Issue #148

Welcome to this week's edition of the AWS announcements newsletter!

This week, AWS AppSync introduces new serverless WebSocket APIs for building real-time applications at any scale. Amazon Aurora now supports rolling OS upgrades for minimal downtime during maintenance. Amazon Bedrock enhances cost management with cost allocation tags on inference profiles. EC2 Auto Scaling gives you more control with final validation time for instance refreshes. Amazon OpenSearch Service improves performance with dedicated coordinator nodes, and Amazon Route 53 expands its DNS capabilities with new record types. Read on to explore these highlights and other exciting updates to optimize your AWS environment.

▪️ Amplify Integration with S3 for static website hosting
▪️ AppSync new serverless WebSocket APIs
▪️ Aurora rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL R7i database instances
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database generally available
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Fine-tuning for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku | GA
     ▫️ Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and 70B models available for fine-tuning
     ▫️ cost allocation tags on inference profiles
▪️ Billing India customers can set up automated recurring payments
▪️ Blu Age Runtime non managed +11 regions
▪️ Clean Rooms Spark SQL support with configurable compute size
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️ Monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance
     ▫️ New metrics for monitoring I/O latency of EBS volumes
▪️ CodeBuild retrying builds automatically
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ published forecast data in analytics data lake
     ▫️ callbacks when using Chats and Tasks
▪️ DataSync Increases performance and scalability for data transfers
▪️ DataZone Expands data access with tools like Tableau, Power BI, and more
▪️ Deadline Cloud budget-related events
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ Mac Instances macOS Sequoia
     ▫️ M8g Instances Available in Dallas Local Zone
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling final validation time for instance refresh
▪️ Edge Locations New edge location in Qatar
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
▪️ EMR enhanced protection for in-transit data in version 7.3
▪️ Glue Studio Data preparation experience available in additional regions
▪️ Incident Detection and Response +16 regions
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) User-Defined Types
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️ Supports Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions
     ▫️ Enhances application building with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
▪️ Marketplace New look for product detail pages
▪️ MemoryDB for Valkey new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
▪️ Network Firewall configurable TCP idle timeout
▪️ OpenSearch Service dedicated coordinator nodes
▪️ Partner Central dedicated Slack channels for collaboration on co-selling opportunities
▪️ Payment Cryptography card issuing use cases
▪️ Q Developer inline chat to streamline developer experience
▪️ RDS M7i and R7i database instances
▪️ RDS Performance Insights Data API for Aurora MySQL
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️ serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimization
     ▫️ incremental refresh on Materialized Views for data lake tables
     ▫️ Bedrock for generative AI
     ▫️ Auto-copy | GA
▪️ Redshift Data API CSV result format
▪️ Route 53 HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support
▪️ S3 Service Quotas support in GovCloud Regions
▪️ SageMaker Notebook Instances JupyterLab 4 notebooks
▪️ SES Mail Manager enhancements to improve interoperability, security, and compliance
▪️ Supply Chain embedded Analytics powered by QuickSight
▪️ Trust & Safety Center Available on rePost
▪️ VPC
     ▫️ DNS Query Logging available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
     ▫️ new security group sharing features
▪️ WAF Available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
▪️ WorkMail Supports multi-factor authentication
▪️ WorkSpaces WSP Enables desktop traffic over TCP/UDP port 443