Issue #148

Welcome to this week's edition of the AWS announcements newsletter!

This week,?AWS AppSync?introduces new serverless WebSocket APIs for building real-time applications at any scale.?Amazon Aurora?now supports rolling OS upgrades for minimal downtime during maintenance.?Amazon Bedrock?enhances cost management with cost allocation tags on inference profiles.?EC2 Auto Scaling?gives you more control with final validation time for instance refreshes.?Amazon OpenSearch Service?improves performance with dedicated coordinator nodes, and?Amazon Route 53?expands its DNS capabilities with new record types. Read on to explore these highlights and other exciting updates to optimize your AWS environment.

???Amplify?Integration?with?S3 for?static?website?hosting

???AppSync?new?serverless?WebSocket?APIs

???Aurora?rolling?upgrades?for?Operating?System?upgrades

???Aurora PostgreSQL?R7i?database?instances

???Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database?generally?available

???Bedrock

????????Fine-tuning?for?Anthropic's?Claude?3 Haiku?| GA

????????Meta’s?Llama?3.1 8B?and?70B?models?available?for?fine-tuning

????????cost?allocation?tags?on?inference?profiles

???Billing?India?customers?can?set?up?automated?recurring?payments

???Blu Age Runtime non managed?+11 regions

???Clean Rooms?Spark?SQL?support?with?configurable?compute?size

???CloudWatch

????????Monitors?EBS?volumes?exceeding?provisioned?performance

????????New?metrics?for?monitoring?I/O?latency?of?EBS?volumes

???CodeBuild?retrying?builds?automatically

???Connect

????????published?forecast?data?in?analytics?data?lake

????????callbacks?when?using?Chats?and?Tasks

???DataSync?Increases?performance?and?scalability?for?data?transfers

???DataZone?Expands?data?access?with?tools?like?Tableau, Power?BI, and?more

???Deadline Cloud?budget-related?events

???EC2

????????Mac Instances?macOS?Sequoia

????????M8g Instances?Available?in?Dallas?Local?Zone

???EC2 Auto Scaling?final?validation?time?for?instance?refresh

???Edge Locations?New?edge?location?in?Qatar

???ElastiCache for Valkey?new?CloudWatch?metrics?to?monitor?server-side?response?time

???EMR?enhanced?protection?for?in-transit?data?in?version 7.3

???Glue Studio?Data?preparation?experience?available?in?additional?regions

???Incident Detection and Response?+16 regions

???Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)?User-Defined?Types

???Lambda

????????Supports?Fault?Injection?Service?(FIS) actions

????????Enhances?application?building?with?VS?Code?IDE?and?AWS?Toolkit

???Marketplace?New?look?for?product?detail?pages

???MemoryDB for Valkey?new?CloudWatch?metrics?to?monitor?server-side?response?time

???Network Firewall?configurable?TCP?idle?timeout

???OpenSearch Service?dedicated?coordinator?nodes

???Partner Central?dedicated?Slack?channels?for?collaboration?on?co-selling?opportunities

???Payment Cryptography?card?issuing?use?cases

???Q Developer?inline?chat?to?streamline?developer?experience

???RDS?M7i?and?R7i?database?instances

???RDS Performance Insights?Data?API?for?Aurora?MySQL

???Redshift

????????serverless?with?AI-driven?scaling?and?optimization

????????incremental?refresh?on?Materialized?Views?for?data?lake?tables

????????Bedrock?for?generative?AI

????????Auto-copy?| GA

???Redshift Data API?CSV?result?format

???Route 53?HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and?TLSA?DNS?resource?record?support

???S3?Service?Quotas?support?in?GovCloud?Regions

???SageMaker Notebook Instances?JupyterLab?4 notebooks

???SES Mail Manager?enhancements?to?improve?interoperability, security, and?compliance

???Supply Chain?embedded?Analytics?powered?by?QuickSight

???Trust & Safety Center?Available?on?rePost

???VPC

????????DNS?Query?Logging?available?in?Asia?Pacific?(Malaysia) Region

????????new?security?group?sharing?features

???WAF?Available?in?Asia?Pacific?(Malaysia) Region

???WorkMail?Supports?multi-factor?authentication

???WorkSpaces WSP?Enables?desktop?traffic?over?TCP/UDP?port 443