AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 684

Topic || Analytics

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Application Master placement aware

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances

Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards

Topic || Application Integration

Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides higher default service quotas

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-region inference

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B

Amazon Bedrock offers select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock supports Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Amazon Personalize enhances automatic solution training

Amazon SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse names of previously deleted Projects

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports data flows import, and faster data prep for ML

Polly Voices for two new locales: Czechia and Switzerland

Amazon Q Business launches IAM federation for user identity authentication

Amazon Q now provides more details about user subscriptions and associated resources

Topic || Compute

Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service

Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes

AWS Lambda announces support for encryption of filter criteria for event source mappings

AWS Lambda now supports function-level configuration for recursive loop detection

Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.08 now available

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect provides new ways to configure callbacks

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides an audit trail for changes to an agent performance evaluation

Topic || Database

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Failover

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Switchover

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240808

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240808

Topic || Developer Tools

Amazon Location Service announces Migration SDK

Topic || End User Computing

AWS announces support for Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify introduces new function capabilities with scheduled cron jobs and streaming logs

AWS Amplify introduces multiple bucket support for Storage

Topic || Internet of Things

AWS IoT SiteWise models now support versioning

Topic || Management and Governance

Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts

AWS AppConfig now provides deletion protection for additional guardrails

CloudFormation simplifies resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator

AWS Systems Manager for SAP console integration for application aware stop and start of SAP

AWS announces a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App

Topic || Media Services

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Windows Server 2022 in service-managed fleets

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks

AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location

AWS Identity and Access Management now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial Regions

Topic || Quantum Technologies

Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti’s 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits

AWS CloudHSM launches new hsm2m.medium instance type

AWS Security Hub launches 8 new security controls

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes

Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages

AWS Backup extends support for Cross-Region backup with Amazon Neptune

AWS Backup adds cross-Region, cross-account copy for SAP HANA on Amazon EC2