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Fun fact:

The Roman King Numa Pompilius added January and February to the original 10 month calendar to fully sync a new calendar with the lunar year.

However, Numa wanted to avoid having even numbers in his calendar, as Roman superstition at the time held that even numbers were unlucky.

To try and avoid this, he chose February, a month that would be host to Roman rituals honoring the dead, as the unlucky month to consist of 28 days.

 

From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 09:56
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 (35 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Bedrock	Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region	February 10, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL	February 10, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Runtime Metrics for .NET Applications	February 10, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now take automated actions based on hold times and agent interaction time	February 11, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides a dashboard with aggregated insights on agent performance evaluations	February 11, 2025
Amazon DynamoDB	Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments	February 11, 2025
Amazon EBS	Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API	February 12, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region	February 14, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions	February 13, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in additional regions	February 13, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (London)	February 10, 2025
Amazon EC2	Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in instances in Chicago and New York City Local Zones	February 13, 2025
Amazon ECS	Amazon ECS now enables you to update services from short to long ARNs	February 13, 2025
Amazon EFS	Amazon EFS now supports up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system	February 10, 2025
Amazon FSx for Lustre	Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades	February 12, 2025
Amazon Inspector	Amazon Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning	February 14, 2025
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 100TB	February 13, 2025
Amazon Polly	Amazon Polly launches a new voice in Singaporean English	February 11, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21	February 14, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q generative SQL is now available in additional regions	February 13, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19	February 13, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in January 2025	February 10, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103	February 13, 2025
Amazon Redshift	Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet	February 10, 2025
Amazon SES	Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager	February 14, 2025
AWS AppSync	AWS AppSync enhances resolver testing with comprehensive context object mocking	February 12, 2025
AWS AppSync	AWS AppSync GraphQL introduces operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses	February 11, 2025
AWS CloudFormation	Announcing AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Transfer Family web apps	February 10, 2025
AWS CloudTrail	AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints are now generally available	February 14, 2025
AWS CodePipeline	AWS CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support	February 13, 2025
AWS Deadline Cloud	AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets	February 13, 2025
AWS HealthScribe	AWS HealthScribe now supports GIRPP note template for behavioral health	February 12, 2025
AWS Lambda	AWS Lambda adds application performance monitoring (APM) for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals	February 14, 2025
AWS Network Load Balancer	AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones	February 13, 2025
AWS Secrets Manager	AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider now integrates with Pod Identity for Amazon EKS	February 11, 2025

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 17, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025)
February 13, 2025	AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
February 10, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Q Developer, and more (February 10, 2024)

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 14, 2025	How to restrict Amazon S3 bucket access to a specific IAM role
February 14, 2025	Introducing the AWS Trust Center
February 12, 2025	The importance of encryption and how AWS can help
February 11, 2025	Implementing least privilege access for Amazon Bedrock
February 10, 2025	Announcing ASCP integration with Pod Identity: Enhanced security for secrets management in Amazon EKS

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 17, 2025	Realizing twelve-factors with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
February 11, 2025	Create a serverless custom retry mechanism for stateless queue consumers

 

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
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 (low): ansible-core
January 21, 2025	ALAS-2025-821 (medium): openjpeg2

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
January 31, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-049 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-050 (important): runfinch-finch
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	ALASECS-2025-046 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2025-049 (important): containerd
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-062 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-092 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-093 (important): kernel
January 31, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-081 (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-5.4-2025-090 (important): kernel
January 21, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-091 (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	ALASTOMCAT9-2025-015 (important): tomcat
January 21, 2025	ALASREDIS6-2025-011 (important): redis

 

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

 

AWS Online Tech Talks:

AWS Online Tech Talks Website | View Past Webinar Recordings

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

 

AWS Events:

Date	Type	Event	Level
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 14, 2025	How do I deploy code from a CodeCommit repository to an Elastic Beanstalk environment?
February 14, 2025	Why is my EC2 Linux instance unreachable and failing its status checks?
February 14, 2025	What do I need to know about CPU allocation in Amazon ECS?
February 14, 2025	How do I implement Redis keyspace notifications in ElastiCache?
February 14, 2025	How Relative Insight Turns Data into Decisive Action - AWS Startups | Amazon Web Services
February 14, 2025	AudioStack Accelerates Production Workflows with AI - AWS Startups | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	Inside Generative AI @ Amazon - Amazon Music | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, Smarsh | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, GytPol | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, Miro | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	Amazon Cognito Passwordless Authentication | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, CloudZero | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, Darktrace | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, Verint Systems | Amazon Web Services
February 13, 2025	AWS for Software Companies, Customer Interview, Jit Security | Amazon Web Services

 

AWS re:Post Live

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name	Guest(s)
2025-02-18	EKS AutoMode - Deep Dive with Operational Excellence Benefits	Abraham Lobo
2025-02-25	Amazon Q Logging and Monitoring	Eddie Yao & Adam Hinman
2025-03-04	Extending AWS EBS Volumes	Siddhesh Chavan & Dipesh Patil

 

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