AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 425

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace announces support for multiple Private Marketplace catalogs

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift doubles managed storage quota to 128 TB per node for RA3.16XL and RA3.4XL node-types

Amazon Redshift delivers better cold query performance to three additional AWS regions

AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in six additional AWS Regions

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports six additional delimiters for its datasets

Amazon Elasticsearch Service extends encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption to existing domains

Amazon MSK now supports the ability to change the size or family of your Apache Kafka brokers

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.1

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics

Amazon SQS now supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now support screen share

Topic || Compute

Introducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts

AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14

Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions

AWS Launch Wizard now configures RHEL and SLES clustering for SAP application High Availability

Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster

Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES now lets you assign a configuration set to an email identity

Topic || Database

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12

Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports pg_cron Extension for Scheduling Database Jobs

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports pg_partman extension for data partitioning

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports version 10.5.8

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports tempdb on local instance store with R5d and M5d instance types

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.2

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily

Amazon Timestream can now be used for workloads subject to HIPAA, ISO, and PCI DSS

Topic || Developer Tools

Insights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray

AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available

Topic || Internet of Things

New AWS IoT Device Client simplifies onboarding to AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender

Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Transcribe Medical now provides automatic Protected Health Information (PHI) identification

Launching Amazon Lex V2 console and APIs for an improved bot building experience

Launching Amazon Lex streaming conversation APIs for improved virtual agent conversational experiences

Amazon Kendra achieves ISO and PCI compliance

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Amplify Hosting adds monitoring capabilities with Amazon CloudWatch integration

AWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint

Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

Amazon EBS announces CloudWatch metrics with 1-minute granularity on all EBS volume types

Amazon CloudWatch Agent Now Supports macOS on Amazon EC2 Mac instances

Amazon CloudWatch Agent now supports OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights supports Oracle database monitoring

AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update

AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations

Resource Groups Tagging API launches ResourceARNList parameter for the GetResources operation

Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputs

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses

AWS Direct Connect launches second location in Italy

AWS Cloud Map Updates Service Level Agreement

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker supports data upload configurations in simulation jobs

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer

Amazon GuardDuty enhances security incident investigation workflows through new integration with Amazon Detective

Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy

Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics

Amazon Detective introduces new resource summary home page

Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings

AWS Security Hub adds 1 new integration globally and adds 5 integrations to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Shield Advanced now provides mitigation metrics and network traffic timelines

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon S3 Batch Operations adds support for Delete Object Tagging

Amazon Elastic File System triples read throughput

Amazon FSx now supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints

Announcing three new digital courses for Amazon S3