AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 670

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Amazon RDS for Db2 introduces hourly licensing from IBM through AWS Marketplace

Announcing an improved private offer experience for AWS Marketplace sellers

Topic || Analytics

Connect your Jupyter notebooks to Amazon EMR Serverless using Apache Livy endpoints

Introducing the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector for Amazon EMR

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail

Amazon QuickSight launches public API for SPICE CMK Data Encryption

Amazon Redshift announces Snapshot Isolation as the default for new cluster creates and restores

AWS Glue now supports native SaaS connectivity: Salesforce connector available now

Amazon QuickSight now supports GetClusterCredentialswithIAM for Redshift Data Sources

Amazon MSK now supports the removal of brokers from MSK provisioned clusters

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.13

Amazon OpenSearch Service releases cross cluster alerting monitors

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion launches new user interface for easy blueprint discovery

AWS Entity Resolution expands support for customer compliance with ISO and SOC

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports improved filtering capabilities for event matching

Amazon EventBridge now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Event Buses

Amazon MWAA now available in additional Regions

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of alert manager and rules configuration

Amazon MWAA now supports Airflow REST API with web server auto scaling

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now lets you configure Guardrails

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now lets you configure inference parameters

AWS HealthImaging now supports retrieval of DICOM Part 10 instances

AWS HealthImaging supports cross account data imports

Topic || Compute

Bottlerocket now supports NVIDIA Fabric Manager for Multi-GPU Workloads

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.30

AWS Lambda console now supports sharing test events between developers in additional regions

Amazon Lightsail supports easy switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only instance bundles

Amazon EKS announces native support for autoscaling CoreDNS Pods

Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances

Topic || Cost Management

AWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console Access

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES launches Mail Manager to help manage complex inbound and outbound email workloads

Amazon Connect now supports creating rules for monitoring and alerting on Flow metrics

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides analytics for Flows and Flow Modules

Topic || Database

New open-source AWS Advanced Python Wrapper driver now available for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS Extended Support APIs are now available

Announcing LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune to build GraphRAG applications

RDS Performance Insights provides fine grained access control

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240408

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240418

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodeBuild now supports connecting to an Amazon VPC from reserved capacity

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now called Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser

Amazon WorkSpaces Core now supports Windows Server bundles

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Control Tower improves control operations at scale

AWS Chatbot now supports tagging of AWS Chatbot resources

AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack API

AWS CloudFormation streamlines deployment troubleshooting with AWS CloudTrail integration

AWS Resource Explorer now provides filtering on resources that support tags

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports Grafana version 10.4

Topic || Migration and Transfer

Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service support for S3 Parquet as a source

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients

Amazon VPC Lattice now supports TLS Passthrough

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs extends support for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon EBS direct APIs now support VPC endpoint policies

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket adds new quantum processor from IQM in Europe (Stockholm) Region

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Security Lake now supports logs from AWS WAF

Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for Cognito tokens

Amazon Detective adds support for EKS audit logs in Security Lake integration

Topic || UNCLASSIFIED