AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 679

Topic || AWS Marketplace

Simplify Your AWS Marketplace Catalog API (CAPI) Integration with Strongly-Typed API Schemas

Simplified service terms for AWS Marketplace sellers

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight improves controls performance

Amazon QuickSight launches a 20x higher limit for SPICE JOIN

AWS Glue Data catalog now supports generating statistics for Apache Iceberg tables

AWS Glue Studio now offers a no code data preparation authoring experience

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless levels up speed and efficiency with smart caching

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Natural Language Query Generation for log analysis

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 30TB

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now supports AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.9

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Announcing AWS App Studio preview

Chatting about your AWS resources is now generally available for Amazon Q Developer

Announcing IDE workspace context awareness in Q Developer chat

Customize Amazon Q Developer code recommendations, and receive chat responses in the IDE

AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer is now available in SageMaker Studio

Announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Apps

Amazon Q introduces support for scanned PDFs and embedded images in PDF documents

Amazon Q Business now provides responses that are personalized to users

Productionize Fine-tuned Foundation Models from SageMaker Canvas

Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations & safeguard apps using any FM

Agents for Amazon Bedrock now support code interpretation

Agents for Amazon Bedrock now retain memory

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports advanced RAG capabilities

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data sources

Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management and Prompt Flows now available in preview

Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock

Announcing Playlist page for PartyRock

Amazon SageMaker introduces a new generative AI inference optimization capability

AWS Neuron introduces Flash Attention kernel enabling high performance and large sequence lengths

Announcing expanded DICOMweb retrievals with AWS HealthImaging

Topic || Compute

AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions that use the ARM64 architecture

Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications

AWS Batch now supports gang-scheduling on Amazon EKS using multi-node parallel jobs

Amazon ECS now provides enhanced stopped task error messages for easier troubleshooting

Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches search API for hierarchy groups

Amazon Connect launches search API for agent status

Topic || Database

AWS announces the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports password policies for SQL Server logins

New open-source Advanced MYSQL ODBC Driver now available for Amazon Aurora and RDS

Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in 8 additional regions

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Long-Term Support version 11.4 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU27

RDS Performance Insights provides support for AWS PrivateLink and IPv6

Announcing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source

Topic || Developer Tools

Announcing the July 2024 updates to Amazon Corretto

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Control Tower customization frameworks are available in opt-in regions

AWS License Manager now integrates with Red Hat Subscription Manager

AWS Cloud Control API now supports IPv6

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental MediaConnect supports individual output stopping capability

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Artifact now supports enhanced search capability for reports

AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers

AWS Secrets Manager announces open source release of Secrets Manager Agent

AWS Security Hub launches 24 new security controls

AWS Private CA now supports ARM architecture in Kubernetes

Topic || Storage

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in backup policies

Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports NVMe-over-TCP for simpler, lower-latency shared block storage

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now allows you to read data during backup restores

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS introduces a highly available Single-AZ deployment option

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail