AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 572

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Athena releases data source connector for Google Cloud Storage

AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL now supports 5 new transforms

Amazon QuickSight launches Radar chart

Amazon QuickSight launches data bars for tables

Increased field limits and performance improvements for Pivot table in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon OpenSearch Service simplifies remote reindex for VPC domains

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon AppFlow announces 4 new data connectors

Amazon AppFlow announces 10 new connectors

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now offers a Windows client library

Topic || Compute

Announcing Porting Advisor for Graviton

AWS announces Credential Guard support for Windows instances on Amazon EC2

Announcing runtime management controls for AWS Lambda

Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support replacing root volumes for quick instance restoration

AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources

AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists to simplify routing policy management

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports optimized pricing estimation for EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro

Bottlerocket now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for instance management APIs

Topic || Database

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis Announces 99.99% Availability Service Level Agreement

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional cipher suites for OEM Agent and SSL option

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports new minor versions 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, and 10.23

Amazon RDS now supports increasing storage size when creating read replicas and restoring databases from snapshots

Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys for RDS PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS App Runner now supports HTTP 1.0 protocol

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine now supports batching of device logs while routing logs from IoT devices to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Topic || Machine Learning

SageMaker announces preview of ml.p4de instances for model deployment

Use your own training image in a private Docker registry with Amazon SageMaker

SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now adds three new completion criteria for tuning jobs

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now allows you to specify environment variables for your tuning jobs

Amazon Polly launches two new US English NTTS voices

Amazon Polly launches five new male NTTS voices

Amazon Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support

Amazon Personalize simplifies onboarding with data insights

AWS Panorama simplifies ordering of Panorama Appliances

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS AppConfig expands encryption capabilities, integrating with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS KMS

Announcing comprehensive controls management with AWS Control Tower

AWS Systems Manager announces integration of Automation with Change Calendar

AWS announces access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates in the AWS Pricing Calculator

AWS CloudFormation StackSets gives quick access to list of Regions for stack instances of a stack set

Amazon CloudWatch now simplifies metric extraction from structured logs

AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingestion of activity events from non-AWS sources

AWS Managed Services (AMS) customers can now change response for Config Rules

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaLive adds Dolby E audio decoding

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports timeline logs for Channel Assembly

AWS Elemental MediaLive adds timecode burn-in

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon increases NAT Gateway’s capacity to support concurrent connections to a unique destination

AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv6 CIDR blocks

Amazon Omics Supports PrivateLink & CloudFormation

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now manages IP Addresses in your network outside your AWS Organization

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Artifact on-demand access to third-party compliance reports is now generally available

Amazon Detective adds Amazon VPC Flow Logs visualizations for Amazon EKS workloads

Topic || Storage

AWS Snow Family now supports software updates on AWS Snowcone

AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20 and 22 operating systems

AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 for Amazon EC2 instances on Snow

AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces Pause I/O action for Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes