awesome-kubernetes/docs/aws-newfeatures.md

AWS New Features

• AWS Config Rules – Dynamic Compliance Checking for Cloud Resources
• Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service
• Coming Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts
• 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
• AWS Mobile Hub – Build, Test, and Monitor Mobile Applications
• EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling, and More
• CloudWatch Dashboards – Create & Use Customized Metrics Views
• AWS Lambda Update – Python, VPC, Increased Function Duration, Scheduling, and More
• AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices
• Amazon EFS: Amazon Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for Amazon EC2
• New – Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes
  • Amazon EBS Encryption
• Now Add or Modify Request Headers Forwarded From Amazon CloudFront to Origin
• AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for AWS WAF and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
• Amazon WorkMail – Now Generally Available
• London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!
• New – Scheduled Reserved Instances
• AWS CloudShell - Command-Line Access to AWS Resources
• github.com/hayao-k/cdk-ecr-image-scan-notify
• cloudonaut.io: Seamless EC2 monitoring with the Unified CloudWatch Agent
• amazon.com: Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control
• infoq.com: AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues
• infoq.com: AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions
• New AWS Solutions Implementation: Tag Tamer Tag Tamer helps you apply tags to new and existing AWS resources. Using the pre-built web user interface ensures a consistent tagging implementation—providing improved cost allocations, automation, access controls, and organization.
• Introducing new self-paced courses to improve Java and Python code quality with Amazon CodeGuru
• Automate preapproved operations with AWS Service Catalog service actions Most of my enterprise customers have the need to allow their users to execute self-service operational tasks while restricting access to a minimum set of services. With AWS Service Catalog, you can provision pre-approved products, when combined with AWS Service Catalog service actions, you can provide simple predefined actions associated with the AWS Service Catalog products that their users can execute.
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
• Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
• theregister.com: AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
• AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
• EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot to AWS
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
• New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN releases updated Download Configuration utility With this update, Site-to-Site VPN customers can generate configuration templates for compatible Customer Gateway (CGW) devices, making it easier to create VPN connections to AWS.
• New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available
• Application Load Balancer now enables AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with Network Load Balancer
• Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together
• siliconangle.com: Amazon debuts fully managed, Prometheus-based container monitoring service
• aws.amazon.com: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler
• Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation
• AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units
• ==Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available==
• ==venturebeat.com: Amazon’s AWS expands free ‘egress’ data transfer limits==
• linux.slashdot.org: AWS Embraces Fedora Linux for Its Cloud-Based 'Amazon Linux'
• AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management
• techcrunch.com: AWS to launch over 30 new Local Zones internationally starting in 2022
• ==venturebeat.com: 6 big Kubernetes container security launches at AWS re:Invent 2021==
• forbes.com: AWS re:Invent - A Roundup Of Container Services Announcements
• ==aws.amazon.com/blogs: Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021==
• infoq.com: Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
• infoq.com: AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
• theregister.com: The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more
• aws.amazon.com: Share your Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards with anyone using AWS Single Sign-On
• New – Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer
• AWS Backup Adds Support for Amazon S3
• Migrate AWS Landing Zone solution to AWS Control Tower AWS Control Tower creates your landing zone using AWS Organizations, thereby bringing together ongoing account management and governance, as well as implementation of best practices based on our experience of working with thousands of customers as they migrate to the cloud.
• infoq.com: Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ Deployments
• Announcing Amazon Elastic File System Replication Amazon EFS Replication provides you with an easy way to keep an up-to-date copy of your file system in a second AWS Region or within the same Region.
• infoq.com: Amazon Announces Elastic File System Replication for Multi-Region Deployments
• medium.com/@fabrizio-cafolla: Dockerize Python for AWS Lambda — Deploy with GitHub Workflow
• Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
• thenewstack.io: HashiCorp Adds Consul and Vault to Cloud Platform for AWS
• Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers
• Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG) preview updated with new capabilities
• xataka.com: Hasta AWS se pasa al low-code: Workflow Studio es su primera herramienta de desarrollo de bajo código
• Easily Manage Security Group Rules with the New Security Group Rule ID
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
• AWS Network Firewall – Nuevo Servicio Gestionado de Firewall para VPC
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in
• EC2-Classic Networking is Retiring – Here’s How to Prepare
• Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing
• infoq.com: Amazon Introduces Cloudwatch Cross Account Alarms to Consolidate Management
• Monitor, Evaluate, and Demonstrate Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Manager
• Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features
• AWS Lambda Now Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage
• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (General Availability)
• AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
• ==AWS Single Sign-On launches configurable synchronization for Microsoft Active Directory==
• Integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations
• AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies (CMPs)
• Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center APIs to manage users and groups at scale
• Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
• IAM Access Analyzer now reviews your AWS CloudTrail history to identify actions used across 140 AWS services and generates fine-grained policies
• Announcing dark mode support in the AWS Management Console
• IAM Identity Center adds session management features for improved user experience and cloud security
• Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account
• Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• Now Open–AWS Region in Spain
• AWS Identity and Access Management now supports multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices
• Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation
• Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group
• Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations
• AWS Backup Audit Manager adds centralized reporting for AWS Organizations
• Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts
• Announcing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates
• Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (XKS)
• Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
• Amazon EKS launches automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers
• Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup
• Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager
• Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments
• AWS Cost Explorer’s New Look and Common Use Cases
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs Provide an optional “StorageResolution” parameter with a value of 1 or 60 (default) to indicate the resolution of the metric in seconds.
• AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources List resources that are defined in SAM apps or deployed within a CloudFormation stack, including endpoints, methods, and stack outputs to test the deployed app
• Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience
• AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups
• Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.25
• Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations
• Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account
• Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections
• AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support request headers and composite keys
• New – AWS DMS Serverless: Automatically Provisions and Scales Capacity for Migration and Data Replication
• Temporary elevated access management with IAM Identity Center
• AWS Config supports recording exclusions by resource type
• Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity
• Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon EBS
  • (2026) OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS 🌟 - Official announcement regarding the general availability of OpenAI frontier models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock, complete with AWS IAM, PrivateLink, and compliance support.
  • (2026) Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available 🌟 - AWS announces the general availability of C9g and C9gd compute-optimized EC2 instances powered by Graviton5, offering 25% better performance and fast DDR5 8800MT/s memory.
  • (2026) AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026) 🌟 - A summary of recent AWS announcements, featuring the no-code Agentic CX Designer for Amazon Connect, AMI watermarking, and community-focused open governance updates.
  • (2026) AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026) 🌟 - A comprehensive digest of the New York Summit launches, highlighting Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Grok 4.3 availability, Vietnam edge expansions, and important S3 price adjustments.

Compute

• (2026) Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs 🌟 - AWS introduces G7 instances featuring NVIDIA's RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, targeted at high-efficiency AI inference, graphics, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• (2026) Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors 🌟 - Amazon EC2 introduces Graviton5-powered general purpose instances providing significant compute and database performance increases alongside the Nitro Isolation Engine.

General Announcements

• (2026) Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026 🌟 - A comprehensive summary of major Agentic AI, storage, and developer tool releases announced at AWS Summit New York 2026.
• (2026) AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026) 🌟 - A roundup of announcements from the New York Summit 2026, including the AWS FinOps Agent preview, Gemma 4 models on Bedrock, and GA of Graviton5 EC2 instances.
• (2026) AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026) 🌟 - AWS announcements covering the GA of AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, Bring Your Own Media for SQL Server RDS, and Cognito Multi-Region replication.