AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 366

Topic || AR/VR

Amazon Sumerian supports exporting your scenes to glTF

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift launches RA3.4xlarge nodes with managed storage

Amazon Redshift now recommends sort keys for improved query performance

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1

AWS Data Exchange Released Multiple Console Enhancements Making It Easier for Subscribers and Providers to Interact with Data Sets

Topic || Business Applications

All Amazon Chime meetings now support up to 250 attendees

Build Mobile Communications Applications with the Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android

Topic || Application Integration

AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1

Amazon EKS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.95%

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Cost Explorer now offers Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts

Topic || Customer Engagement

Introducing Voicemail for Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF

Amazon SES is now available in the Canada (Central), EU (London), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions

Simplify cloud resource management with AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk

Topic || Database

Amazon Neptune now supports the r5.8xlarge instance type

Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Role-Based Access Control

AWS License Manager now allows you to track Oracle database licenses on Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service (preview) now enables you to label and categorize resources by using tags

Topic || Developer Tools

Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler flame graphs are now easier to use

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift in 2020 – Major update now available in preview

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Dimensions for topic-based metric monitoring

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now supports delete functionality for Projects and Models

AWS DeepComposer is now generally available

Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for TensorFlow (1.15.2 & 2.1.0), PyTorch 1.4.0, and MXNet 1.6.0

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Managed Services expands big data capabilities with support for Amazon Sagemaker, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon CloudSearch

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now includes support for AWS CloudFormation

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available

AWS Elemental MediaStore now supports CloudWatch Metrics

AWS Service Catalog quotas can now be managed through AWS Service Quotas

AWS Systems Manager announces enhanced AWS Resource Groups view

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now helps you automate the creation and management of resources by using AWS CloudFormation

AWS Resource Groups now supports AWS CloudFormation

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform

Topic || Quick Starts

New Quick Start deploys AWS Database Migration Service Automation Framework

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Detective is now generally available

AWS Firewall Manager support for AWS WAF and AWS Managed Rules

Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization

Topic || Storage

Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server launches the lowest cost file storage in the cloud for Windows workloads at 1.3 cents per GB-month

AWS Storage Gateway adds audit logs for File Gateway to address enterprise compliance requirements

Topic || Training and Certification

New Classroom Course: The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS

Updated Classroom Course: DevOps Engineering on AWS