Issue #150

This week’s AWS updates deliver powerful enhancements to security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Application Load Balancer?now integrates with CloudFront and built-in WAF, offering advanced security and streamlined application delivery.?Backup?improves disaster recovery flexibility by enabling S3 backup copying across Regions and accounts.?CloudTrail Lake?introduces AI-powered log analysis, accelerating troubleshooting and audit workflows. Meanwhile,?DynamoDB?rolls out warm throughput for better cost management and reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables.?QuickSight?adds self-serve brand customization for more tailored dashboard experiences, and?S3?expands storage capacity to support up to 1 million buckets per account.

???Application Load Balancer?integrates?CloudFront?with?built-in?WAF

???Backup

???????Now?supports?Amazon?Neptune?in?three?new?Regions

???????Allows?copying?S3 backups?across?Regions/accounts?in?opt-in?Regions

???????Supports?resource?type?and?multiple?tag?selections?in?backup?policies

???Bottlerocket?AMIs?preconfigured?for?FIPS?140-3 cryptographic?modules

???CloudTrail Lake?enhances?log?analysis?with?AI-powered?features

???CodeBuild?supports?Windows?Docker?builds?in?reserved?capacity?fleets

???Control Tower?introduces?drift?resolution?for?optional?controls

???DynamoDB

???????Warm?throughput?for?tables?and?indexes

???????Reduces?prices?for?on-demand?throughput?and?global?tables

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

???EventBridge?improves?end-to-end?latency?by?up?to 94%

???Glue?available?in?Asia?Pacific?(Malaysia)

???IAM

???????Identity?Center?supports?search?by?permission?set?name

???????Allows?customization?of?unused?access?analysis?in?Access?Analyzer

???????Centrally?manage?root?access?permissions

???Kinesis

???????Adds?CloudFormation?support?for?resource?policies

???????Supports?data?ingestion?via?OpenSearch?Ingestion

???Lambda

???????Adds?Python?3.13 support

???????Supports?CMK?encryption?for?Zip?artifacts

???OpenSearch Service

???????Supports?OpenSearch?version 2.17

???????Introduces?support?for?new?third-party?plugins

???QuickSight?adds?self-serve?brand?customization

???RDS

???????Supports?PostgreSQL?major?version 17

???????Adds?new?minor?version?8.0.40 for?MySQL

???S3?now?supports?up?to?1 million?buckets?per?account

???Step Functions?introduces?Infrastructure?as?Code?template?generation

???Transit Gateway?enhances?visibility?metrics?and?Path?MTU?support