AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 475

Topic || Infrastructure

Auckland New Zealand Region

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS announces enhancements to the AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Private Offer self-service experience.

AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight Q is now generally available

Amazon QuickSight launches Dataset-as-a-Source

AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes

Amazon EMR Studio now supports multi-language Jupyter-based notebooks for Spark workloads

Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On

Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings

Announcing Amazon MSK Connect: Run serverless, scalable Kafka Connect clusters in Amazon MSK

Announcing Amazon Redshift RSQL, a command line client for interacting with Amazon Redshift clusters and databases

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service; adds support for OpenSearch 1.0

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data

OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.22

Topic || Compute

AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances – the first EC2 instance optimized for video transcoding

Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34

Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere is now generally available

Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts

AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection

AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway

Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions

Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages

Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB

Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS

Topic || Database

Amazon DynamoDB now provides you more granular control of audit logging by enabling you to filter Streams data-plane API activity in AWS CloudTrail

Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.

Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.

Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout

Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances

Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports MSDTC JDBC XA for SQL Server 2017 CU16+ and SQL Server 2019

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors

AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type

AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 – v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more

Announcing General Availability of Tracing Support in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Topic || Game Tech

AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states

AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Lex launches support for Korean

Amazon Lex announces utterances statistics for bots built using Lex V2 console and API

Now Use Lifecycle Configurations to Customize Amazon SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems

SageMaker Studio enables interactive Spark based data processing from Studio Notebooks

Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio

Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice

Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements

Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Transcribe now supports redaction of personal identifiable information (PII) for streaming transcriptions

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Health Aware (AHA) is now available for Organizational and Personal AWS Accounts to customize Health Alerts

Customers can now manage AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry applications in AWS Systems Manager

AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow supports AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry

Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand

AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP deployment from accounts using AWS Managed Services

AWS Firewall Manager Automations for AWS Organizations v1.1 is now available

AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events

Topic || Media Services

Support for multi-key encryption now available with AWS Elemental MediaPackage and SPEKE v2.0

Topic || Mobile

AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Site-to-Site VPN releases updated Download Configuration utility

Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details

Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration

Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers

AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions

AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules

Topic || Storage

AWS Storage Gateway simplifies tape management for Tape Gateway

Topic || Startups

Announcing Build on AWS for Startups