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

    This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

    You can find the user group here:

    Our website@[email protected] on Mastodon@awsmelb on TwitterAWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedInMelbourneAmazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regionsAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regionsAWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) RegionAWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regionsAWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more RegionsAmazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) RegionsAWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator supportAmazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) RegionAmazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS RegionMeet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) RegionsAWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS RegionAWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regionsAWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS RegionsSydneyAmazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regionsAmazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regionsAWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regionsDiscussed news itemsNew – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation ExperienceNew Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 InstancesApplication Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollbackAmazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term SupportIntroducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file clientAnnouncing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security HubNew – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End UsersAnnouncing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access PointsAWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShellAWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications QuicklyAWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regionsAnnouncing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooksCode scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in previewAWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR ServerlessAmazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking servicesAmazon Corretto 20 is now generally availableAWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpacesAmazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updatesAWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft TeamsAWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICsApplication Auto Scaling now supports resource taggingProgrammatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accountsAmazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By DefaultAWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw DataSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well.

    You can find the user group here:

    Our website@[email protected] on Mastodon@awsmelb on TwitterAWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedInLinksNow Open — AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region in AustraliaMelbourne gets a Region, a big trip, and a brain mapping startupPerth Local Zone announcementSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
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  • After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements.

    Discussed AnnouncementsStep Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data ProcessingYou can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM | AWS Security BlogAmazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports network reachability analysis across accounts in an AWS OrganizationAWS Verified Access Preview — VPN-less Secure Network Access to Corporate ApplicationsPreview: Amazon Security Lake – A Purpose-Built Customer-Owned Data Lake ServiceNew – Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDSIntroducing AWS Application Composer (Preview)Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accountsAWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global NetworkIn the search for performance, there’s more than one way to build a network | AWS HPC Blog (info on SRD)New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2 | AWS News BlogAnnouncing delegated administrator for AWS OrganizationsAmazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now in previewAWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview), a Unified Software Development ServiceAnnouncing data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, helping you detect, and protect sensitive data-in-transitNew – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive ComplianceNew — Create Point-to-Point Integrations Between Event Producers and Consumers with Amazon EventBridge PipesBridging the Gap: Using EventBridge to tie your services together | AWS Perth User Group | Oct 2022 - YouTube (Arjen's talk on EventBridge in Perth)Automated Data Discovery for Amazon MacieAmazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor Preview – End-to-End Visibility into Internet Performance for your ApplicationsIntroducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview)New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStartSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

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

    NewsFinally in SydneyAmazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regionsAmazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regionsAWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS RegionsAWS Direct Connect announces new location in AustraliaServerlessAWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connectionsAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) - Old announcement mentioned in showAnnouncing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sourcesContainersAmazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking | AWS News BlogEBS CSI driver now available in EKS add-ons in previewAmazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitionsACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production readyAmazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instancesAmazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statisticsAmazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloadsEC2 & VPCIntroducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instancesNew – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing | AWS News BlogNew – Amazon EC2 X2iezn Instances Powered by the Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU for Memory-Intensive WorkloadsInstance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata ServiceAmazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement GroupsAWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architecturesAWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance ConnectMetrics now available for AWS PrivateLinkDev & OpsAmazon Corretto January Quarterly UpdatesAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account SubscriptionsAWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containersAWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooksSecurityAWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secretsAWS announces phone number enrichments for Amazon Fraud Detector ModelsAnnouncing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lakeAWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigationAmazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS accountAmazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration | AWS News BlogAmazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clustersAWS Security Hub integrates with AWS HealthAWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security HubAWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session durationData Storage & ProcessingDatabasesAWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQLNow DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costsAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduceAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilitiesAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trialAmazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for OracleGlueIntroducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview)Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview)EMRIntroducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR StudioIntroducing SQL Explorer in EMR StudioAmazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakesAmazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debuggingAmazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpointsAmazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabledOpenSearchAmazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical dataFine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domainsRedshiftAnnouncing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rulesOtherNew – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logsAWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and managementAmazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttlingAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatchAI & MLSageMakerAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processingAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency controlAmazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular DataAmazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestionAnnouncing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instancesOtherAmazon Kendra launches support for query languageAmazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resourcesAmazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for VideoAWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon BusinessAmazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded imagesOther Cool StuffNow Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News BlogAnnouncing the new Console Home in AWS Management ConsoleA New AWS Console Home Experience | AWS News BlogAmazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio consoleAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automationAmazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configurationAnnouncing matrix routing for Amazon Location ServiceAmazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use casesIoTAWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deploymentsAWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and CloudAWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivitySponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.

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

    NewsFinally in SydneyAWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regionsAmazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regionsServerlessIntroducing Amazon EMR Serverless in previewAnnouncing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-DemandAnnouncing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public previewIntroducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview)Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General AvailabilityAmazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet typeAWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)LambdaAWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event sourceAWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container RegistryAWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event sourceAWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data eventsStep FunctionsAWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmplifyIntroducing AWS Amplify StudioAWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDKAWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormationAWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and VueAWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelinesAWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quicklyContainersFargateAnnouncing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 ProcessorsECSAmazon ECS now adds container instance health informationAmazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto ScalingAmazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source projectAmazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetryEKSAmazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes FilterAmazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormationVisualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally availableAWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally AvailableAWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS MarketplaceOtherAmazon ECR announces pull through cache repositoriesAWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy ImagesEC2 & VPCInstancesNew – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News BlogAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processorsIntroducing Amazon EC2 R6i instancesIntroducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instancesAmazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumesAmazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS MontereyAnnouncing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOSAnnouncing preview of Amazon Linux 2022Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance typesAnnouncing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instancesAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processorsAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processorsIntroducing the AWS Graviton Ready ProgramIntroducing Amazon EC2 M6a instancesAWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendationsAWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metricsNetworkingAWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internetAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instancesApplication Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 supportAWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivityAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWSAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network accessIntroducing AWS Cloud WAN PreviewIntroducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLinkOtherRecover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle BinAmazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headersAmazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat KnowledgebaseAmazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity RebalancingAWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2AWS Batch introduces fair-share schedulingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom MetricsDev & OpsNew servicesMeasure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News BlogScalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News BlogAnnouncing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster RecoveryAWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in previewAnnouncing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon AuroraIntroducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performanceIaCAWS announces Construct Hub general availabilityAWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally availableYou can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack setYou can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSetsAWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step FunctionsSDKsAWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)CICDAWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioningAWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templatesAWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipelineOtherAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositoriesEC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization UnitsAmazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap AnnouncedAmazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS OrganizationsAWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource typesAWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPCAmazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressionsIntroducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launchesNew – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News BlogIntroducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NETSecurityAWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per accountAWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate InsightsAWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability managementAmazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)AWS WAF adds support for CaptchaAWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigationSecurity HubAWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIsAWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partnersSSOManage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-OnManage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-OnAWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft WindowsAWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reportingControl TowerAWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrailsAWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational unitsAWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirementsDeny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control TowerAWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customizationData Storage & ProcessingDatabasesRelational databasesAnnouncing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL ServerNew Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS SnapshotsAmazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS OutpostsAthenaAmazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plansAmazon Athena announces cross-account federated queryNew and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally availableAmazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table featuresAnnouncing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)RedshiftAnnouncing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency ScalingAmazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworksAmazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM roleAnnouncing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2NeptuneAnnouncing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon NeptuneAWS releases open source JDBC driver to connect to Amazon NeptuneMemoryDBAmazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free TrialDatabase Migration ServiceAWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topicAWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a sourceAWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a sourceIntroducing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor for automated discovery and analysis of database and analytics workloads (Preview)AWS Database Migration Service now offers a new console experience, AWS DMS StudioAWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanismOtherDatabase Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instancesAmazon Timestream now offers faster and more cost-effective time series data processing through scheduled queries, multi-measure records, and magnetic storage writesAmazon DynamoDB announces the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class, which helps you reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60 percentAchieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instancesS3Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applicationsAmazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filtersAnnouncing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrievalAmazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now freeAnnouncing the new S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access tier - Automatically save up to 68% on storage costsAmazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications fasterAmazon S3 console now reports security warnings, errors, and suggestions from IAM Access Analyzer as you author your S3 policiesAmazon S3 adds new S3 Event Notifications for S3 Lifecycle, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, object tags, and object access control listsGlueAWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlowAWS Glue DataBrew now supports custom SQL statements to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift and SnowflakeAWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to create data quality rules to define and validate their business requirementsFSxIntroducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFSAmazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file systemAmazon FSx for Lustre can now automatically update file system contents as data is deleted and moved in Amazon S3Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systemsBackupAnnouncing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3AWS Backup adds support for Amazon NeptuneAWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policiesAWS Backup adds support for VMware workloadsOtherAWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS Transfer Family adds identity provider options and enhanced monitoring capabilitiesIntroducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR StudioAWS Snow Family now supports external NTP server configurationAnnouncing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for RedisNow execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR StudioAWS Snow Family launches offline tape data migration capabilityAI & MLSageMakerIntroducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas - a visual, no-code interface to build accurate machine learning modelsAnnouncing Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists | AWS News BlogAmazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker StudioAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resumeAnnouncing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpointsAmazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker ClarifyAmazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage queryingIntroducing Amazon SageMaker Inference RecommenderIntroducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: Create high-quality training datasets without having to build labeling applications or manage the labeling workforce on your ownAmazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML serviceAmazon SageMaker Studio now enables interactive data preparation and machine learning at scale within a single universal notebook through built-in integration with Amazon EMROtherGeneral Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimizationAmazon Translate now supports AWS KMS EncryptionAmazon Kendra releases AWS Single Sign-On integration for secure searchAmazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptionsAWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutionsIntroducing Amazon Lex Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview)Amazon Kendra launches Experience Builder, Search Analytics Dashboard, and Custom Document EnrichmentOther Cool StuffIn The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region | AWS News BlogUnified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorialsAWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account managementAmazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channelAmazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application StreamingAmazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API requestAnnouncing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management ConsoleAnnouncing General Availability of Enterprise On-RampAnnouncing preview of AWS Private 5GAWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form FactorsIntroducing AWS Mainframe Modernization - PreviewIntroducing the AWS Migration and Modernization CompetencyAnnouncing AWS Data Exchange for APIsAmazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces WebAmazon SQS Enhances Dead-letter Queue Management Experience For Standard QueuesIntroducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers serviceAWS Resource Access Manager enables support for global resource typesAWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in PreviewAnnouncing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for running hybrid quantum-classical workloads on Amazon BraketIntroducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces - PreviewWell-Architected FrameworkCustomize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom LensesNew Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected FrameworkIoTAnnouncing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in PreviewAWS IoT Greengrass now supports Microsoft Windows devicesAWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpointAnnouncing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficientlyAnnouncing AWS IoT TwinMaker (Preview), a service that makes it easier to build digital twinsAWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial dataNew connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources (Preview)ConnectAmazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from FlowsAmazon Connect launches scheduled tasksAmazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmaticallyAmazon Connect launches API to configure security profiles programmaticallyAmazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flowsAmazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify 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  • A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

    NewsFinally in SydneyAmazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS RegionsAmazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS RegionsServerlessLambdaAWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different accountAWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event sourceStep FunctionsNow — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News BlogAWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflowsAmplifyAnnouncing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS AmplifyAWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for StorageOtherAccelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute BlogContainersAmazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for BottlerocketAWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containersAnnouncing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | ContainersMonitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECSAmazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloadsAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container ServiceAWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targetsAWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally availableEC2 & VPCNew – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News BlogAmazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational UnitsAmazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTSAnnouncing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance typesAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tagsAmazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIsAWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk EnvironmentAWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instancesAmazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned filesNetwork Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News BlogAmazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databasesDev & OpsCLIAWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News BlogNow programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accountsCodeGuruAmazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by InferAmazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by BanditAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and featuresIaCAWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback controlAWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems ManagerOtherNoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data modelsAmazon Corretto October Quarterly UpdatesBulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenterAWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot InterruptionsAWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance InterruptionsSecurityFirewallsAWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logsAWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default DropBackupsAWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reportsAWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault LockOtherAWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security postureAmazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keysAWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlementsData Storage & ProcessingGoodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News BlogAnnouncing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source projectAnnouncing Amazon RDS Custom for OracleAWS announces AWS Snowcone SSDAmazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster ReplicationAmazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management consoleAWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controlsAmazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabledAmazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read ReplicasAWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notificationsAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settingsNew – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News BlogAI & MLSageMakerAnnouncing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templatesAmazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keysOtherAmazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languagesAmazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasetsAWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictionsAmazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detectionAmazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcriptionAmazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processingAnnouncing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning modelsOther Cool StuffAWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time RegistrationAWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchiesVMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News BlogAWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoringAmazon Monitron launches iOS appAmazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealingAmazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboardsAmazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilitiesAnnouncing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS driversComputer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News BlogAmazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmaticallyNew region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLiftSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.

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

    NewsFinally in ANZAmazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS RegionsAbility to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customersAmazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regionsIn the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News BlogServerlessAWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News BlogCross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registryAWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commandsContainersAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News BlogAmazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News BlogAmazon EKS Connector is now in public previewAWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulationAmazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accountsAmazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App RunnerEC2 & VPCInstancesAmazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions togetherNew – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News BlogAmazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS RegionsAWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based InstancesAWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI productsAmazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2VPCIPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS ServerAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix listAmazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News BlogAmazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPCAmazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidthApplication Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content DeliveryOtherAWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type SelectionAmazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity ReservationsDev & OpsDevAmazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News BlogEC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notificationsAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectorsAWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and moreAWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine typeAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tagsAmazon Corretto 17 is now generally availableAWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browserOpsNew for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News BlogAWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilitiesAWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of eventsAWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on DemandAmazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experienceAmazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboardADOTNew for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News BlogAWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)SecurityACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 servicesAmazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiersWAFAWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filteringAWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressionsAWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rulesDetectiveAmazon Detective offers Splunk integrationAmazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding detailsData Storage & ProcessingOpensearchAmazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News BlogOpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series dataAmazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index TransformsMigrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud PleaseDatabasesAmazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instancesAmazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instancesAmazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeoutAmazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databasesAQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodesNew full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon NeptuneAnnouncing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated queryingAmazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query EditorStorageNew – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News BlogHow to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News BlogAWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.comAmazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News BlogNew – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News BlogAmazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS SnapshotsMSKIntroducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News BlogAmazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settingsOtherNow authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-OnNow auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower costAI & MLSageMakerAmazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference PipelinesAmazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio NotebooksAmazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker StudioAmazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problemsOtherExtract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon ComprehendAmazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancementsOptimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choiceOther Cool StuffAnnouncing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboardsAmazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now availableAmazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storageAmazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway deviceAmazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMSAmazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuitsAWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API GatewayAmazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MBAWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for UnityAWS Ground Station announces Licensing AcceleratorNew – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News BlogConnectAmazon Connect Wisdom is now generally availableContact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languagesAmazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interfaceAmazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactionsAmazon Connect Voice ID is now generally availableAmazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emailsIoTAWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancementsAWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-ClickAWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification statesSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.

    NewsFinally in SydneyAmazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS RegionsAmazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional ExpansionAWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS RegionsServerlessLambdaAWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event sourceAmplifyAWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilitiesComplete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & MobileAWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functionsAWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStoreAWS Amplify now supports Sign in with AppleAnnouncing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS AmplifyOtherAmazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CASimplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public PreviewAWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIsContainersAmazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | ContainersAmazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgradesAmazon EKS now supports MultusAmazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasksAWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queriesAWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally availableAWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with KubernetesAmazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limitsEC2 & VPCInstancesIntroducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizesNew – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News BlogAmazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operationsAmazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d InstancesAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instancesAssigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled EventsAuto ScalingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notificationsAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-inOtherAmazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group RulesAmazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot InstancesAWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLinkAWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpointsAWS IoT Core now supports VPC EndpointsDev & OpsDev ToolingEC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom imagesAWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profilesIntroducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS CodeAmazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applicationsAmazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profileAmazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functionsCodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build ResultsAWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versionsAWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applicationsCDK/CloudFormationAnnouncing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK AppsAWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines supportAWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS accountYou can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack setSystems ManagerAWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacksNow view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems ManagerAWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activityNow enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change ManagerAWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approversAWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed InstancesOtherAWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptionsAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarmsAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoringAmazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage MetricsSecurityAWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network FirewallAWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event responseAWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA CertificatesAmazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keysAWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS EncryptionAWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoringAWS License Manager now supports Delegated AdministratorAWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioningAWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoringData Storage & ProcessingAWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File ServerAmazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static contentAmazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experienceAnnouncing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query languageAmazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version UpgradesIntroducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News BlogAWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of serversAmazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scalingEBSAWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express VolumesAmazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creationAWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIsAthenaAmazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and securityAmazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BIS3AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access PointsAmazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access pointAmazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPCAmazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accountsAmazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access controlRedshiftAmazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profileCross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News BlogRedshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functionsGlueAWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoringAWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinationsAWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasetsAWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformationsAWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tablesSnow FamilyAWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transferAWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devicesAWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networksAWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networksAI & MLAmazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbersAmazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receiptsAnnouncing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud DetectorAWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon RekognitionAmazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and moreAmazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2SageMakerAmazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMakerAmazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning stepAmazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key PoliciesAmazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook InstancesAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda FunctionsAmazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing timesKendraAnnouncing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price DropAmazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site searchAmazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure searchAmazon Kendra releases WorkDocs ConnectorOther Cool StuffIoTAWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilitiesAWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally availableAWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregationsAnnouncing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise)Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3The restThe Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streamsAmazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browserAWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in AdvanceAWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policiesAWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE racesAmazon HealthLake is now Generally AvailableIntroducing AWS for HealthIntroducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News BlogCloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHubAmazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statisticsAmazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer ConsoleSponsorsCMD SolutionsSilver SponsorsCevoVersent
  • The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

    NewsFinally in SydneyAQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regionsAmazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regionsServerlessAmazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIsAWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM rolesAnnouncing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step FunctionsSimplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systemsAWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS LambdaAWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache KafkaContainersAmazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groupsAWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilitiesAnnouncing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress EnhancementsCustomize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News BlogEC2 & VPCAWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private CommunicationsAmazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIsAmazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instancesAWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instanceAnnouncing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server InstancesAWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speedsAmazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower pricesDev & OpsAWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open sourceAWS announces the general availability of AWS ProtonIntroducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News BlogAWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvementsConfigure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applicationsAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News BlogAWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager consoleSecurityAmazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNSAWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoringAWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissionsAWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accountsKMS Multi-Region KeysAWS WAF adds 15 new text transformationsIAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoringData Storage & ProcessingAmazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tablesAnnouncing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settingsAnnouncing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon NeptuneAmazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started fasterAWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scriptsFile Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News BlogAmazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regionsAmazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloningAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge InstancesAmazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance FleetsAmazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX clusterAI & MLAmazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed modelsAmazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capabilityAmazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridgeAmazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slotsConnect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for MetricsAmazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documentsAmazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing JobsOther Cool StuffAmazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS ServicesAmazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News BlogNew LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWANAnnouncing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data StoresAWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability ZoneAWS Client VPN launches desktop client for LinuxAmazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmaticallyIn the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News BlogNew – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News BlogThe Nanos

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

    NewsFinally in Sydney

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    ServerlessLambdaGetting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News BlogAWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3EventBridgeAmazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and RegionAWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridgeOtherAWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web appsIntroducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News BlogAmazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express WorkflowsContainersEKSAmazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally availableUse Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costsAmazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taintsEKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxyOtherNew – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News BlogAmazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your TasksAWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoringEC2 & VPCFour new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase optionsEC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch templateAmazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC PeeringAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling PolicyAWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendationsAWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity ReservationsAmazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container ServicesDev & OpsDevAWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer PreviewPorting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extensionAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keysAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for schedulingAWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless ApplicationsAWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpointsOpsResolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilitiesNow use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical eventsAWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally availableCustomizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuildSecurityAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resourcesAWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected frameworkAWS WAF adds support for log filteringAmazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobsIntroducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSKAWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reportingAWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service ManagementAWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 bucketsData Storage & ProcessingAmazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharingAmazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.xAmazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated BackupsAmazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instancesAWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now availableAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated BackupsNew – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News BlogAWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in previewAmazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data CatalogsAmazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tierAWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and AuthenticationAmazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiersAmazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active DirectoryAmazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container databaseAmazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read ReplicasAmazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large InstancesAmazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift MLAmazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compressionAWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File ServerAI & MLPrepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobsAmazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more modelsSupport for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvertAmazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilizationAmazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained modelAmazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelinesAmazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data pointsAmazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker ExperimentsAmazon Kendra releases Query SuggestionsAmazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%Other Cool StuffNew Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News BlogNew Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)AWS Organizations launches new console experienceMigration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick InsightsAWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News BlogAmazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activityHow to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News BlogAWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS supportAnnouncing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device AdvisorAWS Application Cost ProfilerAWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength ZonesAmazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and AndroidFleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally availableIn the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News BlogAmazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO QueuesAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric FiltersAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch Resource HealthThe NanosAmazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen)Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy)SponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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.

    NewsFinally in SydneyAmazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US SpanishMulti-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS RegionsAWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS RegionsAWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regionsServerlessAPI GatewayAmazon API Gateway custom domain names now support multi-level base path mappingsLambdaAWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1msAmazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images (General Availability)Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS LambdaAWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.xStep FunctionsAWS Step Functions adds new data flow simulator for modelling input and output processingEventBridgeAmazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targetsAWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridgeAmplifyData management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UIAmplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deploymentContainerseksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run modeAWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI DriverEC2 & VPCAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving moneyAmazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon AthenaMacSec 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 managementAWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job levelAWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS BackupsInternet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwideAmazon EC2 enables replacing root volumes for quick restoration and troubleshootingAnnouncing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Windows operating systemDev & OpsDevAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Predictable Pricing Model Up To 90% Lower and Python Support Moves to GA | AWS News BlogNow available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual StudioAWS CodeDeploy improves support for EC2 deployments with Auto Scaling GroupsAWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications - public previewBetter together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK | AWS Compute BlogProtonAWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing serviceAWS Proton introduces customer-managed environmentsAWS Proton adds an API to cancel deploymentsCloudFormationYou can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSetsAWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScriptAWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter SupportNow reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versionsYou can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSetsControl TowerAWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocolsAWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setupSystems ManagerAWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the consoleAWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverabilityCustomers can now use ServiceNow to track operational items related to AWS resourcesAWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labelsAWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service clustersAWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Explorer now integrate with AWS Security Hub for diagnosis and remediation of security findingsSecurityFirewallsHow to Get Started with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC | AWS News BlogReduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control | AWS News BlogAWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS FirewallAWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organizationAWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reportingIdentityReview last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM rolesAWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user's IAM role activity to their corporate identityOtherAWS Config launches the ability to track and visualize compliance change history of conformance packsAWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standardYou now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activityData Storage & ProcessingGlueDetect outliers and use dedicated transforms to handle outliers in AWS Glue DataBrewAWS Glue DataBrew now supports time-based, pattern-based and customizable parameters to create dynamic datasetsAWS announces preview of AWS Glue custom blueprintsAWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsAWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learningAWS announces data sink capability for the Glue connectorsAWS 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)RedshiftAQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) – A Speed Boost for Your Amazon Redshift Queries | AWS News BlogAnnouncing cross-VPC support for Amazon Redshift powered by AWS PrivateLinkAnnouncing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partnersAnnouncing general availability of Amazon Redshift native JSON and semi-structured data supportEMRAmazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance typesAmazon EMR Studio is now generally availableAthenaAnnouncing general availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMakerUser Defined Functions (UDF) are now generally available for Amazon AthenaRDSAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Extended EventsAmazon RDS on VMware networking now simplified and more secureOtherAmazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accountsAWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performanceAmazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BIAWS Ground Station now supports data delivery to Amazon S3Amazon ElastiCache now supports publishing Redis logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Kinesis Data FirehoseAI & MLSageMakerDecrease Your Machine Learning Costs with Instance Price Reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker | AWS News BlogNew options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions ( EventBridge)OtherDetect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally availableAmazon Fraud Detector now supports Batch Fraud PredictionsGet estimated run time for forecast creation jobs while using Amazon ForecastAmazon Kendra launches dynamic relevance tuningOther Cool StuffWorkSpacesAmazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally AvailableAmazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client applicationIVSAmazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch MetricsAmazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3ConnectAmazon 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)OtherAWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure tools for simulation jobsAmazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updatesAmazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reportsAWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environmentsCloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time | AWS News BlogAnnouncing open source robotics projects for AWS DeepRacerAnnouncing Moving Graphs for CloudWatch DashboardsAmazon Nimble Studio – Build a Creative Studio in the Cloud | AWS News BlogAWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snow jobsThe NanosAWS 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)SponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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.

    NewsFinally in SydneyAWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in AustraliaAWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS RegionsAmazon 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) regionsAmazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regionsGet to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)ServerlessLambdaIntroducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News BlogThe AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation designAWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checksStep FunctionsAWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAMLAnnouncing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKSEventBridgeAmazon EventBridge introduces support for API DestinationsContainersECSAmazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS FargateAWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.meAWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and moreEKSAmazon 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 secretsAmazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormationAmazon EKS now supports P4d instancesAmazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric AdapterAmazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioningOtherAWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolutionRed Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News BlogEC2 & VPCEC2Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News BlogAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processorsAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scalingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deploymentsAmazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2VPCAmazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow DirectionAmazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpointsDev & OpsCICDAWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per accountAWS Proton now supports services without pipelinesAWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templatesAWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrizationSystems ManagerAWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resourceAWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvalsOtherNow available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS CodeAmazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace contextAnnouncing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify AndroidAnnouncing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLISecuritySecurity HubAWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standardAWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture managementConfigAWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets ManagerAWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functionsWAFAWS Shield Advanced now supports resource taggingAWS WAF adds support for Custom ResponsesAWS WAF adds support for Request Header InsertionOtherAWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDBAWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatchAWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS RegionsIAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News BlogNew AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWSAWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard frameworkData Storage & ProcessingS3Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News BlogAWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on OutpostsDatabasesAchieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instancesAmazon 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 instancesAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated BackupsAmazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgradesAmazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora ReplicasAmazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCsAnnouncing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queriesAnnouncing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data SharingAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event SubscriptionsOtherNew – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News BlogAmazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availabilityAmazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updatesAWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQLAWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery pointsAWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new productAI & MLSageMakerAnnouncing 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 SageMakerAmazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authenticationAmazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model ExplainabilityOtherDetect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally availableAnnouncing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML DetectIntroducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon ForecastAmazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcriptionOther Cool StuffRegionsAWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services | AWS News BlogConnectAmazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reportingAmazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your websiteOther Services/FeaturesAWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News BlogAnnouncing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed BlockchainBundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpacesAWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notificationsThe NanosAWS 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)SponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewsThe shameless plugArjen Without SleepFinally in SydneyAWS 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) regionsAmazon 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 LocationsServerlessAWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14Announcing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication supportContainersAWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authenticationAmazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providersIntroducing OIDC identity provider authentication for Amazon EKS | ContainersAmazon EKS and EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.19AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000AWS Config now supports Amazon container servicesEC2 & VPCIntroducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal InstancesAmazon Elastic File System triples read throughputAWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputsAWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatchAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addressesApplication Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie StickinessAmazon VPC Traffic Mirroring is now supported on select non-Nitro instance typesScheduled Actions of Application Auto Scaling now support Local Time ZoneAccess Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big SurAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groupsDev & OpsAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprintInsights is now generally available for AWS X-RayAWS Cloud9 launches visual source control integration for GitAssign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS OrganizationAWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2SecurityAmazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracyAmazon 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 findingsIntroducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSMAWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspectionSupport for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS ConfigData Storage & ProcessingAmazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLinkIntroducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on OutpostsYou now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDBAmazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and moreAmazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failoverManaged planned failovers with Amazon Aurora Global Database | AWS Database BlogAmazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB support replication filteringAmazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tierAmazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node typesAmazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ DeploymentsAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for Standard EditionAmazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retentionAmazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13AI & MLNow create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration timeAWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHubAutomate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally availableOther cool stuffIntroducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings BundleAmazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metricsUpdate content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMailAWS Control Tower now provides region selectionThe NanosAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regionsAmazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbersAmazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metricsSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewFinally in SydneyPartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS RegionsAWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) RegionAmazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS RegionsAnnouncing 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) regionsServerlessLambdaAWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda FunctionsAWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event sourceAWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSKAPI GatewayAmazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIsContainersMonitoringJoin the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News BlogAnnouncing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News BlogAmazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and KubernetesGeneralEC2 Image Builder now supports container imagesECSAmazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit BreakerAmazon Elastic Container Service launches new management consoleAmazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policiesAmazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per clusterEKSAWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurationsEC2 & VPCInstancesAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networkingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances PolicyEBSMulti-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accountsNetworkingAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addressesAmazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)LightsailAmazon Lightsail now supports IPv6Dev & OpsDevAWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally availableAWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally availablePorting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translationAnnouncing 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 workflowsAWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSetsAnnouncing CDK Support for AWS ChaliceOpsIntroducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News BlogNew – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News BlogIntroducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet ManagerSecurityAWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronizationAnnouncing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSECAWS Config launches ability to save advanced queriesAmazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWSAWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customizationAmazon Detective enhances IP Address AnalyticsData storage & processingAWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom ConnectorsAmazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instancesNew – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News BlogAchieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in previewAmazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easilyAI & MLIntroducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloudIoTNew – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News BlogAnnouncing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News BlogAnnouncing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premisesAnnouncing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWiseIntroducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for GrafanaAWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in previewAWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clustersAWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestionIntroducing AWS IoT EduKitAnnouncing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public previewAnnouncing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWiseOther Cool StuffPolicyStepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source BlogServicesAWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News BlogAmazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News BlogAWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally availableFeaturesAPIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected ToolCost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) AccountsAnnouncing the availability of AWS Outposts Private ConnectivityAmazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating systemService Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News BlogSQSAmazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)Amazon SQS announces tiered pricingControl TowerregionAWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS OrganizationsAWS Control Tower now provides bulk account updateThe NanosAmazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addressesSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewFinally in ANZIn the Works – AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia | AWS News BlogAmazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instancesAmazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility now available in eight additional regionsAmazon SageMaker Studio is now expanded to AWS regions worldwideServerlessLambdaNew for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings | AWS News BlogNew for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs | AWS News BlogNew for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News BlogUsing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights to Improve Operational Visibility | AWS News BlogAWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event sourceAWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)Announcing Code Signing, a trust and integrity control for AWS LambdaEventBridgeAWS Systems Manager Change Calendar integrates with Amazon EventBridge to enable automated actions based on calendar state changesAmazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotasStep FunctionsAmazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIsAWS Step Functions now supports Synchronous Express WorkflowsAmplifyAWS Amplify announces new Admin UIContainersECRAmazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry | AWS News BlogAmazon ECR announces cross region replication of imagesFargateNew – Fully Serverless Batch Computing with AWS Batch Support for AWS Fargate | AWS News BlogECSIntroducing Amazon ECS Anywhere | ContainersAmazon ECS Announces the Preview of ECS Deployment Circuit BreakerAmazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up timeAmazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Update FunctionalityAmazon ECS adds support for P4d instance typesAmazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scalingAWS Copilot CLI is now Generally AvailableEKSAmazon EKS Anywhere – Amazon Web ServicesAmazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS | AWS News BlogSimplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKSAmazon EKS simplifies installation and management for Kubernetes cluster add-onsAmazon EKS adds built-in logging support for AWS FargateAmazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groupsAmazon EKS Console Now Includes Kubernetes Resources to Simplify Cluster ManagementEC2 & VPCEBSNew – Amazon EBS gp3 Volume Lets You Provision Performance Apart From Capacity | AWS News BlogNow in Preview – Larger & Faster io2 Block Express EBS Volumes with Higher Throughput | AWS News BlogAWS 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 recommendationsInstance TypesNew – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps | AWS News BlogNew EC2 M5zn Instances – Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU in the Cloud | AWS News BlogComing Soon – Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances Featuring AMD GPUs for Graphics Workloads | AWS News BlogComing Soon – EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors | AWS News BlogEC2 Update – D3 / D3en Dense Storage Instances | AWS News BlogNew – Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Provide 3x Higher EBS Performance | AWS News BlogOther EC2Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) now support tag-on-create and tag-based access controlAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports attaching multiple network interfaces at launchAWS Announcing Windows Server version 20H2 AMIs for Amazon EC2Simplify EC2 provisioning and viewing cloud resources in the ServiceNow CMDB with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNowNetworkingNew – VPC Reachability Analyzer | AWS News BlogIntroducing AWS Transit Gateway Connect to simplify SD-WAN branch connectivityAWS Global Accelerator launches custom routingDev & OpsNew servicesPreview: AWS Proton – Automated Management for Container and Serverless Deployments | AWS News BlogAWS announces Amazon DevOps Guru in Preview, an ML-powered cloud operations service to improve application availability for AWS workloadsPreview: Amazon Lookout for Metrics, an Anomaly Detection Service for Monitoring the Health of Your Business | AWS News BlogCodeNew for Amazon CodeGuru – Python Support, Security Detectors, and Memory Profiling | AWS News BlogAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces Security Detectors to help improve code securityAmazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap SummaryAmazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces CodeQuality Detector to help manage technical debt and codebase maintainabilityAWS CodeArtifact now supports NuGetToolsAWS IDE Toolkit now available for AWS Cloud9Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for .NET 5OtherAnnouncing Modules for AWS CloudFormationAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python with Selenium frameworkAWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policiesSecurityNew servicesAWS Audit Manager Simplifies Audit Preparation | AWS News BlogSSONew – Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On | AWS News BlogAWS Single Sign-On enables administrators to require users to set up MFA devices during sign-inAWS Single Sign-On adds Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for user authentication with security keys and built-in biometric authenticatorsOtherAWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectorsAWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud CustodianAWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrationsAWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operationData Storage & ProcessingAuroraIntroducing the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in previewIntroducing Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, in preview (includes Sydney)Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is Available for PreviewAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS LambdaRDSAmazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated BackupsPostgreSQL 13 now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environmentLakesAmazon HealthLake Stores, Transforms, and Analyzes Health Data in the Cloud | AWS News BlogAnnouncing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and AccelerationS3New – Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets | AWS News BlogAmazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency | AWS News BlogAmazon S3 Replication adds support for multiple destinations in the same, or different AWS RegionsAmazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applicationsAmazon 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 replicationEMRAmazon EMR Studio makes it easier for data scientists to build and deploy codeRedshiftAWS announces AQUA for Amazon Redshift (preview)Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing (preview)Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus nodes with managed storageAmazon Redshift announces Automatic Table OptimizationAmazon 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)DynamoDBYou 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 previewYou now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDBGlueAnnouncing Amazon Elasticsearch Service support for AWS Glue Elastic ViewsAnnouncing AWS Glue Elastic Views PreviewAWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applicationsOtherAmazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a buttonIntroducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)AI & MLSagemaker :allthethings:Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training Deep Learning Models With Billions of Parameters | AWS News BlogAmazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | AWS News BlogNew – Store, Discover, and Share Machine Learning Features with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store | AWS News BlogNew – Profile Your Machine Learning Training Jobs With Amazon SageMaker Debugger | AWS News BlogNew – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines Brings DevOps Capabilities to your Machine Learning Projects | AWS News BlogAmazon SageMaker Edge Manager Simplifies Operating Machine Learning Models on Edge Devices | AWS News BlogNew – Managed Data Parallelism in Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training on Large Datasets | AWS News BlogIntroducing Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, a Visual Interface to Prepare Data for Machine Learning | AWS News BlogAmazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | AWS News BlogNew – Amazon SageMaker Clarify Detects Bias and Increases the Transparency of Machine Learning Models | AWS News BlogAmazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports new capabilities to maintain model quality in productionIntroducing two new libraries for managed distributed training on Amazon SageMakerEdgeNew – Amazon Lookout for Equipment Analyzes Sensor Data to Help Detect Equipment Failure | AWS News BlogAmazon Lookout for Vision – New ML Service Simplifies Defect Detection for Manufacturing | AWS News BlogAWS Panorama Appliance: Bringing Computer Vision Applications to the Edge | AWS News BlogIntroducing Amazon Monitron, an end-to-end system to detect abnormal equipment behaviorAI ServicesAmazon Kendra adds Google Drive connectorAmazon Kendra launches incremental learningAmazon Kendra launches connector libraryAnnouncing Amazon Forecast Weather Index – automatically include local weather to increase your forecasting model accuracyAdded MLAmazon announces Amazon Neptune ML: easy, fast, and accurate predictions for graphsAWS announces Amazon Redshift ML (preview)Other Cool StuffRegions/ZonesAnnouncing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Las VegasAnnouncing Preview of AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and MiamiBraketPennyLane on Braket + Progress Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing + Tensor Network Simulator | AWS News BlogAmazon Braket tensor network simulator supports 50-qubit quantum circuitsAmazon Braket now supports manual qubit allocationConnectContact Lens for Amazon Connect launches real-time contact center analytics to detect customer issues on live callsAmazon Connect Wisdom provides contact center agents the information they need to quickly solve customer issuesAmazon Connect Customer Profiles for a unified view of your customers to provide more personalized serviceAmazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication for more secure callsAmazon Connect Tasks makes it easy to prioritize, assign, track, and automate contact center agent tasksAmazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Preview)QuicksightIntroducing Amazon QuickSight Q: ask questions about your data and get answers in secondsAmazon QuickSight launches new session capacity pricing options, embedding without user management and a developer portal for embedded analyticsOtherAnnouncing Unified Search in the AWS Management ConsoleAmazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol now Generally AvailableNew – SaaS Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool | AWS News BlogThe Amazon Chime SDK now supports messagingAWS Batch now has integrated Amazon Linux 2 supportNanosAmazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on AndroidSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 newFinally in SydneyAmazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS regionIP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wideMeet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! | AWS News BlogServerlessAmazon EventBridge introduces support for Event ReplayAmazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functionsAWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinationsAWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ as an event sourceAWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integrationAWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integrationContainersLightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud | AWS News BlogAmazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking modeAmazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally availableThe AWS CDK EKS Construct Library is Now Available as a Developer Preview and Adds Support for cdk8sAWS Fargate for Amazon ECS launches features focused on configuration and metricsAWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilitiesAnnouncing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.2.0Amazon VPC CNI plugin version 1.7 now default for Amazon EKS clustersEC2 & VPCAWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC | AWS News BlogDeployment models for AWS Network Firewall | Networking & Content DeliveryIntroducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances | AWS News BlogNetwork Load Balancer now supports IPv6AWS Client VPN now supports Client Connect HandlerAWS Client VPN announces self service portal to download VPN profiles and desktop applicationsIntroducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot InstancesAmazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength ZonesPause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 HibernationAnnouncing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon BraketDev & OpsAWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacksAWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operationsAWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment VariablesAWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for easier diagnosis and remediation of alarmsAWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git cloneNow customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session ManagerSecurityEncrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keysAWS KMS - based Encryption is Now Available in Amazon SageMaker StudioAnnouncing protection groups for AWS Shield AdvancedAWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of AWS Network FirewallData Storage & ProcessingNew – Export Amazon DynamoDB Table Data to Your Data Lake in Amazon S3, No Code Writing Required | AWS News BlogIntroducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage | AWS News BlogAmazon MQ Update – New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service | AWS News BlogAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactionsAmazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2Amazon 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 BlogAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database MailAmazon RDS Data API supports tag-based authorizationAmazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Cross-Custom-Availability-Zone Read ReplicasAmazon Aurora Global Database Expands Manageability CapabilitiesAWS Launch Wizard now supports single-instance deployments of SQL Server on Windows and LinuxAmazon Redshift announces Open Source JDBC and Python driversAmazon Redshift announces support for TIME and TIMETZ data typesAmazon Neptune now supports Event notificationsAmazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workloadAmazon Elasticsearch Service now supports defining a custom name for your domain endpointAmazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary filesStorage DayWelcome to AWS Storage Day 2020 | AWS News BlogAmazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports Access to File Systems Using Alternate DNS NamesAWS Storage Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for Tape and Volume GatewayAmazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notificationsAmazon S3 Replication adds support for replicating delete markersAWS Transfer Family now supports shared services VPC environmentsAmazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering adds Archive Access Tiers — further optimizes storage costsAWS Backup extends centralized backup management support to Amazon FSxAWS Snowball Edge now supports importing virtual machine images to your deployed Snow devicesAWS Storage Gateway simplifies in-cloud processing by adding file-level upload notifications for File GatewayAWS Storage Gateway enhances security by introducing access-based enumeration for File GatewayAmazon ECS now supports the use of Amazon FSx for persistent, shared storage for Windows containersAMI Lifecycle Management now available with Data Lifecycle ManagerAWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systemsAWS Storage Gateway increases local storage cache by 4x for Tape and Volume GatewayAWS announces 40% price reduction for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Cold HDD (sc1) volumesAmazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotasAI & MLNew – GPU-Equipped EC2 P4 Instances for Machine Learning & HPC | AWS News BlogEFA Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMAAmazon Kendra adds Confluence Cloud connectorAmazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure searchAWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule on sequence modeling and TransformersAWS DeepComposer adds new Transformers algorithm that allows developers to extend an input melodyAnnouncing AWS DeepComposer’s next Chartbusters challenge, Keep Calm and Model OnAmazon Polly launches a British English Newscaster speaking StyleAmazon Polly launches a new Australian English neural text-to-speech voiceAmazon Lex adds language support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian FrenchApply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the flyAmazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languagesAmazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instancesOther Cool StuffIn the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India | AWS News BlogIn the Works – New AWS Region in Zurich, Switzerland | AWS News BlogAWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup featureAmazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audioSavings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost ManagementIntroducing new visualization features in AWS IoT SiteWise: Status Charts, Scatter Plot and Trend linesAnnouncing new features for AWS IoT SiteWiseAmazon CloudWatch launches Metrics ExplorerAmazon Connect launches API to configure user hierarchies programmaticallyAutomated ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Configuration now available in AWS Elemental MediaConvertAmazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and moreAWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnelThe NanosAmazon WorkDocs adds support for managing the color theme in-app on iOSAWS IQ launches new functionality to support firmsAmazon Connect has just reduced its 44th telephony rate this yearSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewsFinally in SydneyAmazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialectAmazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regionsAWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regionsAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regionsServerlessIntroducing AWS Lambda Extensions – In preview | AWS Compute BlogAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (preview)New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network | AWS News BlogAmazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter QueuesAWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integrationAmazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpointContainersAmazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local ZonesAmazon EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes service IP address rangeAmazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer PreviewAWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker PlatformFluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logsAWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate AuthorityIntroducing the AWS Load Balancer ControllerAWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and moreEC2 & VPCAWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News BlogAnnouncing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro EnclavesNew – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News BlogAWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metricsAWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parametersAWS Global Accelerator launches port overridesAWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private linksAWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notificationsDev & OpsAWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotasAWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally availableAWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource typesAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboardAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canariesAWS and Grafana Labs launch AWS X-Ray data source pluginNow author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio CodeAWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooksAWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environmentsNow use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instancesPort forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connectionsNow customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profilesAWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customersEC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accountsAnnouncing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.xPorting Assistant for .NET is now open sourceAmazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now availableSecurityAWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packsAWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findingsAWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAFAWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customersAmazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log groupAmazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their bucketsProtect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management ServiceManage access to AWS centrally for Ping Identity users with AWS Single Sign-OnAmazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for KibanaAmazon Inspector has expanded operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019Data Storage & ProcessingNew – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors | AWS News BlogAmazon ElastiCache now supports M6g and R6g Graviton2-based instancesEasily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backupAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicasAmazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage spaceAWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon AthenaAWS Lake Formation now supports cross account database sharingNow generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL WorkbenchYou now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra driversAmazon ElastiCache on Outposts is now availableAmazon EMR now supports placing your EMR master nodes in distinct racks to reduce risk of simultaneous failureAmazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation is now generally availableAmazon EMR now provides up to 35% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instancesAWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs support schema detection and evolutionAWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache KafkaAWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collectionsAmazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Force Stop and a new Autoscaling statusKinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processingAnnouncing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview)Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenizationNew Amazon Neptune engine release now enforces a minimum version of TLS 1.2 and SSL client connectionsAWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a sourceAI & MLAmazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher AccuracyNow launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instancesAmazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom imagesAmazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categoriesAmazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in imagesAmazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIsAmazon Kendra now supports custom data sourcesAmazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connectorAmazon Textract announces improvements to reduce average API processing times by up to 20%Other Cool StuffAWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updatesAmazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accountsAWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared MemoryAmazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the British English dialectAmazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flowsCloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interfaceCloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metricsAnnouncing AWS Budgets price reductionAnnouncing AWS Budgets ActionsResource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS OutpostsAnnouncing Amazon CloudFront Origin ShieldAnnouncing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in PreviewIntroducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging | AWS News BlogAmazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messagesAmazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilitiesNano candidatesAmazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOSAmazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now availableAWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef AutomateSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewsFinally in ANZAmazon Lex launches support for Australian EnglishUrban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottleAmazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regionsAmazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versionsAmazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New ZealandServerlessAWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KBAPI Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization optionsAWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-RayAWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflowsAmazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authenticationmTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino EngineeringMutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino EngineeringAmazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON SchemaContainersAnnouncing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containersEKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormationAmazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes podsAmazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environmentsAWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker DesktopDocker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker BlogAmazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local ZonesEC2 & VPCNew EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News BlogAmazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the runAnnouncing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon TextractAmazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprintsApplication Load Balancers now support AWS OutpostsAWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environmentsAmazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2Dev & OpsAWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of UbuntuAWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for JavaAWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in previewAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray tracesSystems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicksAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow BlueprintsAmazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compressionAWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sourcesAnnouncing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15SecurityAWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access managementFixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.meGitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functionscloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHubNow available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEsAmazon CloudFront announces real-time logsAmazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connectionsAmazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharingAWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery PointsEnforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAMAmazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session AnalysisData Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policyAWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)Storage & DatabasesAnnouncing Data API for Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single clusterAmazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read ReplicasAmazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TBAmazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 InstancesAmazon 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 DatabasesAmazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clientsAI & MLAmazon Textract supports customer S3 bucketsOther Cool StuffAWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT EventsAmazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpacesAmazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirectionAmazon Connect launches contact flow management APIsAmazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instanceAmazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmaticallyAWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation RegistryIntroducing AWS PerspectiveAnnouncing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DCQueuing purchases of Savings PlansAmazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealingThe D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)The Nano CandidatesAmazon 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)SponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International
  • 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 NewsFinally in SydneyAnnouncing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News BlogAmazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regionsAmazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) RegionsServerlessLambdaAWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settingsAWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event sourceAWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIsAPI GatewayAmazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain namesAPI Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS servicesAmazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logsStep FunctionsAWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker ProcessingAWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processingAmplifyAnnouncing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOSAmplify Flutter now available as Developer PreviewContainersFargateAWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load BalancerAWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings PlansAmazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systemsECSAmazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch typeAWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configurationAmazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMIEKSAmazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load BalancerAmazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIsAmazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally availableAnnouncing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes PreviewAmazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2OtherAWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configurationEC2 & VPCAmazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY APINow Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC ProcessorsAWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 TrafficAWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithmsAWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiationAWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP managementAmazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and OperabilityDev & OpsCodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis SupportEC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locallyAWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpointsNow manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager DistributorAWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support casesAWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC supportSecurityNew – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News BlogManage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-OnAWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capabilityAWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharingAWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load BalancersStorage and DatabasesNew EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News BlogAnnouncing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 ProcessorsAWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing durationAWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflowsAmazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune WorkbenchAmazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloadsAmazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policiesAmazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per ClusterAWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a sourceAmazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019AI & MLAWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN modelAmazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracyAmazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI CapabilityOther Cool StuffQuantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon BraketAWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per regionAWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication optionsAnnouncing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay AreaIntroducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CAAmazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone callsAmazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound callAmazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designerAWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for roboticsAmazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression listAmazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorizationAmazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voiceAmazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GBThe Nano CandidatesAmazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracyAWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capabilityAmazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone callsSponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoiT International
  • 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 NewsFinally in SydneyAWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS RegionAWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS RegionsAWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED levelServerlessAmazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News BlogAnnouncing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production useAmplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code assets across Lambda functionsAmazon Athena adds support for Partition ProjectionContainersAWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News BlogAmazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWSDocker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS FargateAmazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gatewaysIntroducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost)Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally availableAmazon ECS announces increased service quotasFluent bit container logs to ElastcsearchECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keysEC2 & VPCKernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally availableIntroducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instancesAWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoringEC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIsEC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatchAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load BalancersAmazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on CreateNew – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News BlogAmazon Lightsail now offers cPanel WHM instance blueprintAWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registrationDev & OpsFind Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News BlogAnnouncing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News BlogAWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy AgentAnnouncing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applicationsCDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost)CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript SupportAWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session ManagerAWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reportingAWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build projectAmazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio CodeSecurityAmazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News BlogEasily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS OrganizationsAWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groupsAWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 APIAWS 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 policiesIdentify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets ManagerAmazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connectionsAmazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibilityNow gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management ConsoleAmazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And AuthorizationAWS Security Hub launches new automated security controlsAWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logsStorage & DatabasesAmazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughputAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instancesAWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File GatewayAWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File GatewayAmazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLinkAmazon 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 BlogAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copyAnnouncing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File SystemNew Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and managementAmazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News BlogAmazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy rankingAWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News BlogHTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch ServiceAmazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB InstancesAWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessmentsAmazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB CloudAI & MLAWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchaseAmazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical conditionAmazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadataAmazon 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 itemsAmazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower costNew – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News BlogAnnouncing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon KendraAWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS) Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity RecognitionAmazon Forecast now supports resource taggingAmazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost TrainingAmazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workersAmazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News BlogOther cool stuffNew – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News BlogAnnouncing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News BlogAWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News BlogAmazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News BlogContact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally availableRecording 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 deviceAmazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-upAmazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsersAWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control TowerUpdates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected ToolAmazon Connect adds call recording APIsIntroducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)SponsorsGold Sponsor InnablrSilver SponsorsAC3CMD SolutionsDoIT International