AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 484

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to change requests submission experience

AWS Marketplace announces Purchase Order Management for SaaS contracts

Topic || Analytics

Sheet Change Performance Optimizations is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight launches 4 new administration features including IP-based access restrictions and Bring-you-own-role for account setup

Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE Incremental Refresh

Amazon QuickSight launches new Table and Pivot table enhancements

Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query

Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans

AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink

Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio

Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks

Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift

Topic || Application Integration

AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 – v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions

Amazon SNS now supports token-based authentication for APNs mobile push notifications

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon QLDB launches new version of QLDB Shell

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports phone call recording

The Amazon Chime SDK now supports push notifications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background blur

Amazon Chime SDK announces messaging channel flows

Topic || Compute

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances

Introducing Amazon EC2 C6i instances

Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models

AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing

Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase

Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units

Amazon EC2 announces attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet

Introducing Amazon EC2 Spot placement score

Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter

Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket

Amazon DevOps Guru increases coverage of Amazon EKS metrics and adds metric view by cluster

Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling

Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information

AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers

AWS App2Container now supports ECS Fargate Windows

AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Announcing AWS SAM Accelerate – quickly test code changes against the cloud

Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases

AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling

AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Simple Email Service now offers a new console experience

Amazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmatically

Amazon Connect launches scheduled tasks

Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows

Amazon Connect Chat adds real-time message streaming APIs

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for users, user hierarchy groups, and hours of operation

Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically

Amazon Kendra releases SharePoint Connector to enable SharePoint site search

Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel

Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10 Digit Long Code (10DLC) vetting

Topic || Database

Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for Access Control with User-Defined Roles

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $literal, $map, and $$ROOT

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for storing, querying and indexing Geospatial data

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now provides a JDBC driver to connect from BI tools and execute SQL Queries

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is now generally available

Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots

Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports exporting database logs to Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon RDS for MySQL on Outposts supports new minor versions

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, and 10.18

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports PostGIS 3.1

Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.26, includes Global Transaction Identifiers (GITDs) and Delayed Replication

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0

PostgreSQL 14 RC 1 now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types

Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced

Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates

Amazon Time Sync Service now makes it easier to generate and compare timestamps

Topic || End User Computing

Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify announces new observeQuery API for Amplify DataStore to help apps with real-time data open faster

AWS Amplify launches further data management capabilities in the Admin UI

AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage

AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC

Topic || Game Tech

New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift

Topic || Internet of Things

Announcing General Availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports managed Firmware Over-the-Air Update

AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional data insights and recommendations

Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker

Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume

Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker launches fully-managed RStudio Workbench

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for time series data

Amazon Translate now enables multidirectional custom terminology

Amazon Translate Now Adds Support for four more languages and variants – Irish, Marathi, Portugal Portuguese and Punjabi

Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption

Amazon Lex launches support for South African English

Amazon Lex launches support for Austrian German

AWS Polly now offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in Spanish and Italian

AWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account management

Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription

Improved celebrity recognition is now available for Amazon Rekognition Video

Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing

Topic || Management and Governance

Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials

Announcing general availability of AWS Resilience Hub

AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights

Introducing 34 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry

AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails

AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.

Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations

Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability

AWS Systems Manager Maintenance Windows now supports defining custom cutoff behavior for tasks

Introducing support for AWS KMS customer managed keys for encrypting artifacts by Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics

Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers advanced filtering for Managed Instances

Topic || Media Services

Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to test launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Nielsen Watermarking for audience measurement

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports rich text rendering of IMSC 1.1 and TTML subtitle text

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS DataSync can now copy data between Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and AWS Storage services

Introducing AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers

AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager launches new APIs to simplify network and route analysis in your global network

AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available

AWS Global Accelerator adds support for two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Disable default reverse DNS rules with Route 53 Resolver

AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon CloudFront

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On

Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On

AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account

AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners

AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs

AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture

AWS Audit Manager custom framework sharing is now generally available

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies

AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB

AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune

New AWS Solutions Implementation: Web Client for AWS Transfer Family