AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 516

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Managed entitlements in AWS License Manager now supports license usage tracking for AWS Marketplace licenses

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift announces native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Power BI

Amazon Redshift announces support for role-based access control

Amazon Athena adds support for querying Amazon Ion data

Announcing general availability of Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ORC file format as an input

AWS Glue 2.0 now supports fuzzy matching and deduplication using AWS Glue FindMatches

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.2

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports using custom dictionaries with IK Analysis plugin

Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes an observability interface and expands log analytics

Cross-cluster Replication is now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch service domains

Cross-cluster search is now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains

Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Spark shuffle data aware

Amazon QuickSight launches Groups Management UI

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge introduces Global endpoints for automatic failover and recovery

Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry extends support to Go language

AWS AppSync adds support for enhanced filtering in real-time GraphQL subscriptions

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda Function URLs: built-in HTTPS endpoints for your Lambda functions

AWS Lambda now allows customers to configure up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions

The AWS Lambda console now supports bulk update of layers

Amazon EC2 now provides a new and improved launch experience on the EC2 Console

Amazon EC2 now reduces visibility of public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) older than two years

Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances

Amazon EC2 now performs automatic recovery of instances by default

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance lifecycle states are now available via the Instance Metadata Service

AWS Compute Optimizer Supports 66 New EC2 Instance Types

Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Distro, and Amazon EKS Anywhere now support Kubernetes version 1.22

Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes for Amazon MemoryDB Preview

EKS add-ons support for EBS CSI driver is now generally available

Amazon ECS now allows you to run commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate

Amazon ECS announces increased service quota for container instances per cluster

Amazon ECS now supports warm pools for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag based access controls

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports resource and tag based access management

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches updated UI for users, routing profiles, and queues with AWS CloudTrail support

Amazon Connect launches dynamic voice prompt playback from Amazon S3

AWS releases version 2.0 of the Amazon Pinpoint API for expanded support of SMS and voice channels

Amazon Connect Wisdom now supports Zendesk connector

Amazon Pinpoint now supports template tagging and search in the console

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now offers real-time streaming for higher scale and low latency scenarios

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS Free Tier now includes db.t3.micro, AWS Graviton2-based db.t4g.micro instances in all commercial regions

Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on RDS Service APIs

Amazon RDS supports itemized billing for RDS Storage, IOPS and backup features

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 13

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Performance Insights is now in preview

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, 10.20 and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL 1.2.0

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Foreign Data Wrapper for Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available

AWS Proton support for Terraform Open Source is now Generally Available

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces launches APIs to allow custom branding

Amazon Chime SDK now supports sessions with up to 10,000 live participants

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for iOS

Amplify Geo Launches React Component for Maps, powered by Amazon Location Service

AWS Amplify Studio announces new file storage and file management capabilities

AWS Amplify Hosting now uses a GitHub App to authorize access to repositories for CI/CD workflows

AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo directive to iterate on GraphQL APIs without manual data migrations

Topic || Game Tech

AWS GameKit for Unreal Game Engine is now Generally Available

Now in Preview – Amazon GameSparks

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management and AWS IoT Device Defender now support monitoring device metrics via ListMetricValues API

Topic || Machine Learning

Now launch RStudio on Amazon SageMaker using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Databricks as a data source

Amazon Textract announces updates to its tables and checkbox detection features

Extract custom entities from images and Textract JSON files with Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS voices in Catalan and Mexican Spanish

Amazon Kendra releases Slack Connector to enable Slack messaging search

Introducing grammar slot type on Amazon Lex

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now supports machine-learning powered call summarization

AWS Panorama now supports the ability to bring your own machine learning libraries

AWS Panorama applications now support receiving inbound messages over the local area network

Topic || Management and Governance

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Puppet Enterprise

AWS announces integration between AWS AppConfig Feature Flags and Atlassian’s Jira Cloud

Sustainability Pillar is now available in AWS Well-Architected Tool

Amazon CloudWatch adds option for easy monitoring set up

AWS Organizations now provides central AWS account closure to enable easier end-to-end account lifecycle management

AWS Service Catalog announces a new console feature to directly access resources within a Provisioned Product

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation

AWS Announces Data Transfer Price Reduction for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN services

Amazon Route 53 now offers usage-based pricing for resource records above the free tier limit

Amazon CloudFront now supports Server Timing headers

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Security Hub launches five controls and one new integration partner

AWS Security Hub now supports specifying names for custom integrations

AWS Security Hub launches 12 controls for security posture monitoring

AWS Firewall Manager now supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup adds support for VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

AWS Backup now allows you to restore virtual disks from protected copies of your VMware virtual machines

AWS Backup adds support for Persistent 2 deployment type of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems

Amazon FSx now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to change the throughput capacity of your file systems

AWS Storage Gateway updates support for VMware and Microsoft hypervisors