AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 529

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts

Topic || Analytics

Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available

Announcing Metered Billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs

Announcing Athena connector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions launches an interactive workshop for building and deploying application workflows

AWS AppSync simplifies GraphQL API development with expanded GraphQL Utility Helper Library

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports centralized attendee controls

Topic || Compute

Price reductions on Amazon EC2 instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) OS

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports AWS PrivateLink for management of buckets and access points

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available on AWS Outposts

Amazon ECS simplifies Capacity Provider integration with Auto Scaling groups

Amazon Genomics CLI v1.5.0 adds support for the Common Workflow Language (CWL) with Toil

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches an API to programmatically transfer tasks

Amazon Connect now supports custom templates for agent tasks

Amazon Connect now allows you to get started with high-volume outbound communications (public preview) with just a few clicks

Amazon Pinpoint launches journey custom channel input and response support

Topic || Database

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for CreateTable, UpdateTable, and DeleteTable operations

Amazon RDS adds support for publishing events to encrypted Amazon SNS topics

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS announces support for Dart Signature V4 for interacting with AWS services

AWS Proton introduces service components

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Announcing Geofence Management in Amplify Geo (JavaScript), powered by Amazon Location Service

Topic || Machine Learning

SageMaker JumpStart now supports automatic tuning

Amazon SageMaker supports incremental training for JumpStart models

Amazon Kendra releases GitHub SaaS Connector

Amazon Kendra releases GitHub OnPrem connectors

Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for multi-lingual audio

Topic || Management and Governance

Shared account customization now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform

Single account enrollment and update is now available in AWS Control Tower

Amazon Lookout for Metrics enables anomaly detection on your historical CloudWatch data

Amazon CloudWatch adds Elemental MediaTailor to Vended Logs pricing

Access the AWS re:Post community from the AWS Well-Architected Tool

AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS DataSync adds support for Amazon EFS security features

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53 announces IP-Based Routing for DNS Queries

Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for AWS Panorama

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket adds support for Borealis, the first publicly accessible quantum computer that is claimed to offer quantum advantage

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS IAM now supports WebAuthn and Safari browser for multi-factor authentication with security keys

Amazon Cognito improves risk evaluation for Advanced Security Features

Topic || Storage

Amazon EBS now supports Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) for io2 Block Express

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports multiple staging and target accounts

You can now update the storage and IOPS capacity on your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems

AWS Backup adds AWS PrivateLink support for VMware workloads

AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance now available for purchase through resellers