AWS X-Ray announces support for logging eight new data and one new management event APIs in AWS CloudTrail, enabling you to have full visibility across every AWS X-Ray API action in your AWS account for operational and security best practices. AWS X-Ray provides developers with end-to-end tracing capabilities to help debug distributed applications and quickly identify performance bottlenecks.

Today, Amazon VPC added a new feature to its DHCP option set called IPv6 preferred lease time setting, which allows customers to adjust the frequency of IPv6 lease renewals. This feature gives customers the option to increase the preferred lease time of IPv6 address assignments on Amazon EC2 Nitro instances to minimize the number of IPv6 lease renewals and prevent possible renewal failures. This setting applies to both dualstack and IPv6-only Amazon EC2 Nitro instances in the VPC.

Amazon Managed Grafana launches Enterprise plugins upgrade, enabling you to access Grafana Enterprise data source plugins such as ServiceNow, Splunk, and New Relic as well as support and training from Grafana Labs. Enterprise plugins are pre-built plugins that enable you to analyze, query, and alert on third-party enterprise systems in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace without transferring data from your original data store.

Today, AWS HealthLake added 28 new search parameters needed for payor workflows. HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service offering healthcare companies a complete view of individual and patient population health data using Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) API based transactions to securely store and transform their data into a queryable format at petabyte scale. With this release, customers can now use over 1,400 search parameters to enrich their healthcare software applications.

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Resource Map, a tool in the console that displays all your ALB resources and their relationships in a visual format on a single page, providing you a clear understanding of your ALB architecture.

In addition to security enhancements, bug fixes, and improved data replication performance with binary log (binlog), this release includes new generative AI capabilities and improved cross-region resiliency for Aurora Global Database. With this release, customers can use Aurora MySQL to build scalable generative AI applications, accessing Amazon Bedrock’s foundation models directly through SQL. This release also contains improvements that bolster the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database, enabling secondary regions to seamlessly serve read requests if the primary writer were to become unavailable during an instance restart. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.34 release notes.

Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora ML now provides access to foundation models available in Amazon Bedrock directly through SQL in the Aurora MySQL 3.06 version.

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