AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 610

Topic || Analytics

AWS announces open sourced Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark

Amazon EMR Serverless adds API support for Application UIs

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role

Introducing custom query and template capabilities for AWS Clean Rooms

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds schedule deletion after completion

Amazon SQS announces increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput mode

Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11 and new operator policies

Amazon MQ now supports customer managed configuration for RabbitMQ brokers

Topic || Blockchain

Access and Query are now generally available for Amazon Managed Blockchain

Topic || Compute

Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances

Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances

Amazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instance

Amazon EC2 VT1 now supports improved control of stream quality, latency and bandwidth

AWS Batch now supports price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances

AWS Batch on AWS Fargate now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Console

Announcing additional Ephemeral Storage for EKS Fargate

Amazon EKS makes it easier to configure and use Amazon EFS for persistent shared file storage

Announcing Amazon ECS templates for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Blueprints

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11

Amazon ECS console now has enhanced support for task definition workflows

AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports custom container images and new clock

AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports multiple spatial domains per simulation

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect scheduling now offers automated flexible days scheduling

Amazon Connect now supports flow-only attributes

Amazon Connect now supports custom flow block titles

Amazon Connect now offers automatic activity scheduling based on shift duration

Amazon Connect scheduling agent time-off balance and group allowance support

Amazon Connect launches flows UI toolbar and ability to add notes

Amazon Connect now supports archiving and deleting flows from the UI

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution

Topic || Database

Amazon RDS simplifies connectivity between an RDS or Aurora database and AWS Lambda

Amazon Aurora supports Local Write Forwarding for Amazon Aurora MySQL

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.04 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.28) is generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL 2.12 (compatible with MySQL 5.7.40) is generally available

Amazon Aurora now supports automatic backup of deleted clusters

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring

RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports replicas for Single-tenant instances

Amazon ElastiCache now supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU21

Amazon RDS now has a progress indicator for the storage optimization process

AWS Database Encryption SDK for Amazon DynamoDB now generally available

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Application Composer updates: Undo and Redo, Export Canvas, and Local Sync Mode

Amazon CodeCatalyst supports deployments to Elastic Kubernetes Service

Topic || End User Computing

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise now available on Amazon WorkSpaces services

AWS Wickr offers federated data retention for internal and external conversations

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify Introduces CloudWatch Logger feature for Swift and Android

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift expands SDK support for Unity based game developers

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core announces new certificate signing & key generation algorithms

Topic || Machine Learning

Announcing support for ml.p5 instances for Amazon SageMaker Model Training

Amazon SageMaker announces a new direct integration with Salesforce Data Cloud

SageMaker Studio announces pre-built docker ‘SageMaker Distribution’ for machine learning

SDXL 1.0 foundation model from Stability AI now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon Translate enables language detection for real time document translation

Amazon Polly launches new Belgian French female voice Isabelle

Claude 2 foundation model from Anthropic is now available in Amazon Bedrock

Announcing AWS HealthScribe

Topic || Management and Governance

Accelerate your CloudFormation authoring experience with looping function

AWS CloudFormation enhances deletion policies to accelerate dev-test cycle

AWS Config now supports 19 new resource types

Instance refresh now supports rollbacks triggered by CloudWatch alarms

Customizable thresholds for health events supported on Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

AWS Resilience Hub announces application resilience drift detection

AWS enables the invoice balance due information and invoice amount on Billing Console

Topic || Media Services

Announcing the release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Database Migration Service enhanced homogeneous migrations now supports MariaDB

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge

AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager

Amazon VPC now supports primary IPv6 address on an elastic network interface

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager now publishes IP Address utilization metrics for AWS resources

Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Inspector adds enhanced vulnerability intelligence to its findings

Topic || Storage

Amazon EFS now supports up to 55,000 IOPS per file system

Improved AWS Backup performance for Amazon S3 buckets