A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
News
Finally in Sydney
Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Lambda
AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different...
A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
- Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
- AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
Step Functions
- Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
- AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
Amplify
- Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
- AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage
Other
- Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog
Containers
- Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
- AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
- Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
- Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
- Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
- AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
- AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
EC2 & VPC
- New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
- Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
- Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
- New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases
Dev & Ops
CLI
- AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
- Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
CodeGuru
- Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
- Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features
IaC
- AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
- AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
Other
- NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
- Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
- Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
Security
Firewalls
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
- AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
Backups
- AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
- AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock
Other
- AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
- Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys
- AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements
Data Storage & Processing
- Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog
- Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project
- Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
- AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
- Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console
- AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
- Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
- Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
- AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
- New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates
- Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys
Other
- Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
- Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
- AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
- Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
- Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
- Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
- Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models
Other Cool Stuff
- AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration
- AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
- VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog
- AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
- Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
- Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
- Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
- Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities
- Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
- Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
- New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift
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