AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 574

Topic || Analytics

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless

Amazon MQ adds AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) support for RabbitMQ brokers

Amazon EventBridge event buses supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas

Amazon SNS now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing to visualize, analyze, and debug application performance

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime SDK now offers a Windows client library

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports instance refresh for standby and scale-in protected EC2 instances

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support automated maintenance on rare degradation

ENA Express now supports 15 new EC2 Instances

Introducing Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g Instances

Amazon EC2 C7g metal instances are now available

Amazon Elastic Container Service improves accuracy of Service Load Balancing

AWS launches AWS SAM connectors as a resource parameter

AWS Lambda launches new CloudWatch metrics for asynchronous invocations

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 announces AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) for U.S. Department of Defense customers

AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation and SAP S/4HANA 2022

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches granular access controls for real-time metrics

Amazon Pinpoint now supports SMS and voice spending metrics in Amazon CloudWatch

Topic || Database

AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions

Announcing enhanced I/O multiplexing for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2023 Release Updates (RU) for 19c and 21c

Database Activity Streams now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports tcn extension

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.41 and 8.0.32

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports seg extension

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

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon SNS now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing to visualize, analyze, and debug application performance

Announcing the general availability of the AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

Topic || End User Computing

Workspot announces Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift expands SDK support to Go and .NET 6

Amazon GameLift now supports publishing events to encrypted Amazon SNS topics

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

Announcing Network of Bots for Amazon Lex

Amazon Fraud Detector(AFD) launched AFD-Lists to optimize fraud prevention strategies

Amazon Fraud Detector introduces Cold Start model training for customers with limited historical data

Amazon Polly launches two new Japanese NTTS voices

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

Topic || Management and Governance

Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account

AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports a more flexible way of approving change requests

AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now provides a more comprehensive calendar view of operational events

Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts

Amazon CloudWatch announces increased quotas for Logs Insights

Request tracing for customizations now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform

Amazon Cognito identity pool data events are now available in AWS CloudTrail

AWS Config now supports 20 new resource types

AWS Control Tower provides updates to access logging and exceptions to more global services for Region Deny

AWS CloudFormation announces spotlight for latest news on CloudFormation features, blogs, and workshops

AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports CloudFormation

Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs

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

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

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports network access control

AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions

Topic || Media Services

Amazon CloudFront now supports OAC with Elemental MediaStore origins

AWS Elemental MediaConnect expands support for event notifications in Amazon EventBridge

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports fast schedule updates in Channel Assembly

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon VPC Announces General Availability of Resource Map in AWS Management Console

AWS Cloud Map increases default limit

AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS WAF Captcha adds support for ten additional languages

AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Protection now allows inspection of origin responses

Announcing increased AWS Resource Access Manager default quota values