AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 690

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Access organization-wide views of agreements and spend in AWS Marketplace

AWS Partner Central now supports association of an AWS Marketplace private offer to a launched opportunity

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift announces generally availability for data sharing with data lake tables

Amazon Redshift introduces query identifiers for improved query performance monitoring

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces a suite of new features and enhancements

Auto Scaling in AWS Glue interactive sessions is now generally available

Amazon Redshift launches RA3.large instances

Amazon Redshift announces mTLS support for Amazon MSK

Amazon EMR Serverless introduces Job Run Concurrency and Queuing controls

Amazon MSK APIs now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Q in QuickSight now generates data stories that are personalized to users

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge announces new event delivery latency metric for Event Buses

AWS B2B Data Interchange announces support for generating outbound X12 EDI

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Four new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly

Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom models

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now provides option to stop ingestion jobs

Preview: Amazon Q Business now supports an integration with Smartsheet

Announcing sample-based partitioning for AWS HealthOmics variant stores

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3

Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 80 new Amazon EC2 instance types

Amazon Inspector enhances engine for Lambda standard scanning

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now support additional customization capabilities

Amazon Connect now supports using your customer’s initial chat message to personalize the customer experience

Amazon Connect launches prompt customizations for Amazon Q in Connect

Amazon Connect can now generate forecast for workloads with as little as one contact

Amazon Connect Contact Lens supports new read-only permissions for reports and dashboards

Amazon Connect now supports multi-day copy and paste of agent schedules

Amazon Connect launches the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts

Amazon SES adds HTTPS open tracking for custom domains

Topic || Database

Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey

Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now includes advanced configuration options

AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports RDS Data API

Topic || Developer Tools

Announcing general availability of Console to Code to generate code

AWS CodePipeline introduces new getting started experience

Extension of EOL Dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and 11

AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action

AWS CodePipeline introduces pipeline variable check rule for stage level condition

Topic || End User Computing

NICE DCV renames to Amazon DCV and releases version 2024.0 with support for Ubuntu 24.04

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices

Printer redirection and user selected regional settings now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets

Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables automatic time zone redirection for enhanced user experience

Amazon AppStream 2.0 increases application settings storage limit

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core removes TLS ALPN requirement and adds custom authorizer capabilities

Topic || Management and Governance

New VMware Strategic Partner Incentive (SPI) for Managed Services in AWS Partner Central

AWS Chatbot adds support to centrally manage access to AWS accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations

AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

AWS Announces AWS re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered virtual assistant

Bring your conversations to WhatsApp with AWS End User Messaging Social

AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer

Topic || Media Services

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports resubmitting jobs

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Cross-zone enabled Network Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift

Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) with Server Name Indication (SNI) validation

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports BYOIP and BYOASN in all AWS Local Zones

Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Network Load Balancer console

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance, Identity and Compliance

AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security controls

Streamline automation of policy management workflows with service reference information

Topic || Storage

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods

Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets

Amazon Data Firehose delivers data streams into Apache Iceberg format tables in Amazon S3