AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 634

Topic || Analytics

Amazon DataZone is now generally available

Amazon EMR on EKS Interactive Endpoints is now generally available

Generative BI dashboard authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight adds total positioning options for pivot table

Amazon QuickSight now supports running queries as an IAM role for Redshift data sources

Amazon QuickSight announces predictive analytics using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Glue now supports GitLab, BitBucket in its Git integration feature

AWS Glue Data Quality is now generally available in AWS GovCloud

AWS announces Search Pipelines for OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch Service announced Amazon OpenSearch Service Integrations

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.9

Amazon OpenSearch Service version 2.9 expands geospatial aggregations support

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports alerting and anomalies on dashboards

Topic || Application Integration

AWS Step Functions launches Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless

Amazon EventBridge announces support for wildcard filters in rules

AWS Health now aggregates Health events in your organization to Amazon EventBridge

Announcing Amazon SQS binding extension support in CoreWCF

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

Topic || Compute

Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC

Lambda test events are now available in AWS SAM CLI

Amazon EC2 now supports setting AMIs to a disabled state

Announcing memory optimized Amazon EC2 R7a bare metal instances

Announcing compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances

New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes

Amazon Linux announces support for Ansible and Corretto 21 with AL2023.2

Amazon EKS Extended support for Kubernetes Versions now available in preview

Amazon ECR Public introduces new navigation and search features to the ECR Public Gallery

Amazon EC2 Hibernate now supports more operating systems

Amazon EMR on EKS Interactive Endpoints is now generally available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now supports multiple out-of-the-box chat widgets per instance

Amazon Connect launches new contact and agent metrics in the API

Amazon Connect enhances API for accessing historical agent and contact metrics

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides manager alerts on real-time metrics

Topic || Database

Announcing pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector v0.5.0 with HNSW indexing

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB supports M6in, M6idn, R6in, R6idn database instances

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodeDeploy now supports multiple load balancers for Amazon EC2 applications

AWS launches more encryption options for AWS AppConfig feature flags

AWS App Runner adds support for Monorepos

AWS App Runner launches improvements for using custom domains

New features for cdk8s include synthesize and import Helm charts and resolve cloud tokens

Topic || End User Computing

AWS WorkSpaces now provides bundle selection guidance in AWS console

Amazon WorkSpaces Services expand Microsoft productivity apps offerings

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify’s GraphQL API capabilities now available as AWS CDK construct

Amazon Location Service adds bounding box search for device positions

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT Device Management announces general availability of Software Package Catalog

Topic || Machine Learning

Amazon Titan Embeddings is now generally available

Deploy ML models built in SageMaker Canvas to SageMaker real-time endpoints

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands content summarization and information extraction capabilities

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands its support for ready-to-use models to include foundation models

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store in-memory online store for low latency feature retrieval

Amazon SageMaker Model Registry announces support for private model repositories

Enhance accuracy of pre-trained Rekognition moderation model with Custom Moderation

Amazon Textract launches Custom Queries to improve information extraction for business-specific documents

Amazon Kendra releases Drupal Connector to enable Drupal document search

Topic || Management and Governance

Announcing ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances in an organization

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

AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports SAP HANA

New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes

Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud console

AWS Control Tower releases 22 proactive controls and 12 AWS Security Hub Detective controls

New updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Reduce duplication using Well-Architected Templates

Topic || Media Services

Amazon IVS introduces in-console broadcasting for low-latency streaming

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports ad break discovery in Channel Assembly

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports video source replacement

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities

Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer now support registering instances addressed by IPv6 as targets

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Verified Access now supports customer managed KMS keys

Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data

Topic || Supply Chain

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning now supports Product Lineage