Issue #170

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In Issue #170, AWS API Gateway brings dual-stack (IPv4 + IPv6) support, and CloudFront Functions now let you modify VPC origins. EKS rolls out fresh community add-ons, QuickSight levels up with scheduling, alerts, versioning, and embedded Q, and SES finally supports attachments in its sending APIs. Step Functions gets a huge boost with 137 new API integrations, and the VPC Route Server is now GA. Let’s dive in!

▪️ API Gateway support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
▪️ App Studio prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export
▪️ Backup support for Redshift Serverless
▪️ Billing & Cost Management MFA is required for new card registration in Japan
▪️ CDK
     ▫️ CDK L2 Construct for Cognito Identity Pools | GA
     ▫️ Construct Library for EventBridge Scheduler | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms Spark SQL aggregation and list analysis rules
▪️ CloudFront VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals Monitor service dependencies with SLOs
▪️ CloudWatch Logs maximum log event size to 1 MB
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ additional Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) configuration
     ▫️ agent’s adherence work schedules in a calendar view
     ▫️ supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️ conversational analytics in 34 new languages
     ▫️ enable or disable sentiment analysis
▪️ EKS
     ▫️ Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups
     ▫️ new catalog of community add-ons
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk get secrets and configs from Secrets/Systems Manager
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Anywhere SMPTE 2110 inputs
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor new pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
▪️ End User Messaging phone number registration +18 new countries
▪️ IAM Identity Center sessions and TIP management for MS AD
▪️ IoT Device SDK for Swift | Developer Preview
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ Japan Marketplace Facilitator Rule
     ▫️ VAT and supports Korean Won
▪️ Neptune 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines enhanced autoscaling
▪️ OpenSearch Service Q Developer | GA
▪️ Outposts Asset level capacity management
▪️ Payment Cryptography exchanging cryptographic keys using ECDH
▪️ Q Business Browser Extension
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ dashboard versioning and publish any analysis to any dashboard
     ▫️ now supports Highlighting
     ▫️ embedded Q
     ▫️ scheduling and alerts in embedded dashboards
▪️ RAM IPv6 support
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️ configurable cipher suites
     ▫️ Extended Support for 11.22-rds.20250220, 12.22-rds.20250220
▪️ RDS Proxy TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
▪️ Resource Explorer +32 resource types
▪️ SageMaker +9 visual ETL transforms
▪️ Security Lake
     ▫️ achieves FedRamp High and Moderate authorization
     ▫️ IPv6 support
▪️ SES attachments in sending APIs
▪️ SES Mail Manager incoming connections from VPCs via PrivateLink
▪️ SNS IPv6 support
▪️ Step Functions SDK integrations with Backup Search , +137 additional APIs
▪️ VPC Route Server | GA