Issue #136

Welcome to this week's AWS newsletter! It’s been a busy week with several key updates across various AWS services. Let’s dive into the highlights and explore how these changes can benefit your cloud environment.

Key Highlights

?? ECR New version of basic scanning | GA

?? EFS Supports up to 30 GiB/s (50% increase) of read throughput

?? Glue

?? Announces ML-powered Glue Data Quality capability | GA

?? Data Catalog views | GA with Athena and Redshift

?? VPC Announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets

All Announcements

?? Aurora

? ? ??? PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19

? ? ??? pgvector 0.7.0

?? Backup Logically air-gapped vault | GA

?? Bedrock Titan Image Generator v2

?? CloudWatch Application Signals supports Bedrock

?? CodeBuild three new Arm-based compute types

?? Cognito

? ? ??? disallow password reuse and stream security events

? ? ??? detect additional risks and cover custom authentication flows

?? Connect

? ? ??? audio optimization for WorkSpaces cloud desktops

? ? ??? additional agent scheduling staffing rules

?? Control Tower 2 new descriptive control APIs

?? DataZone business use case-based grouping with data products

?? ECR New version of basic scanning | GA

?? EFS up to 30 GiB/s (50% increase) of read throughput

?? Elastic Load Balancing Trust Store supports cross-account sharing using Resource Access Manager

?? EMR v7.2 supports Apache Spark 3.5.1

?? Glue

? ? ??? ML-powered Glue Data Quality capability | GA

? ? ??? Data Catalog views | GA with Athena and Redshift

?? Marketplace new dashboard and data feed to track customer agreement and renewals for sellers

?? Migration Acceleration Program Simplified VMware funding experience in Partner Central

?? QuickSight nested filters

?? Resilience Hub Improved resource grouping capabilities

?? RDS

? ? ??? Oracle supports July 2024 Release Update

? ? ??? PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20

? ? ??? Db2 supports loading data from S3

? ? ??? PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 available in preview environment

?? Sagemaker Jumpstart-powered large language models available in Redshift ML

?? Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device offers lower capacity pricing option

?? Timestream Terraform support for InfluxDB deployments

?? Verified Permissions Improves support for OIDC identity providers

?? VPC private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets

?? WorkSpaces

? ? ??? G4dn Personal bundles with WSP for Windows

? ? ??? Thin Client supports WorkSpaces Pools