AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 525

Topic || Analytics

Announcing general availability of 1-click public embedding available with Amazon QuickSight

AWS Glue now provides APIs to create and manage AWS Glue Studio visual jobs

AWS Glue now supports SASL authentication for Apache Kafka

Amazon Redshift now supports linear learner algorithm with Redshift ML

Amazon Redshift launches new Snapshot Isolation level support for concurrent transactions

Amazon Athena now supports views in Apache Hive metastores

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync introduces new simplified console experience to deploy generic real-time Pub/Sub APIs

AWS App Mesh now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background replacement and blur on iOS and Android

Topic || Compute

Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors

Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are now available

Announcing the general availability of NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 enables customers to protect instances from unintentional stop actions

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now backfills Predictive Scaling forecasts so you can quickly validate forecast accuracy

AWS Resilience Hub adds support for Terraform, Amazon ECS, and additional services

Amazon EKS Anywhere curated packages are now in public preview

AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 16

AWS Distribution of Kubeflow supporting Kubeflow v1.4.1 is now generally available

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Encryption SDK for .NET now generally available

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Announcing Amplify Android library (Developer Preview), designed for Kotlin

Topic || Games

AWS announces support for Android, iOS, and MacOS games with AWS GameKit for Unreal Engine

Topic || Internet of Things

Introducing more flexible AWS Device Qualification Program for FreeRTOS

Announcing three featured FreeRTOS Reference Integrations Projects

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Personalize now supports offline model metrics for recommenders

Amazon Comprehend detects and redacts 14 new PII entity types across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and India

Amazon Kendra releases Jira connector to enable document search on JIRA repository

Amazon Lex launches support for phrase hints

SageMaker Notebook Instances now support the ml.g5 instance family, and Python 3.8 kernels

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for preventive guardrails

AWS Control Tower can now use customer provided core accounts

Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager expands support for runbook automation

Amazon CloudWatch announces improved console experience

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support for canary resources deletion when a canary is deleted

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secrets usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Managed Grafana introduces new API for creating Grafana API tokens and support for version 8.4

Metric support now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

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Topic || Migration and Transfer

Two new storage locations available for AWS DataSync

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing Multi-Account Support for AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager

Amazon CloudFront now provides TLS version and cipher suite in CloudFront-Viewer-TLS-header

Amazon VPC now supports multiple IPv6 CIDR blocks

Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to Gateway Load Balancer backed monitoring appliances

Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to Gateway Load Balancer backed monitoring appliances

AWS PrivateLink announces support for IPv6

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Administer AWS Single Sign-On from a delegated member account in your organization

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to its set of services for centralized data protection

AWS Backup adds support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance management for data protection of hybrid VMware workloads

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now certified for SAP HANA workloads

Amazon EFS now supports a larger number of concurrent file locks