AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 351

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is now available in nine more regions

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.3.1

Amazon EMR now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink 1.8

Introducing Open Monitoring with Prometheus for Amazon MSK

Amazon QuickSight launches new analytical functions, Athena Workgroup and Presto VPC connector support

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions now supports AWS PrivateLink

Application Auto Scaling now provides scaling activity updates via Amazon EventBridge

Amazon MQ introduces throughput-optimized message brokers

Amazon SQS Now Supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics

Topic || Business Applications

Alexa for Business adds end of meeting reminders, intelligent room release and meeting room utilization metrics.

Topic || Compute

Amazon EKS Announces Beta Release of Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver

Amazon EKS enables network access restrictions to Kubernetes cluster public endpoints

DNS Resolution for EKS Clusters Using Private Endpoints

Amazon Elastic Container Service launches a new CLI to launch and manage containerized applications easier

Session Manager now available directly from the Amazon EC2 console

Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Preferentially use Available Capacity Reservations

Amazon EC2 Spot Now Provides Instance Launch Notifications via Amazon CloudWatch Events

Amazon EC2 instances featuring AMD EPYC processors are now available in additional regions

Attach multiple Elastic Inference accelerators to a single EC2 instance

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches the Windows Web Application Migration Assistant

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES now enables you to configure DKIM using your own RSA key pair

Amazon Connect announces AWS CloudTrail support for APIs

Topic || Database

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and temporary security credentials

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB (Preview) is now available in 15 additional AWS Regions

Amazon Neptune supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 5.0.6 with additional stability and metering improvements

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada (Central) region

Topic || Developer Tools

New Amazon Corretto Repositories and Permanent URLs are Now Available

AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud

AWS Cloud9 is now available in 6 more regions

AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Cross-Account Resource Sharing

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds dual monitor support for browser based streaming sessions

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is in scope for AWS’s latest System and Organizational Controls audit cycle

Topic || Game Tech

New: Consistent Authorization Experience for Amazon GameLift

Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.22 Now Available, Adds New Asset Dependency Graph, Editor Performance Improvements

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Tester v1.6.0 for Amazon FreeRTOS is now available

AWS IoT Greengrass Now Supports Node.js 12 and Offers a New Tool for Device Setup

Amazon FreeRTOS Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing), operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD, Regions

Topic || Machine Learning

New AWS Deep Learning Containers with Tensorflow 2.0 Support

Amazon Lex achieves ISO Compliance

Amazon Lex Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

Amazon Lex announces support for Conversation Logs

Amazon Personalize now supports contextual recommendations

Amazon Transcribe now Supports Vocabulary Filtering

Amazon Transcribe now Supports Job Queuing for Batch Workloads

Amazon Textract is now PCI DSS certified and extracts even more data from tables and forms

Announcing ICD-10-CM and RxNorm Ontology Linking for Amazon Comprehend Medical

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Adds Auto-Segment Feature for Semantic Segmentation Labeling

Topic || Management and Governance

Application Auto Scaling now provides notifications via the AWS Health Service

AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports targeting all instances in the account and Region

AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports running a single workflow in remote accounts and Regions

AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports adding tags to your executions

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports tagging and tag-based access control

AWS Service Catalog supports deprecation of product versions

AWS CloudFormation updates for Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, Amazon ES, AWS Lambda and more

Topic || Media Services

Secure AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live Endpoints Using CDN Authorization

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon CloudFront adds eight additional real-time metrics in Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudFront now provides seven new data fields in access logs

AWS Step Functions now supports AWS PrivateLink

AWS Global Accelerator now supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints for Hybrid Cloud Now Available in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region

Topic || Quick Starts

Quick Start Update: SharePoint Server on the AWS Cloud

New Quick Start deploys .NET serverless CI/CD on the AWS Cloud

New Quick Start deploys .NET CI/CD on the AWS Cloud

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station is now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region

Topic || Security

Security Hub releases updates and additions to the AWS Security Finding Format

AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Detective

AWS Security Token Service Now Supports AWS PrivateLink in 13 New Regions

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority Now Emits State Change Events

AWS Certificate Manager and Private Certificate Authority Support FIPS 140-2 Endpoints

AWS WAF improves request logging for context around matched rules

Topic || Storage

New enhancements for moving data between Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon S3

Amazon Elastic File System Now Supports Service-Linked Roles

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now enables automation of snapshot copy via policies

Amazon FSx adds enhancements to the AWS Management Console

Data Deduplication, user storage quotas, and other recently launched administration features are now available on all Amazon FSx file systems

Topic || Training and Certification

Now Available: Digital Versions of 2 APN Partner Classroom Courses

New Course Helps Those in Machine Learning Roles Prepare for Certification