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October 18, 2024 - Amazon DataZone - Amazon DataZone introduces new designations in projects for members to perform specific tasks
October 18, 2024 - Amazon MemoryDB - MemoryDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 18, 2024 - Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom model import models
October 18, 2024 - Amazon QuickSight - Amazon QuickSight expands integration with Amazon EventBridge
October 18, 2024 - Amazon QuickSight - QuickSight Reporting now supports triggering scheduled reports via API
October 18, 2024 - AWS Marketplace - AWS Marketplace now supports notifications for private marketplace
October 18, 2024 - AWS Data Exchange - AWS Data Exchange now provides APIs for data grants, enabling programmatic data sharing
October 18, 2024 - Amazon QuickSight - Amazon QuickSight now supports programmatic export and import of shared folders
October 17, 2024 - Amazon QuickSight - QuickSight now supports subfolders in restricted folders to enable governed data sharing
October 17, 2024 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys now supports AWS IAM database authentication
October 17, 2024 - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports local write forwarding
October 17, 2024 - Amazon DataZone - Amazon DataZone launches support for AWS IAM Identity Center account instance
October 17, 2024 - Amazon DynamoDB - Amazon DynamoDB announces user experience enhancements to organize your tables
October 17, 2024 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda console now surfaces key function insights via built-in Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights dashboard
October 17, 2024 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda console now supports real-time log analytics via Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail
October 17, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances
October 16, 2024 - Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Agents now provides Conversational Builder
October 16, 2024 - AWS CloudShell - AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI
October 16, 2024 - Amazon Corretto - Amazon Corretto October, 2024 Quarterly Updates
October 16, 2024 - Amazon Transcribe - Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 30 additional languages
October 16, 2024 - AWS Database Migration Service - Announcing AWS DMS Serverless support for MongoDB and DocDB as a source
October 16, 2024 - AWS Managed Services - Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports configuring a minimum firing period for alerts
October 16, 2024 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk - AWS Beanstalk adds support for Python 3.12
October 16, 2024 - AWS Marketplace - AWS Marketplace enables self-service creation of single AMI product listings for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 16, 2024 - AWS Marketplace - AWS Marketplace now supports offers in four new currencies and non-US bank accounts for disbursement
October 16, 2024 - Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 adds new Region and bucket name filtering for the ListBuckets API
October 15, 2024 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G6e instance types
October 15, 2024 - Amazon SES - Amazon SES enhances configurability with maximum delivery time for emails
October 15, 2024 - Amazon AppStream 2.0 - Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage
October 15, 2024 - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now generally available
October 15, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
October 15, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in additional regions
October 15, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance
October 15, 2024 - Amazon ECR - Finch expands support to Linux, streamlining container development across platforms
October 15, 2024 - Amazon Elastic File System - Amazon EFS now supports up to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase) of read throughput
October 15, 2024 - Amazon Q - Amazon Q Business launches ability to use connector metadata to improve search relevance
October 15, 2024 - Amazon Q - Embed Amazon Q Business into your application=E2=80=99s user interface
October 15, 2024 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS now supports 1-click connectivity to EC2 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 15, 2024 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.4 with new password validation options
October 15, 2024 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
October 15, 2024 - AWS CodeBuild - AWS CodeBuild now supports managed network access control lists
October 15, 2024 - AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline supports automatic retry on stage failure
October 15, 2024 - AWS Console Mobile Application - AWS access portal now offers streamlined sign in for AWS Console Mobile App
October 15, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - AWS announces general availability of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
October 14, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
October 14, 2024 - Amazon EKS - Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023
October 14, 2024 - Amazon Q - Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
October 14, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift now supports refresh interval in a zero-ETL integration
October 14, 2024 - Amazon Verified Permissions - Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible
October 14, 2024 - AWS Transfer Family - AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now provide real-time status of file transfer operations
October 14, 2024 - Amazon EC2 - Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
October 14, 2024 - Amazon EKS - Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023
October 14, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift now supports refresh interval in a zero-ETL integration
October 14, 2024 - Amazon Verified Permissions - Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible
October 14, 2024 - AWS Supply Chain - Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
October 11, 2024 - Amazon CloudFront - Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting
October 11, 2024 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now support additional customization capabilities
October 11, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 11, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift announces generally
October 11, 2024 - AWS End User Messaging Social - Bring your conversations to WhatsApp with AWS End User Messaging Social
October 11, 2024 - AWS NLB - Cross-zone enabled Network Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
October 11, 2024 - AWS Resource Explorer - AWS Resource Explorer introduces new API to list resource inventory
October 11, 2024 - AWS Thinkbox Deadline - Announcing the release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.4
October 10, 2024 - Amazon Polly - Four new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly
October 10, 2024 - Amazon Q - Announcing general availability of Console to Code to generate code
October 10, 2024 - Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift introduces query identifiers for improved query performance monitoring
October 10, 2024 - AWS IAM - Streamline automation of policy management workflows with service reference information
October 09, 2024 - Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now supports evaluating custom models
October 09, 2024 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect now supports using your customer's initial chat message to personalize the customer experience
October 09, 2024 - Amazon EventBridge - Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 09, 2024 - Amazon EventBridge - Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
October 09, 2024 - AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline introduces new getting started experience
October 09, 2024 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
October 08, 2024 - Amazon VPC - Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 3 additional Regions
October 08, 2024 - AWS Deadline Cloud - AWS Deadline Cloud now supports resubmitting jobs
October 08, 2024 - AWS Marketplace - Access organization-wide views of agreements and spend in AWS Marketplace
October 08, 2024 - Amazon ElastiCache - Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
October 08, 2024 - Amazon S3 - Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods
October 08, 2024 - Amazon MemoryDB - Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey
October 08, 2024 - Amazon OpenSearch Service - Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces a suite of new features and enhancements
October 08, 2024 - Amazon Q - Preview: Amazon Q Business now supports an integration with Smartsheet
October 08, 2024 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect launches prompt customizations for Amazon Q in Connect
October 08, 2024 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Q in Connect adds personalized guidance for agents
October 08, 2024 - Amazon Corretto - Extension of EOL Dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and 11

Amazon DocumentDB - RDS CA cert expiry Oct 28 2024 - Europe (Milan)
Amazon Keyspaces - Keyspaces User-Defined Types without MRR and Alter Support
Amazon OpenSearch Service - TriNeo - next generation of OpenSearch Dashboards
Amazon Polly - Amazon Polly launches more Generative voices
Amazon Q Developer - Complex AWS Actions
Amazon SageMaker - HyperPod - Scale down cluster nodes (using DeleteCluster and UpdateCluster)
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - SES Mail Manager Relay, Rules, & Archive enhancements
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Shared Security Group
AWS Auto Scaling - Instance Refresh Bake Time
AWS Auto Scaling - Availability Zone Distribution
Amazon IVS - RTMP Ingest
Amazon QuickSight - Build-a-BI Brand Customization
Amazon EC2 - Connections listing for Fleet Manager RDP session
AWS Ground Station - AWS Ground Station Digital Twin
Amazon Connect - [Analytics-Support for Subtype] - Historical changes to HM UI to support subtype (eg. SMS and WebRTC)
Amazon Dash Cart - Image capture assists
Amazon Dash Cart - Fiducial-reduced localization
Amazon Dash Cart - Always-open receipt
AWS Outposts - Outposts Country Launch in Jordan
AWS Outposts - Outposts Country Launch in Dominican Republic
AWS Wickr - Wickr WOA Vendor Replacement
High Performance Computing - AWS ParallelCluster 3.10 for US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio)

October 15, 2024 - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift now generally available
October 14, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: What's App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024).
October 10, 2024 - Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
October 07, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: HIPAA eligible with Amazon Q Business, Amazon DCV, AWS re:Post Agent, and more (Oct 07, 2024)
October 01, 2024 - NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release
September 30, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Jamba 1.5 family, Llama 3.2, Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g instances and more (Sep 30, 2024)
September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
September 19, 2024 - AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
September 18, 2024 - Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances
September 18, 2024 - Data engineering professional certificate: New hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS
September 17, 2024 - Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys
September 16, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more
September 02, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Parallel Computing Service, Amazon EC2 status checks, and more (September 2, 2024)

October 02, 2024 - Issue with NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2024-0132, CVE-2024-0133)

October 16, 2024 - Automating multi-AZ high availability for WebLogic administration server with DNS: Part 2
October 11, 2024 - How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints
October 04, 2024 - How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS
September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
September 18, 2024 - Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones
August 07, 2024 - Network perimeter security protections for generative AI
August 06, 2024 - Spring 2024 SOC 2 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
August 06, 2024 - Hardening the RAG chatbot architecture powered by Amazon Bedrock: Blueprint for secure design and anti-pattern mitigation
August 05, 2024 - SaaS authentication: Identity management with Amazon Cognito user pools
August 01, 2024 - Introducing the Maori Data Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
July 31, 2024 - Let's Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
July 19, 2024 - Simplify and automate bill processing with Amazon Bedrock

October 21, 2024 - How to build a Security Guardians program to distribute security ownership
October 18, 2024 - Options for AWS customers who use Entrust-issued certificates
October 17, 2024 - An unexpected discovery: Automated reasoning often makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain
October 10, 2024 - Strengthening security in the era of generative AI: Must-attend sessions at re:Invent 2024
October 10, 2024 - How AWS uses active defense to help protect customers from security threats
October 08, 2024 - Improve security incident response times by using AWS Service Catalog to decentralize security notifications
October 04, 2024 - Summer 2024 SOC 1 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
October 03, 2024 - Customer compliance and security during the post-quantum cryptographic migration
October 02, 2024 - Enhancing data privacy with layered authorization for Amazon Bedrock Agents
October 01, 2024 - How to perform a proof of concept for automated discovery using Amazon Macie
October 01, 2024 - Keep your firewall rules up-to-date with Network Firewall features
September 30, 2024 - How to implement relationship-based access control with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Neptune
September 26, 2024 - Let's Architect! Building multi-tenant SaaS systems
September 25, 2024 - Building a three-tier architecture on a budget
September 20, 2024 - Automate detection and response to website defacement with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
September 19, 2024 - AWS renews its GNS Portugal certification for classified information with 66 services
September 18, 2024 - Refine unused access using IAM Access Analyzer recommendations
September 18, 2024 - Using Amazon Detective for IAM investigations
September 18, 2024 - Get to know Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2
September 16, 2024 - Methodology for incident response on generative AI workloads
September 16, 2024 - Create security observability using generative AI with Security Lake and Amazon Q in QuickSight
September 16, 2024 - Introducing the APRA CPS 230 AWS Workbook for Australian financial services customers
August 30, 2024 - Automatically replicate your card payment keys across AWS Regions
August 07, 2024 - Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application
August 05, 2024 - How AWS tracks the cloud's biggest security threats and helps shut them down
August 02, 2024 - OSPAR 2024 report now available with 163 services in scope
August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
July 10, 2024 - AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the SecureSoftware Development Framework (SSDF)
July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2
July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 1
July 09, 2024 - Top four ways to improve your Security Hub security score
July 08, 2024 - Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier
July 08, 2024 - Centrally manage VPC network ACL rules to block unwanted traffic using AWSFirewall Manager

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August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
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