Issue #142

Welcome to this week’s AWS Newsletter, where we dive into the latest updates across cloud services. In Issue #142, we bring you enhanced features like Amplify's new support for asynchronous long-running tasks and CodeBuild's managed GitLab runners. Elastic Disaster Recovery now enables recovery to Local Zones, offering more flexibility, while Private CA simplifies mobile device security with SCEP support. Additionally, SES introduces automated complaint rate recommendations to help fine-tune your email campaigns.

▪️ Amplify long-running tasks with asynchronous server-side function calls
▪️ Chatbot interact with Bedrock agents from Microsoft Teams and Slack
▪️ CloudFormation Git sync now supports PR workflows
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics canary tag replication
▪️ CodeBuild managed GitLab runners
▪️ Corretto Version 23 | GA
▪️ Cost Management DynamoDB reserved capacity purchase recommendations
▪️ Database Migration Service enhanced monitoring
▪️ Deadline Cloud additional sort fields for steps, tasks, and workers
▪️ Directory Service user and group management via APIs and Console
▪️ EC2 Introduces X8g instances
▪️ Elemental MediaConvert On-demand volume discount pricing
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery recovery to Local Zones
▪️ Keyspaces add-column for multi-Region tables
▪️ Mainframe Modernization binary transfer and better performance
▪️ Neuron Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI), NxD Training, and JAX
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ i4g & i4i instances
     ▫️ OR1 instances for existing domains
▪️ Private CA SCEP for mobile devices
▪️ Q GA of generative SQL for Redshift
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ SQL Server Minor Versions in September 2024
     ▫️ Performance Insights for Aurora cluster-level config
▪️ Redshift enhanced VPC routing warehouses in zero-ETL integration
▪️ SDK for Swift general availability
▪️ SES automated complaint rate recommendations
▪️ S3 Express One Zone KMS with customer managed keys
▪️ Transfer Family Increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors