AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 469

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace enhances ISV self-service authorization of Consulting Partners

Topic || Analytics

Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions

Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing

Amazon Redshift extends Automatic Table Optimization to support Column Compression Encoding

Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile

Amazon Redshift Data API now adds support for multi-statement query execution and parameters

Introducing optimized Spark 3.1 runtime for data integration with AWS Glue 3.0

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into Tableau Hyper format

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports logical conditions as transformations

Amazon EMR now allows you to easily identify latest releases that have the applications you need

Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control

Athena can now write query results in Parquet, Avro, ORC and JSON formats

AWS Data Streaming Solution for Amazon MSK adds support for AWS IAM to streamline access control management

Managed entitlements now available for AWS Data Exchange products in AWS License Manager

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.17

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK meetings now support live transcription with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances

EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot to AWS

Introducing Amazon EC2 M6i instances

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in

Amazon EKS now supports Multus

Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes

AWS Batch ListJobs Filtering Enhancements

AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Cost Categories introduces Split Charge rules for allocation of shared costs

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now provides an improved chatbot building experience, powered by Amazon Lex V2 console and APIs

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect can now categorize contacts with contact attributes and integrates with Tasks and EventBridge

Agents can now set their next status while still on an active contact in Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce adds out-of-the-box chat user interface support to Salesforce Experience Cloud

Topic || Database

Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports oracle_fdw extension

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades

Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Two New Parameter Changes For Full-Text Search

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Time Zone File Auto Upgrade

The Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Java 2.x is now available

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now automatically optimizes client connections made through AWS PrivateLink to improve availability and read/write throughput

Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language

Amazon Neptune announces support for SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol

Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications

CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions

AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles

Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps

AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 – v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support

Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code

AWS Copilot now supports custom domain names for App Runner Services and other enhancements

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019

Amazon WorkSpaces announces the availability of quota information through Service Quotas

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol

Amazon WorkSpaces Adds Support for USB YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Authentication on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift announces General Availability of Game Server Hosting and Multiplayer Services in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD

Topic || Internet of Things

New release of AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C simplifies authentication and provisioning of IoT devices

AWS IoT Core Credential Provider now supports security tokens that are valid up to 12 hours

AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available

Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3

Announcing support for JOIN operation in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores

FreeRTOS 202107.00 includes SNTP library for time information in IoT applications

Topic || Machine Learning

Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for Asia-Pacific

Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times

Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2

Amazon SageMaker introduces one-click model inference and fine-tuning for Hugging Face models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions

New Amazon SageMaker Pipelines integrations with popular third-party tools

Detect multicollinearity and easily export results in a few clicks with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console

Train custom entity recognition models with fewer training documents using Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Rekognition Video segment detection now supports four new segment types, improves accuracy

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easy for customers to learn how to train machine learning models by providing tutorial videos, and sample datasets

Optimize personalized recommendations for the business metric of your choice with Amazon Personalize

Announcing Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for conversation insights

AWS MLOps Framework solution now supports Amazon SageMaker model registry and AWS Organizations Delegated Administrator Account to improve ML model management and governance

Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts

Amazon Lex announces support for UK Postal Code built-in slot type

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances

AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers

Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics

AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity

Introducing 79 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry

You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set

AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator

AWS Config support for AWS Backup Services

AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions

AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption

AWS Service Catalog announces improvements to the Getting Started Library

AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs

Topic || Media Services

Amazon Interactive Video Service adds SDK for live broadcasting from iOS and Android devices

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer

AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks

Topic || Mobile

Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA

AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for Next.js version 11

Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53 announces Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate IAM policies based on access activity found in your organization trail

AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring

AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring

AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning

Topic || Storage

Announcing S3 Transfer Manager Preview release in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts

Amazon S3 on Outposts adds two larger storage tiers

Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC

AWS Storage Gateway now supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 on Tape Gateway

Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports CloudWatch metrics

Topic || Solutions

New AWS Solutions Implementation: AWS Innovation Sandbox