AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 386

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight adds embedded authoring, namespaces for multi-tenancy, and more

Amazon Elasticsearch Services announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.7

Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training

Fluent Bit supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a destination to route container logs

Amazon Athena adds support for querying Apache Hudi datasets in Amazon S3-based data lake

New AWS public datasets available from the National Cancer Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amazon, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and others

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon SQS Now Supports New Console Experience

Amazon AppFlow now supports private data transfers between AWS and Salesforce

Amazon MQ adds support for new micro broker

Topic || Business Applications

Alexa for Business now available on Logitech Solutions for Zoom Rooms

Topic || Compute

Amazon Lightsail now offers CDN distributions to accelerate content delivery

Announcing the CIS Benchmark for Amazon EKS

Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Amazon EC2 VM Import / Export adds support for Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 8 and CentOS 8

Topic || Customer Engagement

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available

Amazon Connect supports speaking styles with neural Text-to-Speech voices

Amazon Connect now supports integration with Salesforce Service Cloud Voice

Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Service Master Key Retention

Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Minor Version 8.0.20

Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB supports additional sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Disabling Old Versions of TLS and Ciphers

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS X-Ray .NET Auto-Instrumentation Agent is now available in beta

AWS SDK for Java v2 – Metrics Module now available as Developer Preview

AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager

Amazon Corretto 8u262 & Corretto 11.0.8 are now available

Topic || End User Computing

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

Topic || Game Tech

Lumberyard Beta 1.25 Now Available

Topic || Internet of Things

FreeRTOS now supports over-the-air update (OTA) suspend and resume operations

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

Cypress PSoC 64 Standard Secure Microcontroller is Qualified for FreeRTOS

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create

AWS Control Tower console update adds more visibility into OUs and accounts

Systems Manager Automation now supports higher concurrency limits for execution

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Context-based Proactive Incident Notification Service

AWS Systems Manager now supports adding offsets to maintenance window schedules

Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications

Topic || Media Services

Introducing Amazon Interactive Video Service

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Introducing Migration Evaluator: Fast Track your Business Case for AWS

AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon CloudFront adds additional geolocation headers for more granular geotargeting

Amazon CloudFront announces Cache Key and Origin Request Policies

Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections

Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility

AWS App Mesh achieves HIPAA eligibility

AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports VPC Endpoint Policies

Topic || Storage

Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%

New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management

Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System

Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available

Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports Automatic Updates from Amazon S3

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available for shared EBS Snapshots

Topic || Training and Certification

New classroom course: AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

New digital courses on disaster recovery and migration to the AWS Cloud

Announcing 4 new and updated courses for APN Partners

Topic || AWS Solutions

Scale-Out Computing on AWS with REST API, finer-grained job management capabilities, and enhanced web interface

Introducing AWS Content Analysis