AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 568

Topic || Analytics

Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless Custom images: Bring your own libraries and application dependencies

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces ingestion and storage support for Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC

AWS Glue Crawlers enhances support for Delta Lake Tables

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now forecasts frequently for more accurate predictive scaling

Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 with Multi-AZ support and other important features

AWS Batch adds visibility for terminated and cancelled jobs

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon ECS services running on AWS Fargate

Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports single-node clusters on bare metal

Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports cluster lifecycle automation with GitOps and IaC tools like Terraform

AWS announces Amazon EKS Anywhere on Nutanix

Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments

Amazon EC2 DescribeImages API now supports pagination

Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Wisdom now supports PDF & Word documents

Amazon Connect now enables showing message receipts within the Chat experience

Amazon Connect now provides “idle” chat participant events with auto close capability

Amazon Connect now supports JSON content-type in chat messages

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides enhanced controls for redacting personal identifiable information

Amazon Connect now allows contact center managers to join ongoing calls

Amazon Connect now supports Edge Chromium

Amazon Kendra releases ServiceNow Connector to index and search ServiceNow documents

Amazon Kendra releases Salesforce Connector for easy and accurate content search in Salesforce

Topic || Database

Backtrack Support for Aurora MySQL Version 3 (Compatible with MySQL 8.0) is generally available

Amazon Neptune announces graph-explorer, an open-source visual exploration tool for low-code users

Amazon Neptune Workbench now supports JupyterLab 3 notebooks

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Custom Engine Version to improve resiliency of customizations

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports enabling encryption in transit on existing clusters

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

Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

ROSA now provides an AWS Management Console experience for satisfying ROSA prerequisites

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine adds support for Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) messaging format

AWS IoT Device Client V1.8 now available through Elastic Container Registry with enhanced functionality

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Translate doubles its synchronous real-time text translation limits to 10,000 bytes

Enable RStudio on Amazon SageMaker support on your existing SageMaker Studio domains

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports 30x higher limits for categorical hyperparameters

Better reproducibility with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning

Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 2 new languages: Swedish and Vietnamese

Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of content moderation for images

Amazon Rekognition adds labels and improves accuracy of existing labels for video

Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models, is now available

Renate an open source python library for automatic model re-training

Announcing label feedback API for Amazon Lookout for Equipment

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS App Runner now supports retrieving secrets and configuration from AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager

Application Auto Scaling now offers better visibility into scaling decisions

Amazon CloudWatch Logs removes Log Stream transaction quota and SequenceToken requirement

AWS Config now supports 13 new resource types

Specify validation checks for CommaDelimitedList parameter with AWS CloudFormation

AWS Organizations console adds support to centrally manage region opt-in settings on AWS accounts

AWS License Manager now supports commercial Linux subscriptions discovery and governance

Announcing AWS Systems Manager widgets on AWS Console Home

AWS announces Systems Manager Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler

Amazon FinSpace web and data access events now available in AWS CloudTrail

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Transfer Family announces built-in PGP decryption for file uploads

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator adds support for importing virtual machine images

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces enables AWS Lambda aliases as service endpoints

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter Installer v1.21

Amazon CloudFront now supports the removal of response headers

Announcing firewall status message for AWS Network Firewall

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Security Hub launches 9 new security best practice controls

AWS Private Certificate Authority publishes Matter PKI Compliance Customer Guide

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects

AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies file share creation for Amazon S3 File Gateway