Topic || Analytics
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Application Master placement aware
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances
Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards
Topic || Application Integration
Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides higher default service quotas
Topic || Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-region inference
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B
Amazon Bedrock offers select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock supports Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Amazon Personalize enhances automatic solution training
Amazon SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse names of previously deleted Projects
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports data flows import, and faster data prep for ML
Polly Voices for two new locales: Czechia and Switzerland
Amazon Q Business launches IAM federation for user identity authentication
Amazon Q now provides more details about user subscriptions and associated resources
Topic || Compute
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
AWS Lambda announces support for encryption of filter criteria for event source mappings
AWS Lambda now supports function-level configuration for recursive loop detection
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.08 now available
Topic || Customer Engagement
Amazon Connect provides new ways to configure callbacks
Topic || Database
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Failover
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Switchover
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240808
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240808
Topic || Developer Tools
Amazon Location Service announces Migration SDK
Topic || End User Computing
AWS announces support for Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
Topic || Front End Web & Mobile
AWS Amplify introduces new function capabilities with scheduled cron jobs and streaming logs
AWS Amplify introduces multiple bucket support for Storage
Topic || Internet of Things
AWS IoT SiteWise models now support versioning
Topic || Management and Governance
Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts
AWS AppConfig now provides deletion protection for additional guardrails
CloudFormation simplifies resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator
AWS Systems Manager for SAP console integration for application aware stop and start of SAP
AWS announces a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App
Topic || Media Services
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Windows Server 2022 in service-managed fleets
Topic || Networking and Content Delivery
AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks
AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location
AWS Identity and Access Management now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial Regions
Topic || Quantum Technologies
Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance
AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits
AWS CloudHSM launches new hsm2m.medium instance type
AWS Security Hub launches 8 new security controls
Topic || Storage
Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes
Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
AWS Backup extends support for Cross-Region backup with Amazon Neptune
AWS Backup adds cross-Region, cross-account copy for SAP HANA on Amazon EC2