re:Invent Begins

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 2, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Amazon CloudWatch adds context to observability data in service consoles, accelerating analysis
• Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login to support rich branding for end user journeys
• Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins
• Amazon Connect Email is now generally available
• Amazon EBS announces Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces highly responsive scaling policies
• Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks now supports instant start times and extensions
• Amazon ECR announces 10x increase in repository limit to 100,000
• Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system
• Amazon S3 now supports enforcement of conditional write operations for S3 general purpose buckets
• Application Signals provides OTEL support via X-Ray OTLP endpoint for traces
• AWS delivers enhanced root cause insights to help explain cost anomalies
• Enhanced Pricing Calculator now supports discounts and purchase commitments (in preview)
• AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity
• Announcing the new AWS User Notifications SDK
• Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito
• Announcing Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
• Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability
• Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager
• Introducing generative AI troubleshooting for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (preview)
• Understanding how certain database parameters impact scaling in Amazon Aurora Serverless v2
• Analyzing your AWS Cost Explorer data with Amazon Q Developer: Now Generally Available
• Your guide to AWS for Advertising & Marketing at re:Invent 2024
• AWS IoT Services alignment with US Cyber Trust Mark
• Streamlining AWS Organizations Cleanup Strategies

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