AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 695

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight now supports Client Credentials OAuth for Snowflake through API/CLI

Amazon QuickSight now supports Client Credentials OAuth for Starburst through API/CLI

Amazon OpenSearch Service launches next-gen UI for enhanced data exploration and collaboration

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports dedicated coordinator nodes

Express brokers for Amazon MSK is now generally available

Amazon MSK now supports vector embedding generation using Amazon Bedrock

New Kinesis Client Library 3.0 reduces stream processing compute costs by up to 33%

AWS announces CSV result format support for Amazon Redshift Data API

Announcing general availability of auto-copy for Amazon Redshift

AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI

Amazon Redshift now supports incremental refresh on Materialized Views (MVs) for data lake tables

Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless with AI-driven scaling and optimization

Amazon EMR 7.3 now provides enhanced protection for In-Transit data

Amazon DataZone now supports meaning-based Semantic search

Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee

Amazon DataZone expands data access with tools like Tableau, Power BI, and more

AWS Clean Rooms ML supports privacy-enhanced model training and inference

AWS Clean Rooms launches Spark SQL support with configurable compute size

Topic || Application Integration

AWS AppSync launches new serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now generally available

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model now available in Amazon Bedrock

Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available

Amazon Bedrock announces support for cost allocation tags on inference profiles

Six new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly

Amazon Q Business adds simplified setup and new web app experience

Amazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experience

Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances now support JupyterLab 4 notebooks

AWS Supply Chain now offers embedded Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight

Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression in AWS HealthImaging

Topic || Business Applications

Amazon WorkMail now supports multi-factor authentication

Topic || Compute

EC2 Auto Scaling introduces provisioning control on strict availability zone balance

AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2025 images on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports final validation time for instance refresh

Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support Apple macOS Sequoia

AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services

AWS Lambda announces JSON logging support for .NET managed runtime

AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit

AWS Lambda now supports AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon SES adds inline template support to send email APIs

Three enhancements for SES Mail Manager to improve interoperability, security, and compliance

Amazon Connect launches support for callbacks when using Chats and Tasks

Topic || Database

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available

Amazon Aurora supports rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions in October 2024

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2024 Release Update

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Data API for Aurora MySQL

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS CodePipeline open source starter templates for simplified getting started experience

AWS CodeBuild now supports additional compute types for reserved capacity

AWS CodeBuild now supports retrying builds automatically

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces WSP enables desktop traffic over TCP/UDP port 443

Topic || Front End Web & Mobile

Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting

Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps

Topic || Management and Governance

AWS Well-Architected adds enhanced implementation guidance

New Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring I/O latency of Amazon EBS volumes

Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time

Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time

Topic || Media Services

AWS Deadline Cloud now adds budget-related events

Topic || Migration and Modernization

Network connections is now discoverable with AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector

AWS DataSync increases performance and scalability for data transfers

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions

Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support

Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF

AWS announces UDP support for AWS PrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features

AWS Network Firewall now supports configurable TCP idle timeout

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security controls

Amazon Verified Permissions launches new API to get multiple policies

AWS Payment Cryptography now supports card issuing use cases