AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 480

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace now supports viewing agreements and canceling and extending offers for Professional Services

Topic || Analytics

New datasets available on the Registry of Open Data from University of Sydney, International Brain Laboratory, Taiwanese Central Weather Bureau, and others

AWS Glue Crawlers can now be started using Amazon S3 event notifications

Amazon EMR 6.4 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.2

Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink v1.13

Amazon QuickSight doubles SPICE capacity limit to 500m row

Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication

AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.16.3

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities

Amazon Chime SDK media capture pipelines adds the ability to configure APIs for customizable media capture

Topic || Compute

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types

Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs

AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring

AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads

AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment

Topic || Database

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models

Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features

Introducing Distributed Load Testing on AWS v2.0.0

Topic || Front End & Mobile

Amazon Location Service adds change detection to tracking

Topic || Machine Learning

Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for Central America, Middle East and Africa

Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates

Prepare and visualize time series datasets in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker

Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection

AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions

Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets

New AWS Solution: Maintaining Personalized Experiences using Machine Learning

Introducing New AWS Solution: AWS QnABot, a self-service conversational chatbot built on Amazon Lex

Amazon Personalize launches new recipe that increases the relevance of similar items recommendations

Amazon Lex launches progress updates for fulfillment

Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags

AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager

CDK for Kubernetes (CDK8s) now Generally Available

AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 – v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control

New AWS Solutions Implementation: Automated Account Configuration

AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports AWS CloudFormation

AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports

Introducing AWS Instance Scheduler v2.0

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds prefetch ad support for personalized ad insertion

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3

Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing

Topic || Robotics

AWS RoboMaker now supports expanded configuration for any robot and simulation software

AWS RoboMaker now supports Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based simulation jobs

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs

AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop

Topic || Storage

AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls