AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 368

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift announces general availability for federated querying

Amazon EMR announces EMR release 6.0.0 with new major versions of Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Amazon Linux 2, and support for Docker

Amazon EMR is now available in the AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles

Amazon QuickSight dashboards are now denser with slick look and feel

Create Amazon MSK clusters with T3 brokers for less than $2.50/day

AWS Data Exchange achieves ISO Compliance

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Topic || Business Applications

Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions

Topic || Compute

Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles

New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms

Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available

AWS Fargate launches Platform Version 1.4

Announcing the ability to run Windows Server license included instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts

AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of HANA based SAP applications

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect supports adjustable timeouts for Amazon Lex chatbots

Topic || Database

Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multifile Native Backups

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility Supports Additional Sizes for the db.r5 Instance Class

Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview)

Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.2

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now enables you to manage access to resources based on tags

Amazon Managed Cassandra Service (preview) now helps you coordinate increments and decrements to column values by using counters

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available

AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs Adds New CloudWatch Logs Integration

Topic || End User Computing

NICE DCV with a free 90-day demo license is now available

NICE DCV Releases Version 2020.0 with Surround Sound 7.1 and Stylus Support

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Events adds support for custom actions payloads and custom timers

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker now supports ml.g4dn and ml.c5n instances for ML model training

Amazon Polly launches Spanish Newscaster style voice

Amazon Textract now reads Checkboxes and other Selection Elements more accurately

Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0

AWS DeepLens launches new tutorials website and adds supports for Python 3

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise Now Supports Custom Domains

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC

Local launch constraints are now generally available in AWS Service Catalog

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaConnect and MediaLive add input failover features

VPC Input and Output Support now available with AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Support for Queue Hopping now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Support for Manifest Filtering and Other Improvements Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices

AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM

AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance

AWS Migration Hub now automatically tags migration results for cost tracking

Topic || Mobile

Amplify Framework announces new, rearchitected UI Component and modular JavaScript libraries

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions

Announcing support for fine-grained IAM permissions for PrivateLink interface endpoints

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now includes increased certificate issuance rate limits and support for Amazon S3 bucket encryption

AWS Security Hub launches a new API called BatchUpdateFindings and new Workflow Statuses

Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple

Topic || Storage

New AWS Public Datasets Available from Ford, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the National Cancer Institute, and others

Topic || Training and Certification

New Classroom Course: AWS Security Essentials

New Trailhead Training Content: Learn the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials