AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 556

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Athena announces Query Result Reuse to accelerate queries

AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection feature can now identify and process sensitive data for Japan and UK entities

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds capability to easily inspect data records in AWS Management Console

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports job templates to store and share parameters across job runs

Amazon EMR 6.8 supports Apache Hudi 0.11.1 and Apache Iceberg 0.14.0

Amazon EMR release 6.8 now supports Apache Flink 1.15.1

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces support for cross-VPC connectivity powered by AWS PrivateLink

Concurrency scaling for write workloads is now generally available for Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift announces support of the CONNECT BY SQL construct

Amazon HealthLake announces enhanced analytics feature

Introducing Amazon HealthLake Imaging preview

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Launches New Scheduler

Build event-driven applications with AWS CloudFormation StackSets event notifications in Amazon EventBridge

Amazon SNS message data protection is now generally available with real-time data redaction and masking

Amazon SQS announces attribute-based access control (ABAC) for flexible and scalable access permissions

Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account

Amazon RDS events now include attributes for filtering with Amazon SNS

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.17.2 and increased connection limits for ActiveMQ

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda announces Telemetry API, further enriching monitoring and observability capabilities of Lambda Extensions

AWS announces native AOT tooling support for .NET applications on AWS Lambda

App2Container Support for EKS Blueprints

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.24

AWS announces centralized logging support for Windows containers on Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS

AWS SAM CLI introduces Terraform support for AWS Lambda local testing and debugging

Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service

Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 enables you to opt out of directly shared Amazon Machine Images

Amazon ECS launches task scale-in protection

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support Apple macOS Ventura

Amazon EC2 announces network bandwidth support in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet

Amazon EC2 now supports specifying list of instance types to use in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet

Amazon EC2 placement groups can now be shared across multiple AWS accounts

AWS ParallelCluster 3.3: multiple instance type allocation and other top requested features

Amazon Lightsail announces support for domain registration and DNS autoconfiguration

Amazon S3 on Outposts further optimizes storage management with new Lifecycle actions and filters

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches updated UI for quick connects with AWS CloudTrail support

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now surfaces additional customer information in the Amazon Connect Agent Application

Amazon Connect launches API to make an agent eligible for new contacts, after a missed contact

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports profile search using multiple search terms through the API

Amazon Simple Email Service announces Virtual Deliverability Manager to help enhance email delivery success rate

Topic || Database

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in 20 regions, including Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Access to Transaction Log Backups

Amazon RDS now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports scaling storage

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) integration

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports a linked server to Oracle

Amazon Keyspaces now supports the Murmur3Partioner

Amazon ElastiCache adds support for Redis 7

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Internet Protocol Version 6

Announcing data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Proton now supports AWS CDK through CodeBuild provisioning

AWS Copilot adds support for AWS App Runner’s privately accessible services and more

AWS re:Post is accessible to users in five additional languages – Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, and Korean

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces announces version 2.0 of WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol

Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to seamlessly migrate to WSP protocol

Announcing certificate-based authentication for Amazon AppStream 2.0

NICE DCV releases version 2022.2 with support for monitor selection for a full-screen remote session and time zone redirection

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for Next.js 12 and 13

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management now supports up to twelve query terms for more granular search and monitoring

AWS IoT Device Defender now supports audit check of revoked intermediate Certificate Authority

AWS IoT Core announces Location Action to route location data from IoT devices to Amazon Location Service

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Polly adds neural support for Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish

Amazon Polly launches a Dutch NTTS voice

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Model Training support for ml.trn1 instances

SageMaker JumpStart now provides Stable Diffusion and Bloom models

SageMaker JumpStart now provides TensorFlow Text Classification algorithms

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces encryption support with customer managed keys for time series forecast models

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for correlation matrices for advanced data analysis

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides feature selection and the ability to change data types while creating an AutoML experiment

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now supports batch inference in Amazon SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot experiments are now up to 2x faster in Hyperparameter Optimization training mode

Amazon Textract announces updates to the Analyze Expense API used for processing documents such as invoices and receipts

Amazon Textract announces updates to its Analyze ID API

Amazon Textract announces updates to the forms and text extraction features

Topic || Management and Governance

Announcing recurring custom line items for AWS Billing Conductor

Announcing AWS Resource Explorer

AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports encryption using Customer Managed KMS Keys

AWS Config now supports 14 new resource types

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports export to SSE-KMS encrypted S3 buckets

AWS CloudTrail announces delegated administrator account support for AWS Organizations

AWS Well-Architected Tool improves workload discovery and speeds up reviews

AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys

AWS CloudFormation StackSets improves insights on stack instances for stack set operations

AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration via AWS Service Management Connector for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud

AWS Service Management Connector now supports provisioning AWS Service Catalog products in Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager now streamlines responses to Jira Service Management Cloud Incidents via AWS Service Management Connector

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for high-fidelity color workloads

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now automatically handles DNS changes

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server migration

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET now extracts and ports code from Web Forms and WCF to .NET on Linux

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports the transfer of Elastic IP addresses between AWS accounts

The IPv6 Subnet default gateway router now supports multiple addresses

Amazon CloudFront now supports JA3 fingerprint headers

Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group

AWS Private 5G service now includes support for multiple radio-units

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket adds support for a neutral atom quantum processor named Aquila from QuEra Computing Inc.

Topic || Satellite

AWS Ground Station adds support for Customer Provided Ephemeris in preview

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Security Hub launches support for the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0

AWS Security Hub adds Wiz as a new integration partner

AWS Certificate Manager now supports Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm TLS certificates

AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits

AWS Firewall Manager can now import existing AWS Network Firewall resources

AWS WAF Now Supports Granular Geographic Match

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 Glacier improves restore throughput by up to 10x when retrieving large volumes of archived data

AWS Backup now supports restore of VMware workloads to Amazon EC2