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[Bob Flynn <>]

This week’s fun fact will be of particular interest to our colleagues in Wisconsin, even if it happened in Missouri. 😉

 

~Bob @ I2

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From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 10:27
Subject: FW: AWS Roadmap Items of Interest

Fun fact of the week:

 

On 18 February 1930, Elm Farm Ollie (AKA “Nellie Jay” or “Sky Queen”) becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

 

Source: https://umpquadairy.com/sky-queen-the-first-flying-cow/

 

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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 (44 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview)	February 28, 2025
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Nova Creative Models now available in Asia Pacific	February 28, 2025
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Nova understanding models available in Europe and Asia Pacific	February 27, 2025
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in service quota limits	February 25, 2025
Amazon Bedrock	Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock	February 24, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	Database Insights provides on-demand analysis for RDS MySQL and RDS MariaDB	February 27, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	Monitor and observe apps across multiple accounts with Application Signals	February 27, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	CloudWatch Database Insights adds support for RDS databases	February 24, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect launches the ability for agents to exchange shifts with each other	February 28, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers AI-powered contact categorization in five new regions	February 28, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam	February 27, 2025
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect now supports interactive welcome messages when starting chats	February 26, 2025
Amazon EBS	Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink	February 28, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 Fleet added support for Block Device Mapping overrides	February 28, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs	February 27, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)	February 27, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris)	February 26, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region	February 25, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region	February 24, 2025
Amazon ECS	Amazon ECS adds support for additional IAM condition keys	February 26, 2025
Amazon EKS	Announcing extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere	February 28, 2025
Amazon Kinesis Firehose	Amazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions	February 26, 2025
Amazon Location Service	Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink	February 25, 2025
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas	February 28, 2025
Amazon Q	AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer	February 26, 2025
Amazon Q	AWS announces Microsoft 365 for Word and Outlook integrations for Amazon Q Business	February 28, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i instances types	February 27, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS now provides visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs	February 26, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, 10.5.28	February 26, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Data API for Aurora is now available in 10 additional AWS regions	February 26, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025 Release Update	February 25, 2025
Amazon S3	Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	February 28, 2025
Amazon Verified Permissions	Amazon Verified Permissions now supports the Cedar JSON entity format	February 24, 2025
AWS Batch	AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling	February 27, 2025
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild adds support for macOS 15.2	February 28, 2025
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild adds support for managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed	February 26, 2025
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild adds support for managed webhooks in GitHub Enterprise	February 26, 2025
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild now supports merging parallel test reports and new compute options	February 26, 2025
AWS CodePipeline	AWS CodePipeline introduces new console experience for viewing pipeline releases	February 25, 2025
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Corretto 17 and 21 with Tomcat 11	February 28, 2025
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Ruby 3.4 on Amazon Linux 2023	February 28, 2025
AWS IAM	Amazon ECS adds support for additional IAM condition keys	February 26, 2025
AWS IoT Device Defender	Announcing new features for AWS IoT Device Defender to improve IoT certificate lifecycle management	February 28, 2025
AWS Network Firewall	AWS Network Firewall simplifies policy management with enhanced console features	February 28, 2025
AWS WAF	AWS WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas	February 24, 2025

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 24, 2025	Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
February 24, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: Cloud Club Captain Applications, Formula 1®, Amazon Nova Prompt Engineering, and more (Feb 24, 2025)

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
March 01, 2025	2025 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with four additional services
February 24, 2025	Support Canada’s CCCS PBHVA overlay compliance with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
February 24, 2025	Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS
February 24, 2025	Connect your on-premises Kubernetes cluster to AWS APIs using IAM Roles Anywhere

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
February 24, 2025	WellRight modernizes to an event-driven architecture to manage bursty and unpredictable traffic

 

Amazon Linux 2023 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-842 (medium): nginx
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-843 (medium): nodejs
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-844 (important): dotnet8.0
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-845 (medium): php8.1
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-846 (medium): ansible-core
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-847 (medium): grub2
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-848 (medium): harfbuzz
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-849 (important): emacs
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-850 (important): ecs-service-connect-agent
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-851 (important): git-lfs
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-852 (low): docker
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-853 (low): gsl
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-855 (medium): kernel
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-856 (medium): ghostscript
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-857 (medium): squid
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-858 (medium): soci-snapshotter
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-859 (medium): zziplib
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-860 (medium): ansible-core
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-861 (medium): libglvnd
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-862 (important): libxml2
February 11, 2025	ALAS-2025-841 (medium): apache-commons-compress
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

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
March 01, 2025	ALASFIREFOX-2025-035 (important): firefox
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2753 (medium): vim
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2754 (medium): python3
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2755 (medium): virtuoso-opensource
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2756 (medium): grub2
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2757 (important): emacs
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2758 (low): gsl
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2759 (important): kernel
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2760 (medium): ghostscript
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2761 (low): python-ipaddress
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2762 (low): python3
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2763 (medium): python-jwcrypto
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2764 (important): postgresql
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2765 (important): thunderbird
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2766 (medium): python3
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2767 (important): glib2
February 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-2768 (medium): python-pillow
February 12, 2025	ALASECS-2025-047 (important): ecs-service-connect-agent
February 12, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-051 (low): docker
February 12, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-052 (medium): soci-snapshotter
February 12, 2025	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2025-050 (low): docker
February 12, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-063 (important): kernel
February 12, 2025	ALASPHP8.1-2025-006 (medium): php
February 12, 2025	ALASPHP8.2-2025-006 (medium): php
February 12, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-094 (important): kernel

 

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
February 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-1960 (important): kernel

 

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
March 04 - 05, 2025	In-person event	AWS Mainframe Modernization Forum	N/A
March 20, 2025	Industry Meetups	AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences Customer Meetup - Nashville NAMER	All Levels
March 26, 2025	In-person Event	AWS Community Day	N/A
April 04, 2025	In-Person Event		All levels
April 09, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Paris 2025	All Levels
April 16, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025	All Levels
April 30, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit London 2025	All Levels
May 06, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Poland 2025	All Levels

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
March 03, 2025	Building a simple architecture in AWS CloudFormation - Infrastructure Composer | Amazon Web Services
March 03, 2025	Canal+ Collaborates with AWS to Upskill Employees and Accelerate Development | Amazon Web Services
March 03, 2025	Availity Modernizes Healthcare Technology through Collaboration with AWS | Amazon Web Services
March 03, 2025	Auto Migrating EC2 databases to Amazon Aurora using AWS Database Migration Service
February 28, 2025	ANIMATING ROSE | Amazon Web Services
February 28, 2025	NFL NGS Combine IQ Sizzle | Amazon Web Services
February 28, 2025	Real-Time Data Streaming with Amazon Data Firehose and Snowflake | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	How Georgia-Pacific Uses Generative AI to Retain Knowledge | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Apache Flink Applications | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Resiliency Flink Architecture | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Apache Flink Overview | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Time Semantics | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Stateful Stream Processing | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Resiliency Flink Architecture | Amazon Web Services
February 27, 2025	Welcome to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink learning series | Amazon Web Services

 

AWS re:Post Live

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name	Guest(s)
2025-03-04	Maximizing Performance, Protection, and Cost Efficiency with Strategic Volume Management	Siddhesh Chavan & Dipesh Patil
2025-03-11	End of Standard Support for Major Aurora and RDS Databases	Vivek Singh
2025-03-18	Encryption, FIFO Ordering and Message Lifecycle in SQS	Tom Tao & Nideesh K T
2025-03-25	Amazon Q: AI-Powered Operational Problem Solver	Rajakumar Sampathkumar

 

AWS Tech Tales:

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name
2025-03-03	The Tale of Regional Resiliency
2025-03-10	The Tale of Global Resiliency
2025-03-17	The Tale of EKS Troubleshooting
2025-03-24	The Tale of ECS Troubleshooting
2025-03-31	The Tale of Cross Region Blue / Green