AWS Weekly Roundup — AWS Step Functions, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon LightSail, Amazon VPC, and more — January 29, 2024

This article provides a roundup of AWS news, launches, and events for the week of January 29, 2024.

Specifically, the article covers:

• New service launches and updates: AWS Step Functions integration with 33 new services, Amazon ECS support for traffic encryption with TLS certificates, Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro support for Kubernetes 1.29, IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail, idempotency for route table and network ACL creation in Amazon VPC, audio-only pricing for Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming, and the ability for sellers to resell third-party professional services in AWS Marketplace.
• New service availability in additional AWS Regions: Amazon Q in QuickSight (Europe Frankfurt), Amazon Launch Wizard (Asia Pacific Melbourne, Europe Spain and Zurich), Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle (Europe Paris), Amazon EC2 M7a and R7a instances (Asia Pacific Tokyo), Amazon EC2 C7i instances (Europe Frankfurt and South America São Paulo), Amazon EC2 High Memory instances (Europe Stockholm), and Amazon Connect SMS (Asia Pacific Seoul and Sydney).
• Other AWS news and initiatives: Exporting Software Bill of Materials using Amazon Inspector, AWS open source newsletter updates, and upcoming AWS events like AWS Innovate: AI/ML and Data Edition, AWS Summit Paris, and AWS Community re:Invent re:Caps.