AWS News Jan 05 - Jan 11

This week: Lambda adds dot NET ten as a managed runtime, ECS brings tmpfs mounts to Fargate for fast in-memory scratch storage, and RDS for SQL Server expands cross-region read replicas to sixteen new regions. Plus EC two Capacity Manager now tracks Spot interruption metrics, and Amazon Q gains integrations with Box, Canva, PagerDuty and more.

Compute

• EC2 Capacity Manager: Spot interruption metrics (running instances, interruption counts/rates)
• ECS: tmpfs mounts on Fargate/Managed Instances for in-memory scratch storage
• Lambda: .NET 10 managed runtime + container base image with LTS support

Networking

• Client VPN: Quickstart setup - 3 inputs to create endpoint (CIDR, cert, subnet)

Database

• DocumentDB: Now in Asia Pacific Jakarta region
• RDS SQL Server: Cross-region read replicas in 16 additional regions (up to 15 replicas)
• Lightsail: Larger DB bundles - 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM, 960GB SSD

Messaging

• Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: External HTTP auth server support (v4.2+, M7g)
• Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: Mutual TLS certificate-based authentication

Analytics & ML

• EMR Serverless: Cost allocation tags per job run (not just application)
• MWAA: Apache Airflow 2.11 + Python 3.12 support
• Q: Third-party AI agents (Box, Canva, PagerDuty) + expanded actions library

Management

• AWS Config: 21 new resource types (EC2, SageMaker, S3 Tables)

Marketplace

• Seller Reporting: Payment collection status visibility (invoiced/collected/disbursed)

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