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Issue #203

Issue #203

▪️ Amazon Athena cost and performance controls for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Amazon Inspector organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies
▪️ Amazon Linux Supplementary Packages
▪️ Amazon MQ LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ
▪️ Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2
▪️ API Gateway REST APIs
     ▫️response streaming
     ▫️private integration with Application Load Balancer
▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS
▪️ Application Load Balancer
     ▫️launches Target Optimizer
     ▫️now supports Health Check Logs
▪️ AppStream 2.0 now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Athena auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations
▪️ Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks
▪️ Aurora DSQL
     ▫️database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
     ▫️integrated query editor in the AWS Management Console
     ▫️launches new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that simplify IAM authorization
     ▫️statement-level cost estimates in query plans
▪️ AWS CLI and SDK console authentication
▪️ Backup
     ▫️Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering
     ▫️backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault
     ▫️low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Marketplace adds A2A server support
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import OpenAI GPT OSS models
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails
     ▫️adds support for coding use cases
     ▫️Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation
▪️ Bedrock Priority and Flex inference service tiers
▪️ Billing
     ▫️E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals
     ▫️Get Invoice PDF API
     ▫️India customers can now use UPI to sign-up and automate monthly payments
▪️ Billing Transfer multi-organization billing and cost management
▪️ Braket introduces spending limits feature for quantum processing units
▪️ Braket new quantum processor from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)
▪️ Builder Center Workshops
▪️ Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer
▪️ CloudFormation
     ▫️drift-aware change sets
     ▫️early validation and simplified troubleshooting
     ▫️intelligent authoring in IDEs
▪️ CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️Regional Edge Cache (REC) metadata, raw query string retrieval, and advanced origin overrides
     ▫️CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens
     ▫️flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
     ▫️now supports TLS 1.3 for origin connections
▪️ CloudTrail
     ▫️data event aggregation to simplify security monitoring
     ▫️Insights for data events to automatically detect anomalies in data access
▪️ Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments
▪️ CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements
▪️ CloudWatch Container Insights
     ▫️Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS
     ▫️Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights cross-account cross-region monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️In-Console Agent Management on EC2
     ▫️real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications
     ▫️scheduled queries in Logs Insights
▪️ Compute Optimizer automation rules
▪️ Connect
     ▫️conversational analytics for voice and chat bots
     ▫️enhanced Instance-to-Instance communication
     ▫️monitoring of contacts queued for callback
     ▫️multi skill agent scheduling
     ▫️outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling
▪️ Control Tower
     ▫️+7 new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules
     ▫️introduces a controls-dedicated experience
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection
     ▫️accelerates anomaly identification
     ▫️expands AWS managed monitoring
▪️ Cost Explorer 18-month forecasting and explainable AI-powered forecasts
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
▪️ Data Exports FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available
▪️ Device Farm Fully Managed Appium Endpoint
▪️ Directory Service AWS PrivateLink for private VPC connectivity
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion adds SAP (Sybase) ASE to PostgreSQL support with generative AI
▪️ DynamoDB multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
▪️ EBS Volumes Recycle Bin
▪️ EC2 AMI ancestry for complete AMI lineage visibility
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling
     ▫️introduces instance lifecycle policy
     ▫️root volume replacement through instance refresh
     ▫️synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
▪️ EC2 Fleet new encryption attribute for instance type selection
▪️ EC2 Image Builder
     ▫️auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience
     ▫️flexible AMI distribution capabilities
     ▫️Lambda and Step functions
▪️ EC2
     ▫️Mac instances now support Apple macOS Tahoe
     ▫️Microsoft SQL Server 2025
     ▫️P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs
     ▫️reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
▪️ ECR
     ▫️archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
     ▫️dual-stack endpoints now support AWS PrivateLink
     ▫️managed container image signing
     ▫️PrivateLink for FIPS Endpoints
▪️ ECS and EKS
     ▫️enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the Console
     ▫️fully managed MCP servers in preview
▪️ ECS Express Mode
▪️ ECS Managed Instances adds configurable scale-in delay
▪️ EKS
     ▫️enhanced container network observability
     ▫️introduces Provisioned Control Plane
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router
▪️ EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format
▪️ EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview)
▪️ FSx for Lustre improves directory listing performance by up to 5x
▪️ FSx for Windows File Server File Server Resource Manager
▪️ Glue
     ▫️additional SAP entities as zero-ETL integration sources
     ▫️DynamoDB connector with Spark DataFrame support
     ▫️supports CloudFormation and CDK for zero-ETL integrations
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available
▪️ HealthImaging adds native JPEG 2000 Lossless support
▪️ IAM
     ▫️enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
     ▫️launches aws:SourceVpcArn condition key for region-based access control
     ▫️temporary delegation
▪️ IoT Core variable setting and error handling capabilities
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
▪️ Lambda
     ▫️adds support for Python 3.14
     ▫️Kafka event source mapping integration in Amazon MSK Console
     ▫️new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
     ▫️optimize costs up to 90% for Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM
▪️ Lex extends wait & continue feature in 10 new languages
▪️ License Manager license asset groups for centralized software asset management
▪️ Lightsail Nginx blueprint
▪️ Location Service Address Form Solution Builder
▪️ Marketplace estimated tax and invoicing entity information
▪️ MSK Console viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs
▪️ MWAA Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows
▪️ NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
▪️ Network Firewall
     ▫️Active threat defense now enabled by default
     ▫️flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway
     ▫️Managed Rules from AWS Partners available in AWS Marketplace
▪️ Network Load Balancer Weighted Target Groups
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless
     ▫️adds AWS PrivateLink for management console
     ▫️backup and restore through the AWS Management Console
     ▫️now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
▪️ OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS KMS integration with Oracle Transparent Data Encryption
▪️ Organizations
     ▫️direct account transfers between organizations
     ▫️upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
▪️ Parallel Computing Service
     ▫️is now HIPAA eligible
     ▫️now supports Slurm REST API
▪️ Payments Cryptography post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit
▪️ Polly additional languages and region support
▪️ PrivateLink cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
▪️ Q Developer enhanced cost management capabilities
▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization now includes tables and pivot tables
▪️ Quick Sight expands Dashboard Theme Customization
▪️ RDS for Oracle October 2025 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle
▪️ RDS for SQL Server now supports Resource Governor
▪️ RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Web Edition
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation
     ▫️writing to Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ Route 53 AWS PrivateLink support
▪️ Route 53 DNS Firewall protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
▪️ Route 53 DNS support for IPv6 API service endpoint
▪️ Route 53 Profiles Resolver query logging configurations
▪️ S3
     ▫️attribute-based access control
     ▫️new bucket-level setting to standardize encryption types used in your buckets
     ▫️post-quantum TLS key exchange on S3 endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Catalog
     ▫️column-level metadata forms and rich descriptions
     ▫️enforces metadata rules for glossary terms for asset publishing
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent analytics and AI/ML development
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod running IDEs and Notebooks to accelerate AI development
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️notebooks with a built-in AI agent
     ▫️one-click onboarding of existing datasets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio
     ▫️adds EMR on EKS support with SSO capabilities
     ▫️long-running sessions with corporate identities
▪️ Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing | GA
▪️ Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
▪️ Security Incident Response agentic AI-powered investigation
▪️ Security Incident Response now offers metered pricing with free tier
▪️ Security Token Service Now Supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN
     ▫️announces VPN Concentrator
     ▫️BGP logging for VPN tunnels
     ▫️simplify remote connectivity
▪️ Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
▪️ Tag Policies Validate and enforce required tags in CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️Terraform module to automate scanning of transferred files
     ▫️Terraform module to integrate with a custom identity provider
     ▫️web apps now support VPC endpoints
▪️ Transform Automates Landing Zone Acceleration Network Configuration
▪️ Transit Gateway Flexible Cost Allocation
▪️ VPC Encryption Controls and further raises the bar on data encryption
▪️ VPC IPAM
     ▫️automates IP assignments from Infoblox IPAM
     ▫️policies to enforce IP allocation strategy
▪️ WAF announces Web Bot Auth support
▪️ Well-Architected Lenses AI and ML workloads
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications new instance types and configurable storage options