awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/aws-newfeatures.md

# AWS New Features

!!! info "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](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!](http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk-region.html)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [theregister.com: AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2021/07/29/aws-to-retire-ec2-classic-the-network-glue-that-helped-start-the-iaas-rush/527489)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [theregister.com: The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2021/12/09/the-big-aws-event-120-announcements-but-nothing-has-changed/605657)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Preview – AWS Backup Adds Support for Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/preview-aws-backup-adds-support-for-amazon-s3)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Config Rules – Dynamic Compliance Checking for Cloud Resources](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-config-rules-dynamic-compliance-checking-for-cloud-resources)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-inspector-automated-security-assessment-service)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Coming Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-ec2-dedicated-hosts)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [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](https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Mobile Hub – Build, Test, and Monitor Mobile Applications](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-mobile-hub-build-test-and-monitor-mobile-applications)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling, and More](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-service-update-container-registry-ecs-cli-az-aware-scheduling-and-more)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [CloudWatch Dashboards – Create & Use Customized Metrics Views](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-dashboards-create-use-customized-metrics-views)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Lambda Update – Python, VPC, Increased Function Duration, Scheduling, and More](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python-vpc-increased-function-duration-scheduling-and-more)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-cloud-services-for-connected-devices)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EFS: Amazon Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for Amazon' EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-file-system-shared-file-storage-for-amazon-ec2)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New – Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-encrypted-ebs-boot-volumes)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon WorkMail – Now Generally Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workmail-now-generally-available)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New – Scheduled Reserved Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-scheduled-reserved-instances)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS CloudShell - Command-Line Access to AWS Resources](https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/aws-cloudshell-command-line-access-to-aws-resources)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [github.com/hayao-k/cdk-ecr-image-scan-notify](https://github.com/hayao-k/cdk-ecr-image-scan-notify) <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>⭐ 29</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [cloudonaut.io: Seamless EC2 monitoring with the Unified CloudWatch Agent](https://cloudonaut.io/seamless-ec2-monitoring-with-the-unified-cloudwatch-agent)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [amazon.com: Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot' Control](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reduce-unwanted-traffic-on-your-web-site-with-aws-bot-control)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking' Issues](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/04/aws-ec2-serial-console)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/06/step-functions-workflow-studio)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New AWS Solutions Implementation: Tag Tamer](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/new-aws-solutions-implementation-tag-tamer)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Introducing new self-paced courses to improve Java and Python code quality with Amazon CodeGuru](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/new-self-paced-courses-to-improve-java-and-python-code-quality-with-amazon-codeguru)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Automate preapproved operations with AWS Service Catalog service actions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/automate-preapproved-operations-with-aws-service-catalog-service-actions)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-customers-can-assign-ip-prefixes-ec2-instances)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/amazon-rds-proxy-created-shared-virtual-private-cloud-vpc)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/amazon-vpc-cni-plugin-increases-pods-per-node-limits)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/aws-security-hub-adds-18-new-controls-foundational-security-best-practices-standard-8-new-partners-enhanced-cloud-security-posture-monitoring)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/amazon-vpc-resize-prefix-list)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure](https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-cloudformation-quickly-retry-stack-operations-from-the-point-of-failure)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Site-to-Site VPN releases updated Download Configuration utility](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/aws-site-to-site-vpn-download-configuration-utility)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-distro-for-opentelemetry-tracing-support-is-now-generally-available)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Application Load Balancer now enables AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with Network Load Balancer](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/application-load-balancer-aws-privatelink-static-ip-addresses-network-load-balancer)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/amazon-ec2-global-view-console-regions)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [siliconangle.com: Amazon debuts fully managed, Prometheus-based container' monitoring service](https://siliconangle.com/2021/09/29/amazon-debuts-fully-managed-prometheus-based-container-monitoring-service)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [aws.amazon.com: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available' with Alert Manager and Ruler](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-managed-service-for-prometheus-is-now-generally-available-with-alert-manager-and-ruler)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-aws-step-functions-supports-200-aws-services-to-enable-easier-workflow-automation)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-control-tower-supports-nested-organizational-units)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/visualize-kubernetes-clusters-one-place-amazon-eks-connector-generally-available)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [venturebeat.com: Amazon’s AWS expands free ‘egress’ data transfer limits](https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/25/amazons-aws-expands-free-egress-data-transfer-limits)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [linux.slashdot.org: AWS Embraces Fedora Linux for Its Cloud-Based 'Amazon' Linux](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/11/27/0328223/aws-embraces-fedora-linux-for-its-cloud-based-amazon-linux)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS announces the new **Amazon Inspector** for continual vulnerability management](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-inspector-continual-vulnerability-management)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [techcrunch.com: AWS to launch over 30 new Local Zones internationally starting' in 2022](https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/02/aws-to-launch-over-30-new-local-zones-starting-in-2022)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [venturebeat.com: 6 big Kubernetes container security launches at AWS re:Invent' 2021](https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/03/6-big-kubernetes-container-security-launches-at-aws-reinvent-2021)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [forbes.com: AWS re:Invent - A Roundup Of Container Services Announcements](https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2021/12/03/aws-reinventa-roundup-of-container-services-announcements)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [aws.amazon.com/blogs: Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/recap-reinvent-2021)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/kinesis-data-streams-ondemand)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [aws.amazon.com: Share your Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards with anyone using' AWS Single Sign-On](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/share-your-amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards-with-anyone-using-aws-single-sign-on)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New – Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-vpc-network-access-analyzer)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Migrate AWS Landing Zone solution to AWS Control Tower](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/migrate-aws-landing-zone-solution-to-aws-control-tower)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ' Deployments](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/aws-rds-readable-standby)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing Amazon Elastic File System Replication](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/amazon-elastic-file-system-replication)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: Amazon Announces Elastic File System Replication for Multi-Region' Deployments](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/aws-efs-replication)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [medium.com/@fabrizio-cafolla: Dockerize Python for AWS Lambda — Deploy with' GitHub Workflow](https://medium.com/@fabrizio-cafolla/dockerize-python-for-aws-lambda-deploy-with-github-workflow-9a930c1e86b1)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/02/general-availability-aws-backup-amazon-s3)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [thenewstack.io: HashiCorp Adds Consul and Vault to Cloud Platform for AWS](https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-adds-consul-and-vault-to-cloud-platform-for-aws)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/02/amazon-eks-clusters-support-user-authentication-oidc-compatible-identity-providers)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG) preview updated with new capabilities](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/amazon-managed-service-for-grafana-amg-preview-updated-with-new-capabilities)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [xataka.com: Hasta AWS se pasa al low-code: Workflow Studio es su primera' herramienta de desarrollo de bajo código](https://www.xataka.com/pro/aws-se-pasa-al-low-code-workflow-studio-su-primera-herramienta-desarrollo-codigo)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Easily Manage Security Group Rules with the New Security Group Rule ID](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/easily-manage-security-group-rules-with-the-new-security-group-rule-id)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Network Firewall – Nuevo Servicio Gestionado de Firewall para VPC](https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws-spanish/aws-network-firewall-nuevo-servicio-gestionado-de-firewall-para-vpc)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-now-lets-you-control-which-instances-to-terminate-on-scale-in)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [EC2-Classic Networking is Retiring – Here’s How to Prepare](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-classic-is-retiring-heres-how-to-prepare)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/announcing-general-availability-amazon-redshift-cross-account-data-sharing)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [infoq.com: Amazon Introduces Cloudwatch Cross Account Alarms to Consolidate' Management](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/08/aws-cloudwatch-alarms)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Monitor, Evaluate, and Demonstrate Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/monitor-evaluate-and-demonstrate-backup-compliance-with-aws-backup-audit-manager)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-managed-grafana-is-now-generally-available-with-many-new-features)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Lambda Now Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-now-supports-up-to-10-gb-ephemeral-storage)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (General Availability)](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-insights)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-shield-application-balancer-automatic-ddos-mitigation)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Single Sign-On launches configurable synchronization for Microsoft Active Directory](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-single-sign-on-configurable-synchronization-microsoft-active-directory)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/06/aws-well-architected-tool-organizations-integration)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies (CMPs)](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-single-sign-on-aws-sso-aws-identity-access-management-iam-customer-managed-policies-cmps)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center APIs to manage users and groups at scale](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-new-aws-iam-identity-center-apis-to-manage-users-and-groups-at-scale)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workspaces-introduces-ubuntu-desktops)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [IAM Access Analyzer now reviews your AWS CloudTrail history to identify actions used across 140 AWS services and generates fine-grained policies](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/iam-access-analyzer-cloudtrail-history-identify-actions-140-aws-services-fine-grained-policies)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing dark mode support in the AWS Management Console](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/dark-mode-support-aws-management-console)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [IAM Identity Center adds session management features for improved user experience and cloud security](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/iam-identity-center-session-management-features-improved-user-experience-cloud-security)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-sns-increases-default-quota-subscription-filter-policies-account)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-price-capacity-optimized-allocation-strategy-provisioning-ec2-spot-instances)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Now Open–AWS Region in Spain](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-region-in-spain)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Identity and Access Management now supports multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-identity-access-management-multi-factor-authentication-devices)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-nat-gateway-allows-select-private-ip-address-network-address-translation)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/application-load-balancers-turning-off-cross-zone-load-balancing-per-target-group)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-organizations-delegated-administrator)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Backup Audit Manager adds centralized reporting for AWS Organizations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-backup-audit-manager-centralized-reporting-aws-organizations)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-cloudwatch-cross-account-observability-multiple-aws-accounts)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-rds-blue-green-deployments-safer-simpler-faster-updates)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (XKS)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-kms-external-key-store-xks)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-amazon-s3-security-changes-are-coming-in-april-of-2023)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EKS launches automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-eks-automated-provisioning-lifecycle-management-windows-containers)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-timestream-enables-protect-data-through-aws-backup)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-rds-integration-aws-secrets-manager)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-ecs-cloudwatch-alarms-safety-deployments)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Cost Explorer’s New Look and Common Use Cases](https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/aws-cost-explorers-new-ui-and-common-use-cases)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/amazon-cloudwatch-high-resolution-metric-extraction-structured-logs)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/aws-sam-cli-sam-list-command-inspect-resources)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/amazon-guardduty-aws-europe-spain-region)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-visualize-your-vpc-resources-from-amazon-vpc-creation-experience)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/aws-network-firewall-tag-based-resource-groups)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.25](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes-version-1-25)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/03/amazon-detective-graph-visualization-interactive-security-investigations)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/enable-aws-systems-manager-default-all-ec2-instances-account)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-cloudfront-one-click-security-protections)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support request headers and composite keys](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/aws-waf-rate-based-rules-request-headers-composite-keys)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and Scales Capacity for' Migration and Data Replication](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-dms-serverless-automatically-provisions-and-scales-capacity-for-migration-and-data-replication)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Temporary elevated access management with IAM Identity Center](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/temporary-elevated-access-management-with-iam-identity-center)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [AWS Config supports recording exclusions by resource type](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/aws-config-recording-exclusions-resource-type)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon EBS](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/01/amazon-ecs-fargate-integrate-ebs)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>

## Cloud Providers

### AWS EKS

#### Security

  - [Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-eks-pod-identity) <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--primary'>[DOCUMENTATION]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[ENTERPRISE-STABLE]</span> — 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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