AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 392

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces two new API features to simplify consuming data from Kinesis streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to MongoDB Cloud

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to HTTP endpoints

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to Datadog

Amazon QuickSight launches folders, a new calculations editor experience and more

AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration

AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows

Amazon EMR now offers more options to diversify your Spot requests and get steep discounts

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Tableau and Microsoft Excel

Cosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

AWS Data Exchange now supports adding data sets to existing products

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing

AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime introduces Amazon Voice Focus for noise suppression

Amazon Chime application and Amazon Chime SDK now support meetings in additional AWS Regions

Topic || Compute

Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors

Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions

Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available

Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview

Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer

Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems

Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs

Amazon EKS quotas can now be managed through AWS Service Quotas

AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration

Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI

Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type

Amazon ECS announces CloudFormation support for Amazon EFS volumes

AWS Fargate launches Usage Metrics and applied Service Quotas visibility

AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer

ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source

AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2

AWS Lambda now supports Java 8

AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2

AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings

EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally

NICE DCV Releases Version 2020.1 with Printer Redirection and Support for Amazon EC2 6th Generation Instances based on Graviton2

Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Group Targeting

AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration

Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel & WHM instance blueprint

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans

Elastic Load Balancing simplifies your AWS bill by introducing a new billing section

Topic || Customer Engagement

AWS announces Contact Center Intelligence solutions

6 new training courses for Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice

Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer

Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls

Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call

Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce adds CTI Flows

Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list

Topic || Database

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster

Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies

Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench

Amazon Neptune introduces an alternative query engine (DFE) in lab mode

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next-generation, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R5 nodes

Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors

Amazon Aurora Supports In-Place Upgrade from PostgreSQL 10 to 11

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.1

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon Corretto 8 & 11 support extended

AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support

AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints

AWS CodeDeploy Agent has improved compatibility for Amazon Linux 2, Windows and Ubuntu

CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support

AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting

AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project

Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for the native desktop experience

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports local printer redirection

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region

Announcing 3 new courses for APN Partners on IoT and data analytics

AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – IoT Foundations

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability

Amazon Transcribe now supports speaker labeling for streaming transcription

Amazon Transcribe launches custom language models

Amazon Translate now supports translation of Office Open XML documents

Amazon Personalize can now create up to 50% better recommendations for fast changing catalogs of new products and fresh content

Amazon Personalize enhances Recommendation Filters with filtering on item metadata

Amazon Comprehend adds five new languages to Custom Entity Recognition

Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Textract now detects and extracts text even more accurately from tables

Amazon Forecast now uses Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to train forecasting models up to 2X faster with up to 30% higher accuracy

Amazon Lex launches accuracy improvements and confidence scores

Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy

Introducing Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning using Amazon SageMaker

AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing

AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter adds CloudWatch graphs for monitoring and simplifies remediation with contextual runbooks

AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases

Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor

CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for CloudFormation Templates

AWS License Manager adds the ability to enforce license assignment rules with EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Topic || Media

Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization

Live Streaming on AWS with MediaPackage now includes QVBR encoding

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Transfer Family adds pre-defined security policies to choose cryptographic algorithms

AWS DataSync simplifies automation with API filters

AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments

Topic || Mobile

Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview

API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services

Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs

Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names

Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports Tagging Resources Upon Creation and Resource-Level Permissions

Application and Classic Load Balancers are adding defense in depth with the introduction of Desync Mitigation Mode

Amazon VPC Flow Logs extends CloudFormation Support to custom format subscriptions, 1-minute aggregation intervals and tagging

Amazon CloudFront announces a new Regional Edge Cache in AWS’ Europe (Ireland) Region

AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private Link endpoints

Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3

Amazon Cognito User Pools now supports customization of token expiration

AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls

Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On

AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs

Topic || Solutions

AWS Solutions: Serverless Bot Framework adds support for securely integrating with third-party APIs

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Customer AI

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Knowledge Work Automator

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Fog360 Security

Introducing AWS Solution: Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning

Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment solution version 1.1, now with automated rollbacks and AWS CloudFormation drift detection

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – VPC-In-A-Box℠

AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution is generally available

Topic || Storage

AWS Storage Gateway adds data protection features for Tape Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability and streamlines ordering of the hardware appliance

Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads

Amazon S3 Access Points now support the Copy API

Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions