1. What's New 0 items
No new AWS service features to report — this module is introductory/logistical content rather than a technical AWS service.
2. Amazon News 0 items
Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.
3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items
Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.
1. What's New 5 items
AWS DevOps Agent
Kiro (Agentic IDE)
AWS Well-Architected Framework — DevOps Guidance
2. Amazon News 1 item
3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items
No deprecation, end-of-support, or discontinuation notices identified for the concepts covered in Module 1 (DevOps culture, two-pizza teams, foundational practices) in the research window.
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins specific to Module 1's conceptual content (DevOps philosophy, team structure, foundational practices) were identified in the research window.
1. What's New 9 items
AWS CloudFormation
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering AWS CloudFormation were identified in the Dec 2025 – Sep 2026 window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items
No deprecation, end-of-support, or discontinuation notices for AWS CloudFormation were identified in the research window.
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins specific to AWS CloudFormation itself were identified in the research window (see Module 3 report for a CDK toolchain-related bulletin).
Hands-On Lab & Mind Map
Lab: Using AWS CloudFormation to Provision and Manage a Basic Infrastructure
Hands-on lab covering this module's toolkits — the AWS CLI and AWS CDK are used alongside a live demonstration, then the lab has students provision and manage infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation templates.
1. What's New 15 items
AWS CLI
AWS SDKs
AWS SAM
AWS CDK
AWS Cloud9: no new What's New or blog items were identified in the research window; Cloud9 remains closed to new customers with existing customers able to continue as normal.
2. Amazon News 1 item
3. Lifecycle Changes 2 items
4. Security Bulletins 4 items
Hands-On Labs & Mind Map
Lab 1: Deploying an Application to an EC2 Fleet Using AWS CodeDeploy
Following a demonstration of a CI/CD pipeline with actions from AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline, students deploy an application to a fleet of EC2 instances using AWS CodeDeploy.
Lab 2: Automating Code Deployments Using AWS CodePipeline
Following a demonstration of AWS's integration with Jenkins, students build and automate a complete code deployment pipeline using AWS CodePipeline.
1. What's New 13 items
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeCommit
Jenkins on AWS Integration
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit, or Jenkins integration were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 1 item
4. Security Bulletins 1 item
1. What's New 3 items
Amazon ECS / Microservices Networking
No AWS Well-Architected microservices-lens update was identified in this window — Well-Architected lens activity in this period focused on AI/Agentic AI and Digital Sovereignty lenses, not microservices specifically.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering microservices architecture on AWS were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 1 item
- AWS App Mesh end of support (Effective Sep 30, 2026 — AWS will discontinue AWS App Mesh; the console and resources become inaccessible after this date. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Service Connect for microservices service-to-service communication.)
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins specific to microservices architecture concepts were identified in the research window.
1. What's New 15 items
Amazon ECS
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECR
Amazon EKS
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering ECS, Fargate, ECR, or EKS were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 2 items
4. Security Bulletins 1 item
Hands-On Lab & Mind Map
Lab: Deploying a Serverless Application Using AWS SAM and a CI/CD Pipeline
Following demonstrations of AWS Lambda characteristics and an AWS SAM quick start in AWS Cloud9, students deploy a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) integrated into a CI/CD pipeline.
1. What's New 14 items
AWS Lambda
AWS SAM
AWS Step Functions
AWS Serverless Application Repository: no qualifying What's New or blog announcements were found in the research window.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering Lambda, SAM, Step Functions, or SAR were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 4 items
- AWS Lambda Node.js 20 runtime reaches deprecation (Apr 30, 2026 — function create blocked Feb 1, 2027, update blocked Mar 3, 2027)
- AWS Lambda Ruby 3.2 runtime reaches deprecation (Mar 31, 2026 — function create blocked Feb 1, 2027, update blocked Mar 3, 2027)
- AWS Lambda Python 3.9 runtime reached deprecation (Dec 15, 2025 — create/update blocks delayed to 2027)
- Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life affecting Lambda AL2-based runtimes (Java 8/11/17 AL2, provided.al2) (Jun 30, 2026 — AL2-based Lambda runtimes continue receiving only critical security patches until their listed deprecation dates)
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No Lambda, SAM, Step Functions, or SAR-specific security bulletins were identified in the research window.
1. What's New 5 items
Amazon ECS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
See Module 6 report for additional Amazon ECS deployment-observability items (Action Logs, real-time console deployment view). No qualifying AWS CodeDeploy or AWS Lambda deployment-strategy announcements were found in this window beyond region-only expansions, which are excluded.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering deployment strategies were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 2 items
4. Security Bulletins 1 item
1. What's New 5 items
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)
See Module 4 report for the AWS CodeBuild Amazon Linux 2023 build-host update, also relevant to this module's testing/CI integration. AWS Device Farm had no qualifying announcements in this window.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering automated testing tools were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items
No deprecation, end-of-support, or discontinuation notices for CloudWatch Synthetics, AWS FIS, or AWS Device Farm were identified in the research window.
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins specific to CloudWatch Synthetics, AWS FIS, or AWS Device Farm were identified in the research window.
1. What's New 22 items
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Security Hub
AWS Config
Amazon Inspector
AWS Config also released monthly incremental resource-type/rule updates throughout the window (Apr, May, Jun, Aug 2026) beyond the highlights above.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, or Inspector were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 1 item
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins naming Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, or Inspector directly were identified in the research window.
Hands-On Lab & Mind Map
Lab: Performing Blue/Green Deployments with CI/CD Pipelines and Amazon ECS
Students configure and execute blue/green deployments through a CI/CD pipeline targeting Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), applying configuration management practices to a running containerized workload.
1. What's New 8 items
Amazon ECS (Blue/Green Deployments)
AWS Systems Manager
AWS AppConfig
AWS Systems Manager State Manager, Parameter Store, and Automation had no standalone feature-launch announcements in this window beyond the items above.
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering Systems Manager, AppConfig, or ECS blue/green deployments were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 2 items
4. Security Bulletins 2 items
Hands-On Lab & Mind Map
Lab: Using AWS DevOps Tools for CI/CD Pipeline Automations
Students apply AWS observability tooling to monitor and troubleshoot a CI/CD pipeline in action, tying together the course's DevOps automation and observability practices.
1. What's New 30 items
Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon CloudWatch launches unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data | Blog (Dec 2, 2025)
- AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue (Feb 10, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch now supports ingesting Security Hub CSPM findings with organization-wide enablement (Mar 31, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces lookup query command (Mar 31, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview (Apr 2, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports an improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing status (Apr 27, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports Session Replay for Web Applications (May 1, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysis (Jun 15, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functions (Jun 8, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queries (Jul 1, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage (Jul 15, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports wall clock evaluation windows (Aug 7, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch announces coding agent insights (Jul 20, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors | Blog (Jul 31, 2026)
- Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms (Sep 1, 2026)
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
AWS X-Ray
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
Amazon Managed Grafana
2. Amazon News 0 items
No dedicated Amazon.com press releases specifically covering CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, or Grafana were identified in the research window.
3. Lifecycle Changes 1 item
- X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline (Feb 25, 2026 — AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon entered maintenance mode; releases limited to security fixes only. AWS recommends migrating to OpenTelemetry/ADOT-based instrumentation. End-of-support: Feb 25, 2027.)
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
No security bulletins specific to Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or Amazon Managed Grafana were identified in the research window.
1. What's New 0 items
No new AWS service features to report — this module is a recap/summary of concepts already covered in Modules 1–12.
2. Amazon News 0 items
Not applicable — no new AWS service surface to research for this module.
3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items
Not applicable — see individual module reports for service-specific lifecycle changes.
4. Security Bulletins 0 items
Not applicable — see individual module reports for service-specific security bulletins.