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From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 11:51
Subject: FW: AWS Roadmap Items of Interest

Fun fact of the week:

 

Your body loses up to 8% of water on a flight. Keep hydrated!

 

Source: https://stluciatimes.com/150126/2023/01/did-you-know-your-body-loses-up-to-8-percent-of-water-on-a-flight/

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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 (36 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Aurora	Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available	May 27, 2025
Amazon CloudWatch	Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring	May 28, 2025
Amazon DocumentDB	Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement	May 28, 2025
Amazon EC2	Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for AWS	May 30, 2025
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	May 28, 2025
Amazon EC2	AWS Neuron introduces NxD Inference GA, new features, and improved tools	May 27, 2025
Amazon EKS	Amazon EKS introduces configuration insights for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes	May 30, 2025
Amazon EKS	Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.33	May 30, 2025
Amazon EKS	Announcing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers	May 29, 2025
Amazon EMR	Amazon EMR enables enhanced Apache Spark capabilities for Lake Formation tables with full table access	May 29, 2025
Amazon FSx for Lustre	Amazon FSx for Lustre adds new storage class that delivers the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage	May 29, 2025
Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP	Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports write-back mode for ONTAP FlexCache volumes	May 28, 2025
Amazon GameLift	Amazon GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub	May 29, 2025
Amazon IVS	Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming now supports participant replication	May 29, 2025
Amazon MWAA	Amazon MWAA now provides option to update environments without interrupting task execution	May 30, 2025
Amazon Neptune	Amazon Neptune Database is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions	May 29, 2025
Amazon Neptune	Amazon Neptune announces MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server	May 28, 2025
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Script Plugins	May 29, 2025
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250508	May 27, 2025
Amazon Redshift	Amazon Redshift now enables cluster relocation by default for RA3 provisioned clusters	May 30, 2025
Amazon S3	Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now lets you automatically mount your S3 buckets using fstab	May 30, 2025
Amazon S3	Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports granular access controls with S3 Access Points	May 29, 2025
AWS Amplify	AWS Amplify Hosting announces customizable build instances	May 29, 2025
AWS Backup	AWS Backup enhances Amazon EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support	May 28, 2025
AWS Backup	AWS Backup now supports Amazon Aurora DSQL	May 27, 2025
AWS Backup	AWS Backup search now supports creating backup indexes within backup policies	May 27, 2025
AWS CDK Toolkit Library	AWS CDK Toolkit Library is now generally available	May 30, 2025
AWS CloudTrail	CloudTrail Lake now supports event enrichment and expanded event size	May 29, 2025
AWS Cost Explorer	AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature	May 29, 2025
AWS DataSync	AWS DataSync simplifies and accelerates cross-cloud data transfers	May 29, 2025
AWS Managed Services	Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 95 day time range queries	May 29, 2025
AWS Network Firewall	AWS Network Firewall Adds Support for Multiple VPC Endpoints	May 28, 2025
AWS Pricing Calculator	AWS Pricing Calculator, now generally available, supports discounts and purchase commitment	May 30, 2025
AWS Secrets Manager	AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets	May 27, 2025
AWS Security Hub	AWS Security Hub now supports NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2	May 29, 2025
Cost Optimization Hub	Cost Optimization Hub now supports Savings Plans and reservations preferences	May 28, 2025

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
June 02, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025)
May 29, 2025	Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage
May 29, 2025	Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
May 27, 2025	Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available
May 26, 2025	AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025)

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
May 28, 2025	Application security at re:Inforce 2025
May 27, 2025	Introducing new regional implementations of Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS to support digital sovereignty
May 27, 2025	How to use the new AWS Secrets Manager Cost Allocation Tags feature
May 27, 2025	Elevate your AI security: Must-see re:Inforce 2025 sessions
May 27, 2025	Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2025

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
June 02, 2025	Analyze media content using AWS AI services
May 30, 2025	How Launchpad from Pega enables secure SaaS extensibility with AWS Lambda
May 29, 2025	Improving platform resilience at Cash App
May 28, 2025	Optimizing fleet operations using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock
May 27, 2025	Transforming Maya’s API management with Amazon API Gateway

 

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
May 27, 2025	CVE-2025-5279 - Issue with Amazon Redshift Python Connector and the BrowserAzureOAuth2CredentialsProvider plugin
May 05, 2025	CVE-2025-4318 - Input validation issue in AWS Amplify Studio UI component properties

 

Amazon Linux 2023 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-060 (important): nvidia-persistenced
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-061 (important): nvidia-open
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-062 (important): nvidia-modprobe
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-063 (important): nvidia-kmod-common
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-064 (important): nvidia-imex-570
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-065 (important): nvidia-fabric-manager
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-066 (important): libnvsdm-570
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-067 (important): libnvidia-nscq-570
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-068 (important): nvidia-driver
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-069 (important): kmod-nvidia-open-dkms
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-070 (important): kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-071 (important): cuda-drivers
May 13, 2025	ALASNVIDIA-2025-072 (important): cuda-compat
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-958 (medium): gnutls
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-959 (important): kernel
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-960 (medium): gnuplot
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-961 (important): libsoup3
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-962 (important): libsoup
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-963 (medium): libxml2
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-964 (important): tomcat9
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-965 (important): tomcat10
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-966 (medium): nodejs22
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-967 (medium): openvpn
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-968 (important): amazon-cloudwatch-agent
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-969 (medium): elfutils
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-970 (medium): javapackages-bootstrap
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-971 (important): sqlite

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
May 29, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-101 (important): kernel
May 29, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-102 (important): kernel
May 29, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-072 (important): kernel
May 29, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-093 (important): kernel
May 29, 2025	ALASFIREFOX-2025-038 (important): firefox
May 29, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-063 (important): runfinch-finch
May 29, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-064 (important): soci-snapshotter
May 29, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-065 (important): oci-add-hooks
May 29, 2025	ALASDOCKER-2025-066 (medium): docker
May 29, 2025	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2025-061 (important): oci-add-hooks
May 29, 2025	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2025-062 (medium): docker
May 29, 2025	ALASTOMCAT9-2025-018 (medium): tomcat
May 29, 2025	ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2025-011 (medium): postgresql
May 29, 2025	ALASMARIADB10.5-2025-007 (medium): mariadb
May 29, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-230 (important): kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-276.639
May 29, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-231 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.234-225.921
May 29, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-232 (important): kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-276.618
May 29, 2025	ALASLIVEPATCH-2025-233 (important): kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-275.603
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2856 (important): pcs
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2857 (low): ImageMagick
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2858 (important): thunderbird
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2859 (important): thunderbird
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2860 (medium): libxml2
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2861 (medium): yelp-xsl
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2862 (medium): yelp
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2863 (important): nerdctl
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2864 (medium): open-vm-tools
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2865 (important): kernel
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2866 (important): postgresql
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2867 (important): ppp
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2868 (medium): python-requests
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2869 (important): webkitgtk4
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2870 (important): cri-tools
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2871 (medium): jetty
May 29, 2025	ALAS-2025-2872 (medium): microcode_ctl
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2848 (medium): qt5-qt3d
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2849 (important): libsoup
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2850 (important): java-1.8.0-openjdk
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2851 (important): amazon-cloudwatch-agent
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2852 (medium): edk2
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2853 (medium): pcs
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2854 (important): kernel
May 13, 2025	ALAS-2025-2855 (low): jetty
May 13, 2025	ALASTOMCAT9-2025-017 (important): tomcat
May 13, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-071 (important): kernel
May 13, 2025	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-091 (important): kernel
May 13, 2025	ALASCORRETTO8-2025-019 (important): java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto

 

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
May 27, 2025	ALAS-2025-1979 (important): libsoup
May 27, 2025	ALAS-2025-1980 (important): ppp
May 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-1976 (important): freetype
May 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-1977 (important): kernel
May 12, 2025	ALAS-2025-1978 (important): ghostscript

 

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
June 02 - 05, 2025	In-person Event	POST/CON 25: Postman's Annual User Conference	All levels
June 03, 2025	Virtual Event	Start Smart with GenAI	All levels
June 04 - 06, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Sydney 2025	All Levels
June 04, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Stockholm 2025	All Levels
June 05, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Hamburg 2025	All Levels
June 09, 2025	Virtual Event	Winning the $8B Game with Fan 360	All levels
June 10 - 12, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Washington, D.C. 2025	All Levels
June 11, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Madrid 2025	All Levels
June 17, 2025	In-person Event	Weights & Biases Fully Connected: AWS GameDay	All levels
June 18, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Milan 2025	All Levels
June 19 - 21, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Shanghai 2025	All Levels
June 19, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Mumbai 2025	All Levels
June 25 - 27, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit Japan 2025	All Levels
June 26, 2025	Virtual Event	AWS Summit Online - India 2025	All Levels
July 16, 2025	In-person event	AWS Summit New York City 2025	All Levels

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
June 02, 2025	Driving Smarter Design with Scalable AI | Amazon Web Services
June 02, 2025	Dymocks: Turning the Page on Bookstore Innovation | Retail Insights with AWS | Amazon Web Services
June 02, 2025	AWS + F1 | Get Closer to F1 | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	United Airlines scales governance, compliance, and resilience with AWS | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	AWS Innovation with Greenway Health | Innovation Ambassadors | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	REA India on AWS Enterprise Support | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	Darktrace delivers bespoke security deployments at a global scale with AWS | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	Delivering unmissable fan experiences with OtherLevels’ AI Digital Twins | Amazon Web Services
May 30, 2025	Building Resilient Cloud Services 8: Building resilient applications on AWS
May 30, 2025	Building Resilient Cloud Services 7: Mitigating software risks
May 30, 2025	Building Resilient Cloud Services 6: Operational Excellence: How AWS monitors and runs its services
May 30, 2025	Building Resilient Cloud Services 5: Operational Excellence: How AWS develops & deploys services
May 29, 2025	Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS | Amazon Web Services
May 29, 2025	Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon FSx for Lustre | Amazon Web Services
May 29, 2025	Controls implemented with RCPin AWS Control Tower | Amazon Web Services

 

AWS Tech Tales:

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name
2025-06-02	The Tale of AI Chat Moderation
2025-06-09	The Tale of Trusted Advisor Recommendations