Weekly news | 2025-06-11

news

• Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
• At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
• AWS Now Requires Explicit OIDC Trust Conditions

• AWS:
  • API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs
  • Athena managed query results to streamline analysis workflows
  • Backup SNS notifications and EventBridge events for backup indexes
  • CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL
  • CloudWatch logs transformation for Contributor Insights
  • Compute Optimizer Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations
  • Connect hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
  • Cost Optimization Hub support Amazon Aurora
  • DataZone upgrade domain to SageMaker
  • Direct Connect location and expansion in Taipei, Republic Of China (ROC)
  • EC2
    • delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
    • Pricing and usage model updates for NVIDIA GPUs
  • EKS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes
  • ENA Express +120 new instances
  • Entity Resolution Near real-time matching
  • HealthOmics automatic detection of WDL workflow parameters
  • Invoice Summary API is GA
  • KMS on-demand key rotation for imported keys
  • Lex extends custom vocabulary feature to additional languages
  • Managed Service for Apache Flink IPv6 endpoints
  • Marketplace localized experience in four additional languages
  • Network Firewall new monitoring dashboard
  • OpenSearch Service Ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence
  • Private CA MS Active Directory child domains
  • Q Developer
    • agentic coding experience is now available within JetBrains and Visual Studio
    • CLI now supports Claude Sonnet 4
    • optimize AWS costs
    • Developer Chat agentic capabilities
  • Redshift increased concurrency for vacuum operations
  • Resource Groups
    • support PrivateLink
    • supports IPv6
  • SageMaker AI Training Jobs P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA B200 GPUs | GA
  • SageMaker Studio new UX with Unified Studio
  • Site-to-Site VPN three new capabilities for enhanced security
  • VPC Route Server logging enhancements
  • WAF ASN match support
  • Wickr e for files

tooling

• container: Native OCI “Containers” (lightweight VMs) Coming to macOS
• aws-finops-mcp-server: An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that brings powerful AWS FinOps capabilities directly into your AI assistant
• Prompt-AI: AI inference request GitHub Models via this GitHub Action

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