AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 401

Topic || Analytics

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter Queues

Applications using Amazon SNS to send SMS can now be hosted in five new regions

Topic || Compute

AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers

Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts

New course for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18

AWS Lambda Extensions: a new way to integrate Lambda with operational tools

AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metrics

Amazon EBS CSI driver now supports AWS Outposts

Amazon ElastiCache on Outposts is now available

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform

AWS Batch introduces tag-based access control

Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions

AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP HANA backups with AWS Backint Agent

Topic || Cost Management

Announcing AWS Budgets Actions

Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction

AWS Cost Categories now supports hierarchies and status tracking

AWS Purchase Order Management is now generally available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now supports one click drill downs for real-time metrics

Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots with US Spanish

Amazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flows

Amazon Connect launches user access controls for contact search using Agent Hierarchy to easily protect sensitive data and maintain compliance

Topic || Database

Achieve up to 52% better price/performance with Amazon RDS using new Graviton2 instances

Amazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas

Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora is available in four additional regions

Easily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backup

Amazon ElastiCache now supports M6g and R6g Graviton2-based instances

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 6 with managed Role-Based Access Control

Topic || Developer Tools

CodeGuru Profiler now supports resource tagging

New Amazon Builders’ Library Article: Avoiding overload in distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOS

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.26 now available

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images

Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now guides customers to fix dataset related errors, enabling faster creation of a high quality custom inference API

Amazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIs

Amazon Personalize announces improvements that reduce model training time by up to 40% and latency for generating recommendations by up to 30%

Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances

Now launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now provides a catalog of all patches for Amazon Linux

AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canaries

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboard

CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface

AWS CodeArtifact now supports AWS CloudFormation

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaLive Statmux adds MPEG2 support and other features

Support for Nielsen non-linear audio watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

InSync FrameFormer frame rate conversion now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Transaction Commit Date Partitioning in CDC Mode When Using Amazon S3 as a Target

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findings

Amazon Inspector has expanded operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019

AWS Security Hub launches a new user interface for security standards

Protect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management Service

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

Topic || Storage

Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs

New AWS Public Datasets Available from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the First Street Foundation, Ookla, and others

Topic || Solutions

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Jira Service Desk Data Center Implementation

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Infosys Data Testing Workbench

Introducing Distributed Load Testing v1.1

Introducing the redesigned AWS Architecture Center