Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates through Amazon SNS

Way again in 2015 I confirmed you learn how to Subscribe to AWS Public IP Address Changes through Amazon SNS. Today I’m joyful to let you know that you could now obtain well timed, detailed details about releases and updates to AWS through the identical, easy mechanism.

Daily Feature Updates
Simply 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 ordinary approach:

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

After the introduction, the e-mail accommodates a JSON illustration of the every day characteristic updates:

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

The e-mail message additionally contains detailed details about modifications and additions to managed insurance policies that can be of explicit curiosity to AWS prospects who at the moment manually monitor after which confirm the influence that these modifications could have on their safety profile. Here’s a pattern listing of modifications (extra permissions) to current managed insurance policies:

And right here’s a brand new managed coverage:

Even More Information
The header of the e-mail accommodates a hyperlink to a treasure trove of extra data. Here are some examples:

AWS Regions and AWS Services – A pair of tables. The first one features a row for every AWS Region and a column for every service, and the second accommodates the transposed model:

AWS Regions and EC2 Instance Types – Again, a pair of tables. The first one features a row for every AWS Region and a column for every EC2 occasion sort, and the second accommodates the transposed model:

The EC2 Instance Types Configuration hyperlink results in detailed details about every occasion sort:

Each web page additionally features a hyperlink to the identical data in JSON kind. For instance (EC2 Instance Types 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"
    },

Other data contains:

• VPC Endpoints
• AWS Services Integrated with Service Quotas
• Amazon SageMaker Instance Types
• RDS DB Engine Versions
• Amazon Nimble Instance Types
• Amazon MSK Apache Kafka Versions

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

Things to Know
Here are a few issues that it’s best to remember concerning the AWS Daily Feature Updates:

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

Region Coverage – The Daily Feature Updates cowl all AWS Regions within the public partition. Where attainable, it additionally gives details about GovCloud areas; this at the moment contains EC2 Instance Types, SageMaker Instance Types, and Amazon Nimble Instance Types.

Region Mappings – The inside knowledge that drives all the data associated to AWS Regions is up to date as soon as a day if there are relevant new options, and in addition when new AWS Regions are enabled.

Updates – On days when there aren’t any updates, there won’t be an e-mail notification.

Usage – Similar to 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.

Command Line Subscription – If you’ve gotten entry to the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), you’ll be able to subscribe from the command line:

$ aws sns subscribe --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:692768080016:aws-new-feature-updates --protocol e-mail --notification-endpoint jbarr+1@amazon.com
{
    "SubscriptionArn": "pending affirmation"
}

— Jeff;