AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 570

Topic || Infrastructure

Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Perth and Santiago

Topic || Analytics

AWS Clean Rooms is now available in preview

Amazon EMR Serverless introduces account-level vCPU-based service quota

Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud clusters launch up to 30% faster in private subnets with Amazon EMR

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces enhanced dry run for configuration changes

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now supports 250 webcam video streams

Topic || Compute

Validate AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) templates with CloudFormation Linter to speed up development

AWS Nitro Enclaves announces support for multiple enclaves

Amazon ECS announces the new default console experience

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now gives recommendations about activating predictive scaling policy

EC2 network performance metrics add support for ConnTrack Utilization metric

EC2 Image Builder adds Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks for security hardening of Amazon Machine Images

EC2 Image Builder can now include AWS Marketplace subscriptions in your custom Amazon Machine Images

AWS Lambda now supports Maximum Concurrency for Amazon SQS as an event source

Topic || Cost Management

AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions

Topic || Customer Engagement

Announcing Amazon Pinpoint Singapore Sender ID registration workflow

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS Optimized Reads is now available for up to 2X faster queries on Amazon RDS for MariaDB

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports enforcing SSL/TLS connections

Amazon RDS now supports new SSL/TLS certificates and certificate controls

Amazon RDS now supports restoring database snapshots from Multi-AZ with two readable standbys

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.17

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon Corretto January, 2023 Quarterly Updates

AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces increased quotas for target resources

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft Yammer Connector to enable messaging search

Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft Exchange Connector to enable email-messaging search

Amazon Kendra releases the Microsoft Teams Connector to enable Microsoft Teams messaging search

Amazon Kendra releases new Google Drive Connector to enable document indexing and search on Google Drive

Amazon Kendra releases S3 connector with VPC support to enable customers to index and search content from S3

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 3x faster ML model training time

Amazon Personalize launches new recipe “Trending-Now”

Amazon Personalize now supports tag based resource authorization

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account Metric Streams

Amazon CloudWatch announces enhanced error visibility for Embedded Metric Format

AWS Systems Manager announces Patch Policies, enabling cross account and cross Region patching

AWS AppConfig allows tracking of stale feature flags, improving code hygiene

AWS Config supports 22 new resource types

AWS CloudFormation enhances Fn::FindInMap language extension to support default values and additional intrinsic functions

Announcing SKU pricing rules for AWS Billing Conductor

AWS Resource Groups now emits lifecycle events

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift

Amazon CloudFront now supports the request header order and header count headers

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Network Firewall announces IPv6 support

Amazon Detective adds new AWS managed IAM policies to improve secure access for security analysts

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 File Gateway increases maximum file shares per gateway from 10 to 50

Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports DOS attributes

Amazon EFS Supports 1,000 Access Points per File System