Issue #143

Welcome to this week’s edition of the AWS Weekly newsletter!

This week brings exciting updates across various services, including enhanced CloudTrail monitoring with network activity events for VPC endpoints, expanded EC2 connectivity with IPv6 support, and the release of new C8g and M8g instance families optimized for specialized workloads.

Additionally, EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.31, providing access to the latest features and security updates. Amazon MSK introduces multi-VPC private connectivity, and RDS brings early access to PostgreSQL 17.0, alongside improved access to Performance Insights.

Read on for deeper insights into how these updates can enhance your cloud architecture and operations!

▪️ Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports AL 2023
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 generative AI models | GA
▪️ CloudTrail Network activity events for VPC endpoints (preview)
▪️ CodePipeline pipeline variable check rule for stage level condition
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Instance Connect supports IPv6
     ▫️ C8g and M8g Instances
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Introduces bandwidth reduction filter
▪️ ElastiCache AWS Resilience Hub extends support
▪️ EKS Kubernetes version 1.31
▪️ FSx for Lustre performance metrics and enhanced monitoring dashboard
▪️ Grafana Managed Grafana now supports silences for alerts
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control
▪️ Lambda tagging of Event Source Mappings and Code Signing Config
▪️ MSK Multi-VPC private connectivity with any auth
▪️ MWAA Apache Airflow version 2.10
▪️ Outposts Announcing availability in Kuwait
▪️ Redshift Data sharing governed through Lake Formation GA + 11 regions
▪️ RDS
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 17.0 now available in Database preview environment
     ▫️ Oracle now supports Management Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2
     ▫️ Performance Insights now supports queries run through Data API
▪️ S3 To apply a default minimum object size for Lifecycle transition rules
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ SageMaker Studio supports automatic shutdown of idle applications
     ▫️ Customize model deployment software and driver versions
     ▫️ MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 generative AI models | GA in SageMaker JumpStart
     ▫️ Region Expansion of P4d instances on Studio notebooks
▪️ Serverless Application Repository supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ SNS
     ▫️ Delivers SMS text messages via AWS End User Messaging
     ▫️ Share SMS resources across multiple AWS accounts
▪️ WorkSpaces
     ▫️ Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Pools bundles with WSP for Windows
     ▫️ Secure Browser supports FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography
     ▫️ Secure Browser announces new session management dashboard