AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 382

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower

AWS Marketplace AMIs now supported with Spot Instances in the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE data engine now supports data sets up to 250M rows

Amazon QuickSight launches Histogram, new languages, and cross region APIs

Amazon QuickSight now supports Lake Formation–protected Athena data sources

Amazon Athena adds support for managing data catalogs using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection

Introducing Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Data Lakes Using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena

Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost

Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service

Amazon MSK provides additional EC2 M5 broker sizes for more flexibility and cost optimization

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync introduces new 12xlarge instance for server-side API caching

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ Version 5.15.12

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 C5n, M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances now available in additional regions

EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch

Amazon EC2 now supports tagging EC2 Spot Instance requests

EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs

Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances

Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS

Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas

Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate

Amazon Web Services announced Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) support for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on AWS Outposts

Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now supports Kevin, Polly’s latest text to speech voice

Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS Proxy is Generally Available

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Spatial for Oracle Standard Edition 2

Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Neptune supports specifying conditions in IAM policy using tags

Amazon RDS for MariaDB Supports Minor Versions 10.3.23 and 10.4.13

Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery

Topic || Developer Tools

Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru – now generally available

AWS SDK for C++ Version 1.8 – General Availability

AWS CodeBuild supports resource utilization metrics in CloudWatch

AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent

AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Drawing Tablets

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT SiteWise is now generally available

AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device

AWS IoT Device Tester v3.1.0 for AWS IoT Greengrass is now available

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items

Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging

Amazon Fraud Detector Preview launches normalized model scores

Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition

Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition

Introducing Video Support using Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra

Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata

Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Transcribe Real-Time Streaming

Topic || Management and Governance

Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool

Provisioned product outputs are now available in AWS Service Catalog

Track file changes on Systems Manager managed instances with AWS Config

AWS Systems Manager adds support for patching newer versions of supported Linux platforms

AWS Managed Services now supports Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions

Amazon AppFlow now sends flow status notifications to Amazon CloudWatch Events

Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations

AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules

AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring

AWS CodeBuild supports resource utilization metrics in CloudWatch

Topic || Media Services

Live Streaming on AWS with MediaStore now supports AWS Elemental Link

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS announces the Migration Acceleration Program for Storage

Announcing AWS App2Container – Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud

Introducing Porting Assistant for .NET – an analytic tool to help migrate .NET Framework to .NET Core

AWS DataSync can now automatically configure your Amazon CloudWatch Logs configuration

AWS DataSync agents are now supported on Linux KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors

Topic || Mobile

Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code & assets across Lambda functions

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Direct Connect launches first location in Israel

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables

AWS Launch Wizard for SAP supports integration with Amazon Route53 for domain naming and routing outbound internet connections via your own Proxy Servers

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS)

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies

Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups

Support for X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header is now available for AWS WAF

AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API

Topic || Storage

Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS Graviton2-based Instances

AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway

Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput

Amazon EBS direct APIs now enable you to create snapshots directly from any block storage