AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 682

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace launches new seller data feed to report customer agreements

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight launches Customer Managed Key Encryption (CMK) for Data Source Information

Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters

Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports query import

Large language models powered by Amazon Sagemaker Jumpstart available in Redshift ML

Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR 7.2 now supports Apache Spark 3.5.1

AWS Glue Data Catalog views are now GA with Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift

AWS Glue announces GA of new ML-powered Glue Data Quality capability

Amazon DataZone launches domain units and authorization policies

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Blueprints simplify agent-based automation on Amazon Bedrock

Introducing Titan Image Generator v2 now available on Amazon Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku now available in more regions

SageMaker Canvas unlocks no-code ML and data preparation at petabyte-scale

AWS HealthOmics now supports DSL and Nextflow version detection

Topic || Compute

New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances

Amazon ECS provides the ability to restart containers without requiring a task relaunch

New version of Amazon ECR basic scanning is now generally available

Announcing a larger Windows instance bundle for Amazon Lightsail

AWS Batch adds support for cancelling queued jobs

Announcing Karpenter 1.0

Topic || Cost Management

Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub

AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect now provides an API to update routing criteria on a queued contact

Topic || Database

Amazon Neptune now introduces support for PropertyGraphStore in Neptune to build more reliable GraphRAG applications

Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF Graphs

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, 2019 GDR, 2022 GDR

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.39

Amazon RDS for Db2 supports loading data from Amazon S3

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19

Announcing pgvector 0.7.0 support in Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment

Announcing Terraform support Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Deployments

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodeBuild now supports using GitHub Apps to access source repositories

AWS CodeBuild now supports multiple access tokens via AWS Secrets Manager

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now supports Amazon WorkSpaces Pools

Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP for Windows

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Control Tower launches landing zone version selection

AWS Control Tower releases 2 new descriptive control APIs

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor enhances dashboard and traffic suggestions

AWS Config expands support for 124 resource types across 29 AWS Regions

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Amazon Bedrock

Announcing AWS Support Official channel on AWS re:Post

AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile App

Topic || Migration and Modernization

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device offers lower capacity pricing option

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets

Topic || Satellite

Digital twin is now generally available for AWS Ground Station

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to detect additional risks and to cover custom authentication flows

Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to disallow password reuse and stream security events

Topic || Storage

Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput