AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 361

Topic || Analytics

Announcing column-level access control for Amazon Redshift

Automate index management with Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Build k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) similarity search engine with Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon Athena adds support for querying data in S3 buckets using AWS Identity and Access Management’s aws:CalledVia condition key

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

Topic || Compute

Now proactively manage your ECR API use with CloudWatch Metrics and Service Quotas

AWS ParallelCluster 2.6.0 with CloudWatch Logs integration and More

AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8

Amazon Lightsail now supports resource monitoring, alarming and notifications

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Pinpoint added template personalization using Machine Learning

Amazon Connect makes it easier to customize the caller experience by adding attributes to existing contact flow blocks

Topic || Database

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available

Amazon Neptune refreshes the console experience to simplify management of your database

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports in-place upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.6 to 10

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodeCommit Introduces an Open Source Remote Helper

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode on Windows PCs

Topic || Machine Learning

Announcing Time Expression for Amazon Comprehend Medical

Improve your training time, model stability and accuracy on Amazon Forecast by leveraging new hyperparameters now supported on DeepAR+

New AWS Deep Learning Containers with Tensorflow (1.15.2, 2.0.1, & 2.1.0), PyTorch 1.4.0, and MXNet 1.6.0

Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic content redaction

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to combine multiple alarms

AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning

Introducing AWS Config multi-account, multi-region support for advanced query

US commercial regions now support Bank Redirect payment method in Chinese Yuan for China based customers

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

Topic || Mobile

Amplify Console adds command line interface for configuring continuous deployment and hosting

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon FSx now enables you to create and use file systems in Shared Amazon Virtual Private Clouds

AWS Global Accelerator now supports Bring Your Own IP Addresses and Resource Tagging

Topic || Quick Starts

New Quick Start deploys Nubeva TLS Decrypt on the AWS Cloud

New Quick Start deploys Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger size for secrets and higher request rate for GetSecretValue API

Topic || Storage

Announcing 36% faster EBS-optimized performance on additional AWS Nitro System-based Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver Supports New File System Deployment Options

Topic || Training and Certification

New Classroom Course: Media Essentials for IT Business Decision Makers