AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 630

Topic || Analytics

Generative BI dashboard authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight launches contextual row subtotals for pivot tables

QuickSight now supports tagging users for cost allocation

Amazon QuickSight now supports freeze/unfreeze columns in Tables

Amazon QuickSight adds new layout and sparkline to KPI visual

Amazon Redshift announces role-based access control support in workload management

Amazon MSK now supports fully managed data delivery to Amazon S3 using Kinesis Data Firehose

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.5.1

Amazon EMR Serverless introduces application-wide default job configurations

AWS Lake Formation launches Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue Studio now supports custom icons

AWS Glue Data Quality can now identify records that failed the CustomSQL rule type

AWS Glue Interactive Sessions releases new kernel and support IAM Conditionals

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides improved visibility into Auto-Tune actions

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon SNS message data protection can now de-identify outbound messages via redaction or masking

Amazon SNS now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions

Amazon SQS announces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for scalable access permissions

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11.20

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings

Amazon Chime SDK now provides improved audio playback across high-loss networks

Amazon Chime SDK now supports sending WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Topic || Compute

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances for macOS

Simulate interruptions in your Spot Fleet directly from the Amazon EC2 Console

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 new EC2 instance types as well as multi-attached EBS volumes

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.28

AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches permission for agents to view their own contacts

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables supervisors to manage in-progress contacts

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports searching for in-progress contacts

Amazon Connect launches CloudFormation support for security profiles

Topic || Database

DynamoDB global tables is now available in all AWS Regions

Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports changing the server-level collation

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports JSON schema validation

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade

You can now generate human-readable sample data with NoSQL Workbench

Topic || Developer Tools

Announcing Swift Package Manager support in AWS CodeArtifact

Amazon Corretto 21 is now generally available

AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources

AWS Cloud Map introduces new API for retrieving service revision

AWS App Runner launches improvements for Auto-Scaling configuration management

AWS App Runner adds support for Monorepos

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Amazon Location Services announces a price reduction of up to 75% for tracking and geofencing

Announcing AWS Amplify JavaScript v6 developer preview

Topic || Game Tech

Announcing the Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces support for public LoRaWAN networks

AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine announces capability to retrieve source IP of an IoT client

AWS IoT Core introduces support for headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Bedrock is now generally available

Amazon Titan Embeddings is now generally available

Announcing model retraining for Amazon Lookout for Equipment

Amazon Textract launches Layout feature to extract paragraphs, titles, and more from documents

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides up to 50% faster forecasting

Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports one-time monitoring jobs for quick troubleshooting

Topic || Management and Governance

Usability improvements and navigation bar enhancements for the AWS Management Console

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager RDP now supports up to 1080p Resolution

Analyze multi-account app health with CloudWatch Application Insights

AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter identifies the most issue-prone resources

Amazon CloudWatch adds new Metric Math for RDS Performance Insights

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs

AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated agent installation

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket now provides real-time visibility into quantum task and hybrid job queues

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data

AWS WAF now supports JA3 Fingerprint Match

IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper now supports PKCS #11 modules

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 now provides the Last-Modified time for delete markers using S3 Head and Get APIs