Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 extends instance support to Amazon EC2 t3.medium and r5 instances, in addition to previously supported Amazon EC2 r6g instances. You can now use Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 free trial with t3.medium instance and upto 96 vCPUs and 768 GiB RAM with r5 instances. Please refer to supported instance specifications to learn more.

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. 

AWS Control Tower now offers single-region support for Terraform through account factory customization. You can now customize new and existing AWS accounts prior to provisioning them from AWS Control Tower using Terraform open source. With this release, you can now use AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to define account blueprints using Terraform. The account blueprint describes the specific resources and configurations that are used in an account as a template to scale multiple AWS accounts. Now, customers who prefer using Terraform have the same flexibility and immediate access to the account after it is provisioned.

Amazon QuickSight administrators can now access user level cost and usage data for all user types in AWS Billing Cost and Usage Reports in a standardized format. This common format across reader, authors, and admin user types will allow QuickSight customers to create standardized cost breakdowns of their deployments, and enable cost charge back to internal teams and stakeholders. This change is applicable in all regions where Amazon QuickSight is available.  

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 21c.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use their own SQL Server installation media when creating an instance. By using Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), customers may leverage their existing SQL Server licenses with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Managed features of RDS Custom for SQL Server include Multi-AZ deployment, point-in-time recovery and more.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for account level data protection policy configuration, you can now create a data protection policy that will be applied to all existing and future log groups within your AWS account. 

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory customers can access directory administrative EC2 instances easily from the AWS Directory Service console. Now, within minutes you can deploy a preconfigured domain-joined EC2 instance with Microsoft Active Directory administrative tools.

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive via AWS SDK or Command Line Interface (CLI). Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Now, customers can use AWS SDK or CLI to move messages from the dead-letter queue to programmatically manage the lifecycle of their unconsumed messages at scale. 

Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now supports open-source data lake storage frameworks Apache Hudi 0.13, Apache Iceberg 1.2.1, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake 2.0.2. These frameworks simplify incremental data processing of large data sets using ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions and make it simpler to store and process large data sets in your data lakes.