Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.
News
Finally in Sydney
AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and...
Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.
News
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
- Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
- Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
- Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)
Serverless
Lambda
- Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog
- The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design
- AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
Step Functions
- AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
- Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
EventBridge
- Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations
Containers
ECS
- Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
- AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me
- AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
EKS
- Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
- Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
- Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances
- Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter
- Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
Other
- AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog
EC2 & VPC
EC2
- Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
VPC
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction
- Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints
Dev & Ops
CICD
- AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account
- AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
- AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
- AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource
- AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
Other
- Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context
- Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16
- AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
Security
Security Hub
- AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
- AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
Config
- AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
- AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
WAF
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
- AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
- AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
Other
- AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
- IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog
- New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS
- AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
Data Storage & Processing
S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
- AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
Databases
- Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
- Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades
- Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas
- Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Other
- New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates
- AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
- AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points
- AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%
- Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
Other
- Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
- Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
- Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
- Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription
Other Cool Stuff
Regions
- AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services | AWS News Blog
Connect
- Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3
- Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting
- Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Other Services/Features
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog
- Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain
- Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
The Nanos
- AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen)
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel)
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