AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 546

Topic || Analytics

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions adds 14 new intrinsic functions so you can process data more efficiently in workflows.

AppFlow now supports Salesforce version 55.0 and additional AWS PrivateLink regions

Amazon AppFlow now supports Jira Cloud as a source

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports signaling client in C++

Topic || Compute

AWS Trusted Advisor adds check for Microsoft Windows Server end of support on Amazon EC2

Amazon EBS adds the ability to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance

AWS SAM CLI esbuild support is now generally available

AWS Fargate announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images for Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages now generally available

Announcing Workload Consolidation for Karpenter

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches API to search for queues by name, description and tags

Amazon Connect launches API to search for routing profiles by name, description, and tags.

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for instance creation

Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure business operation days per week for capacity planning

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS now supports setting up connectivity between your RDS database and EC2 compute instance in 1-click

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for replicas

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor version 14.4

Topic || Developer Tools

Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) 2.0 is now generally available

AWS announces open-sourced credentials-fetcher to simplify Microsoft AD access from Linux containers

Topic || Front-End and Mobile

Amazon Location Service now supports refined access control for geofences and tracked devices

Topic || Game Tech

AWS GameKit adds Unity Support

Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Local Zones

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT TwinMaker launches enhancements for scaling digital twins and building data connectors

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies

Topic || Machine Learning

Custom forecast frequencies now supported in Amazon Forecast

Amazon Forecast now supports what-if analyses

Amazon Personalize expands the number of events considered by filters to make recommendations even more relevant

Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS support for Mandarin Chinese

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reuses SageMaker Training instances to reduce start-up overheads by 20x

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides custom data split options along with an improved experience for creating an AutoML experiment

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler accelerates onboarding with sample dataset and guided feature discovery

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Support launches support for managing cases in Slack

Customers can now pay upfront or with scheduled payments using AWS IQ

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Alert Manager & Ruler logs now available in Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Automate AWS Control Tower guardrail management through APIs

AWS Control Tower customized log retention

AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in AWS Systems Manager

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Introducing AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector, a new discovery tool for AWS Application Discovery Service

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and updates its Service Level Agreement for Route 53 hosted zones

AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account takeover prevention for Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront launches Origin Access Control

Now capture AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection logs using Amazon CloudWatch

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads

Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) APIs to manage users and groups at scale

Amazon Macie adds ability to tune findings with allow lists, and enhances machine learning models to better identify sensitive data

AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall

AWS Security Hub launches announcements notification topic

Topic || Storage

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP