AWS Announcements Shownotes
Generated on: March 21, 2025
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Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Amazon EKS Pod Identity
Announcing support of AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports Internet Protocol version 6
Amazon EMR Serverless achieves FedRAMP High authorization
Application integration
AWS CodeBuild now supports organization and enterprise level GitHub self-hosted runners
Amazon EventBridge expands IAM execution role support to all targets
Amazon GameLift Servers launches Game Server Wrapper for rapid onboarding
AppSync Events adds publishing over WebSocket for real-time pub/sub
AWS Amplify Hosting announces deployment skew protection support
Amazon EventBridge expands enhanced event source discovery to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS CodePipeline introduces CodeBuild and Commands rule for stage level condition
AWS CodePipeline supports invoking pipeline execution with a new action type
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock’s capabilities now generally available within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
DeepSeek-R1 is available fully-managed in Amazon Bedrock
Meta’s Llama 3.2 models are now available for fine-tuning in Amazon Bedrock
Business applications
AWS CodeConnections adds support for new condition key
Announcing the New AWS Wickr Admin Console
Compute
Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs now integrates with AWS Config
Accelerate serverless development with ready-to-use Serverless Land Patterns in Visual Studio Code
Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.48xlarge instances in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions
Database
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports multiple integrations
Amazon Neptune Database now supports R7i instances
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in February 2025
Amazon Data Firehose now delivers real-time streaming data into Amazon S3 Tables
Management & governance
AWS CloudFormation Hooks' new invocation targets and managed Hooks are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Networking & Content Delivery
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lisbon, Portugal
Security, Identity, & Compliance
Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache
Amazon Inspector expands ECR support for minimal container base images and enhanced detections
AWS Service Reference Information now supports resources and condition keys
Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Verified Access achieves FedRAMP High and Moderate authorization
Storage
Amazon S3 reduces pricing for S3 object tagging by 35%
Amazon S3 Tables add Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
Amazon S3 Tables integration with SageMaker Lakehouse is now generally available
AWS Backup adds support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS in additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables add create and query table support in the S3 console
AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx
Amazon S3 Access Grants simplify authentication when using both IAM and Identity Provider permissions
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