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Issue #222 | 6 Apr 2026▪️Aurora DSQLnew connectors .NET and Rust apps▪️AWS DevOps Agentis now generally available▪️AWS Sustainability Consolecarbon emissions tracking▪️Bedrock AgentCore Evaluationsis now generally available▪️Bedrock Guardrailscross-account safeguards| GA▪️CloudFrontBYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration▪️CloudFrontSHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies▪️CloudWatchSecuri...

Issue #221 | 30 March 2026▪️AppConfigenhanced targeting during feature flag rollout▪️Aurora DSQLconnector that simplifies building Ruby applications▪️Aurora PostgreSQLcreating and connecting to a database in seconds▪️Aurora PostgreSQLnow available with the AWS Free Tier▪️BatchAMI status and supports AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events▪️Batchquota management and preemption for SageMaker Training ...

Issue #220 | 23 March 2026▪️Amazon Corretto 26is now generally available▪️Amazon InspectorWindows KB-based findings▪️AWS Partner Centralagents to accelerate co-sell▪️Bedrock AgentCore Runtimenow supports shell command execution▪️Bedrock AgentCore Runtimenow supports the AG-UI protocol▪️Bedrock AgentCore RuntimeWebRTC real-time bidirectional streaming▪️BedrockMinimax M2.5 and GLM 5▪️BedrockNVIDIA...

Issue #219 | 16 March 2026▪️AWS Builder IDSign in with GitHub and Amazon▪️Backupadds logically air-gapped vault support for EKS▪️BackupRDS Multi-AZ clusters to 17 Regions▪️Bedrock AgentCore Memorystreaming notifications for long-term memory▪️Bedrock AgentCore Runtimestateful MCP server features▪️Bedrockobservability of First Token Latency and Quota Consumption▪️CDK Mixinsis now generally availab...

Issue #218 | 9 March 2026▪️Batchconfigurable scale down delay▪️Bedrock AgentCorePolicy| GA▪️BedrockMistral AI Devstral 2▪️CloudWatch ObservabilityEKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default▪️Config+30 resource types▪️Connect HealthAgentic AI Built for Healthcare▪️Database Savings PlansOpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics▪️Elastic Beanstalknow offers AI-powered environment analysis▪️Elemental MediaL...

Issue #217 | 2 March 2026▪️AppConfigintegrates with New Relic for automated rollbacks▪️Aurora DSQLPlayground for interactive database exploration▪️Automated Reasoningpolicies now include references to the source document▪️AWS Deadline Cloudrunning tasks together in chunks▪️AWS Elemental Inferenceannouncement▪️BackupNeptune to five additional AWS Regions▪️Bacs Direct Debitas a payment method for UK...

Issue #216 | 23 Feb 2026▪️Amazon Aurora DSQLKiro powers and AI agent skills▪️Amazon Aurora DSQLnew Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authentication▪️Amazon AuroraServer-Side Encryption at Rest▪️BackupPrivateLink support for SAP HANA▪️BedrockClaude Sonnet 4.6▪️Bedrockreinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs▪️Certificate Managerupda...

Issue #215 | 16 Feb 2026▪️Amazon Aurora DSQLidentity columns and sequence objects▪️Athena1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity▪️Aurora Global Databasemanaged minor version upgrades▪️Backupcross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults▪️BatchJob Queue and Share Utilization Visibility▪️Bedrock▫️AgentCore Browsernow supports proxy configuration▫️+6 fully-managed open ...

Issue #214 | 9 Feb 2026▪️Aurora DSQLindexes on the NUMERIC data type▪️AWS Batchunmanaged compute environments for Amazon EKS▪️AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple▪️BatchArray Job Status Summary in ListJobs API▪️Bedrock AgentCoreBrowser now supports browser profiles▪️BedrockClaude Opus 4.6▪️BedrockStructured outputs▪️CloudFrontmutual TLS support for origins▪️CloudWatch Application Signa...

Issue #213 | 1 Feb 2026▪️AWS MCP ServerDeployment Agent SOPs| Preview▪️Bedrock1-hour duration for prompt caching▪️Bedrockserver-side custom tools using the Responses API▪️Cognitoinbound federation Lambda triggers▪️Connectgranular access controls for cases▪️Deadline Cloudediting job name and description▪️DynamoDBglobal tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service▪️ECScon...

Issue #212 | 26 January 2026▪️Amazon CorrettoJanuary 2026 Quarterly Updates▪️Amazon MQJMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers▪️AWSadditional policy details to access denied error messages▪️AWS Security Agentnow supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud▪️Bedrock AgentCore Browsernow supports custom browser extensions▪️Bedrock Reserved Tieravailable now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5▪️Clean Roomsjoin and...

Issue #211 | 19 Jan 2026▪️Amazon InspectorJava Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage▪️BedrockAPI keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions▪️Billing ConsoleEnhanced Transactions view▪️Clean Roomsparameters in PySpark analysis templates▪️Connect▫️agent scheduling metrics in data lake▫️agent screen recording status tracking▫️recurring overrides for hours of operation▪️Connect Cases...

Issue #210 | 12 January 2026▪️Amazon MQcertificate based auth with mTLS for RabbitMQ brokers▪️Amazon Quick3rd-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library▪️Client VPNonboarding with Quickstart setup▪️Config+21 resource types▪️EC2 Capacity Managernow includes Spot interruption metrics▪️EMR Serverlessjob run level cost allocation▪️Fargate and ECS Managed Instancestmpfs mounts▪️Lambda.NET 1...

🗓Issue #209 | 5 January 2026▪️Clean Roomsdetailed monitoring for collaboration queries▪️CloudWatchsimplified import of CloudTrail Lake▪️Connectfiltering metrics based on custom business dimensions▪️Connectstore nested JSON object and looping arrays▪️OpenSearch UIsupports CMK and increased metadata size▪️WAFin the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

🎄Issue #208| 29 December 2025▪️BedrockNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano▪️CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services▪️Connectautomated agent performance evaluations +5 languages▪️Deadline Clouddirect job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor▪️ECS Service Connectenhances observability with Envoy Access Logs▪️End User MessagingSMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer| Preview▪️Game...

🎄Issue #207| 22 December 2025▪️ACMautomated certificate management for Kubernetes▪️Application Recovery Controllerregion switch now supports three new capabilities▪️Artifactenables access to previous versions of compliance reports▪️Auroranow supports PostgreSQL 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20 and 13.23▪️AWS Databasesnow available on the Vercel Marketplace▪️Bedrock Data Automationinstruction optimizatio...

📍Issue #206 | 15 December 2025▪️Application Migration Servicesupports IPv6▪️Aurora DSQLcluster creation in seconds▪️Aurora PostgreSQLintegration with Kiro powers▪️Braketnow supports Qiskit 2.0▪️CloudWatch SDKoptimized JSON, CBOR protocols▪️Cognitoidentity pools connectivity with AWS PrivateLink▪️DataSyncincreases scalability+performance for on-prem file transfers▪️DataSyncTerraform support for ...

✔️re:Invent 2025 | Issue #205▪️Amazon Nova 2 Omniin Preview▪️Amazon Nova 2 Sonicfor real-time conversational AI▪️Amazon Nova Actautomate production UI workflows▪️Amazon Nova ForgeBuild your own Frontier Models using Nova▪️Amazon Qnow can analyze SES email sending▪️API Gatewayadds MCP proxy support▪️AWS AI Factoriesnew service▪️AWS AI League2026 Championship▪️AWS DevOps Agentfrontier agent for oper...

📆Issue #204 | 1 December 2025▪️Apache Iceberg V3deletion vectors and row lineage▪️AWS Healthevent triage▪️BedrockReserved Service tier▪️CloudWatchdeletion protection for logs▪️Compute Optimizerunused NAT Gateway recommendations▪️EMR and Glue▫️audit context support with Lake Formation▫️write operations with Lake Formation fine-grained access controls▪️Glue▫️5.1▫️zero-ETL for self-managed Databas...

📆Pre:Invent | Issue #203 | 24 Nov 2025Part #3▪️Parallel Computing Service▫️is now HIPAA eligible▫️now supports Slurm REST API▪️Payments Cryptographypost-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit▪️Pollyadditional languages and region support▪️PrivateLinkcross-region connectivity for AWS Services▪️Q Developerenhanced cost management capabilities▪️Quick Sightdashboard customization now incl...