AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 709

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers

Topic || Analytics

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 100TB

Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet

Q in QuickSight Dashboard Q&A

AWS Glue expands connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync enhances resolver testing with comprehensive context object mocking

AWS AppSync GraphQL introduces operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses

AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map

AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account

Amazon EventBridge enhances event source discovery in the console

AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21

Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions

Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions

Amazon Q Developer agent now runs builds and tests to validate generated code in real time

Amazon Q Business introduces orchestration for user query management

Amazon Personalize now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

Amazon Polly launches a new voice in Singaporean English

AWS HealthScribe now supports GIRPP note template for behavioral health

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda adds application performance monitoring (APM) for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals

Amazon ECS now enables you to update services from short to long ARNs

Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size

AWS Batch launches new features for access control and management of AWS Batch on EKS workloads

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager

Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now take automated actions based on hold times and agent interaction time

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides a dashboard with aggregated insights on agent performance evaluations

Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations

Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields

Amazon Connect now supports configuration of which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule

Amazon Connect now supports agent time off scheduling up to 24 months in the future

Amazon Connect Cases now provides more granular search capabilities and customizable case list views

Topic || Database

Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments

Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL

Amazon DocumentDB now offers one-click connectivity with CloudShell

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in January 2025

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in December 2024

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports up to 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB

AWS CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support

AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports administrative control over admin consent for linking OneDrive for Business

AWS Wickr now provides a dedicated space to organize and access files

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints are now generally available

CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Runtime Metrics for .NET Applications

Announcing AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Transfer Family web apps

AWS Config now supports 4 new resource types

Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring

Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestion

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports log delivery to additional destinations

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports configurable limits to effectively manage fixed resources

Topic || Migration and Modernization

Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider now integrates with Pod Identity for Amazon EKS

Amazon Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction

AWS IAM announces support for encrypted SAML assertions

AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues

AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP protocols

Topic || Storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API

Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots

Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades

Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

Amazon EFS now supports up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system