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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 Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.
The News
Finally in Sydney ANZ
- Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available
- Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East
Serverless
- AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
- Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
- AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
- Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions)
- Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment
Containers
- Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
- AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
- Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
- Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
- AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
EC2 & VPC
- AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
- Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
- Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
- ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables
- Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Security
- AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
- Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
- AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
- AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
- AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring
Dev & Ops
- Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Amazon Honeycode
- Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
- AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
- EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
- AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments
- AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type
Databases
- Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
- AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune
- Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
- Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems
- Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift
- Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
- Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
- CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
- Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
- Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
- Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
AI & ML
- DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge
- Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines
- AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach
- Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
- Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
- Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
- Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Other Cool Stuff
- AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
- Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs
- Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
- Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
- Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
- Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK
- Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
- Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing.
The News
Finally in Sydney
- Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion
- Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in Ohio, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney AWS Regions
- AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
- Amazon RDS Data API and Amazon RDS Query Editor are available in additional regions
- Amazon RDS Proxy (Preview) Now Available in 8 Additional AWS Regions
Serverless
- Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available
- AWS Step Functions now supports AWS CodeBuild service integration and CodePipeline supports invoking Step Functions with a new action type
- Control your email flows in Amazon WorkMail using AWS Lambda
- AWS SAM adds support for AWS Step Functions
- Announcing General Availability of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, with new authentication, data, and AI/ML support
Containers
- Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16
- ECR now supports Manifest Lists for multi-architecture images
- Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics - Now in Beta
- Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code
- AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
- Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Environment files for the EC2 launch type
- AWS Fargate now encrypts data stored on ephemeral storage by default in platform version 1.4
EC2 & VPC
- Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms
- Announcing Route Analyzer in AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager
- AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6)
- Add enriched metadata to Amazon VPC flow logs published to CloudWatch Logs and S3
- Amazon EC2 now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
- Enhanced monitoring capabilities for AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%
Security
- AWS Single Sign-On supports zero-downtime external IdP certificate rotation
- AWS Artifact service launches new user interface
- Introducing the Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
- AWS Client VPN now supports Federated Authentication via SAML 2.0
- AWS Backup supports new options for customizing backup selections
- Manage access to AWS centrally for Okta users with AWS Single Sign-On
- Now deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from a delegated member account
- Network Load Balancer now supports TLS ALPN Policies
Dev & Ops
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer launches new, more cost-effective pricing model
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces availability of hourly recommendation reports to remediate issues quickly
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces pull request dashboard
- AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme
- Amazon CodeGuru announces -javaagent switch to start Profiler
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces support for Bitbucket repositories and enhancements
- AWS CodeBuild Test Reporting is now Generally Available
- AWS Systems Manager now supports resource groups as targets for State Manager
Databases
- NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB adds support for Linux
- Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
- Neptune Streams feature is now available outside of lab mode
- AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Expression-Based Data Transformations
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bulk Insert on highly available DB Instances using Amazon S3 Integration
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
AI/ML
- AWS DeepComposer announces real-time visualizations for in-console model training and improved interactivity in learning capsules
- Amazon Kendra is now generally available
- Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon Elastic Inference for TensorFlow and PyTorch Training and Inference For TensorFlow
- Amazon Transcribe now supports vocabulary filtering for real-time transcription
Other cool stuff
- AWS announces Amazon Elasticsearch Service UltraWarm general availability
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of Trusted Advisor checks
- Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer
- AWS Trusted Advisor adds 5 Cost Optimization checks
- AWS announces a 90%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Device Management Jobs
- Amazon Chime adds new policies to govern meeting access
- Introducing AWS Elemental Media Event Management
- Amazon Connect Now automatically changes Agent Status to Offline on Logout
- Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music.
The News
Finally in Sydney
- Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
- AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
- AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions
- EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions
Serverless
- Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney)
- Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1
- The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions
- Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs
- AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available
Containers
- Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available
- AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh
- Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles
- Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking
Databases
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available
- Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12
- Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces)
- Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type
Dev & Ops
- AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available
- Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack
- EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC
Security
- Amazon Detective is now generally available
- Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization
- Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple
- Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules
- AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard
VPC & EC2
- Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms
- New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available
AI & ML
- AWS DeepComposer is now generally available
- Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions
- Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework
- Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files
- Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items
Other Cool Stuff
- You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations
- Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
- AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone
- Introducing AWS Cost Categories
- Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available
- Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
- Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020
- Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF
- Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots
- Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions
- AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance
- AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM
- Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices
Other links
- AWS DeepComposer - Oasis - Wonderwall - Experiment #001 by The Dirk
- I Think Breath Noise is an Interesting One | Ambassador Lounge Podcast Episode #4
- AWS Inside the Region | ig.nore.me
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy. This episode was recorded on the evening of the 27th of March 2020 (Australian time).
COVID-19
- Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help | AWS News Blog
- Remote Work & Learning | Amazon Web Services (see the offers section for the extended free tiers)
- Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: daily updates on how we’re responding to the crisis
- COVID-19 Global Hackathon 1.0: #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon - Devpost
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Control Tower now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Amazon Forecast is now available in three new regions - Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt)
- AWS Migration Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Serverless
- AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8
- AWS Serverless Application Repository adds support for sharing applications with AWS organizations
- API Gateway offers private integrations with AWS ELB and AWS CloudMap as part of HTTP APIs GA release
- Amplify Console adds command line interface for configuring continuous deployment and hosting
Containers
- Now proactively manage your ECR API use with CloudWatch Metrics and Service Quotas
- Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS KMS
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15
- Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Docker on AL2 Platform (Beta)
- AWS App Mesh launches support for end to end encryption
- Amazon ECS supports in Preview updating Placement Strategy and Constraints for existing ECS Services
EC2 & VPC
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation now Lets you Pause and Resume Your Workloads on T2 Instance Types
- Announcing 36% faster EBS-optimized performance on additional AWS Nitro System-based Amazon EC2 instances
- Amazon Lightsail now supports resource monitoring, alarming and notifications
- Use Amazon VPC Endpoint Policies for granular control of Amazon EC2 APIs
Security
- AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger size for secrets and higher request rate for GetSecretValue API
- Introducing AWS Config multi-account, multi-region support for advanced query
- AWS WAF adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules
- Amazon GuardDuty Price Reduction
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports certificate authentication for connections to AWS Transit Gateway
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) Adds Support For 1 hour Backup Interval
Dev & Ops
- AWS CodeCommit Introduces git-remote-codecommit, a New Git Credential Helper
- Introducing Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution
- Execute Chef recipes on Linux with AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning
- AWS AppConfig announces integration with Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to combine multiple alarms
Databases
- NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
- New AWS Certification validates expertise in AWS databases
- Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility supports Amazon Aurora Global Database
- Amazon Redshift launches pause and resume
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces Global Datastore
- Announcing column-level access control for Amazon Redshift
AI / ML
- Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic content redaction
- Announcing Time Expression for Amazon Comprehend Medical
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Multi-Label Image and Text Classification and Amazon CloudWatch Events
- Introducing Amazon Personalize Optimizer Using Amazon Pinpoint Events
- AWS RoboMaker simulation now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications
Other cool stuff
- You can now take all AWS Certification exams with online proctoring. See the AWS Certification FAQs
- AWS Cost Explorer now offers Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
- AWS adds the ability for customers to enable AWS Local Zones themselves
- AWS Global Accelerator now supports Bring Your Own IP Addresses and Resource Tagging
- AWS Console Mobile Application Launches a New Android Version
- Amazon Connect announces per-second billing, saving customers up to 5% in telephony costs
- Amazon Connect makes it easier to customize the caller experience by adding attributes to existing contact flow blocks
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode on Windows PCs
- Automate index management with Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver Supports New File System Deployment Options
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.4