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196 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 18 – Nov 24, 2024
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Friday, Nov 22
AWS Application Load Balancer introduces Certificate Authority advertisement to simplify client behavior while using Mutual TLS
AWS Application Discovery Service now supports data from commercially available discovery tools
Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now supports Distributed Checkpoint
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports writing security data to Amazon Security Lake
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Amazon QuickSight launches Highcharts visual (preview)
Amazon QuickSight now supports import visual capability (preview)
Amazon QuickSight launches Layer Map
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs)
AWS Application Discovery Service adds integration with AWS Application Migration Service
Amazon Q Business now available as browser extension
Application Signals provides OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces
Amazon Q Developer Chat Customizations is now generally available
Announcing AWS STS support for ECDSA-based signatures of OIDC tokens
Smartsheet connector for Amazon Q Business is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
AWS Systems Manager now support Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10
SES Mail Manager adds delivery of email to Amazon Q Business applications
Announcing Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs) for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics
Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered post contact summarization is now available in 5 new regions
Announcing features to favorite applications and quickly access your recently used applications
Announcing the Quantum Embark advisory program for customers new to quantum computing
Amazon Bedrock Flows is now generally available with two new capabilities
Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
Announcing generative AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (Preview)
Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
AWS Step Functions simplifies developer experience with Variables and JSONata transformations
AWS AppSync now supports cross account sharing of GraphQL APIs
Announcing generative AI upgrades for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (preview)
Amazon Connect Email is now generally available
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports AWS Lambda for custom data transformation
Amazon Q Business now supports integrations to Asana in (Preview)
Amazon Q Business now supports an integration to Google Calendar in (Preview)
Amazon EC2 introduces provisioning control to launch instances on On-Demand Capacity
Amazon Connect now provides granular disconnect reasons for chats
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports binary vector embeddings to build RAG applications
Amazon QuickSight now supports font customization for visuals
Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito
Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 Increases Maximum Result Set and Export size to 100MB
Announcing general availability of AWS Chatbot SDK
Amazon Q Business introduces ability to reuse recently uploaded files in a conversation
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink releases a new Amazon Kinesis Data Streams connector
Cross-zone enabled Application Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
AWS Announces Amazon Q account resources chat in the AWS Console Mobile App
AWS Shield Advanced is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon QuickSight launches Image component
Announcing Cross Account Data Store Read Access for AWS HealthOmics
Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift support Application Load Balancers
Amazon Redshift announces support for Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka
AWS Resilience Hub introduces a summary view
AWS Billing and Cost Management announces Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
AWS Application Discovery Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
Neptune Analytics Adds Support for Seamless Graph Data Import and Export
Announcing static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store on AWS Outposts
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments support minor version upgrade for RDS for PostgreSQL
AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 22
Announcing the new AWS User Notifications SDK
Amazon Q Business now supports answers from tables embedded in documents
AWS Lake Formation now supports named LF-Tag expressions
Thursday, Nov 21
Amazon EC2 added New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection
Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in three additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in additional regions
AWS Application Load Balancer introduces header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
Wednesday, Nov 20
Amazon Connect now supports nine additional languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling
OpenSearch’s vector engine adds support for UltraWarm on Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast Static IPs
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transaction sets
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Aurora
Tuesday, Nov 19
CloudWatch RUM now supports percentile aggregations and simplified troubleshooting with web vitals metrics
Disk-optimized vector engine now available on the Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports adding Regions to existing Keyspaces
AWS Glue expands connectivity to 19 native connectors for Enterprise applications
AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs now support data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
Monday, Nov 18
Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are now available in additional AWS region
AWS IoT SiteWise announces new generative AI-powered industrial assistant
Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.08 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.39) is generally available
Amazon DynamoDB announces general availability of attribute-based access control
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Playwright runtime to create canaries with NodeJS
Announcing new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Lifecycle expirations
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex and M7i-flex instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Announcing enhanced purchase order support for AWS Marketplace
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now supports a high performance shared cache
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations
AWS announces Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming
Amazon EC2 now provides lineage information for your AMIs
AWS DMS now delivers improved performance for data validation
AWS Marketplace announces improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers
Amazon CloudWatch Logs launches the ability to transform and enrich logs
Amazon EC2 C6a and R6a instances now available in additional AWS region
AWS Partner Network automates Foundational Technical Reviews using Amazon Bedrock
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports pgvector 0.8.0
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Custom Plugins
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports Apache Iceberg automatic table optimization through Amazon VPC
Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency
AWS Lambda supports application performance monitoring (APM) via CloudWatch Application Signals
Introducing an AWS Management Console Visual Update (Preview)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Ruby 3.3
Amazon SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 adds new restore parameter
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor adds AWS Local Zones support for VPC subnets
Amazon MWAA adds smaller environment size
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Node.js 22
Introducing Prompt Optimization in Preview in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Amazon Polly launches more synthetic generative voices
AWS CloudTrail Lake launches enhanced analytics and cross-account data access
AWS HealthOmics workflows now support call caching and intermediate file access
The new AWS Systems Manager experience: Simplifying node management
Enhanced account linking experience across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now automatically deletes Lambda resources associated with canaries
Amazon API Gateway now supports Custom Domain Name for private REST APIs
Announcing Commands feature for AWS IoT Device Management
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments Green storage fully performant prior to switchover
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
Amazon CloudFront announces origin modifications using CloudFront Functions
Amazon CloudWatch launches full visibility into application transactions
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL 8.4 LTS release
AWS AppSync launches AI gateway capabilities with new Amazon Bedrock integration in AppSync GraphQL
AWS CloudFormation Hooks now allows AWS Cloud Control API resource configurations evaluation
Accelerate AWS CloudFormation troubleshooting with Amazon Q Developer assistance
AWS announces support for predictive scaling for Amazon ECS services
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces field indexes and enhanced log group selection in Logs Insights
Announcing auto migration of EC2 databases to Amazon RDS using AWS Database Migration Service
Bottlerocket announces new AMIs that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
AWS re:Post Private is now integrated with Amazon Bedrock to offer contextual knowledge to organizations
Amazon CloudFront now supports additional log formats and destinations for access logs
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle resource recommendation
Amazon QuickSight supports fine grained permissions for capabilities with APIs for IAM Identity Center users
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand mode supports streams writing up to 10GB/s
Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift now support Amazon EKS in the GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Control Tower improves Hooks management for proactive controls and extends proactive controls support in additional regions
Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports inline data redaction
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments support storage volume shrink
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals launches support for Runtime Metrics
AWS Lambda supports Amazon S3 as a failed-event destination for asynchronous and stream event sources
Amazon CloudFront announces VPC origins
Amazon CloudFront now supports gRPC delivery
Amazon ECS announces AZ rebalancing that speeds up mean time to recovery after an infrastructure event
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for Rocky Linux
Announcing customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Includes SQL API Support
Author AWS CloudFormation Hooks using the CloudFormation Guard domain specific language
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.0 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Windows Bundled Logs
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The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in US West (N. California)
New visualizations available in AWS Partner Central Analytics and Insights Dashboards
Announcing Amazon EMR 7.4 Release
Amazon EKS managed node groups now support AWS Local Zones
Announcing AWS CloudFormation support for Recycle Bin rules
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 supports scaling to zero capacity
Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches custom dashboards
Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Application and Network Load Balancers
AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
AWS CloudFormation Hooks introduces stack and change set target invocation points
AWS Advanced NodeJS Driver is Generally Available
AWS CloudFormation Hooks now support custom AWS Lambda functions
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports point in time (PIT) search
Introducing Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings model in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon ECS now allows you to configure software version consistency
Amazon OpenSearch Service now scales to 1000 data nodes on a single cluster
AWS announces Block Public Access for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon EKS enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring
AWS support case management is now available in AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams and Slack
AWS Amplify launches the full-stack AI kit for Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Binary Vector and FP16 cost savings features
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes for AWS Private CA now generally available
Announcing business planning feature in AWS Partner Central
Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in additional AWS regions
Easily troubleshoot NodeJS applications with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
AWS Batch now supports multiple EC2 Launch Templates per Compute Environment
Amazon Redshift to enhance security by changing default behavior
Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift extend support for EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Command Line Interface adds PKCE-based authorization for single sign-on
Amazon Connect offers new personalized and proactive engagement capabilities
AWS App Studio is now generally available
AWS End User Messaging announces integration with Amazon EventBridge
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics support in AWS End User Messaging
AWS End User Messaging launches message feedback tracking
AWS End User Messaging announces cost allocation tags for SMS
Amazon VPC Lattice now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports R7i instances
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Python and .NET functions
AWS End User Messaging introduces phone number block/allow rules
Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console now uses the service you’re viewing as context for your chat
AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Self-service capacity management for AWS Outposts
EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for update and AWS console