Issue #151 ☁️
With AWS re:Invent 2024 just around the corner, running from December 2–6 in Las Vegas, this week has been nothing short of monumental. AWS has shipped over 180 announcements, making it the most release-packed week of the year!
▪️ Amplify full-stack AI kit for Amazon Bedrock
▪️ API Gateway Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs
▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Capacity Unit Reservation
▪️ Application Discovery Service
▫️data from commercially available discovery tools
▫️integration with Application Migration Service
▫️now supports AWS PrivateLink
▫️Certificate Authority advertisement
▫️cross-zone enabled zonal shift and zonal autoshift
▫️header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
▫️Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift
▪️ Application Signals OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces
▪️ App Studio is now generally available
▪️ AppSync Bedrock integration in AppSync GraphQL
▪️ AppSync cross account sharing of GraphQL APIs
▪️ Aurora MySQL supports R7i instances
▪️ Aurora Serverless v2 scaling to zero capacity
▪️ B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets
▪️ Backup S3 adds new restore parameter
▪️ Batch multiple EC2 Launch Templates per Compute Environment
▪️ Bedrock
▫️Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings
▫️Flows | GA
▫️Prompt Optimization | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases binary vector embeddings to build RAG app
▪️ Billing and Cost Management Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
▪️ Chatbot
▫️chat with via Microsoft Teams and Slack
▫️SDK | GA
▫️support case management via Microsoft Teams and Slack
▪️ CLI PKCE-based authorization for single sign-on
▪️ CloudFormation
▫️Guard domain specific language
▫️Recycle Bin rules
▪️ CloudFormation Hooks
▫️Cloud Control API resource configurations evaluation
▫️custom AWS Lambda functions
▫️stack and change set target invocation points
▪️ CloudFront
▫️additional log formats and destinations for access logs
▫️VPC origins
▫️Anycast Static IPs
▫️Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming
▫️now supports gRPC delivery
▫️origin modifications using CloudFront Functions
▪️ CloudTrail AppSync GraphQL APIs data plane logging
▪️ CloudTrail Lake enhanced analytics and cross-account data access
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals
▫️Runtime Metrics
▫️troubleshoot NodeJS applications
▪️ CloudWatch full visibility into application transactions
▪️ CloudWatch Internet Monitor adds Local Zones support for VPC subnets
▪️ CloudWatch Log Insights field indexes and enhanced log group selection
▪️ CloudWatch Logs transform and enrich logs
▪️ CloudWatch Metrics
▫️End User Messaging support
▫️for Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)
▪️ CloudWatch RUM percentile aggregations
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics
▫️automatically deletes Lambda resources associated with canaries
▫️Playwright runtime to create canaries with NodeJS
▪️ Cognito
▫️Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
▫️new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus
▫️passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
▪️ Compute Optimizer
▫️rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora
▫️ idle resource recommendation
▪️ Connect Contact Lens custom dashboards
▪️ Connect
▫️+9 languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling
▫️Email | GA
▫️granular disconnect reasons for chats
▫️new personalized and proactive engagement capabilities
▪️ Controllers for Kubernetes for Private CA | GA
▪️ Control Tower Hooks management for proactive controls
▪️ Database Migration ServiceAuto migration of EC2 databases to RDS
▪️ DMS improved performance for data validation
▪️ DynamoDB attribute-based access control | GA
▪️ EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs customized delete protection for Amazon
▪️ EC2
▫️C7i-flex and M7i-flex | (Malaysia) Region
▫️lineage information for your AMIs
▫️New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection
▫️provisioning control to launch instances on On-Demand Capacity
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling highly responsive scaling policies
▪️ ECS
▫️configure software version consistency
▫️predictive scaling
▫️speeds up MTTR after an infrastructure event with AZ rebalancing
▪️ EFS cross-account Replication
▪️ EKS
▫️enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring
▫️managed node groups now support AWS Local Zones
▫️simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons
▪️ ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
▫️support for Node.js 22
▫️support for Ruby 3.3
▫️support for Windows Bundled Logs
▪️ EMR 7.4 Release
▪️ End User Messaging
▫️cost allocation tags for SMS
▫️integration with EventBridge
▫️message feedback tracking
▫️phone number block/allow rules
▪️ Glue Data Catalog Apache Iceberg automatic table optimization through Amazon VPC
▪️ Glue
▫️gen-AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark | Preview
▫️gen-AI upgrades for Apache Spark | Preview
▫️up to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications
▪️ HealthOmics
▫️call caching and intermediate file access
▫️Cross Account Data Store Read Access
▪️ IoT Device Management Commands feature
▪️ IoT SiteWise new generative AI-powered industrial assistant
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adding Regions to existing Keyspaces
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand streams writing up to 10GB/s
▪️ Lake Formation named LF-Tag expressions
▪️ Lambda
▫️Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs)
▫️S3 as a failed-event destination for asynchronous and stream event sources
▫️SnapStart for Python and .NET functions
▫️support for Node.js 22
▫️supports Application Signals (APM)
▪️ Managed Flink new Kinesis Data Streams connector
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for update
▪️ Management Console
▫️favorite & recently used applications
▫️Visual Update | Preview
▪️ Marketplace
▫️enhanced purchase order support
▫️improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers
▪️ MQ is now available| (Malaysia) region
▪️ MWAA smaller environment size
▪️ Neptune Analytics Seamless Graph Data Import and Export
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion
▫️Lambda for custom data transformation
▫️writing security data to Security Lake
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
▫️Binary Vector search and FP16 cost savings features
▫️Includes SQL API Support
▫️supports point in time (PIT) search
▪️ OpenSearch Service
▫️Custom Plugins
▫️Disk-optimized vector engine
▫️now scales to 1000 data nodes on a single cluster
▫️UltraWarm vector engine
▪️ Open Source RDS PG & MyQSL Drivers Advanced NodeJS Driver | GA
▪️ Outposts
▫️Self-service capacity management
▫️static stability by EC2 instance store
▪️ Partner Central
▫️business planning feature
▫️enhanced account linking experience with Marketplace
▫️Gain new insights into your sales pipeline
▪️ Partner Network automates Foundational Technical Reviews with Bedrock
▪️ Polly more synthetic generative voices
▪️ Q Business
▫️answers from tables embedded in documents
▫️browser extension
▫️integrations to Asana | Preview
▫️integration to Google Calendar | Preview
▫️reuse recently uploaded files in a conversation
▫️SES Mail Manager email delivery
▫️Smartsheet connector | GA
▪️ Q Developer
▫️Chat Customizations | GA
▫️CloudFormation troubleshooting
▫️Console Service as a context for the chat
▪️ Q
▫️account resources chat in the AWS Console Mobile App
▫️generative SQL in Redshift Query Editor
▪️ Quantum Embark advisory program for customers new to quantum computing
▪️ QuickSight
▫️fine grained permissions for IAM Identity Center users
▫️font customization for visuals
▫️import visual capability | Preview
▫️launches Highcharts visual | Preview
▫️launches Image component
▫️launches Layer Map
▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments
▫️Green storage fully performant prior to switchover
▫️minor version upgrade for RDS for PostgreSQL
▫️storage volume shrink
▪️ RDS Database Preview Aurora for PostgreSQL 17
▪️ RDS for MySQL MySQL 8.4 LTS release
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL
▫️17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
▫️pgvector 0.8.0
▪️ Redshift
▫️Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka
▫️enhance security by changing default behavior
▫️Query Editor V2 Increases Maximum Result Set and Export size to 100MB
▪️ re:Post Private contextual knowledge via Bedrock
▪️ Resilience Hub summary view
▪️ Resource Explorer Find security, compliance, and operating metrics
▪️ S3 ConnectorPyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint
▪️ S3 Express One Zone
▫️ability to append data to an object
▫️S3 Lifecycle expirations
▪️ S3 Mountpoint high performance shared cache
▪️ Shield Advanced is now available | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
▪️ Step Functions simplifies DX with Variables and JSONata transformations
▪️ STS ECDSA-based signatures of OIDC tokens
▪️ Systems Manager
▫️Simplifying node management
▫️Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10
▪️ Timestream for LiveAnalytics Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs)
▪️ User Notifications new SDK
▪️ VPC
▫️Block Public Access
▫️enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations
▫️IP Address Manager | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ VPC Lattice now supports ECS
▪️ Wickr | (Malaysia) Region
▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser inline data redaction
▪️ WorkSpaces support for Rocky Linux