AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 538

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Announcing Reseller contract in AWS Marketplace

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Athena adds visual query analysis and tuning tools

Amazon Athena enhances console and API support for parameterized queries

AWS Glue Streaming ETL Auto Scaling is now generally available

AWS Glue now supports smaller instance types for streaming

Amazon QuickSight adds Bookmarks in dashboards

Amazon QuickSight launches APIs for account create

Amazon QuickSight support for IE11 is ending by July 31, 2022

Announcing general availability (GA) of Automated Materialized View for Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available

Amazon Redshift announces open source ODBC driver with binary protocol support and enhanced performance

Amazon Redshift improves cluster resize performance and flexibility of cluster restore

Amazon Redshift announces support for Row-Level Security

Use Result Fragment Caching with EMR runtime for Apache Spark to boost query performance by up to 15x

Introducing Fine-grained access controls with job-scoped IAM Roles and Integration with AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark and Apache Hive on Amazon EMR on EC2 Clusters

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces the availability of quota information through Service Quotas

Topic || Application Integration

AWS CloudFormation event notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you create event-driven applications

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda announces support for a new IAM condition key, lambda:SourceFunctionArn

AWS Lambda announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control

AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript is now generally available

Amazon EC2 Console adds ‘Verified Provider’ label for public AMIs

Introducing Amazon EC2 R6a instances

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now monitor their predictive scaling policy using Amazon CloudWatch

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now enables you to integrate unified customer information into your custom agent applications

Topic || Database

Amazon Timestream announces improved cost-effectiveness with updates to metadata metering

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition now supports R6i instances

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports additional performance history retention periods

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.6.8, 10.5.16, 10.4.25, 10.3.35, 10.2.44

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adds console access for the BillableTableSizeInBytes CloudWatch metric

Topic || Developer Tools

Announcing Cloudscape Design System, an open source solution for building intuitive web applications

Amazon Corretto July, 2022 quarterly updates

Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for assessment and porting of VB.NET applications to .NET Core

AWS announces a streamlined deployment experience for .NET applications in .NET CLI and Visual Studio

Introducing Log Anomaly Detection and Recommendations for Amazon DevOps Guru

AWS re:Post introduces community-generated articles

AWS re:Post introduces profile pictures and inline images

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Announcing quota management for Amazon Location Service

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Client v1.7 now available with enhanced functionality and security features

AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources

AWS IoT Core now makes it easier to provision IoT devices to different AWS accounts and simplifies registrations of certificate authorities—general availability

Topic || Machine Learning

The AI Use Case Explorer is now available

Amazon Fraud Detector launches Account Takeover Insights

Amazon SageMaker adds ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for model deployment

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports increased limits to improve the accuracy of your models

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot experiments are now up to 2x faster

Announcing Heterogeneous Clusters for Amazon SageMaker model training

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature metadata and search

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now allows adding new features to existing feature groups

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store adds operational metrics to easily monitor feature groups

Topic || Management and Governance

Combined OU and Accounts page now available in AWS Control Tower

AWS announces AWS AppConfig Extensions

AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces support for account level targeting in an Organizational Unit

Topic || Media Services

Amazon Interactive Video Service now includes web broadcast SDK

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces adds support for AWS PrivateLink

AWS Transfer Family now supports ED25519 and ECDSA keys for user authentication

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN

AWS Network Firewall now supports VPC prefix lists

AWS Firewall Manager now supports VPC security group tag distribution with common security group policies

AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Network Firewall strict rule order with alert and drop configurations

Amazon VPC Flow Logs adds Transit Gateway support for improved visibility and monitoring

Amazon CloudFront supports header names of up to 1024 characters in CloudFront policies

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket SDK adds support for near-real time cost tracking

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capabilities to more accurately detect potentially malicious access to data stored in S3 buckets

AWS Identity and Access Management introduces IAM Roles Anywhere for workloads outside of AWS

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies

Introducing Nimble Studio seamless IAM access for studio components

AWS Security Hub adds four new integration partners

AWS Security Hub launches 36 new security best practice controls

Topic || Storage

New Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes automated performance settings make it even easier to modify volumes and save costs

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Backup adds support for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters