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[Bob Flynn <>]

Here’s a fun fact from my recently concluded vacation.

 

Recognizing the keen interest and business potential, New Zealand became the first country to establish a government agency devoted to tourism in 1901.

 

And I can say first hand, it is well worth it!

 

From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:53
Subject: FW: AWS Roadmap Items of Interest

Hello Team!

On behalf of your AWS Enterprise Account Team, I present a recap of last week's launches.

Follow the AWS Blog, What's New from Amazon Web Services, and AWS Podcasts for up-to-date news and information.

Please contact us if you have any questions or need more information on any of these services.

 

Launch recap from last week (41 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon CloudWatch	Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience	February 04, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations	February 04, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields	February 04, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect now supports configuration of which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule	February 03, 2025
Amazon DocumentDB	Amazon DocumentDB now offers one-click connectivity with CloudShell	February 05, 2025
Amazon EBS	Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)	February 07, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region	February 07, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich)	February 05, 2025
Amazon EC2	Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size	February 05, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	February 04, 2025
Amazon EC2	Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations	February 06, 2025
Amazon ECS	Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions	February 05, 2025
Amazon FSx For OpenZFS	Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs	February 07, 2025
Amazon GuardDuty	Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction	February 06, 2025
Amazon IAM Identity Center	AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues	February 06, 2025
Amazon Keyspaces	Amazon Keyspaces is now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region	February 06, 2025
Amazon MSK	Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions	February 06, 2025
Amazon Personalize	Amazon Personalize now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)	February 06, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Business introduces orchestration for user query management	February 05, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions	February 04, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions	February 06, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in December 2024	February 03, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update	February 06, 2025
Amazon Redshift	Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region	February 05, 2025
Amazon SageMaker	Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	February 05, 2025
AWS AppSync	AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs	February 06, 2025
AWS Batch	AWS Batch launches new features for access control and management of AWS Batch on EKS workloads	February 03, 2025
AWS CloudFormation	Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring	February 06, 2025
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite	February 03, 2025
AWS Config	AWS Config now supports 4 new resource types	February 07, 2025
AWS Database Migration Service	Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint	February 05, 2025
AWS Elemental MediaTailor	AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports log delivery to additional destinations	February 06, 2025
AWS IAM	AWS IAM announces support for encrypted SAML assertions	February 05, 2025
AWS Marketplace	Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers	February 07, 2025
AWS Step Functions	AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map	February 07, 2025
AWS Step Functions	AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account	February 05, 2025
AWS Systems Manager	Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS	February 03, 2025
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio	AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)	February 06, 2025
AWS Verified Access	AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols	February 06, 2025
AWS WAF	AWS WAF Console adds new top insights visualizations in additional regions	February 06, 2025
AWS Wickr	AWS Wickr now provides a dedicated space to organize and access files	February 05, 2025

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 05, 2025	AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane
February 03, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 07, 2025	Enhancing telecom security with AWS
February 06, 2025	2024 PiTuKri ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope
February 06, 2025	2024 FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope
February 05, 2025	AWS renews MTCS Level 3 certification under the SS584:2020 standard
February 05, 2025	How AWS Network Firewall session state replication maximizes high availability for your application traffic
February 03, 2025	Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications – part 2

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 05, 2025	Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis

 

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
January 15, 2025	Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)
January 23, 2025	Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow – Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)

 

Amazon Linux 2023 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
February 04, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-035 (important): kernel-livepatch-6.1.115-126.197
February 04, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-036 (important): kernel-livepatch-6.1.119-129.201
February 04, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-037 (important): kernel-livepatch-6.1.112-124.190
February 04, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-038 (important): kernel-livepatch-6.1.124-134.200
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-822 (important): nodejs20
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-823 (important): kernel
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-824 (important): amazon-ssm-agent
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-825 (medium): java-23-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-826 (medium): java-11-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-827 (medium): java-21-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-828 (medium): java-17-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-829 (medium): python3.11
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-830 (medium): openjpeg2
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-831 (important): python-virtualenv
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-833 (important): nerdctl
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-834 (important): runfinch-finch
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-835 (important): containerd
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-836 (important): kernel
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-837 (medium): wireshark
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-838 (important): bind
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-839 (medium): ruby3.2
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-808 (important): python3.12
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-809 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-810 (important): python-jinja2
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-811 (important): ansible-core
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-812 (important): iperf3
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-813 (important): tomcat9
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-814 (important): tomcat10
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-815 (medium): git
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-816 (medium): runfinch-finch
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-818 (important): redis6
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-819 (medium): grpc
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-820 (medium): ansible-core
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-821 (medium): openjpeg2
January 16, 2025	ALAS-2025-802 (important): kernel
January 16, 2025	ALAS-2025-801 (important): rsync

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
January 31, 2025	ALASECS-2025-046 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-049 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-050 (important): runfinch-finch
January 31, 2025	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2025-049 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-195 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.228-219.884
January 31, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-196 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.227-219.884
January 31, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-197 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.230-223.885
January 31, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-198 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.233-223.887
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-062 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-081 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-092 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-093 (important): kernel
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2739 (important): amazon-ssm-agent
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2740 (medium): java-17-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2741 (medium): java-11-amazon-corretto
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2742 (important): qemu
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2743 (medium): python3
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2744 (medium): python
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2745 (important): kernel
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2746 (important): gstreamer1
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2747 (important): gstreamer1-plugins-base
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2748 (important): gstreamer1-plugins-good
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2749 (important): nerdctl
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2750 (medium): edk2
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2751 (important): bind
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-2752 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2733 (important): postgresql
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2734 (important): python-jinja2
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2735 (important): python3-jinja2
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2736 (important): iperf3
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2737 (medium): git
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-2738 (medium): perl-Module-ScanDeps
January 21, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-048 (medium): runfinch-finch
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-061 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-078 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-079 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-090 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-091 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASTOMCAT9-2025-015 (important): tomcat
January 21, 2025	ALASREDIS6-2025-011 (important): redis
January 16, 2025	ALAS-2025-2731 (important): rsync

 

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-1957 (important): kernel
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-1958 (important): less
January 30, 2025	ALAS-2025-1959 (important): postgresql92
January 22, 2025	ALAS-2025-1956 (important): rust
January 16, 2025	ALAS-2025-1955 (important): rsync

 

AWS Online Tech Talks:

AWS Online Tech Talks Website | View Past Webinar Recordings

Date	Topic	Level
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Opensource Table Formats with AWS Glue and Amazon EMR	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Build Apache Spark Apps and Integrate Them with Redshift	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Building a personalization solution just got easier with Amazon Personalize	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Preparing data at scale with Amazon SageMaker notebooks	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Building a comprehensive security solution with AWS Security services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	ML-powered Predictive Maintenance for Industrial Operations	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Getting Started with ElastiCache for Redis Performance & Cost Optimization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Enabling Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Simplify Data Discovery with Amazon Redshift Query Editor	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on AWS Ep 2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Designing a DR strategy on Amazon RDS for SQL Server	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	How to: Porting Advisor For Graviton	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 5.0 features	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Protect Amazon RDS for Oracle with managed Oracle Data Guard switchover	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Ingest, Manage, and Analyze Data with Central Governance	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB Observability and Monitoring	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Serverless Framework with Amazon CodeCatalyst	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily Integrate Analytics into your apps using Amazon QuickSight	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Event Detection with Amazon MSK and Kinesis Data Analytics	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Improve Search Relevance with Amazon OpenSearch Service	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Detect Bias in ML Data, Models & Explain Predictions	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Centralize Data Lake Security Management with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting started with Amazon Aurora Global Database	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Accelerate cloud migration and app modernization with AWS Identity Services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Automatically Provision and Scale OpenSearch with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Bring intelligent insights to your industrial operations with Amazon Monitron	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Break down barriers to knowledge with Amazon Kendra	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Bear Conservation with ML, Serverless and Citizen Science	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Increase accuracy with Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation Version 6	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Harnessing Low-code/No-Code Machine Learning on AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Enhanced threat detection for Amazon EKS with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Carbyne delivers cloud native 9-1-1 call management using AWS AI services	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Fully Managed SaaS Data Integrations with Amazon AppFlow	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS for virtually every application	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Don’t Create More Data Silos! Use CDC and Data Streaming	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Multiple approaches for protecting data in Amazon DynamoDB	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Threat detection for Amazon Aurora databases with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Database performance monitoring and tuning with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Deliver low latency multiplayer games with AWS edge infrastructure	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Leveraging Rust for MLOps with the Amazon Sagemaker	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Deep Dive: PyTorch 2.0 on Graviton	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Accelerating modern app development by externalizing fine-grained authorization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily upload and manage Amazon S3 files in a Next.js web app with AWS Amplify	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Accelerated ETL for Amazon Redshift with AWS Glue	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on Amazon SageMaker Ep 1	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building a Gen AI Comic Video Generator on Amazon SageMaker	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Get Answers From Data in Seconds with Amazon QuickSight Q	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Introducing Governed Analytics with Amazon DataZone	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: A journey from beginner to advanced ML builder with SageMaker Studio Lab	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Enable cross-team, federated GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync Merged APIs	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Serverless Data Streaming Workloads with Amazon Kinesis	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	An introduction to performance measurement, analysis and optimisation on AWS EC2 Graviton-based instances	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Why geospatial ML?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Managing ML experiments	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Recent enhancements in Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Under the Hood with AWS Compute	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	CCI Real-time Call Analytics & Agent Assist solutions	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Effortless migration - Is your app already Graviton-ready?	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Best practices for building interactive applications with AWS Lambda	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	What's new in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Accelerating SQL Server database modernization with Babelfish	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Reducing the costs of your openCypher applications	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Fraud prevention and Bot control with AWS WAF	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Managing ML Workflows In Production with Amazon SageMaker	Level 300 - Advanced

 

AWS Events:

Date	Type	Event	Level
February 12 - 13, 2025	Virtual Event	Secure AWS Cloud Data with Zscaler DSPM	All levels
February 27, 2025	In-Person Event	Utrecht Innovation Night: Streamlining Design & Development with Arena and Onshape	All levels
March 04 - 05, 2025	In-person event	AWS Mainframe Modernization Forum	N/A
March 26, 2025	In-person Event	AWS Community Day	N/A

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
February 08, 2025	Amazon SageMaker partner AI apps | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	AWS Responsible AI part 1: Mitgating Bias with Alicia | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	AWS Responsible AI part 2: Assessing risk with Mia | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	AWS Responsible AI part 3: Testing the model with Valeriia | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Amazon WorkSpaces Pools - Introduction to Scaling Policies | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Accelerate Your VMware Migration to AWS using MAP with Ollion | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Docebo’s SaaS journey fuels the future of learning | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Mapping Earth's DNA | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Using Quantum Computing to Discover New Drugs | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Life-saving Medications, Faster | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Sustainability Through Analytics | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	AI For Social Good | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	From Mine Detection to Local Sharing | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Meet Rayan Chikhi, Institut Pasteur | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services
February 07, 2025	Meet Tessa Clarke, Olio | AWS Pioneers Project | Amazon Web Services

 

AWS Tech Tales:

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name
2025-02-17	The Tale of S3 Metadata Magic
2025-02-24	The Tale Of App Consistent Snapshots