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95 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 19 – Nov 25, 2021

Wednesday, Nov 24

AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting
EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units
Amazon QuickSight launches versioning in datasets
Now execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR Studio
The Amazon Chime SDK now offers enhanced echo reduction
AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning
AWS App Runner supports GitHub Actions to build and deploy applications
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics
Amazon Redshift delivers better cold query performance to Amazon Web Services China regions
AWS WAF adds support for Captcha
Amazon DynamoDB now helps you meet regulatory compliance and business continuity requirements through enhanced backup features in AWS Backup
Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a source
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers Identity Resolution to consolidate similar profiles
New AWS Managed Templates for IoT Jobs enable customers to deploy remote operations to IoT fleets with no code
AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates
Amazon Redshift announces native support for spatial GEOGRAPHY datatype
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source
Amazon QuickSight adds new Exasol data connector
AWS launches NAT64 and DNS64 capabilities to enable communication between IPv6 and IPv4 services
Amazon Managed Grafana adds support for Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift data sources and Geomap visualization
Elastic Fabric Adapter now supports new instance sizes within supported Amazon EC2 instance types
Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp
Announcing new performance enhancements for Amazon Redshift data sharing
AWS IoT SiteWise announces three new enhancements that make it easier to ingest equipment data to the cloud
Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Translate

Tuesday, Nov 23

Now prepare data and build models using TensorFlow 2.6 and PyTorch 1.8 in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks
Announcing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management Console
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports checking for blue/green deployment when making configuration changes.
Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Amazon Chime SDK meetings live transcription now supports content identification and custom language models
Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 6.2
Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)
Amazon Lex launches support for Amazon Polly Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS) voices for speech interactions
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now stores contact history at no charge to help personalize customer service
Announcing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)
AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly
Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now provides console based access to Windows instances with enhanced security protocols
Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows
Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic
AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in two additional AWS regions
New features for AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
New data management APIs for Amazon FinSpace
Amazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filters
Amazon Redshift launches RA3 Reserved Instance migration feature
Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows
AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)
AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source
Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
Amazon Voice Focus as an Amazon Machine Image

Monday, Nov 22

You can now securely connect to your Amazon MSK clusters over the internet
You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes
Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune
Amazon Athena adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances
Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling
Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g Graviton2-based instances
Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights now supports AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor (General Availability)
AWS Lambda launches the metric OffsetLag for Amazon MSK and Self-managed Kafka
Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic
Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free Trial
Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 12
Amazon EventBridge cross-Region support now expands to more Regions
Amazon ECS for Windows now supports ECS Exec
Amazon Connect now supports custom contact attributes as search filters on the contact search page

Friday, Nov 19

Introducing spelling support in Amazon Lex
AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3
Amazon Athena accelerates queries with AWS Glue Data Catalog partition indexes
AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images
You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets
AWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpoint
Amazon Linux 2 AMI is now available with kernel 5.10
Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions
General Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization
Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce supports Wisdom to quickly solve customer issues
Amazon Forecast announces new APIs that create up to 40% more accurate forecasts and provide explainability
AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue
AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports cross account registration of model versions
Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce supports ML-based voice authentication
Amazon Pinpoint now includes an SMS simulator feature
Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type