AWS Lambda now enables Lambda Extensions to collect enhanced monitoring and observability data about your function execution through the new AWS Lambda Telemetry API. The Telemetry API provides a simple interface for extensions to receive logs, platform traces, and function invocation-level metrics directly from Lambda. Today, you can benefit from these enhanced capabilities by utilizing Telemetry API enabled extensions from these AWS Partner Network (APN) partners: Coralogix, Datadog, Dynatrace, Lumigo, New Relic, Sedai, Serverless.com, Site24x7, Sumo Logic, Sysdig, and Thundra.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database  by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.2. Refer to the Aurora version policy  to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2023.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers an API to quickly modify the streaming protocol on your existing WorkSpaces without requiring you to go through migrate WorkSpace process. This feature will allow you to retain the root volumes after you switch your WorkSpaces streaming protocol from PC-over-IP (PCoIP) to WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) or vice-versa. End users of WorkSpaces can now easily take advantage of WSP features like Webcam and Smart Card support. WorkSpaces administrators will benefit from this feature because they will not have to manage custom images and bundles configured solely for the purpose of utilizing multiple streaming protocols supported by WorkSpaces.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports a higher default quota for subscription filter policies. With the increased quota, you can now have up to 10,000 subscription filter policies per account, and can apply up to 200 subscription filter policies per topic. By default, topic subscribers receive every message published to a topic. With subscription filter policies, subscribers can filter out unwanted messages, simplifying their architecture and optimizing the utilization of their resources.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (Bahrain).

AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, has achieved FedRAMP High authority to operate in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. You can now use AWS AppConfig to more quickly and safely update software, and build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of ECS task scale-in protection, a new feature that enables customers to protect long-running tasks from being terminated by scale-in events and deployments. This feature helps simplify orchestration of queue-processing asynchronous applications such as a video transcoding jobs wherein some tasks may be running for hours even when cumulative service utilization is low or when a new code version is being deployed while some tasks have not yet finished completing ongoing work that would be expensive to reprocess.