AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 451

Topic || Analytics

AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML

AWS Glue DataBrew adds new nest and unnest transformations

Amazon EMR 6.3 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.1

Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Amazon EMR 6.3 now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control

Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.7.1

AWS Data Exchange now supports custom payment schedules for private offers

Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier

Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs

Amazon Athena drivers now support Azure AD and PingFederate authentication

Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio: Interactively query data streams and develop stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview

AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues

Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows

Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region

AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.15.15

Amazon AppFlow now expands its features with Marketo

Topic || Business Applications

WkWebView now supported with Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript

Topic || Compute

Amazon Elastic Container Service Anywhere is now generally available

AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations

AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy

Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services

AWS Lambda Extensions are now Generally Available

AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations

EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy

Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20

Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Application Cost Profiler

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Release Updates

Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances

Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas

Announcing PostgreSQL 12.5 support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts

New patch releases for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL are now available

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups

Manage Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) service quotas through the Service Quotas console

Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support AWS CloudFormation

Learn how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications

AWS App2Container now supports deployment of containerized applications to AWS App Runner

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.28 is Now Available

Topic || Internet of Things

Alarms feature now generally available for AWS IoT SiteWise and AWS IoT Events

Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available

AWS IoT Device Management launches Job Templates in Preview to make deployment of fleet-wide remote operations faster, easier, and more secure

Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model

Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter for distributed training

Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models

Amazon Polly Launches a new Korean Neural Text-to-Speech voice

Announcing enhancements to Amazon Rekognition text detection – support for more words, higher accuracy, and lower latency

Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points

Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for South America

Amazon Lex now supports resource-based policies for bots and aliases

AWS Solutions Implementations – Serverless Bot Framework adds new integrations for customers to expand the use of their Amazon Lex chatbots

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

Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization

Amazon Fraud Detector now supports AWS CloudFormation

Topic || Management and Governance

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters

Amazon CloudWatch Logs service limits can now be managed with AWS Service Quotas

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling

Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild

AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting

AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available

Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events

Introducing Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager

AWS Organizations launches new console experience

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support

Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Announcing general availability of AWS Application Migration Service

Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights

AWS Database Migration Service now supports PostgreSQL version 13 in preview mode

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication

AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory

Topic || Mobile

AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.2 now available with support for NLB instance targeting

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket introduces quantum circuit noise simulator, DM1

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets

AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management

Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs

AWS WAF adds support for log filtering

Topic || Storage

Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression

Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers

Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available

Topic || Training and Certification

New digital training and AWS Certification Guide for AWS End User Computing

Topic || Support

AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflow (SAW) runbooks for self-service diagnosis and remediation