AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 420

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Software providers on AWS Marketplace can now use the self-service management portal to update their Container products

Topic || Analytics

Introducing AWS Data Exchange Publisher Coordinator and Subscriber Coordinator

AWS Data Exchange data sets now easily available for visual transformation using AWS Glue DataBrew via console integration

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.7.0

AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK

Apache Kafka client resiliency testing made easier with an Amazon MSK reboot broker API

AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications

AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors

Amazon EMR Release 6.2 now supports improved Apache HBase performance on Amazon S3, and Apache Hive ACID Transactions on HDFS and Amazon S3

Amazon QuickSight enhances dashboard performance with Dynamic Querying and other dataset optimizations

Amazon QuickSight now supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and adds new box plot and filled map visuals

AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source

AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams

AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams

Amazon EMR Studio makes it easier for data scientists to build and deploy code

Simplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

Announcing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and Acceleration

Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus nodes with managed storage

Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing

Amazon Redshift announces support for native JSON and semi-structured data processing

Amazon Redshift announces native console integration with partners

Amazon Redshift launches the ability to easily move clusters between AWS Availability Zones

Amazon Redshift now includes Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying

Amazon Redshift announces Automatic Table Optimization

AWS announces Amazon Redshift ML

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.15.14

Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues

Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs

Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation

Amazon AppFlow now provides data integration with Upsolver

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime now supports joining meetings from Echo Show 8

Topic || Compute

Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console

Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker

Customer Owned IP generally available for Amazon RDS on Outposts

New versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL now available on Amazon RDS for Outposts

AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions

Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity

EC2 Image Builder now supports container images

Amazon Machine Image copy limits increased to 100 images per destination Region

Deploy Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure on Amazon EC2 using AWS Launch Wizard

Manage Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2 using Application Manager capability in AWS Systems Manager

Amazon EC2 announces Spot Blueprints, an infrastructure code template generator to get started with EC2 Spot Instances

Simplify EC2 provisioning and viewing cloud resources in the ServiceNow CMDB with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow

Amazon EC2 announces new network performance metrics for EC2 instances

Amazon ECR announces cross region replication of images

Host resource groups now provides APIs along with the ability to add existing Dedicated Hosts to further simplify your BYOL experience

Topic || Cost Management

Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now supports sharing attachments in chat

Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce now supports Contact Lens

Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex chatbots with Latin American Spanish and German

Topic || Database

Publish Oracle Management Agent logs from Amazon RDS for Oracle to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Microsoft SQL Server point-in-time recovery is now generally available for Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon Neptune now supports the db.r5.24xlarge instance type

You now can use PartiQL with NoSQL Workbench to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB

PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 as a source

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Windows Server and SQL Server workload cost estimates

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 11.9, 10.14, and 9.6.19

Introducing Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, in preview

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets

Amazon GameLift Updates Server SDK Supporting Unity 2020 and Unreal 4.25

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

Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86

AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available

AWS IDE Toolkit now available for AWS Cloud9

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap Summary

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkDocs offers additional collaboration controls throughout its Android app

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift Updates Server SDK Supporting Unity 2020 and Unreal 4.25

Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.27 Now Available

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor now supports AWS CloudFormation

Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana

AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion

FreeRTOS now supports over-the-air update (OTA) for multiple file types

AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview

AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters

Announcing Amazon Sidewalk Integration for AWS IoT Core

AWS IoT Device Defender adds support for custom metrics

Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise

AWS IoT Analytics can now store processed IoT data in data stores using Apache Parquet format

Enhanced error handling capabilities in AWS IoT Analytics data processing pipelines

FreeRTOS adds cellular LTE-M interface library to support cellular IoT based applications

AWS IoT SDK for Embedded C version 202012.00 includes over-the-air update (OTA) library and PKCS #11 implementation

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports both streaming and batch transcription of multi-channel audio

AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that dives deep into Transformer models

Now Secure Your SageMaker Studio Access Using AWS PrivateLink and AWS IAM SourceIP Restrictions

Amazon Kendra adds support for custom synonyms

Amazon Kendra adds Google Drive connector

Amazon Kendra launches connector library

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Control Tower console shows more detail about external AWS Config rules

AWS Well-Architected Guidance Engine now available in AWS Control Tower

Publish Oracle Management Agent logs from Amazon RDS for Oracle to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

AWS Service Catalog now supports TagOption Sharing

Provisioned product referencing is now available in AWS Service Catalog

Introducing process check rules with AWS Config conformance packs

AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries

AWS Systems Manager now enables advanced flow control for Automation runbook executions

Now compare different versions of your runbooks with AWS Systems Manager

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower

APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool

AWS Personal Health Dashboard now supports organization-wide event aggregation

Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control

AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service now supports MariaDB version 10.4

AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 as a source

AWS OpsHub for AWS Snow Family is now available for Linux

Topic || Mobile

Announcing Unified Search in the AWS Management Console

Amplify CLI enables serverless container deployments using AWS Fargate

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Reachability Analyzer to simplify connectivity testing and troubleshooting

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses

AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations

Introducing AWS Transit Gateway Connect to simplify SD-WAN branch connectivity

AWS Global Accelerator launches custom routing

AWS customers can now use industry standard Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to easily deploy, manage and scale their multicast applications in AWS cloud

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane

Amazon Braket tensor network simulator supports 50-qubit quantum circuits

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

New IAM condition keys for Amazon S3 limit requests to buckets owned by specific AWS accounts, and to specific TLS versions

AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization

Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3

Use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate your AWS Data Migration Service source and target database credentials

AWS Artifact makes compliance documents easy to download and share

Amazon AppFlow now stores credentials in customers’ AWS Secrets Manager account

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for the AWS Key Management Service

AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM

AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Audit Manager for simplified security posture management

Topic || Storage

Amazon FSx now supports on-premises access from additional IP address ranges

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts

Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2