Issue #154

Welcome to Issue #154 of the AWS Weekly Update!

This week features improvements across AWS services, with highlights including cross-account management in Backup, a major cost reduction for Bedrock Guardrails, Service Level Attributes in Cloud Map, enhanced bandwidth configurations in EC2, and deterministic Easy DKIM for SES.

Explore the latest innovations and updates below.

▪️  AppStream 2.0 save user preferences between streaming sessions
▪️  Backup cross-account management in opt-in Regions
▪️  Bedrock Guardrails
      ▫️ reduces pricing by up to 85%
      ▫️ Spanish and French languages
▪️  Cloud Map Service Level Attributes
▪️  Connect
      ▫️ holiday overrides for Hours of operation
      ▫️ push notifications for mobile chat
▪️  Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan
▪️  DynamoDB FIPS 140-3 interface VPC and Streams endpoints
▪️  EC2
      ▫️ bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
      ▫️ High Memory U7i Instances with 6TiB and 8TiB of memory
▪️  Elemental MediaConnect Gateway source-specific multicast
▪️  IoT Core for LoRaWAN new feature enhancements
▪️  IVS Thumbnails Recording for Real-Time Streaming
▪️  Lex new multilingual speech recognition models
▪️  MQ now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️  OpenSearch Service r7gd instances +6 regions
▪️  RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20241121
▪️  RDS for SQL Server new custom parameters for native backup and restore
▪️  Redshift auto and incremental refresh of Materialized Views for zero-ETL integrations
▪️  Research and Engineering Studio v2024.12
▪️  Resource Explorer +59 new resource types
▪️  Resource Groups +405 more resource types
▪️  SageMaker AI availability of P5e and G6e instances for Inference
▪️  Security Hub PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard
▪️  SES
      ▫️ Deterministic Easy DKIM
      ▫️ Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience
▪️  Toolkit for VS Code CloudWatch Logs Live Tail