AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 358

Topic || Analytics

AWS Data Exchange introduces email notifications for subscription requests

Amazon MSK increases the default broker limit per cluster to 30 brokers

Configure fine-grained data access with Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon QuickSight launches enhancements to narrative editor and anomaly detection

Amazon Redshift now supports per-second billing

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Config Support for Amazon SQS Is Now Available in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Introducing content filtering for Amazon EventBridge

AWS Step Functions now supports CloudWatch Logs for standard workflows

Amazon MSK can now stream broker logs to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda metric for Concurrent Executions now supports all functions, versions, and aliases

Amazon EKS Announces Release of VPC CNI Version 1.6

Amazon Elastic Container Service has added support for canary deployments

Amazon ECS now Supports tagging for Task Sets

Now enable Amazon EC2 Hibernation for On-Demand and Reserved Instances through AWS CloudFormation

EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Amazon ECS-optimized Linux 2 AMIs now come with pre-installed AWS Systems Manager Agent

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Python 3.7 on AL2 Platform

Amazon EC2 adds the ability to easily query the billing information of Amazon Machine Images

Amazon EC2 now supports tagging EC2 spot fleet requests

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now provides notifications via AWS Health Service

Amazon ECS Now Supports AWS Secrets Manager Version and JSON Keys

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect announces per-second billing, saving customers up to 5% in telephony costs

Topic || Database

You can now restore Amazon DynamoDB table backups as new tables in other AWS Regions

Use the new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to gain more insights into your DAX clusters’ performance

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Joining a Domain Across AWS Accounts and VPCs using Managed Microsoft AD

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle OLAP

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Aurora PostgreSQL Supports Machine Learning, Export to Amazon S3, and New Minor Versions

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 11.6, 10.11, 9.6.16, and 9.5.20

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports additional sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes

Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Amazon RDS for MariaDB Version 10.3

Amazon RDS Data API now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds $objectToArray, $arrayToObject, $slice, $mod, and $range Aggregation Pipeline Operators

Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon RDS for MariaDB

Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon RDS for MySQL

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now supports ordering clauses in CQL queries and AWS CloudTrail logging

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service quota information is now available through Service Quotas

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now enables you to add new columns to existing tables

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS AppSync releases integration with AWS X-Ray and GraphQL Info object support

AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for Amazon EFS

Cloud9 launches support for tagging new and existing environments

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces New Client Release

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Forecast now uses public holiday data from over 30 countries to improve forecast accuracy

Amazon Rekognition now detects text in videos, and lets you filter results by region, bounding box size and confidence score

Amazon Personalize can now use 10X more item attributes to improve relevance of recommendations

Amazon Lex announces support for Alphanumeric slot type

Amazon Polly Launches Brand Voice

Amazon Translate is now FedRAMP compliant

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon VPC Endpoints and Endpoint Services now support Tag-On Create

AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager now enables auto-approval of patches by date

Now rerun commands with AWS Systems Manager Run Command in just a few clicks

AWS AppConfig launches support for AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation StackSets introduces automatic deployments across accounts and regions through AWS Organizations

AWS Well-Architected Tool now supports AWS Serverless Lens

AWS Managed Services (AMS) supports additional AWS Services

Amazon Cognito User Pools service now supports logging for all API calls with AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor expands to new regions and updates existing checks

AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region aggregation in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new services on iOS

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Advanced Package Tool (APT) package management

Topic || Media Services

Up to 50 Outputs per Flow Now Supported in AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon VPC Flow Logs Now Support 1-minute Aggregation Intervals

Introducing the Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN

Topic || Quick Starts

New Quick Start deploys Poly-integrated Amazon Connect CCP on AWS

New Quick Start deploys Provectus Streaming Data Platform on AWS

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker now supports creating simulation jobs in batch with a single API call

AWS RoboMaker supports sudo access inside robot and simulation applications at runtime

Topic || Satellite

Announcing AWS Ground Station Cross Region Data Delivery

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Directory Service enhances security between AWS applications and Active Directory with secure LDAP improvements

AWS Security Hub launches security checks aligned to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

AWS Security Hub adds 15 new resources, increases resources limit, and adds RelatedRequirements field

AWS Shield Advanced now supports Health Based Detection

Amazon Cognito User Pools service now supports case insensitivity for user aliases

Topic || Storage

Amazon EBS Multi-Attach now available on Provisioned IOPS io1 volumes

Amazon EBS increases limits on Fast Snapshot Restore and expands availability to additional regions

Amazon FSx for Lustre Launches Persistent File Systems, Increases Performance on Scratch File Systems, Supports AWS KMS, and Enables Encryption In-Transit

AWS Storage Gateway is now available on Linux KVM hypervisor

Introducing Multi-Region Asynchronous Object Replication Solution

Topic || Training and Certification

New version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is now available

Now Available: Updated Versions of 2 APN Partner Digital Courses

AWS launches Activate Founders package, offering up to $1,000 in credits to select bootstrapped startups