AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 455

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions

AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts

AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings

Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.16.2

Amazon SNS now supports SMS Sandbox and displays available origination IDs in your account

Amazon AppFlow now supports documents with Veeva

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports customer-managed customer master keys

Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda Extensions are now Generally Available in all commercial regions

Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups

AWS Backint Agent version 1.04 now available

Topic || Cost Management

Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer v2.3 adds support for existing VPCs and improves billing accuracy and reporting

Topic || Database

Announcing new PostgreSQL 13.2, 13.1, and 12.6 version support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts

Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster

Amazon Keyspaces is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports to help you run highly regulated Apache Cassandra workloads more easily

Amazon Keyspaces now supports customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest to help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements

Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB

Topic || Developer Tools

New digital course: Improve Code Quality with Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer

Topic || End User Computing

NICE DCV releases version 2021.1 with accurate audio/video synchronization

NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.1

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Amazon Location Service is now generally available

Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift Adds SDK Support and Updates for Unreal 4.26

Topic || Internet of Things

New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN

New AWS Solutions Implementation: Disaster Recovery for AWS IoT

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Snowflake as a data source

Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels adds support for deploying models via the Console

Amazon Polly Launches a new Canadian French Neural Text-to-Speech voice

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton

AWS Systems Manager is now FedRAMP-High Compliant

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source

Amazon CloudWatch releases a C# client library for Embedded Metric Format

Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications

AWS Transit Gateway adds Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support in 4 additional AWS regions

AWS Transit Gateway Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Cognito now supports targeted sign out through refresh token revocation

Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS

AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring

Topic || Storage

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports file access auditing

Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service

Easily install and manage Amazon EFS utilities on your instances with Quick Setup