AWS New Features¶
Architectural Context
Detailed reference for AWS New Features in the context of Cloud Providers (Hyperscalers).
Standard Reference¶
- Now Add or Modify Request Headers Forwarded From Amazon CloudFront to Origin [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK! [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- theregister.com: AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- theregister.com: The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Preview – AWS Backup Adds Support for Amazon S3 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Config Rules – Dynamic Compliance Checking for Cloud Resources [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Coming Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Device Farm: Improve the quality of your web and mobile applications' by testing across desktop browsers and real mobile devices hosted in the AWS Cloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Mobile Hub – Build, Test, and Monitor Mobile Applications [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling, and More [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- CloudWatch Dashboards – Create & Use Customized Metrics Views [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Lambda Update – Python, VPC, Increased Function Duration, Scheduling, and More [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EFS: Amazon Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for Amazon' EC2 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New – Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon WorkMail – Now Generally Available [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New – Scheduled Reserved Instances [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS CloudShell - Command-Line Access to AWS Resources [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- github.com/hayao-k/cdk-ecr-image-scan-notify ⭐ 29 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- cloudonaut.io: Seamless EC2 monitoring with the Unified CloudWatch Agent [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- amazon.com: Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot' Control [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking' Issues [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New AWS Solutions Implementation: Tag Tamer [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Introducing new self-paced courses to improve Java and Python code quality with Amazon CodeGuru [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Automate preapproved operations with AWS Service Catalog service actions [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN releases updated Download Configuration utility [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Application Load Balancer now enables AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with Network Load Balancer [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- siliconangle.com: Amazon debuts fully managed, Prometheus-based container' monitoring service [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- aws.amazon.com: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available' with Alert Manager and Ruler [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- venturebeat.com: Amazon’s AWS expands free ‘egress’ data transfer limits [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- linux.slashdot.org: AWS Embraces Fedora Linux for Its Cloud-Based 'Amazon' Linux [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- techcrunch.com: AWS to launch over 30 new Local Zones internationally starting' in 2022 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- venturebeat.com: 6 big Kubernetes container security launches at AWS re:Invent' 2021 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- forbes.com: AWS re:Invent - A Roundup Of Container Services Announcements [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- aws.amazon.com/blogs: Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- aws.amazon.com: Share your Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards with anyone using' AWS Single Sign-On [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New – Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Migrate AWS Landing Zone solution to AWS Control Tower [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ' Deployments [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing Amazon Elastic File System Replication [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: Amazon Announces Elastic File System Replication for Multi-Region' Deployments [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- medium.com/@fabrizio-cafolla: Dockerize Python for AWS Lambda — Deploy with' GitHub Workflow [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- thenewstack.io: HashiCorp Adds Consul and Vault to Cloud Platform for AWS [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG) preview updated with new capabilities [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- xataka.com: Hasta AWS se pasa al low-code: Workflow Studio es su primera' herramienta de desarrollo de bajo código [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Easily Manage Security Group Rules with the New Security Group Rule ID [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Network Firewall – Nuevo Servicio Gestionado de Firewall para VPC [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- EC2-Classic Networking is Retiring – Here’s How to Prepare [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- infoq.com: Amazon Introduces Cloudwatch Cross Account Alarms to Consolidate' Management [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Monitor, Evaluate, and Demonstrate Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Manager [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Lambda Now Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (General Availability) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Single Sign-On launches configurable synchronization for Microsoft Active Directory [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies (CMPs) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center APIs to manage users and groups at scale [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- IAM Access Analyzer now reviews your AWS CloudTrail history to identify actions used across 140 AWS services and generates fine-grained policies [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing dark mode support in the AWS Management Console [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- IAM Identity Center adds session management features for improved user experience and cloud security [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Now Open–AWS Region in Spain [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Identity and Access Management now supports multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Backup Audit Manager adds centralized reporting for AWS Organizations [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (XKS) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EKS launches automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Cost Explorer’s New Look and Common Use Cases [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.25 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support request headers and composite keys [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and Scales Capacity for' Migration and Data Replication [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Temporary elevated access management with IAM Identity Center [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- AWS Config supports recording exclusions by resource type [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
- Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon EBS [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
Cloud Providers¶
AWS EKS¶
Security¶
- Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — Highlights the launch of EKS Pod Identity, an evolved architectural alternative to IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts). By utilizing a highly optimized local agent daemon on worker nodes, it simplifies IAM association, scales beyond IRSA session limits, and works across multiple clusters with ease. A fundamental improvement to EKS access management.
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