AWS Announcements Shownotes
Generated on: April 27, 2025
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Amazon Redshift adds history mode support to 8 third-party SaaS applications
Announcing Serverless Reservations, a new discounted pricing option for Amazon Redshift Serverless
Introducing a guided visual pipeline builder for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
Amazon OpenSearch Service supports SAML single sign-on for OpenSearch UI
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account
Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.9
Application integration
Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Corretto April 2025 Quarterly Updates
Artificial Intelligence
Introducing the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports modality controls, hyperlinks and larger documents
Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock RAG and Model Evaluations now support custom metrics
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute based access control
Business applications
AWS HealthOmics announces workflow versioning support
AWS HealthOmics now supports Elastic Throughput for dynamic run storage
Compute
Introducing Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances
Thinkbox Deadline 10.4.1 release
AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for submitters
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail
AWS Batch now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service Exec and AWS FireLens log router
AWS STS global endpoint now serves your requests locally in regions enabled by default
Contact center
Amazon Connect agent workspace expands capabilities for third-party applications, including contact-related actions
Customer Carbon Footprint Tool has new features and an updated methodology
Amazon Connect Cases adds support for managing service level agreements on cases
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now support access controls using agent hierarchies
Containers
Amazon ECS adds the ability to set a default log driver blocking mode
Database
Announcing AWS DMS Serverless automatic storage scaling
Amazon MemoryDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Front end web & mobile
AWS AppSync Events now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces
Management & governance
AWS AppConfig now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux
Migration & transfer
AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints
Networking & Content Delivery
Amazon CloudFront announces Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains
Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS Resource Groups now supports 160 more resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates
Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation
AWS Security Incident Response now supports integration with AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Verified Permissions now supports policy store deletion protection
Serverless
AWS Lambda now supports inbound IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EventBridge now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMK) in API destinations connections
Amazon EventBridge Connector for Apache Kafka Connect now generally available
Storage
Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS with customer-managed keys
Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots
AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance
Web3
AWS announces upgrades to Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook
Amazon Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports label-based active series limits
GitLab Duo with Amazon Q is now generally available
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