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Week 4 of 2025 (Jan 22 – Jan 28, 2025) · AWS News

AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)

41 new features AWS announced in the week of Jan 22 – Jan 28, 2025

Tuesday, Jan 28

AWS Marketplace expands self-service listing experience for AMI products with CloudFormation templates
Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE)
AWS CodeBuild announces support for project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys
Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)
AWS DataSync adds support for Kerberos authentication
AWS Health now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS Amplify now supports using the TypeScript Data client in server-side AWS Lambda functions
Amazon Redshift announces enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses
Amazon Lex Global Resiliency now supports CloudFormation and existing alias replication

Monday, Jan 27

Announcing support for Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in AWS Deadline Cloud
Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
AWS Elemental MediaConnect introduces content quality metrics
Announcing general availability of AWS Managed Notifications
Amazon EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies

Friday, Jan 24

AWS announces new edge location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Amazon Bedrock now offers multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.6

Thursday, Jan 23

Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk improves scaling and deployment speeds for Windows instance with EC2 Fast-launch
Amazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds default support of EC2 Launch Template when creating new environments
Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support

Wednesday, Jan 22

Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on launches one step onboarding for EKS workloads
AWS Marketplace introduces 8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
Amazon Connect now provides daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads
CloudWatch provides execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL
Amazon EC2 introduces provisioning control for On-Demand Capacity Reservations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App

AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones

Amazon Q Business now supports insights from images uploaded in chat

Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in 2 additional AWS regions

Amazon ElastiCache now supports 1-click connectivity setup between EC2 and your cache

Luma AI's Ray2 visual AI model now available in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Resource Groups now supports 172 more resource types

AWS Marketplace launches automated version archiving for AMI and container products

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports null and NaN data types

Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Redshift announces support for History Mode for zero-ETL integrations

AWS Client VPN announces support for concurrent VPN connections