Issue #155

Welcome to this week's AWS update!

This week, IPv6 takes center stage with expanded support across several services, including dual-stack environments in Backup, IPv6 connectivity for Location Service and Recycle Bin, new IPv6 service endpoints in Network Firewall, and full IPv6 integration for Mainframe Modernization and Timestream for InfluxDB.

In other updates,?ECS Fargate?now supports network fault injection experiments,?EKS?introduces Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair, and?EventBridge?adds proactive OAuth token refresh for API destinations.

Read on for the details and see how these changes can enhance your AWS environment.

???AppStream 2.0

????????client for macOS

????????Rocky Linux Application and Desktop streaming

???AppSync GraphQL?new resolver utilities for Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL

???AWS Invoices self-service feature to update business names

???Backup

????????dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments

????????search and item-level recovery

???Bedrock

????????Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

????????Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model

???Billing and Cost Management?custom billing views

???Bottlerocket?Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads

???Connect

????????+64 languages for Amazon Q in Connect agent assistance

????????agent schedule data in analytics data lake

????????built-in capabilities for customer authentication within chats

????????CloudTrail support for Agent Status configuration

????????deletion of queues and routing profiles from the admin website

????????improved agent hierarchy configuration interface with CloudTrail

????????multi-party chat

???Connect Tasks?now support durations up to 30 days

???DataSync?configuration updates for all supported storage locations

???DMS?Kerberos auth for Oracle and SQL Server Source Endpoints

???DocumentDB?NVMe-backed R6gd Instances

???EBS?Local Snapshots for AWS Dedicated Local Zones

???EC2?High Memory U7inh Instance

???ECS Fargate?network fault injection experiments

???EKS

????????expands catalog of upgrade insight checks

????????Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair

???Elastic Beanstalk?now updates environment status when invalid

???EventBridge?API destinations proactive OAuth token refresh

???Glue?+16 native connectors for applications

???Glue Data Catalog?advanced automatic optimization for Iceberg tables

???IAM Roles Anywhere?credential helper now supports TPM 2.0

???IoT Device Management?high-throughput device connectivity status queries

???IoT Greengrass v2.14?new lightweight edge runtime with <5MB of memory

???Location Service?now supports IPv6

???Mainframe Modernization?now supports connectivity over IPv6

???Marketplace?Professional Services product detail pages

???Marketplace?self-service promotional media on seller product detail pages

???MSK Connect?Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7

???Network Firewall?IPv6 Service Endpoints

???ParallelCluster 3.12?custom image build enhancements

???Parallel Computing Service

????????CloudFormation support

????????Slurm version 24.05

???Partner Central Analytics?New insights and reporting for resell revenue

???PrivateLink?cross-region connectivity +14 additional Regions

???Q Business

????????analytics dashboard with conversation insights

????????is now SOC compliant

???QuickSight?Launches Unique Key for Dataset

???RDS Database Preview Environment?MySQL Innovation Release 9.1

???RDS for Db2?multiple databases within an instance

???RDS Proxy?caching_sha2_password?auth for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

???Recycle Bin?Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support

???re:Post?now supports Spanish and Portuguese

???Resilience Hub

????????CloudWatch alarm detection for application resilience

????????tailored AWS Fault Injection Service recommendations

???Timestream for InfluxDB?Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity

???Transfer Family?additional controls over AS2 message attributes

???WorkSpaces Personal?now supports Global Accelerator

???WorkSpaces Thin Client?now available to purchase in India