AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 370

Topic || Infrastructure

Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

Announcing the new AWS Europe (Milan) Region

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace accelerates software procurement with standardized license terms

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds API support to easily retrieve media clips

AWS Data Exchange introduces configurable encryption for data exports to Amazon S3

AWS Glue now supports serverless streaming ETL

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Custom dictionary files now supported on Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Announcing cost controls for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling

Amazon QuickSight adds Stacked Area charts, legend actions and more

Topic || Application Integration

Introducing Amazon AppFlow

Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available

AWS AppSync enables support for generic WebSockets clients with GraphQL real-time subscriptions

Topic || Compute

ECR now supports Manifest Lists for multi-architecture images

Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16

EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions

Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking

MATE Desktop Environment added to the Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core & Mono

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms

Kernel Live Patching is now available in Preview for Amazon Linux 2

Introducing Amazon Linux 2 Ready Partners

Introducing Genomics Secondary Analysis using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch

Introducing AWS Lambda Ready Partners

Topic || Cost Management

Introducing AWS Cost Categories

AWS Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations Integrates with AWS Compute Optimizer

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect decreases telephony pricing

Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots

Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints

Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Windows authentication in more AWS Regions

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new Minor Versions

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data API Client Library for Java now generally available

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, and 9.5.21

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds improved multi-key indexing capabilities

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer launches new, more cost-effective pricing model

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler improves process for authorizing new applications

Topic || Internet of Things

Simplify IoT device registration and easily move devices between AWS accounts with AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration, now generally available

Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Fleet Provisioning, a new feature that makes it easy to onboard large numbers of manufactured devices to AWS IoT Core at scale

AWS IoT Events actions now support AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon DynamoDB as targets

Topic || Machine Learning

AWS DeepComposer announces real-time visualizations for in-console model training and improved interactivity in learning capsules

Amazon Translate now adds support for Mexican Spanish

Announcing General Availability of Amazon SageMaker Notebooks and expansion of Amazon SageMaker Studio to additional AWS regions

Amazon SageMaker now supports Inf1 instances providing high performance and cost-effective machine learning inference

Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports custom vocabulary

Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions

Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available

CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server now supports AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Events

AWS Config adds additional conformance packs

AWS Service Catalog adds three new Getting Started portfolios

AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available

You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaTailor ad break fill preference for live streaming

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP

AWS DataSync enhances monitoring capabilities with file-level logging

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53 supports Domain Name Transfer between AWS accounts

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station is now available in the EU (Ireland) Region

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Now easily identify the identity responsible for the actions performed using IAM roles

AWS WAF now supports migration wizard for converting WAF rules from AWS WAF Classic

AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard

AWS Firewall Manager now supports organizational units for policy scoping

Amazon GuardDuty simplifies multi-account threat detection with support for AWS Organizations

Topic || Storage

AWS Storage Gateway automates creating new virtual tapes on Tape Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway increases Tape Gateway write and read performance by 2x

AWS Storage Gateway adds Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering for File Gateway

Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to S3 buckets shared through S3 Access Points

Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%

Amazon EBS increases concurrent snapshot copy limits to 20 snapshots per destination Region

Topic || Customer Enablement

AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020

Topic || AWS Solutions

Introducing Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment