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

Manner again in 2015 I confirmed you find out how to Subscribe to AWS Public IP Handle Modifications by way of Amazon SNS. Immediately I’m joyful to let you know you can now obtain well timed, detailed details about releases and updates to AWS by way of the identical, easy mechanism.

Every day Function Updates
Merely subscribe to subject arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:692768080016:aws-new-feature-updates utilizing the e-mail protocol and ensure the subscription within the typical means:

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 accommodates a JSON illustration of the each day function updates:

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

The e-mail message additionally contains detailed details about modifications and additions to managed insurance policies that will likely be of explicit curiosity to AWS clients who presently manually monitor after which confirm the affect that these modifications might have on their safety profile. Right here’s a pattern listing of modifications (extra permissions) to current managed insurance policies:

And right here’s a brand new managed coverage:

Even Extra Data
The header of the e-mail accommodates 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 accommodates 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 sort, and the second accommodates the transposed model:

The EC2 Occasion Varieties 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 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 contains:

• 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

Data Sources
The knowledge 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 it is best to remember in regards to the AWS Every day Function Updates:

Content material – The content material supplied within the Every 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 Every day Function Updates cowl all AWS Areas within the public partition. The place potential, it additionally offers details about GovCloud areas; this presently contains EC2 Occasion Varieties, SageMaker Occasion Varieties, and Amazon Nimble Occasion Varieties.

Area Mappings – The inner information that drives all the 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 are not any updates, there won’t be an electronic mail notification.

Utilization – Much 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;