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Week 18 of 2025 (Apr 30 – May 6, 2025) · AWS News
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71 new features AWS announced in the week of Apr 30 – May 6, 2025
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Tuesday, May 6
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon SageMaker adds support for three new data sources
Amazon EC2 R7g instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon SageMaker Catalog introduces authorization policy for asset type usage
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring adds multi-account support for flow monitors
Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Lenexa, Kansas
Amazon EC2 P5en instances are now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle APEX Version 24.2
Amazon EBS announces Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
Amazon Verified Permissions now supports policy store tagging
Amazon SageMaker offers additional visual ETL transforms and S3 Tables support
Amazon EC2 Flex larger instance sizes are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Monday, May 5
Amazon Connect Contact Lens real-time dashboards are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon Connect for WhatsApp Business messaging and SMS now available in new AWS Regions
Amazon SES now supports IPv6 when calling SES outbound endpoints
Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS PrivateLink in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region
AWS WAF is expanding the availability of its enhanced rate-based rules feature across multiple regions
Friday, May 2
Resource control policies (RCPs) are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports R8g database instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
New Open-Source AWS Advanced PostgreSQL ODBC Driver now available for Amazon Aurora and RDS
Thursday, May 1
AI search flow builder is now available on the Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Connect adds enhanced contact information to DescribeContact API
Amazon Connect now publishes post-contact completion events to Contact Event Stream
Amazon VPC IPAM now allows cost distribution to AWS Organization member-accounts
AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE Database
Wednesday, Apr 30
AWS Resource Explorer is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions
Amazon SageMaker scheduling experience for Visual ETL and Query editors
Amazon RDS announces Cross-Region Automated Backups in five additional AWS Regions
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds controls for default security group management
Amazon Connect launches administrator access for agent schedules
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Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports extraction of custom insights from audio
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now supports Poland
Amazon ECS introduces 1-click rollbacks for service deployments
AWS Marketplace now supports SaaS products from all deployment locations
Payments Account Summary provides an overview of AWS financial account balances
The Amazon Q Developer integration in GitHub (preview) is now available
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports T4g database instances in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i and R7i database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports R7i database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon ECR adds support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
AWS HealthImaging now supports DICOM video data and JPEG 2000 transcoding
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 17
AWS Announces Managed Support for Energy Data Insights
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is now generally available
Amazon Connect adds five new metrics and dashboard drill downs for outbound campaigns
AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports IPv6 on B2B Data Interchange Service APIs
Amazon Q Developer in chat applications now supports AWS Systems Manager node access approvals
Amazon Q Developer announces a new agentic coding experience in the IDE
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is now available in additional regions
Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches new real-time adherence dashboard
Amazon Neptune Database now supports Graviton3 R7g and Graviton4 R8g instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.19
Amazon SES Mail Manager now supports Publish to Amazon SNS Topic Rule Action
Amazon Connect now provides bulk removal of agent schedules
AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple results receivers in a collaboration
MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption
Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation
Amazon Cognito adds enhanced context support for machine-to-machine (M2M) authorization flows
EC2 Image Builder now integrates with SSM Parameter Store
Amazon VPC Lattice now supports IPv6 for management endpoints
AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control and Fraud Control is now available in two additional regions
AWS Config now supports 12 new resource types
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control for consumers
Anonymous user access for Q Business
AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces recurring ad prefetch for live streaming