image models added
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Supports Apache Flink 1.20