AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 505

Topic || Analytics

Amazon MSK now offers the ability to scale storage throughput up to 1000 MiB/s per broker

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Honeycomb

Amazon QuickSight adds comparative and cumulative date/time calculations

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.2 and Web Server Plugins

Improved progress updates for blue/green deployments in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions adds mocking support for testing workflows locally

Amazon AppFlow now supports bi-directional transfer of data between SAP applications and AWS

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background replacement

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now support PostgreSQL 14

Introducing Amazon EC2 ×2iezn instances

Lightsail CDN now supports Lightsail Container Services as origins

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Chat now supports a configurable chat duration of up to 7 days

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports custom vocabulary for tuning transcription accuracy

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Lex launches multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models support custom VPC and KMS settings

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for Apache Parquet file format

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for datasets up to 100 GB

AWS announces the launch of prediction explanations for Amazon Fraud Detector Models

Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images

AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Systems Manager now supports higher concurrency for Automation executions

AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables monitoring of service usage quota in Amazon CloudWatch

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Cloud Map API now supports IPv6

Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters

Topic || Storage

Announcing Amazon Elastic File System Replication

Amazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to grow your SSD storage capacity