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Amazon CloudWatch launches natural language query generation for OpenSearch PPL and SQL

AWS adds AI to CloudWatch so you don't have to learn their query language. Because learning PPL and SQL was the REAL problem with their logging costs and complexity. 🙄

AWS Directory Service launches Hybrid Edition for Managed Microsoft AD

AWS announces "Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory Hybrid Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD" because apparently their product naming team is paid by the word. 🤦‍♂️

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.43 and 8.4.6

AWS announces RDS MySQL version updates with automatic upgrades! Because nothing says "fully managed database" like hoping your maintenance window doesn't coincide with your entire region going down. 🔥

Amazon SES introduces tenant isolation with automated reputation policies

AWS announces "Simple" Email Service can now do complex multi-tenant isolation with automated reputation policies. Because nothing says "simple" like nested configuration sets and EventBridge integrations.

Amazon S3 Access Points now support tags for Attribute-Based Access Control

AWS announces free feature to manage permissions for managing permissions to manage your bucket permission management permissions. Now with more acronyms! ABAC + IAM + S3 = OMG

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams expands coverage to three new AWS Regions

AWS announces Kinesis Video Streams in 3 new regions, because apparently "video streaming service" was too simple a name for what's basically Twitch minus the chat spam and emotes 🎥

Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances

After years of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" AWS finally admits their instances get stuck and lets you CTRL-ALT-DELETE them yourself. Bonus: they still bill you for the whole hour while it's "shutting down" 🙃

AWS expands IoT service coverage to AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions.

AWS announces 4 IoT services with completely forgettable names are now in 2 more regions. Can't wait to see how they'll make "connecting devices" cost more than my mortgage. 🤑

AWS IoT Core adds message queuing for MQTT shared subscription

AWS IoT Core now queues messages when devices disconnect, which is amazing since IoT devices *never* lose connection. Don't worry, they'll charge you for both the initial message AND the queued copy. How thoughtful! 🤑

Amazon SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues

AWS finally admits SNS+SQS queues were unfair this whole time. Their fix? Add yet another ID field to track. Because nothing says "Simple" Notification Service like increasingly complex metadata requirements.

Amazon Location Service Migration SDK now supports Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps capabilities

AWS: "Our Location Service now has more Google Maps features! Just migrate to us!"
Translation: "We copied Google's homework but charge less. Please notice us."

Amazon SNS launches additional message filtering operators

AWS adds wildcard filtering to "Simple" Notification Service, making it slightly less simple. But hey, at least you won't need a Lambda function to filter messages anymore! Unless you hit the pricing tier cliff...

Amazon Q Developer expands multi-language support

AWS's AI assistant now speaks 8 languages, ensuring developers worldwide can be equally confused by its pricing, equally baffled by service names, and equally frustrated when it suggests using blockchain. Progress! 🌎

AWS Management Console enables discover, manage applications from anywhere in the Console

AWS finally discovers folders exist, calls it "Application-Centric Experience" because they physically cannot announce anything without making it sound like a breakthrough in computer science

Amazon Q Developer CLI announces custom agents

"Amazon Q Developer CLI Custom Agents" is peak AWS naming. It's like they're allergic to brevity. Now you can configure an AI to do your job, but first configure 47 YAML files to configure the configurator. Progress! 🤦‍♂️

AWS Clean Rooms now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge

AWS Clean Rooms now integrates with EventBridge because apparently what your data sharing needed was yet another service to tell you when your other service is servicing. At least the pricing is crystal clear (it's not).

Amazon RDS Data API for Aurora is now available in Europe (Spain) AWS region

"Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned PostgreSQL-Compatible and MySQL-Compatible clusters" is peak AWS naming. Just call it "Database HTTP" and go home.

Amazon announces Extended Support for ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS

AWS: "Upgrade to our new Redis fork or we'll charge you extra to keep using the old one. But hey, at least we're giving you 3 years notice before the extortion begins!" 🤑

AWS Batch now supports scheduling SageMaker Training jobs

AWS announces yet another way to schedule ML jobs, because apparently the other 47 ways weren't confusing enough. But don't worry, this one's "free" - you just pay for *checks notes* literally everything else.

Amazon Chime SDK now provides Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) API endpoints

AWS finally discovers IPv6 exists, adds it to Chime SDK. Next up: Supporting color displays and mice with more than one button. Welcome to 1998, everyone! 🐌

AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads

AWS Lambda now streams 200MB responses because apparently someone thought "serverless" meant "stateless S3 wrapper." Next up: Lambda becomes a full database. Why not? It's already everything else.

Database Insights provides on-demand analysis for RDS for Oracle

AWS announces ML to tell you why Oracle is slow, charges per vCPU to explain what you already knew: your database is expensive and underprovisioned. But hey, pretty graphs! 🤑

Amazon Connect Cases is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region

AWS announces Connect Cases in Cape Town, because what your support tickets really needed was yet another AWS region to get lost in while costing you more money. At least it's "built-in" 🙄

Amazon Connect Cases now displays detailed email content within the case activity feed

AWS announces groundbreaking feature: showing emails in a case feed. Next up: revolutionary ability to read words left-to-right. Only $0.0087 per character viewed, minimum 10TB commitment.

AWS DMS Schema Conversion introduces Virtual Mode

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now lets you plan migrations without actual databases! Because nothing says "confident in our pricing" like letting customers carefully evaluate costs before committing to our labyrinth of database charges.

Amazon EventBridge now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

AWS finally adds IPv6 to EventBridge, solving a problem they created by not supporting it in the first place. Next up: announcing water is wet, but only in regions where moisture is GA.

Amazon Neptune Global Database is now in five new regions

Neptune Global Database expands to 5 new regions! Because nothing says "simple graph database" like a pricing model that requires 3 PhDs and an oracle to decipher. Now you can overpay in twice as many places! 🌊💸

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is Generally Available

AWS announces DocumentDB Serverless, because apparently "MongoDB-compatible-but-not-quite" wasn't confusing enough. Now with 90% savings!*

*After you decipher our pricing calculator and sacrifice a goat to the scaling gods

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports R6in and M6in instances

AWS announces faster network for Oracle RDS, perfect for those who enjoy paying double: once for overpriced Oracle licenses, and again for AWS's "simplified" cloud hosting. Now with more acronyms!

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.10 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.42) is now generally available

AWS announces Aurora MySQL v3.10 with more storage and faster replication. Finally, a product name longer than its feature list. At least they didn't call it "Aurora MySQL Replication Accelerator Pro Max Plus"