Subscribe to AWS Each day Characteristic Updates by way of Amazon SNS

Means again in 2015 I confirmed you Subscribe to AWS Public IP Deal with Adjustments by way of Amazon SNS. In the present day I’m pleased to inform you that you could now obtain well timed, detailed details about releases and updates to AWS by way of the identical, easy mechanism.

Each day Characteristic Updates
Merely subscribe to matter arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:692768080016:aws-new-feature-updates utilizing the e-mail protocol and make sure the subscription within the normal manner:

You’ll obtain each day emails that begin off like this, with an introduction and a abstract of the replace:

After the introduction, the e-mail incorporates a JSON illustration of the each day function updates:

As famous within the message, the JSON content material can also be accessible on-line at URLs that seem like https://aws-new-features.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/replace/2023-02-27.json . You can even edit the date within the URL to entry historic knowledge going again as much as six months.

The e-mail message additionally consists of detailed details about modifications and additions to managed insurance policies that will probably be of specific curiosity to AWS clients who at the moment manually observe after which confirm the impression that these modifications could have on their safety profile. Right here’s a pattern listing of modifications (extra permissions) to present managed insurance policies:

And right here’s a brand new managed coverage:

Even Extra Info
The header of the e-mail incorporates a hyperlink to a treasure trove of extra data. Listed below are some examples:

AWS Areas and AWS Companies – A pair of tables. The primary one features a row for every AWS Area and a column for every service, and the second incorporates the transposed model:

AWS Areas and EC2 Occasion Varieties – Once more, a pair of tables. The primary one features a row for every AWS Area and a column for every EC2 occasion kind, and the second incorporates the transposed model:

The EC2 Occasion Varieties Configuration hyperlink results in detailed details about every occasion kind:

Every web page additionally features a hyperlink to the identical data in JSON type. For instance (EC2 Occasion Varieties Configuration), begins like this:

{
    "a1.2xlarge": {
        "af-south-1": "-",
        "ap-east-1": "-",
        "ap-northeast-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "ap-northeast-2": "-",
        "ap-northeast-3": "-",
        "ap-south-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "ap-south-2": "-",
        "ap-southeast-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "ap-southeast-2": "a1.2xlarge",
        "ap-southeast-3": "-",
        "ap-southeast-4": "-",
        "ca-central-1": "-",
        "eu-central-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "eu-central-2": "-",
        "eu-north-1": "-",
        "eu-south-1": "-",
        "eu-south-2": "-",
        "eu-west-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "eu-west-2": "-",
        "eu-west-3": "-",
        "me-central-1": "-",
        "me-south-1": "-",
        "sa-east-1": "-",
        "us-east-1": "a1.2xlarge",
        "us-east-2": "a1.2xlarge",
        "us-gov-east-1": "-",
        "us-gov-west-1": "-",
        "us-west-1": "-",
        "us-west-2": "a1.2xlarge"
    },

Different data consists of:

• VPC Endpoints
• AWS Companies Built-in with Service Quotas
• Amazon SageMaker Occasion Varieties
• RDS DB Engine Variations
• Amazon Nimble Occasion Varieties
• Amazon MSK Apache Kafka Variations

Info Sources
The data is pulled from a number of public sources, cross-checked, after which issued. Listed below are a number of the issues that we search for:

Issues to Know
Listed below are a few issues that you must take into accout in regards to the AWS Each day Characteristic Updates:

Content material – The content material offered within the Each day Characteristic Updates and within the treasure trove of extra data will proceed to develop as new options are added to AWS.

Area Protection – The Each day Characteristic Updates cowl all AWS Areas within the public partition. The place attainable, it additionally offers details about GovCloud areas; this at the moment consists of EC2 Occasion Varieties, SageMaker Occasion Varieties, and Amazon Nimble Occasion Varieties.

Area Mappings – The inner knowledge that drives the entire data associated to AWS Areas is up to date as soon as a day if there are relevant new options, and likewise when new AWS Areas are enabled.

Updates – On days when there aren’t any updates, there is not going to be an e-mail notification.

Utilization – Just like the updates on the What’s New web page and the related RSS feed, the updates are offered for informational functions, and you continue to must do your individual analysis and testing earlier than deploying to manufacturing.

— Jeff;