AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 458

Topic || Analytics

AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring

AWS Glue DataBrew adds support for 14 new advanced data types for data preparation

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing datasets from job runs directly into the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue DataBrew adds support for backslash delimiter (\) in .csv datasets

AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports JSON Schema

AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka

Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets

Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

Amazon Redshift now supports case-insensitive collation with column level overrides

AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions

Topic || Application Integration

Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions

Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge

Topic || Compute

Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades

AWS ParallelCluster now supports Ubuntu 20.04

The Bottlerocket AMI for Amazon ECS is now Generally Available

AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances – New features, improved performance and lower prices

AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda

Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat

Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.2.37, 10.3.28, 10.4.18, and 10.5.9.

Amazon RDS supports MariaDB Audit Plugin for MySQL version 8.0

Amazon Neptune now supports copying DB cluster resources tags to DB snapshots

Managed Database Auditing with Amazon RDS Database Activity Streams for Amazon RDS for Oracle

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional memory configurations of the r5 instance class

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports the pg_proctab Extension to access PostgreSQL system stats

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_partman extension for managing time or serial id based table partitioning

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_bigm extension for faster full text search

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports pg_cron extension for scheduling database jobs

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Extension Allowlists

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Announces AWS BugBust

AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution v1.1 adds support for AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline related metrics

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions and new security detectors for Java

Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems

Topic || End User Computing

Self-service features and trusted device support are now available on the Amazon WorkSpaces Android Client App

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift announces BatchDistance rule update to FlexMatch

Topic || Internet of Things

Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores

Topic || Machine Learning

Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop

AWS introduces new framework-specific Deep Learning AMIs and backwards-compatible images

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels adds support for KMS encryption of custom model training data

Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format – XLIFF documents

Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs

Amazon Textract announces quality updates to its forms extraction feature

Amazon Personalize now unlocks information in unstructured text for recommendations

Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots

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

Topic || Management and Governance

New AWS Solutions Implementation: Tag Tamer

AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console

CloudWatch adds 14 new Metric math functions

Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers self-service operational reporting across all your AMS managed accounts

AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements

Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Announcing a new Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge

AWS Purchase Order Management now supports a TRN filter for AWS Europe

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaPackage extends its metadata passthrough capabilities

Support for additional MXF mezzanine output formats now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Support for HDR10+ for HEVC outputs is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaLive now converts image-based subtitles to text-based captions for mobile device playback

Introducing AWS Elemental Link UHD: a device to send live UHD 4k HDR video to AWS

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Topic || Frontend & Mobile

AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions

AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities

AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux

Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements

AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities

Amazon CloudFront announces new TLSv1.2_2021 security policy for viewer connections

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Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring

KMS Multi-Region Keys

AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts

AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance