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The podcast for the AWS User Group in Melbourne. We discuss all things AWS and how they impact our community.
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Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish
- Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions
- AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions
- AWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
Serverless
API Gateway
Lambda
- AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
- Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images (General Availability)
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
- AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x
Step Functions
EventBridge
- Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets
- AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge
Amplify
- Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI
- Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)
- AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment
Containers
- eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode
- AWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver
EC2 & VPC
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena
- MacSec Encryption for some Direct Connect (apologies, linking to this prevents the podcast from getting published :shrug:)
- New AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
- AWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job level
- AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwide
- Amazon EC2 enables replacing root volumes for quick restoration and troubleshooting
- Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2
- AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Windows operating system
Dev & Ops
Dev
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Predictable Pricing Model Up To 90% Lower and Python Support Moves to GA | AWS News Blog
- Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
- AWS CodeDeploy improves support for EC2 deployments with Auto Scaling Groups
- AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications - public preview
- Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK | AWS Compute Blog
Proton
- AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service
- AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments
- AWS Proton adds an API to cancel deployments
CloudFormation
- You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
- AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript
- AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support
- Now reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versions
- You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Control Tower
- AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols
- AWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setup
Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console
- AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverability
- Customers can now use ServiceNow to track operational items related to AWS resources
- AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels
- AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Explorer now integrate with AWS Security Hub for diagnosis and remediation of security findings
Security
Firewalls
- How to Get Started with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC | AWS News Blog
- Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control | AWS News Blog
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization
- AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting
Identity
- Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles
- AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user's IAM role activity to their corporate identity
Other
- AWS Config launches the ability to track and visualize compliance change history of conformance packs
- AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard
- You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity
Data Storage & Processing
Glue
- Detect outliers and use dedicated transforms to handle outliers in AWS Glue DataBrew
- AWS Glue DataBrew now supports time-based, pattern-based and customizable parameters to create dynamic datasets
- AWS announces preview of AWS Glue custom blueprints
- AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning
- AWS announces data sink capability for the Glue connectors
- AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow to connect to data from SaaS (Software as a Service) applications and AWS services (in Preview)
Redshift
- AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) – A Speed Boost for Your Amazon Redshift Queries | AWS News Blog
- Announcing cross-VPC support for Amazon Redshift powered by AWS PrivateLink
- Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partners
- Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native JSON and semi-structured data support
EMR
- Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types
- Amazon EMR Studio is now generally available
Athena
- Announcing general availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMaker
- User Defined Functions (UDF) are now generally available for Amazon Athena
RDS
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Extended Events
- Amazon RDS on VMware networking now simplified and more secure
Other
- Amazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts
- AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BI
- AWS Ground Station now supports data delivery to Amazon S3
- Amazon ElastiCache now supports publishing Redis logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Kinesis Data Firehose
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Decrease Your Machine Learning Costs with Instance Price Reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker | AWS News Blog
- New options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions ( EventBridge)
Other
- Detect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally available
- Amazon Fraud Detector now supports Batch Fraud Predictions
- Get estimated run time for forecast creation jobs while using Amazon Forecast
- Amazon Kendra launches dynamic relevance tuning
Other Cool Stuff
WorkSpaces
- Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally Available
- Amazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client application
IVS
- Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics
- Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3
Connect
- Amazon Connect launches audio device settings for the custom Contact Control Panel (CCP)
- Amazon Connect allows contact center managers to configure agent settings in a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP)
Other
- AWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure tools for simulation jobs
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updates
- Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reports
- AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments
- CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time | AWS News Blog
- Announcing open source robotics projects for AWS DeepRacer
- Announcing Moving Graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards
- Amazon Nimble Studio – Build a Creative Studio in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
- AWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snow jobs
The Nanos
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Asia Pacific (Osaka) region (Arjen)
- Amazon Connect reduces telephony rates in Cyprus, Belgium, and Portugal (Guy)
- AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments (Jean-Manuel)
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Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.
News
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
- Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
- Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
- Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)
Serverless
Lambda
- Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog
- The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design
- AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
Step Functions
- AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
- Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
EventBridge
Containers
ECS
- Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
- AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me
- AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
EKS
- Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
- Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
- Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances
- Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter
- Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
Other
- AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog
EC2 & VPC
EC2
- Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
VPC
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction
- Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints
Dev & Ops
CICD
- AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account
- AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
- AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
- AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource
- AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
Other
- Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context
- Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16
- AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
Security
Security Hub
- AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
- AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
Config
- AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
- AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
WAF
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
- AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
- AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
Other
- AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
- IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog
- New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS
- AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
Data Storage & Processing
S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
- AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
Databases
- Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
- Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades
- Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas
- Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Other
- New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates
- AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
- AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points
- AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%
- Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
Other
- Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
- Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
- Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
- Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription
Other Cool Stuff
Regions
Connect
- Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3
- Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting
- Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Other Services/Features
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog
- Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain
- Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
The Nanos
- AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen)
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel)
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Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
February was a slow month for AWS releases, but Arjen, JM, and Guy did their best to make it fun anyway. Except for those times where Arjen tried to convince everyone to fall asleep to his new podcast.
The News
The shameless plug
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions
- Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)
- AWS Direct Connect Announces Native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections at Select Locations
Serverless
- AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14
- Announcing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication support
Containers
- AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication
- Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers
- Introducing OIDC identity provider authentication for Amazon EKS | Containers
- Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.19
- AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000
- AWS Config now supports Amazon container services
EC2 & VPC
- Introducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances
- Amazon Elastic File System triples read throughput
- AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputs
- AWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses
- Application Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie Stickiness
- Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring is now supported on select non-Nitro instance types
- Scheduled Actions of Application Auto Scaling now support Local Time Zone
- Access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups
Dev & Ops
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint
- Insights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray
- AWS Cloud9 launches visual source control integration for Git
- Assign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS Organization
- AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2
Security
- Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy
- Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings
- Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM
- AWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspection
- Support for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config
Data Storage & Processing
- Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Introducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts
- You now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and more
- Amazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover
- Managed planned failovers with Amazon Aurora Global Database | AWS Database Blog
- Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB support replication filtering
- Amazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tier
- Amazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node types
- Amazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for Standard Edition
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retention
- Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13
AI & ML
- Now create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration time
- AWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHub
- Automate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally available
Other cool stuff
- Introducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
- Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics
- Update content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMail
- AWS Control Tower now provides region selection
The Nanos
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions
- Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbers
- Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics
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Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.
What's New
Finally in Sydney
- PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions
- AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions
- AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source
- AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK
API Gateway
Containers
Monitoring
- Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog
- Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
General
ECS
- Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
- Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console
- Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies
- Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster
EKS
EC2 & VPC
Instances
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy
EBS
- Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts
Networking
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
- Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Lightsail
Dev & Ops
Dev
- AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available
- AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available
- Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
- AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows
- AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets
- Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice
Ops
- Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog
- New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog
- Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
Security
- AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization
- Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC
- AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries
- Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
- Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS
- AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization
- Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics
Data storage & processing
- AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors
- Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances
- New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
- Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview
- Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
- Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
AI & ML
IoT
- New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises
- Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise
- Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana
- AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview
- AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters
- AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion
- Introducing AWS IoT EduKit
- Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview
- Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
Other Cool Stuff
Policy
Services
- AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog
- AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available
Features
- APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts
- Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity
- Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)
- AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system
- Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
- Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog
SQS
- Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)
- Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing
Control Tower
- region
- AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update
The Nanos
- Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
- Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
re:Invent arrived, and with it came a lot of announcements. Some meh, some good, some great. In this episode Arjen, Jean-Manuel, Guy, and special guest star Rob will do their best to make sense of it. Or maybe they just make it more confusing? Who knows? Our brains can't really handle the number of announcements. Which is probably also why it took far too long to edit this episode.
What's New
Finally in ANZ
- In the Works – AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
- Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility now available in eight additional regions
- Amazon SageMaker Studio is now expanded to AWS regions worldwide
Serverless
Lambda
- New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings | AWS News Blog
- New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs | AWS News Blog
- New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News Blog
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights to Improve Operational Visibility | AWS News Blog
- AWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source
- AWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
- Announcing Code Signing, a trust and integrity control for AWS Lambda
EventBridge
- AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar integrates with Amazon EventBridge to enable automated actions based on calendar state changes
- Amazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotas
Step Functions
- Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs
- AWS Step Functions now supports Synchronous Express Workflows
Amplify
Containers
ECR
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECR announces cross region replication of images
Fargate
ECS
- Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere | Containers
- Amazon ECS Announces the Preview of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
- Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up time
- Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Update Functionality
- Amazon ECS adds support for P4d instance types
- Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scaling
- AWS Copilot CLI is now Generally Available
EKS
- Amazon EKS Anywhere – Amazon Web Services
- Amazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog
- Simplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS
- Amazon EKS simplifies installation and management for Kubernetes cluster add-ons
- Amazon EKS adds built-in logging support for AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups
- Amazon EKS Console Now Includes Kubernetes Resources to Simplify Cluster Management
EC2 & VPC
EBS
- New – Amazon EBS gp3 Volume Lets You Provision Performance Apart From Capacity | AWS News Blog
- Now in Preview – Larger & Faster io2 Block Express EBS Volumes with Higher Throughput | AWS News Blog
- AWS announces tiered pricing for input/output operations per second (IOPS) charges for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 volume, reducing the cost of provisioning peak IOPS by 15%
- Amazon EBS reduces the minimum volume size of Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD Volumes by 75%
- AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon EBS volume recommendations
Instance Types
- New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps | AWS News Blog
- New EC2 M5zn Instances – Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
- Coming Soon – Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances Featuring AMD GPUs for Graphics Workloads | AWS News Blog
- Coming Soon – EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors | AWS News Blog
- EC2 Update – D3 / D3en Dense Storage Instances | AWS News Blog
- New – Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Provide 3x Higher EBS Performance | AWS News Blog
Other EC2
- Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) now support tag-on-create and tag-based access control
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports attaching multiple network interfaces at launch
- AWS Announcing Windows Server version 20H2 AMIs for Amazon EC2
- Simplify EC2 provisioning and viewing cloud resources in the ServiceNow CMDB with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow
Networking
- New – VPC Reachability Analyzer | AWS News Blog
- Introducing AWS Transit Gateway Connect to simplify SD-WAN branch connectivity
- AWS Global Accelerator launches custom routing
Dev & Ops
New services
- Preview: AWS Proton – Automated Management for Container and Serverless Deployments | AWS News Blog
- AWS announces Amazon DevOps Guru in Preview, an ML-powered cloud operations service to improve application availability for AWS workloads
- Preview: Amazon Lookout for Metrics, an Anomaly Detection Service for Monitoring the Health of Your Business | AWS News Blog
Code
- New for Amazon CodeGuru – Python Support, Security Detectors, and Memory Profiling | AWS News Blog
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces Security Detectors to help improve code security
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap Summary
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces CodeQuality Detector to help manage technical debt and codebase maintainability
- AWS CodeArtifact now supports NuGet
Tools
Other
- Announcing Modules for AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python with Selenium framework
- AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies
Security
New services
SSO
- New – Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On | AWS News Blog
- AWS Single Sign-On enables administrators to require users to set up MFA devices during sign-in
- AWS Single Sign-On adds Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for user authentication with security keys and built-in biometric authenticators
Other
- AWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectors
- AWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud Custodian
- AWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrations
- AWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation
Data Storage & Processing
Aurora
- Introducing the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview
- Introducing Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, in preview (includes Sydney)
- Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is Available for Preview
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
RDS
- Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
- PostgreSQL 13 now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Lakes
- Amazon HealthLake Stores, Transforms, and Analyzes Health Data in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
- Announcing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and Acceleration
S3
- New – Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets | AWS News Blog
- Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency | AWS News Blog
- Amazon S3 Replication adds support for multiple destinations in the same, or different AWS Regions
- Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications
- Amazon S3 Bucket Keys reduce the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)
- Amazon S3 Replication adds support for two-way replication
EMR
Redshift
- AWS announces AQUA for Amazon Redshift (preview)
- Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing (preview)
- Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus nodes with managed storage
- Amazon Redshift announces Automatic Table Optimization
- Amazon Redshift now includes Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying (Preview)
- Amazon Redshift launches the ability to easily move clusters between AWS Availability Zones (AZs)
DynamoDB
- You now can use Amazon DynamoDB with AWS Glue Elastic Views to combine and replicate data across multiple data stores by using SQL – available in limited preview
- You now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
Glue
- Announcing Amazon Elasticsearch Service support for AWS Glue Elastic Views
- Announcing AWS Glue Elastic Views Preview
- AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications
Other
- Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button
- Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
AI & ML
Sagemaker :allthethings:
- Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training Deep Learning Models With Billions of Parameters | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | AWS News Blog
- New – Store, Discover, and Share Machine Learning Features with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store | AWS News Blog
- New – Profile Your Machine Learning Training Jobs With Amazon SageMaker Debugger | AWS News Blog
- New – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines Brings DevOps Capabilities to your Machine Learning Projects | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager Simplifies Operating Machine Learning Models on Edge Devices | AWS News Blog
- New – Managed Data Parallelism in Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training on Large Datasets | AWS News Blog
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, a Visual Interface to Prepare Data for Machine Learning | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | AWS News Blog
- New – Amazon SageMaker Clarify Detects Bias and Increases the Transparency of Machine Learning Models | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports new capabilities to maintain model quality in production
- Introducing two new libraries for managed distributed training on Amazon SageMaker
Edge
- New – Amazon Lookout for Equipment Analyzes Sensor Data to Help Detect Equipment Failure | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lookout for Vision – New ML Service Simplifies Defect Detection for Manufacturing | AWS News Blog
- AWS Panorama Appliance: Bringing Computer Vision Applications to the Edge | AWS News Blog
- Introducing Amazon Monitron, an end-to-end system to detect abnormal equipment behavior
AI Services
- Amazon Kendra adds Google Drive connector
- Amazon Kendra launches incremental learning
- Amazon Kendra launches connector library
- Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index – automatically include local weather to increase your forecasting model accuracy
Added ML
- Amazon announces Amazon Neptune ML: easy, fast, and accurate predictions for graphs
- AWS announces Amazon Redshift ML (preview)
Other Cool Stuff
Regions/Zones
- Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Las Vegas
- Announcing Preview of AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami
Braket
- PennyLane on Braket + Progress Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing + Tensor Network Simulator | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Braket tensor network simulator supports 50-qubit quantum circuits
- Amazon Braket now supports manual qubit allocation
Connect
- Contact Lens for Amazon Connect launches real-time contact center analytics to detect customer issues on live calls
- Amazon Connect Wisdom provides contact center agents the information they need to quickly solve customer issues
- Amazon Connect Customer Profiles for a unified view of your customers to provide more personalized service
- Amazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication for more secure calls
- Amazon Connect Tasks makes it easy to prioritize, assign, track, and automate contact center agent tasks
- Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Preview)
Quicksight
- Introducing Amazon QuickSight Q: ask questions about your data and get answers in seconds
- Amazon QuickSight launches new session capacity pricing options, embedding without user management and a developer portal for embedded analytics
Other
- Announcing Unified Search in the AWS Management Console
- Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol now Generally Available
- New – SaaS Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool | AWS News Blog
- The Amazon Chime SDK now supports messaging
- AWS Batch now has integrated Amazon Linux 2 support
Nanos
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Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode.
What's new
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS region
- IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide
- Meet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! | AWS News Blog
Serverless
- Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functions
- AWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinations
- AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ as an event source
- AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integration
- AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration
Containers
- Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking mode
- Amazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally available
- The AWS CDK EKS Construct Library is Now Available as a Developer Preview and Adds Support for cdk8s
- AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS launches features focused on configuration and metrics
- AWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilities
- Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.2.0
- Amazon VPC CNI plugin version 1.7 now default for Amazon EKS clusters
EC2 & VPC
- AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC | AWS News Blog
- Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall | Networking & Content Delivery
- Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances | AWS News Blog
- Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
- AWS Client VPN now supports Client Connect Handler
- AWS Client VPN announces self service portal to download VPN profiles and desktop applications
- Introducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot Instances
- Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength Zones
- Pause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
- Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Braket
Dev & Ops
- AWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacks
- AWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operations
- AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment Variables
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for easier diagnosis and remediation of alarms
- AWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git clone
- Now customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session Manager
Security
- Encrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keys
- AWS KMS - based Encryption is Now Available in Amazon SageMaker Studio
- Announcing protection groups for AWS Shield Advanced
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of AWS Network Firewall
Data Storage & Processing
- New – Export Amazon DynamoDB Table Data to Your Data Lake in Amazon S3, No Code Writing Required | AWS News Blog
- Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage | AWS News Blog
- Amazon MQ Update – New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service | AWS News Blog
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactions
- Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
- Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources.
- Announcing AWS Glue DataBrew – A Visual Data Preparation Tool That Helps You Clean and Normalize Data Faster | AWS News Blog
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail
- Amazon RDS Data API supports tag-based authorization
- Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Cross-Custom-Availability-Zone Read Replicas
- Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Manageability Capabilities
- AWS Launch Wizard now supports single-instance deployments of SQL Server on Windows and Linux
- Amazon Redshift announces Open Source JDBC and Python drivers
- Amazon Redshift announces support for TIME and TIMETZ data types
- Amazon Neptune now supports Event notifications
- Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports defining a custom name for your domain endpoint
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary files
Storage Day
- Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2020 | AWS News Blog
- Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports Access to File Systems Using Alternate DNS Names
- AWS Storage Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for Tape and Volume Gateway
- Amazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notifications
- Amazon S3 Replication adds support for replicating delete markers
- AWS Transfer Family now supports shared services VPC environments
- Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering adds Archive Access Tiers — further optimizes storage costs
- AWS Backup extends centralized backup management support to Amazon FSx
- AWS Snowball Edge now supports importing virtual machine images to your deployed Snow devices
- AWS Storage Gateway simplifies in-cloud processing by adding file-level upload notifications for File Gateway
- AWS Storage Gateway enhances security by introducing access-based enumeration for File Gateway
- Amazon ECS now supports the use of Amazon FSx for persistent, shared storage for Windows containers
- AMI Lifecycle Management now available with Data Lifecycle Manager
- AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems
- AWS Storage Gateway increases local storage cache by 4x for Tape and Volume Gateway
- AWS announces 40% price reduction for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Cold HDD (sc1) volumes
- Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotas
AI & ML
- New – GPU-Equipped EC2 P4 Instances for Machine Learning & HPC | AWS News Blog
- EFA Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA
- Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Cloud connector
- Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search
- AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule on sequence modeling and Transformers
- AWS DeepComposer adds new Transformers algorithm that allows developers to extend an input melody
- Announcing AWS DeepComposer’s next Chartbusters challenge, Keep Calm and Model On
- Amazon Polly launches a British English Newscaster speaking Style
- Amazon Polly launches a new Australian English neural text-to-speech voice
- Amazon Lex adds language support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French
- Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly
- Amazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languages
- Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances
Other Cool Stuff
- In the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India | AWS News Blog
- In the Works – New AWS Region in Zurich, Switzerland | AWS News Blog
- AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup feature
- Amazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audio
- Savings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
- Introducing new visualization features in AWS IoT SiteWise: Status Charts, Scatter Plot and Trend lines
- Announcing new features for AWS IoT SiteWise
- Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Explorer
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure user hierarchies programmatically
- Automated ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Configuration now available in AWS Elemental MediaConvert
- Amazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and more
- AWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnel
The Nanos
- Amazon WorkDocs adds support for managing the color theme in-app on iOS
- AWS IQ launches new functionality to support firms
- Amazon Connect has just reduced its 44th telephony rate this year
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Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle".
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The News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialect
- Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions
- AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions
Serverless
- Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions – In preview | AWS Compute Blog
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (preview)
- New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter Queues
- AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration
- Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint
Containers
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18
- Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
- Amazon EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes service IP address range
- Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform
- Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs
- AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority
- Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
- AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more
EC2 & VPC
- AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News Blog
- Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves
- New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News Blog
- AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metrics
- AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters
- AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides
- AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications
Dev & Ops
- AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas
- AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
- AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboard
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canaries
- AWS and Grafana Labs launch AWS X-Ray data source plugin
- Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code
- AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks
- AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments
- Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances
- Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections
- Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles
- AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers
- EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts
- Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
- Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source
- Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available
Security
- AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs
- AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findings
- AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF
- AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group
- Amazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their buckets
- Protect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management Service
- Manage access to AWS centrally for Ping Identity users with AWS Single Sign-On
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for Kibana
- Amazon Inspector has expanded operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019
Data Storage & Processing
- New – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ElastiCache now supports M6g and R6g Graviton2-based instances
- Easily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backup
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas
- Amazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space
- AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon Athena
- AWS Lake Formation now supports cross account database sharing
- Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench
- You now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra drivers
- Amazon ElastiCache on Outposts is now available
- Amazon EMR now supports placing your EMR master nodes in distinct racks to reduce risk of simultaneous failure
- Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation is now generally available
- Amazon EMR now provides up to 35% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
- AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs support schema detection and evolution
- AWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache Kafka
- AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Force Stop and a new Autoscaling status
- Kinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processing
- Announcing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview)
- Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenization
- New Amazon Neptune engine release now enforces a minimum version of TLS 1.2 and SSL client connections
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source
AI & ML
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy
- Now launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances
- Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images
- Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories
- Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images
- Amazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIs
- Amazon Kendra now supports custom data sources
- Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector
- Amazon Textract announces improvements to reduce average API processing times by up to 20%
Other Cool Stuff
- AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts
- AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared Memory
- Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the British English dialect
- Amazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flows
- CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface
- CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics
- Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction
- Announcing AWS Budgets Actions
- Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts
- Announcing Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield
- Announcing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in Preview
- Introducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages
- Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities
Nano candidates
- Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOS
- Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available
- AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?
The News
Finally in ANZ
- Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English
- Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle
- Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions
- Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions
- Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand
Serverless
- AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB
- API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options
- AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
- AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
- Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
- mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
- Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
- Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema
Containers
- Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
- EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods
- Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments
- AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop
- Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog
- Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
EC2 & VPC
- New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run
- Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints
- Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments
- Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2
Dev & Ops
- AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
- AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java
- AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces
- Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
- Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15
Security
- AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management
- Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me
- GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions
- cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub
- Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
- Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections
- Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
- AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points
- Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
- Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
- Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
- AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2
- Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)
Storage & Databases
- Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
- Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances
- Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA)
- Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases
- Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients
AI & ML
Other Cool Stuff
- AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
- Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
- Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
- AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry
- Introducing AWS Perspective
- Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC
- Queuing purchases of Savings Plans
- Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
- The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)
The Nano Candidates
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel)
- AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy)
- AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)
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Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano
The News
Finally in Sydney
- Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions
- Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings
- AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2
- AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)
- AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2
- AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source
- AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
API Gateway
- Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names
- API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
- Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs
Step Functions
- AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing
- AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing
Amplify
Containers
Fargate
- AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
- AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans
- Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems
ECS
- Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type
- AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration
- Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI
EKS
- Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
- Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
- Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available
- Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview
- Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
Other
EC2 & VPC
- Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API
- Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation
- AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
- Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability
Dev & Ops
- CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support
- EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally
- AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints
- Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases
- AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support
Security
- New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog
- Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
- AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
- AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers
Storage and Databases
- New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
- AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration
- AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows
- Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench
- Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads
- Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019
AI & ML
- AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
- Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
- Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability
Other Cool Stuff
- Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket
- AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region
- AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options
- Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area
- Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
- Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
- Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call
- Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer
- AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics
- Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list
- Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization
- Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice
- Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB
The Nano Candidates
- Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
- AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
- Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
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Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.
The News
Finally in Sydney
- AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region
- AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
- AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level
Serverless
- Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use
- Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code assets across Lambda functions
- Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
Containers
- AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS
- Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
- AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
- Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost)
- Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available
- Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas
- Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch
- ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys
EC2 & VPC
- Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
- Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances
- AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring
- EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs
- EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers
- Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
- New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel WHM instance blueprint
- AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration
Dev & Ops
- Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog
- AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent
- Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
- CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost)
- CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support
- AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager
- AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting
- AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
- Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code
Security
- Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations
- AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups
- AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API
- AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
- AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies
- Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
- Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
- Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console
- Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
- AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
Storage & Databases
- Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances
- AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway
- AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway
- Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink
- Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
- Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy
- Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System
- New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management
- Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking
- AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog
- HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud
AI & ML
- AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
- Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition
- Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata
- Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items
- Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost
- New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra
- AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition
- Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
- Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog
Other cool stuff
- New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
- Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog
- AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog
- Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available
- Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes)
- AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device
- Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up
- Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers
- AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
- Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs
- Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)