AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 397

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Topic || Analytics

AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift Spectrum adds support for querying open source Apache Hudi and Delta Lake

Amazon Redshift announces support for HyperLogLog Sketches

Amazon MSK launches new education classes and labs

Amazon MSK can now automatically expand cluster storage

Amazon MSK adds supports for Apache Kafka version 2.5.1

Now it’s even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances

Announcing AWS Glue Studio: Visual job authoring and advanced monitoring for AWS Glue

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF

Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon QLDB Launches Index Improvements

Topic || Compute

AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared Memory

vCPU-based Spot Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2

Amazon S3 on Outposts is now generally available, expanding object storage to on-premises environments

AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas

Topic || Cost Management

Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Queuing purchases of Savings Plans

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect decreases outbound telephony rates up to 50% in Asia Pacific

Amazon Connect decreases International telephony rates for customers in North America

Amazon Connect decreases outbound telephony rates for the second time this year in Europe

Amazon Pinpoint launches Event-Triggered Journeys

Topic || Database

Amazon Timestream is now Generally Available

AWS Launch Wizard now supports SQL Server Always On deployments on Linux

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new Minor Versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23

Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB

Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds the $out aggregation stage and increases the maximum number of connections and cursors

Topic || Developer Tools

Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview

AWS CodePipeline now Supports GitHub Enterprise Server

AWS CodePipeline now Supports git clone for Source Actions

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces

Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts

Amazon WorkSpaces releases self-guided workshop to deploy the End User Computing dashboard

Amazon AppStream 2.0 releases self-guided workshop to deploy the End User Computing dashboard

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core Adds the Ability to Stream Time-series Data to Amazon Timestream

New courses for AWS Partners: governance, data analytics, migration, and IoT

Topic || Machine Learning

Simplify data management in Amazon Personalize with new APIs

AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now enables creating a single inference API to find diverse objects and scenes in images with high accuracy

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy

Amazon SageMaker Processing now supports built-in Spark containers for big data processing

Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets

Amazon Textract has improved accuracy of detecting currency symbols, key value pairs and checkboxes

Amazon Transcribe adds support for AMR, Ogg and WebM file formats

Amazon Lex now offers language support for US Spanish

Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth training datasets for custom model training

Topic || Management and Governance

Usability Improvements for AWS Management Console now available

AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs

Announcing New CloudWatch Metrics for Capacity Monitoring on AWS Outposts

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group

Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code

Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients

AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types

AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available

Topic || Media Services

Reserved outbound bandwidth now available for AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Client VPN now supports client to client connectivity

Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries – Mexico and New Zealand

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management Solution is Generally Available

AWS Security Hub adds five new partners

AWS Security Hub adds 14 new controls to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard

View patch compliance findings across AWS accounts in AWS Security Hub

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their buckets

AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2

Topic || Training and Certification

Increased availability for AWS Certification exam online proctoring

New course on Coursera and edX: Building Modern Applications on AWS