For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style.

This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

You can find the user group here:

• Our website
• @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon
• @awsmelb on Twitter
• AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn

Melbourne

• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
• AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions
• AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions
• AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
• Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023
• AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions
• AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions

Sydney

• Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions
• Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions
• AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Discussed news items

• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience
• New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
• Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
• Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support
• Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
• Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub
• New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
• Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
• AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell
• AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
• Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview
• AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
• Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available
• AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
• Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates
• AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
• AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
• Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
• Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
• Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default
• AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data

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For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well.

You can find the user group here:

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• @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon
• @awsmelb on Twitter
• AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn

Links

• Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region in Australia
• Melbourne gets a Region, a big trip, and a brain mapping startup
• Perth Local Zone announcement

 

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After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements.

Discussed Announcements

• Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
• You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM | AWS Security Blog
• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports network reachability analysis across accounts in an AWS Organization
• AWS Verified Access Preview — VPN-less Secure Network Access to Corporate Applications
• Preview: Amazon Security Lake – A Purpose-Built Customer-Owned Data Lake Service
• New – Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
• Introducing AWS Application Composer (Preview)
• Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts
• AWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network
• In the search for performance, there’s more than one way to build a network | AWS HPC Blog (info on SRD)
• New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2 | AWS News Blog
• Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations
• Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now in preview
• AWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)
• Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview), a Unified Software Development Service
• Announcing data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, helping you detect, and protect sensitive data-in-transit
• New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance
• New — Create Point-to-Point Integrations Between Event Producers and Consumers with Amazon EventBridge Pipes
• Bridging the Gap: Using EventBridge to tie your services together | AWS Perth User Group | Oct 2022 - YouTube (Arjen's talk on EventBridge in Perth)
• Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie
• Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor Preview – End-to-End Visibility into Internet Performance for your Applications
• Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview)
• New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart

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In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter.

News

Finally in Sydney

• Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions
• Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions
• AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions
• AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Australia

Serverless

• AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) - Old announcement mentioned in show
• Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
• AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources

Containers

• Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking | AWS News Blog
• EBS CSI driver now available in EKS add-ons in preview
• Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions
• ACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production ready
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
• Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
• Amazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloads

EC2 & VPC

• Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances
• New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing | AWS News Blog
• New – Amazon EC2 X2iezn Instances Powered by the Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU for Memory-Intensive Workloads
• Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
• Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
• AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures
• AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2
• Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect
• Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink

Dev & Ops

• Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account Subscriptions
• AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containers
• AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks

Security

• AWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secrets
• AWS announces phone number enrichments for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
• Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake
• AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
• Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)
• Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account
• Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration | AWS News Blog
• Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
• AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health
• AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub
• AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration

Data Storage & Processing

Databases

• AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
• Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilities
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trial
• Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle

Glue

• Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)
• Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview)
• Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview)

EMR

• Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio
• Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio
• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints
• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled

OpenSearch

• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical data
• Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains

Redshift

• Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules

Other

• New – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
• Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logs
• AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
• Amazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch

AI & ML

SageMaker

• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control
• Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular Data
• Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
• Announcing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instances

Other

• Amazon Kendra launches support for query language
• Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
• Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
• AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business
• Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images

Other Cool Stuff

• Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News Blog
• Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console
• A New AWS Console Home Experience | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
• Amazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configuration
• Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
• Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases

IoT

• AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments
• AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
• AWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivity

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Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.

Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter.

News

Finally in Sydney

• AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
• Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions

Serverless

• Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview
• Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
• Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)
• Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview
• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview)
• Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type
• AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)

Lambda

• AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source
• AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry
• AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
• AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events

Step Functions

• AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amplify

• Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
• AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK
• AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation
• AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue
• AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines
• AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)
• AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly

Containers

Fargate

• Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors

ECS

• Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information
• Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
• Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project
• Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

EKS

• Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter
• Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation
• Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available
• AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available
• AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace

Other

• Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories
• AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images

EC2 & VPC

Instances

• New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
• Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances
• Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes
• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey
• Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
• Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022
• Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types
• Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
• Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program
• Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances
• AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendations
• AWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metrics

Networking

• AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
• Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
• AWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivity
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWS
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network access
• Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview
• Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink

Other

• Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin
• Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%
• Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers
• Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase
• Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing
• AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2
• AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics

Dev & Ops

New services

• Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News Blog
• Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
• Announcing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
• AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview
• Announcing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon Aurora
• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)
• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance

IaC

• AWS announces Construct Hub general availability
• AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally available
• You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
• You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets
• AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions

SDKs

• AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)
• AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)
• AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)

CICD

• AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning
• AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates
• AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline

Other

• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories
• EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units
• Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced
• Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations
• AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types
• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.
• AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC
• Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions
• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches
• New – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News Blog
• Introducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

Security

• AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account
• AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights
• AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management
• Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)
• AWS WAF adds support for Captcha
• AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation

Security Hub

• AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs
• AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners

SSO

• Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On
• Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On
• AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows
• AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting

Control Tower

• AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails
• AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units
• AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements
• Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower
• AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization

Data Storage & Processing

Databases

Relational databases

• Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
• New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
• Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots
• Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0
• Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts

Athena

• Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans
• Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query
• New and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally available
• Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features
• Announcing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)

Redshift

• Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling
• Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks
• Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM role
• Announcing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)
• Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2

Neptune

• Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune
• AWS releases open source JDBC driver to connect to Amazon Neptune

MemoryDB

• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free Trial

Database Migration Service

• AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a source
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source
• Introducing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor for automated discovery and analysis of database and analytics workloads (Preview)
• AWS Database Migration Service now offers a new console experience, AWS DMS Studio
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism

Other

• Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances
• Amazon Timestream now offers faster and more cost-effective time series data processing through scheduled queries, multi-measure records, and magnetic storage writes
• Amazon DynamoDB announces the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class, which helps you reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60 percent
• Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances

S3

• Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applications
• Amazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filters
• Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval
• Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3
• Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now free
• Announcing the new S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access tier - Automatically save up to 68% on storage costs
• Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications faster
• Amazon S3 console now reports security warnings, errors, and suggestions from IAM Access Analyzer as you author your S3 policies
• Amazon S3 adds new S3 Event Notifications for S3 Lifecycle, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, object tags, and object access control lists

Glue

• AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow
• AWS Glue DataBrew now supports custom SQL statements to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift and Snowflake
• AWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to create data quality rules to define and validate their business requirements

FSx

• Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file system
• Amazon FSx for Lustre can now automatically update file system contents as data is deleted and moved in Amazon S3
• Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems

Backup

• Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
• AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune
• AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies
• AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads

Other

• AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink
• AWS Transfer Family adds identity provider options and enhanced monitoring capabilities
• Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio
• AWS Snow Family now supports external NTP server configuration
• Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
• Now execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR Studio
• AWS Snow Family launches offline tape data migration capability

AI & ML

SageMaker

• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas - a visual, no-code interface to build accurate machine learning models
• Announcing Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists | AWS News Blog
• Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume
• Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints
• Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker Clarify
• Amazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage querying
• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: Create high-quality training datasets without having to build labeling applications or manage the labeling workforce on your own
• Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML service
• Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables interactive data preparation and machine learning at scale within a single universal notebook through built-in integration with Amazon EMR

Other

• General Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization
• Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption
• Amazon Kendra releases AWS Single Sign-On integration for secure search
• Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
• AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions
• Introducing Amazon Lex Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview)
• Amazon Kendra launches Experience Builder, Search Analytics Dashboard, and Custom Document Enrichment

Other Cool Stuff

• In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region | AWS News Blog
• Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials
• AWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account management
• Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming
• Amazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API request
• Announcing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management Console
• Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp
• Announcing preview of AWS Private 5G
• AWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form Factors
• Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization - Preview
• Introducing the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency
• Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIs
• Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web
• Amazon SQS Enhances Dead-letter Queue Management Experience For Standard Queues
• Introducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers service
• AWS Resource Access Manager enables support for global resource types
• AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview
• Announcing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for running hybrid quantum-classical workloads on Amazon Braket
• Introducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces - Preview

Well-Architected Framework

• Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses
• New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

IoT

• Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview
• AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Microsoft Windows devices
• AWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpoint
• Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficiently
• Announcing AWS IoT TwinMaker (Preview), a service that makes it easier to build digital twins
• AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data
• New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)
• AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources (Preview)

Connect

• Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows
• Amazon Connect launches scheduled tasks
• Amazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmatically
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure security profiles programmatically
• Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows
• Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic

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A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

News

Finally in Sydney

• Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions

Serverless

Lambda

• AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
• AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source

Step Functions

• Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
• AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows

Amplify

• Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
• AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage

Other

• Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog

Containers

• Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
• AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
• Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
• Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
• Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
• AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
• AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available

EC2 & VPC

• New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
• Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
• Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
• AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
• Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
• Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
• New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases

Dev & Ops

CLI

• AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
• Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts

CodeGuru

• Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
• Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features

IaC

• AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
• AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager

Other

• NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
• Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
• Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions

Security

Firewalls

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
• AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop

Backups

• AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
• AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock

Other

• AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
• Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys
• AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements

Data Storage & Processing

• Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog
• Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project
• Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
• AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
• Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console
• AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
• Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
• AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
• New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog

AI & ML

SageMaker

• Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates
• Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys

Other

• Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
• Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
• AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
• Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
• Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
• Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
• Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models

Other Cool Stuff

• AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration
• AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
• VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog
• AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
• Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
• Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
• Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
• Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities
• Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
• Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
• New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift

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After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.

As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks.

News

Finally in ANZ

• Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions
• Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions
• In the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News Blog

Serverless

• AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog
• Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
• AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands

Containers

• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview
• AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation
• Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts
• Amazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App Runner

EC2 & VPC

Instances

• Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together
• New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions
• AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances
• AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products
• Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34
• AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2

VPC

• IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
• Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News Blog
• Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC
• Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth
• Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content Delivery

Other

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
• Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Dev & Ops

Dev

• Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog
• EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors
• AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more
• AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags
• Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available
• AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser

Ops

• New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog
• AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities
• AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events
• AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard

ADOT

• New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)

Security

• ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
• IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services
• Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers

WAF

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering
• AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions
• AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules

Detective

• Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration
• Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details

Data Storage & Processing

Opensearch

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog
• OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms
• Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud Please

Databases

• Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances
• Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout
• Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
• Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
• Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes
• New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune
• Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying
• Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor

Storage

• New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog
• How to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog
• AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com
• Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News Blog
• New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots

MSK

• Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog
• Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings

Other

• Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On
• Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost

AI & ML

SageMaker

• Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines
• Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks
• Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio
• Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems

Other

• Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend
• Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements
• Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice

Other Cool Stuff

• Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards
• Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage
• Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device
• Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS
• Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits
• AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB
• AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity
• AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator
• New – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News Blog

Connect

• Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available
• Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages
• Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
• Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions
• Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available
• Amazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails

IoT

• AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements
• AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click
• AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states

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July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.

News

Finally in Sydney

• Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions
• Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
• AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions

Serverless

Lambda

• AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9
• AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source

Amplify

• AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
• Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile
• AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
• AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
• AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple
• Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify

Other

• Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA
• Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
• AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs

Containers

• Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21
• Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers
• Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
• Amazon EKS now supports Multus
• Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks
• AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries
• AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available
• AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes
• Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits

EC2 & VPC

Instances

• Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes
• New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations
• Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
• Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events

Auto Scaling

• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in

Other

• Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules
• Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
• AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints
• AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints

Dev & Ops

Dev Tooling

• EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images
• AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles
• Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions
• CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results
• AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions
• AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications

CDK/CloudFormation

• Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps
• AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support
• AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account
• You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set

Systems Manager

• AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
• Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012
• AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity
• Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
• AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers
• AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances

Other

• AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions
• Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics

Security

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall
• AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response
• AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates
• Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys
• AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption
• AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
• AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator
• AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning
• AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring

Data Storage & Processing

• AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
• Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content
• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience
• Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2
• Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language
• Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
• Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog
• AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling

EBS

• AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
• Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation
• AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs

Athena

• Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security
• Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI

S3

• AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points
• Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point
• Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC
• Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts
• Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control

Redshift

• Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile
• Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
• Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions

Glue

• AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring
• AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations
• AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets
• AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations
• AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables

Snow Family

• AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
• AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices
• AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
• AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks

AI & ML

• Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers
• Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts
• Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector
• AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition
• Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more
• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2

SageMaker

• Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step
• Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies
• Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions
• Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2
• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times

Kendra

• Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop
• Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search
• Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search
• Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector

Other Cool Stuff

IoT

• AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities
• AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available
• AWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregations
• Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise)
• Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3

The rest

• The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser
• AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance
• AWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policies
• AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
• Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available
• Introducing AWS for Health
• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News Blog
• CloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHub
• Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics
• Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)
• Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019
• Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console

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The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

News

Finally in Sydney

• AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions
• Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions

Serverless

• Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs
• AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles
• Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions
• Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems
• AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda
• AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka

Containers

• Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups
• AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities
• Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements
• Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog

EC2 & VPC

• AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications
• Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs
• Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances
• AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
• Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances
• AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds
• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices

Dev & Ops

• AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source
• AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton
• Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog
• AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements
• Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog
• AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console

Security

• Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS
• AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
• AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts
• KMS Multi-Region Keys
• AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations
• IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring

Data Storage & Processing

• Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables
• Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)
• AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings
• Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune
• Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster
• AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts
• File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances
• Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster

AI & ML

• Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability
• Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge
• Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots
• Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics
• Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents
• Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs

Other Cool Stuff

• Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services
• Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog
• New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
• Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores
• AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone
• AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically
• In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog
• New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog

The Nanos

The month of June...

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Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.

News

Finally in Sydney

😢

Serverless

Lambda

• Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
• AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3

EventBridge

• Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
• AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge

Other

• AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps
• Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog
• Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows

Containers

EKS

• Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20
• Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available
• Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs
• Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints
• EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy

Other

• New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog
• Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
• AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring

EC2 & VPC

• Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
• EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
• Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy
• AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
• AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations
• Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services

Dev & Ops

Dev

• AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
• Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications
• AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints

Ops

• Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)
• Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities
• Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
• AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
• Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild

Security

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
• AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework
• AWS WAF adds support for log filtering
• Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs
• Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK
• AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
• AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets

Data Storage & Processing

• Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing
• Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
• Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances
• AWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now available
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
• New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
• AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview
• Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication
• Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers
• Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
• AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory
• Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database
• Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas
• Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
• Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0
• AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
• Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression
• AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

AI & ML

• Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs
• Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models
• Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization
• Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model
• Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines
• Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments
• Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions
• Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%

Other Cool Stuff

• New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog
• New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• AWS Organizations launches new console experience
• Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights
• AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity
• How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News Blog
• AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support
• Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
• AWS Application Cost Profiler
• AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones
• Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android
• Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available
• In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News Blog
• Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters
• Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health

The Nanos

• Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen)
• Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy)

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