AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 410

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for Kibana

Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.8

Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenization

Amazon Redshift now supports the scheduling of SQL queries by integrating with Amazon EventBridge

AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.0

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages

Amazon SNS introduces First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics with strict ordering and deduplication of messages

Amazon AppFlow supports importing custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics to Amazon S3

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon QLDB Go Driver is now generally available

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript now enables meeting health monitoring and troubleshooting

Topic || Compute

Announcing General Availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves

Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves

EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts

AWS Fargate Spot for Amazon ECS is now supported in AWS CloudFormation

Pause and Resume Workloads on I3, M5ad, and R5ad Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation

Announcing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in Preview

Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities

Amazon Connect launches agent connection time metrics

Topic || Database

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for increased change stream retention and ability to watch change stream events on a database or the entire cluster

New Amazon Neptune engine release now enforces a minimum version of TLS 1.2 and SSL client connections

Amazon Neptune now supports Apache TinkerPop 3.4.8 in the latest engine release

Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench

Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Minor Version 8.0.21

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Oracle Data Guard physical standby database

Topic || Developer Tools

New digital course: Advanced Testing Practices using AWS DevOps Tools

Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds a smaller instance size to the General Purpose instance family

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Kendra now supports custom data sources

Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector

Amazon Kendra achieves HIPAA eligibility

Amazon Textract announces improvements to reduce average API processing times by up to 20%

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easier to import, search, and filter dataset label lists

Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Service Catalog now provides One-Page Provisioning with a new console experience

Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances

AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas

CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics

Customers can now use Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to AWS resources

AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaPackage expands Monitoring and Deployment Automation capabilities

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source

AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Parallel Full Load for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB

AWS Server Migration Service now adds support for application monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

Topic || Mobile

Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint

Use existing Cognito User Pools & Identity Pools for your Amplify project

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support

Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications

AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority

AWS App Mesh increases default limits on several resources

Amazon CloudFront announces support for public key management through IAM user permissions for signed URLs and signed cookies

AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Cognito User Pools enables easy quota management and usage tracking

AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers

Topic || Training & Certification

Announcing the first technical course just for APN Technology Partners

Announcing two new on-demand digital courses for Game Tech

Introducing the AWS Activate Console – helping startups accelerate their growth and development