AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 666

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight launches cross sheet filters and controls

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Livy

Amazon Athena announces federated query pass-through

Stream data into Snowflake using Amazon Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming

Amazon MWAA adds larger environment sizes

Restore running applications to pre-update state in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Topic || Business Applications

AWS AppFabric now supports SentinelOne Singularity Cloud

AWS AppFabric now supports 1Password

Topic || Compute

AWS launches Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS

CloudWatch Container Insights now announces Accelerated Compute Observability on EKS

Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance types

AWS SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0 now available

Amazon Corretto April, 2024 quarterly updates

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP language analyzers

Topic || Database

Announcing Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB launches a revamped operation builder user interface

Local time zone support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides execution plan for RDS SQL Server

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports client authentication hook for Trusted Language Extensions

Topic || Developer Tools

Introducing the AWS PDK blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst

Amazon CodeCatalyst adds task breakdown assistance for issues assigned to Amazon Q

Workflow approvals for Amazon CodeCatalyst

AWS CodePipeline supports stage level manual and automated rollback

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action runners

Topic || End User Computing

Announcing two new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Amazon WorkSpaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management

Topic || Game Tech

Amazon GameLift now includes containers support

Topic || Machine Learning

Model evaluation on Amazon Bedrock is now Generally Available

Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock is generally available with new safety & privacy controls

Amazon Bedrock Agents simplifies agent creation and launches Return of Control capability

Amazon Titan Image Generator model in Amazon Bedrock now generally available

Watermark detection for Amazon Titan Image Generator now available in Amazon Bedrock

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now simplifies asking questions on a single document

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports multiple data sources

Custom Model Import for Amazon Bedrock

Agents for Amazon Bedrock add support for Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model now available on Amazon Bedrock

Meta Llama 3 now available in Amazon Bedrock

Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS

AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support

Amazon SageMaker Clarify now supports foundation model evaluations

Amazon QuickSight launches cross sheet filters and controls

Amazon SageMaker enables Projects in SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks support interactive data exploration and SQL query execution

Amazon Personalize now offers automatic solution training

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets now offer enhanced change visibility for deployments

Monitor internet outage using the weather map in CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira

Topic || Migration and Transfer

AWS DataSync supports disabling task schedules

AWS Transfer Family now lists files from remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors

AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces advanced configurations for runtime environments

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Introducing Amazon Route 53 Profiles

Network Load Balancer now supports Resource Map in AWS Management Console

AWS Direct Connect adds 25 Gbps hosted connection capacities

AWS supports dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 are now Generally Available

IAM Roles Anywhere now supports modifying the mapping of certificate attributes

Announcing Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in AWS Artifact

Topic || Storage

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies now supports AWS Organizations