- AWS Lambda now supports AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions
- Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale
- Improving security and performance with additional DNS resource record types in Amazon Route 53
- AWS CodeBuild now supports retrying builds automatically
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features
- Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view ❤️
- Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee
- Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables ❤️
- Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes ❤️
- Centrally managing root access for customers using AWS Organizations ❤️
- Introducing resource control policies (RCPs), a new type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations
- AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF
- Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account
- Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview) ❤️
- AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables ❤️
- AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available
- Enhancing VPC Security with Amazon VPC Block Public Access
- Amazon DynamoDB announces general availability of attribute-based access control
- Proactively validate your AWS CloudFormation templates with AWS Lambda
- Introducing a managed hook for Guard
- Zero-rating and IP address management made easy: CloudFront’s new anycast static IPs explained
- Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications ❤️
- Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls
- Streamline container application networking with built-in Amazon ECS support in Amazon VPC Lattice
- Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 ❤️
- Optimize compute resources on Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling ❤️
- Implementing custom domain names for private endpoints with Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Application Load Balancer introduces header modification for enhanced traffic control and security
- Amazon SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
- Amazon CloudFront announces origin modifications using CloudFront Functions ❤️
- Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs launches the ability to transform and enrich logs
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Lifecycle expirations
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in three additional AWS Regions ❤️
- Node.js 22 runtime now available in AWS Lambda ❤️
- AWS Lake Formation now supports named LF-Tag expressions
- Amazon Redshift announces support for Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka
- Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions ❤️
- Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift support Application Load Balancers
- Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features ❤️
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
- AWS Lambda supports Amazon S3 as a failed-event destination for asynchronous and stream event sources
Update 2 (29 Nov)
- AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object ❤️
- Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
Update 3 (Mon, 2 Dec)
- New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
- New Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights: Comprehensive database observability from fleets to instances
- Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps for fully managed Amazon S3 file transfers
- Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is now generally available
- New AWS Security Incident Response helps organizations respond to and recover from security events starts at 7k a month
- New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster
- Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS ❤️ but container insights was already expensive, this adds $0.07 per metric generated by this new feature. It's going to stack up quickly, might even get as expensive as DataDog :/
- Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports streaming responses
Update 4 (Thu, 5 Dec)
- Introducing Fast Model Loader in SageMaker Inference: Accelerate autoscaling for your Large Language Models (LLMs) "can load large models up to 15 times faster compared to the traditional loading methods."
- Supercharge your auto scaling for generative AI inference – Introducing Container Caching in SageMaker Inference "56% reduction in scaling time"
- Unlock cost savings with the new scale down to zero feature in SageMaker Inference
- New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads ❤️
- Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview) ❤️
- Introducing Amazon Aurora DSQL ❤️
- Prevent factual errors from LLM hallucinations with mathematically sound Automated Reasoning checks (preview)
- Introducing multi-agent collaboration capability for Amazon Bedrock (preview)
- Introducing Amazon Nova: Frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance ❤️
- Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
- Introducing AWS Migration Hub Automation, a new capability accelerating cloud migrations I did not even know this was a service
- Introducing AWS Glue Data Catalog automation for table statistics collection for improved query performance on Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena
- Announcing the preview of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
- Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency
- Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)
- New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)
- Introducing AWS Glue 5.0 for Apache Spark ❤️
- Enforce fine-grained access control on data lake tables using AWS Glue 5.0 integrated with AWS Lake Formation
- The next generation of Amazon SageMaker: The center for all your data, analytics, and AI