AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 363

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Athena adds support for managing Athena Workgroups using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Athena now publishes CloudWatch Events for Athena query state transitions

Amazon Redshift launches pause and resume

Amazon Redshift introduces support for materialized views

Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.4

Topic || Application Integration

AWS App Mesh launches support for end to end encryption

Applications using Amazon SNS to send SMS can now be hosted in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Topic || Compute

Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers

AWS adds the ability for customers to enable AWS Local Zones themselves

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports EC2 g4dn Instances

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Service Discovery in three additional AWS regions

Amazon ECS supports in Preview updating Placement Strategy and Constraints for existing ECS Services

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15

Amazon EC2 Hibernation now Lets you Pause and Resume Your Workloads on T2 Instance Types

AWS Batch now supports FSx for Lustre new persistent and scratch file systems

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Docker on AL2 Platform

AWS Serverless Application Repository adds support for sharing applications with AWS organizations

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Adds Phone Numbers in Twelve New Countries

Introducing Amazon Personalize Optimizer Using Amazon Pinpoint Events

Topic || Database

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service (preview) is now available in 18 AWS Regions

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now helps you manage access to your keyspaces and tables by using AWS IAM roles and federated identities

You now can update your Amazon DynamoDB global tables from version 2017.11.29 to the latest version with a few clicks in the DynamoDB Console

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces Global Datastore

Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0

Amazon RDS for MySQL now Supports Minor Versions 5.6.46, 5.7.28, and 8.0.17

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility supports Amazon Aurora Global Database

Topic || Machine Learning

Reduce ML inference costs on PyTorch with Amazon Elastic Inference

Amazon Lex now supports resource tagging

New AWS Deep Learning AMIs with Updated Framework Support: Tensorflow (1.15.2 & 2.1.0), PyTorch 1.4.0, MXNet 1.6.0, and Elastic Inference with Pytorch 1.3.1

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Multi-Label Image and Text Classification and Amazon CloudWatch Events

Topic || Management and Governance

Execute Chef recipes on Linux with AWS Systems Manager

Amazon VPC Flow Logs Now Support Resource Tagging and Tag-on-Create

Amazon VPC NAT Gateway Now Supports Tag-on-Create

Introducing Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution

AWS AppConfig announces integration with Amazon S3

AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection and Resource Import now available in seven additional AWS regions

Topic || Media Services

AV1 Encoding Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

HDR to SDR Tone Mapping Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Topic || Mobile

API Gateway offers private integrations with AWS ELB and AWS CloudMap as part of HTTP APIs GA release

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon GuardDuty Price Reduction

AWS Security Hub adds new fields and resources to the AWS Security Finding Format

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 adds tagging support for S3 Batch Operations jobs

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) Adds Support For 1 hour Backup Interval

Topic || Training and Certification

New AWS Certification validates expertise in AWS databases

Announcing the AWS Game Tech Learning Path