AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 523

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces managed support for image extraction

Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available

Amazon Quicksight Line chart support for 10,000 data points

Topic || Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces support of Goerli Testnet for Ethereum

Topic || Compute

Introducing Amazon EC2 I4i instances

AWS adds new management features for EC2 key pairs

Amazon Relational Database Service on AWS Outposts now supports storage autoscaling

Announcing consolidated view of Lambda Insights via Application Insights

AWS AppConfig Feature Flag Lambda Extension announces support for Arm/Graviton2 processors

Amazon EKS console now supports all standard Kubernetes resources to simplify cluster management

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces Karpenter v0.9.0 with support for Pod Affinity

Amazon Lightsail load balancers now support automatic HTTPS redirects and configurable TLS security policy

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now displays metrics within the schedule management user experience

Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call

Amazon Connect launches an API to programmatically stop queued callbacks

Amazon Connect launches API to change an agent’s current status

Amazon Connect now surfaces Voice ID attributes directly on the contact detail page

Amazon Connect launches API to search for users by name, agent hierarchies, and tags

Amazon SES V2 now supports email size of up to 40MB for inbound and outbound emails by default

Topic || Database

The New Amazon ElastiCache console is now available

Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

Monitor your Amazon RDS usage metrics against AWS service limits

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017 CU27, and 2019 CU15

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports cascaded read replicas for up to 30X more read capacity

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now allows you to more easily see metrics for any time interval

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports M6i and R6i instances with new instance sizes up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB RAM

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports M6i and R6i instances with new instance sizes up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB RAM

Amazon RDS Data API now supports returning SQL results as a simplified JSON string

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports M6i and R6i instances with new instance sizes up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB RAM.

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) are now available

AWS Serverless Application Model CLI now supports enabling AWS X-Ray tracing

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports suppression of files and folders in code reviews

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling now supports single-use token and token rotation capabilities, making remote connections more secure

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Rekognition launches Face APIs version 6 for improved accuracy

Amazon Rekognition introduces Streaming Video Events to provide real-time alerts on live video streams

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports additional M5 and R5 instances for interactive data preparation

Get insights into Data and Data Quality with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports random sampling and stratified sampling

Amazon SageMaker Canvas adds new data preparation capabilities and usability updates

Amazon Lex now supports custom vocabulary

Amazon Polly now offers a new Neural TTS voice in Brazilian Portuguese

The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Compute Optimizer adds four new Trusted Advisor checks

AWS Service Catalog support for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now available

AWS Control Tower now supports Python 3.9 runtime

Topic || Media Services

Amazon Interactive Video Service adds stream chat feature

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowball Edge devices

AWS Snow launches Large Data Migration Manager for planning and managing large data migrations from your premises to AWS

AWS Snow Family now supports update of device certificates

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs now supports embedded circuit simulations, improving the performance of certain hybrid quantum-classical algorithms by over 10X

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Use IAM to control access to a resource based on the account, OU or organization that contains the resource

AWS Audit Manager now allows use of custom rules from AWS Config

AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Threat Signatures