AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 438

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reports

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BI

AWS Data Exchange launches post-subscription wizard to configure revision exports to Amazon S3

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Python with Apache Flink v1.11

AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning

AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

AWS announces preview of AWS Glue custom blueprints

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports time-based, pattern-based and customizable parameters to create dynamic datasets

Detect outliers and use dedicated transforms to handle outliers in AWS Glue DataBrew

AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product

New datasets available in the Registry of Open Data on AWS from United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, iNaturalist.org, and others

Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2

Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS

New digital course: Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets

AWS Step Functions adds new data flow simulator for modelling input and output processing

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.11

Topic || Compute

AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance

AWS Batch simplifies permissions by introducing Service-Linked Roles

AWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job level

Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images

Introducing the interactive EC2 Serial Console

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money

Amazon EC2 now allows you to copy Amazon Machine Images across AWS GovCloud, AWS China and other AWS Regions

Amazon Lightsail expands blueprint selection with support for PrestaShop and CentOS 8

AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms

Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances

Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter

eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode

Topic || Cost Management

Now Use Tags to Track and Allocate Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks Costs

AWS Budgets announces CloudFormation support for budget actions

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect allows contact center managers to configure agent settings in a custom Contact Control Panel

Amazon Connect launches audio device settings for the custom Contact Control Panel

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now includes support for AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now includes support for AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Pinpoint Announces Improved Journey Controls

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports pg_bigm extension for faster full text search

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, and 9.5.25

Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports New Minor Versions 5.6.51, 5.7.33, and 8.0.23.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.9.1 / 2.7.1 / 3.4.1 / 4.0.1 now available

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Extended Events

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Tag-Based Access Control

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports highly available clusters on AWS Local Zones

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon CodeGuru announces a new, lower and predictable Pricing Model for CodeGuru Reviewer

Python Support for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is now generally available

AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript

AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is Generally Available

AWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updates

Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally Available

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client application

New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – WorkSpaces Manager for Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkDocs offers additional sharing controls throughout its Android app

Topic || Game Tech

AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Analytics adds schema inference support for Apache Parquet based data stores

Configurable Endpoints with Custom Domains now generally available for AWS IoT Core

Topic || Machine Learning

New digital rewards and racer profile personalization features on the AWS DeepRacer console

Amazon Textract announces quality updates to its tables extraction feature

Amazon Fraud Detector automates sampling for imbalanced model training datasets

New options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions

Announcing support for IAM Condition Keys and CMK for custom models for Amazon Comprehend

Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for Canada

Amazon Lex launches support for Japanese

Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish

Amazon Fraud Detector now supports Batch Fraud Predictions

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability

Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication

Amazon Forecast enables AWS Resource Groups

Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific

Detect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally available

Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available

New free ML training for business and technical leaders

Topic || Management and Governance

You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets

Amazon Macie adds CloudWatch logging for job status and health monitoring of sensitive data discovery jobs

Now reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versions

AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support

Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images

AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript

AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols

You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels

AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverability

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams

AWS Config launches the ability to track and visualize compliance change history of conformance packs

AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions

CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region

AWS License Manager adds ability to set up exclusion rules for automated discovery

Configurable Endpoints with Custom Domains now generally available for AWS IoT Core

Topic || Media Services

Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics

Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports HTML 5 motion graphics overlay

HLS inputs now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Topic || Mobile

Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager

Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI

Amazon API Gateway custom domain names now support multi-level base path mappings

Amazon API Gateway now provides IAM condition keys for governing endpoint, authorization, and logging configurations

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions

AWS Transit Gateway Connect increases service quotas for route limits

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwide

Introducing Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is Now Available in Four Additional Regions

AWS Direct Connect Announces MACsec Encryption for Dedicated 10Gbps and 100Gbps Connections at Select Locations

AWS Site-to-Site VPN increases service quotas for route limits

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure tools for simulation jobs

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station is now available in US East (N. Virginia) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user’s IAM role activity to their corporate identity

IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by generating IAM policies based on access activity

AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard

AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting

AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses

AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization

AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup extends centralized backup management support for Amazon FSx to five additional AWS Regions

Amazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts

New AWS Solutions Implementation: Amazon S3 Glacier Re:Freezer

New AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management