AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 373

Topic || Analytics

AWS announces Amazon Elasticsearch Service UltraWarm general availability

Amazon Redshift now leverages Bloom filters to improve data lake query performance by up to 2x

Announcing new query monitoring capabilities in the Amazon Redshift console

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now provides enhanced monitoring for Apache Flink applications

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions now supports AWS CodeBuild service integration

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime Voice Connector now supports real-time audio streaming for Cisco Unified Border Element Network-Based Recording

Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript supported on Ubuntu

Amazon Chime adds new policies to govern meeting access

Control your email flows in Amazon WorkMail using AWS Lambda

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available

EC2 Image Builder now includes support for AWS CloudFormation

New Digital Course Available: Planning an AWS Outposts Implementation

Amazon Lightsail firewall now supports source-IP based rules and PING

Announcing higher EBS and Networking performance and 1-year reservation purchase option on Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 5 Cost Optimization checks

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Now automatically changes Agent Status to Offline on Logout

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Reporting Services

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bulk Insert on highly available DB Instances using Amazon S3 Integration

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Distributed Transactions

CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server now supports AWS X-Ray and custom application tiers

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with external Microsoft Active Directory

Amazon Aurora Multi-Master expands availability to 8 AWS Regions

Neptune Streams feature is now available outside of lab mode

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility

Introducing Amazon RDS Ready Partners

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Cloud9 is now available in 5 more regions

AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces support for Bitbucket repositories and enhancements

Amazon CodeGuru announces -javaagent switch to start Profiler

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces pull request dashboard

Introducing Heapothesys – An Open-Source Garbage Collector Latency Benchmark with Predictable Allocation Rates

Topic || Internet of Things

Espressif’s ESP32-WROOM-32SE module is now qualified for use with AWS IoT Multi-Account Registration

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Kendra is now generally available

Amazon Forecast now supports new automated data imputation options for the related and target time series datasets

AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.5.0

Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for TensorFlow 1.15.2 with Python-3.7

Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon Elastic Inference for TensorFlow and PyTorch & Training and Inference For TensorFlow

Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning adds improved model accuracy and flexibility

Introducing Batch Mode Processing for ICD-10-CM and RxNorm Ontology Linking

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Global Accelerator now supports AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager enhances support for State Manager resources in AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager now supports resource groups as targets for State Manager

AWS Systems Manager adds support for patching Debian and Oracle Linux instances

New AWS CloudTrail console simplifies trail creation and management

Enhanced Amazon CloudWatch Metrics now available in the AWS Elemental MediaConnect Console

Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code

Parameter support is now available with service actions in AWS Service Catalog

EC2 Image Builder now includes support for AWS CloudFormation

Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now allows you to save queries

Add enriched metadata to Amazon VPC flow logs published to CloudWatch Logs and S3

Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics – Now in Beta

AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new services on Android

Topic || Media Services

Introducing AWS Elemental Media Event Management

AWS Elemental MediaLive adds content delivery flexibility with three new capabilities

Video on Demand on AWS now leverages AWS Elemental MediaConvert Accelerated Transcoding

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Expression-Based Data Transformations

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Direct Connect launches second location in Bahrain

Enhanced monitoring capabilities for AWS Direct Connect

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker now supports account-level metrics for simulation resources

Topic || Security

Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion

AWS Secrets Manager is now FedRAMP compliant

AWS Single Sign-On supports zero-downtime external IdP certificate rotation

Topic || Storage

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge locations in Kolkata and Hamburg

Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now available in five additional regions

Topic || Training and Certification

New Intensive Exam Readiness Course for Architects Available