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

Approach again in 2015 I confirmed you learn how to Subscribe to AWS Public IP Handle Adjustments by way of Amazon SNS. Immediately I’m pleased to inform you which you could now obtain well timed, detailed details about releases and updates to AWS by way of the identical, easy mechanism.

Each day Function Updates
Merely subscribe to matter arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:692768080016:aws-new-feature-updates utilizing the e-mail protocol and ensure the subscription within the common approach:

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

After the introduction, the e-mail comprises a JSON illustration of the day by day characteristic updates:

As famous within the message, the JSON content material can be out there on-line at URLs that seem like https://aws-new-features.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/replace/2023-02-27.json . You can too 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 adjustments and additions to managed insurance policies that shall be of specific curiosity to AWS prospects who presently manually observe after which confirm the influence that these adjustments might have on their safety profile. Right here’s a pattern listing of adjustments (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 comprises a hyperlink to a treasure trove of extra data. Listed here 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 comprises the transposed model:

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

The EC2 Occasion Sorts Configuration hyperlink results in detailed details about every occasion sort:

Every web page additionally features a hyperlink to the identical data in JSON kind. For instance (EC2 Occasion Sorts 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 Sorts
• RDS DB Engine Variations
• Amazon Nimble Occasion Sorts
• Amazon MSK Apache Kafka Variations

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

Issues to Know
Listed here are a few issues that it’s best to be mindful concerning the AWS Each day Function Updates:

Content material – The content material supplied within the Each day Function 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 Function Updates cowl all AWS Areas within the public partition. The place attainable, it additionally supplies details about GovCloud areas; this presently consists of EC2 Occasion Sorts, SageMaker Occasion Sorts, and Amazon Nimble Occasion Sorts.

Area Mappings – The interior 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 in addition when new AWS Areas are enabled.

Updates – On days when there aren’t any updates, there won’t 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 supplied for informational functions, and you continue to have to do your individual analysis and testing earlier than deploying to manufacturing.

— Jeff;