Issue #149

This week’s AWS updates bring exciting and long-awaited changes that enhance efficiency, cost management, and development workflows.?

CloudFront?now waives charges for requests blocked by WAF, reducing costs for secure applications, while?EC2 Auto Scaling?introduces precise provisioning control to improve availability zone balance.?Application Discovery?adds deeper network insights with an Agentless Collector, and?CodePipeline?launches open-source starter templates, streamlining project setup.?ECS?finally supports service versioning and deployment history, offering better tracking and rollback options, and?Location Service?expands capabilities with Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps, advancing location-based applications. Additionally,?SES?adds inline template support for send email APIs, simplifying email customization workflows.

Dive in to explore these impactful updates and optimize your cloud solutions.

???Application Discovery?Agentless?Collector??discovers?network?connections ???Bedrock?Prompt?Management?| GA

???Clean Rooms ML?privacy-enhanced?model?training?and?inferencing

???CloudFront?removes?charges?for?requests?blocked?by?WAF

???CodeBuild?additional?compute?types?for?reserved?capacity

???CodePipeline?open-source?starter?templates?for?simplified?setup

???DataZone

???????achieves?HITRUST?certification

???????adds?meaning-based?Semantic?search

???????updates?pricing?and?removes?user-level?subscription?fee

???EC2

???????Auto Scaling provisioning?control?for?zone?balance

???????Windows Server 2025 AMIs

???ECS?service?versioning?and?deployment?history

???Kinesis Client Library 3.0?reduces?compute?costs?by?up?to?33% for?stream?processing

???Lambda?JSON?logging?support?for?.NET?runtime

???Location Service?Enhanced?Places, Routes, and?Maps

???MSK?Express?brokers?now?GA

???Mainframe Modernization?FedRAMP?Moderate?and?SOC?compliance

???OpenSearch Service?Extended?Support?for?engine?versions

???Partner Central?improved?self-guided?experience

???Polly?introduces?six?new?synthetic?generative?voices

???QuickSight?OAuth?with?Starburst?via?API/CLI

???RDS for Oracle?October?2024 Release?Update

???RDS for SQL Server?minor?version?support?for?October 2024

???Redshift Serverless?expands?high?capacity?(1024 RPUs) availability

???Route 53?adds?CIDR?block?configuration?based?on?Internet?Monitor

???S3 Access Grants?integrates?with?Redshift

???SES?adds?inline?template?support?for?send?email?APIs

???SNS?now?delivers?to?Data?Firehose?endpoints?in?six?more?regions

???Verified Permissions?new?API?for?multiple?policies

???Well-Architected?enhanced?implementation?guidance