AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 472

Topic || Analytics

Introducing Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Amazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacity

Topic || Application Integration

Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry

Topic || Compute

AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances

AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in previously unsupported Availability Zones

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus

EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications

IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server

AWS Launch Wizard now supports additional deployment capabilities to meet DevOps and organizational requirements

AWS Copilot now supports Pub/Sub architectures

Topic || Database

New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Boolean DB Parameter Expressions

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, 10.2.40

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c

The new Amazon DynamoDB console is now your default experience to help you manage data and resources more easily

Topic || End User Computing

NICE DCV releases version 2021.2

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements

AWS IoT Core now supports MQTT retained messages

Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks

Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines

Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 6 new languages – Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English

Amazon Transcribe now supports resource tagging for better access control

Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions

Amazon Rekognition improves the accuracy of celebrity recognition, adds new attributes

Comprehend launches support for tagging with analysis jobs

Amazon Polly launches Aria, a New Zealand English neural text-to-speech voice

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS CloudFormation introduces the option to troubleshoot provisioning errors before rollback, accelerating deployments

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus

AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities

Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports time based schedules for Channel Assembly streams

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Transfer Family simplifies managed file transfer workflows with low code automation

AWS Database Migration Service now supports migrating multiple databases in one task using MongoDB as a source

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Redis as a target

AWS DataSync enhances task filtering and queuing

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services

AWS Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation adds support for PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Security Standard

AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering

ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol

Topic || Storage

Introducing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Elastic File System introduces Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costs

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering further automates storage cost savings by removing the minimum storage duration and monitoring and automation charge for small objects

Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate access to replicated data sets by up to 60%

AWS Backint Agent now supports Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, sending log and data backups to separate folders, and Ansible

Introducing AWS Backup Audit Manager