AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 378

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3

Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables

Improve productivity with interactive SQL tools in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Announcing Cross-Cluster Search support for Amazon Elasticsearch Service

EMR Console Access to Persistent YARN Timeline Server and Tez UI

Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks

Topic || Business Applications

Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK

Alexa for Business now available on Lifesize Icon meeting room systems

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available

Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups

Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances

Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances – GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs

Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available

Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors

EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for IMDSv2 and Service Linked Role for Managed Updates

AWS Elastic Beanstalk announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Tomcat platforms

Topic || Cost Management

Detailed Cost Management Data is now available on AWS Console Mobile Application

AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Recommendations to Amazon S3

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices

Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block

Amazon Pinpoint now supports International Long Distance Operator (ILDO) routes to send SMS messages to India

Amazon Pinpoint adds support for SMS, Push, and Custom Channels for Journeys

Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed

Topic || Database

Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL Versions 11.7, 10.12, and 9.6.17, and Adds Global Database for PostgreSQL 11.7

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances

Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup

Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility

Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports management of diagnostic data with Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (ADRCI) utility

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports minor version 8.0.19

Announcing new CloudWatch metrics for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

CloudWatch Application Insights now supports MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, custom logs, and more

CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations

Topic || Developer Tools

Introducing AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service

New Amazon Builders’ Library Article: Automating safe, hands-off deployments

Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview

AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support

AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkDocs refreshes the iOS app mobile UI to provide a new, simplified user experience

Topic || Internet of Things

FreeRTOS over-the-air update (OTA) now supports new job configurations

Infineon’s OPTIGA Trust M now qualified for use with FreeRTOS and available for use with AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Fraud Detector Preview now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration

Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice

Introducing 3D Point Cloud Labeling Workflows using Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize

AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach

Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation

AWS AppConfig announces the launch of hosted configurations

Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance

AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types

AWS Service Catalog now supports sharing portfolios across an organization from a delegated member account

AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules

AWS Config adds conformance pack for NIST CSF operational best practices

AWS Systems Manager Explorer now adds support for a delegated administrator account to view operational data across multiple accounts and regions

Topic || Media Services

NexGuard forensic watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaLive improves input switching for live channels

Secure AWS Elemental MediaPackage VOD Endpoints using CDN Authorization

WebM outputs with VP8 and VP9 video now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Introducing AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution

AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from AWS Snowcone

AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization

Topic || Mobile

Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection

AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs

Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts

AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions

AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events

Topic || Storage

AWS announces AWS Snowcone – a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device

Topic || Training and Certification

New digital course on edX: Migrating to the AWS Cloud

Updated digital course: Architecting Serverless Solutions

Digital course now on Coursera: Building Containerized Applications on AWS

New course teaches APN Partners how to co-sell with AWS