AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 435

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates

Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing

Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams updates media playback API service quotas to enable up to 10x more simultaneous consumers

AWS Glue DataBrew enhances its data quality dashboard with a visual comparison matrix

AWS Glue DataBrew adds binning, skewness, binarization, and transpose transformations for pre-processing data for machine learning and analytics

Amazon Quicksight Launches Sankey Diagram, Field folders and more

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon QLDB Increases Verification APIs Throughput by an Order of Magnitude

Topic || Compute

AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more

Announcing new Amazon EC2 ×2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors

Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling

CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery now support EBS Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts

AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks

Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation

AWS Wavelength is now ISO 9001, 27001, 27017 and 27018 compliant

AWS Launch Wizard now supports ‘No Rollback on Failure’

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports AWS CloudFormation

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs

Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas

Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.4 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13cR4

AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI

AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines

AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization

AWS Proton now supports tagging capabilities

Topic || End User Computing

Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces

Topic || Game Tech

AWS announces General Availability of Six New Regions for Amazon GameLift

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor adds support for accessing Monitor portals using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C now supports over-the-air update, AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and multiple shadows for a single IoT device

AWS IoT Device Defender now supports CloudFormation

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Comprehend now identifies documents that contain personally identifiable information

Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%

Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription

Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast

Topic || Management and Governance

Announcing new operations plan AWS Managed Services Accelerate

AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager

Topic || Media Services

Support for SRT protocol added to AWS Elemental MediaConnect

AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces Channel Assembly for creating virtual linear OTT channels

AWS Elemental MediaLive launches Workflow Wizard

Topic || Mobile

Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS

IAM Access Analyzer now supports over 100 policy checks with actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies

IAM Access Analyzer now enables you to validate public and cross-account access before deploying permissions changes

AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard

AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging

Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capability to more accurately identify potentially malicious activity

Topic || Storage

S3 Object Lambda allows you to add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application

New digital course: Amazon S3 Cost Optimization

Introducing Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System

Amazon S3 Glacier announces a 40% price reduction for PUT and Lifecycle requests