Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.
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News
Finally in Sydney
AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now...
Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.
Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter.
News
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
- Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions
Serverless
- Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview
- Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
- Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)
- Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview)
- Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type
- AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)
Lambda
- AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source
- AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
- AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events
Step Functions
- AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amplify
- Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
- AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK
- AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation
- AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue
- AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines
- AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)
- AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly
Containers
Fargate
- Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
ECS
- Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information
- Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
- Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project
- Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
EKS
- Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter
- Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation
- Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available
- AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available
- AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace
Other
- Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories
- AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images
EC2 & VPC
Instances
- New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
- Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances
- Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
- Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes
- Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey
- Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
- Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022
- Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types
- Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
- Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program
- Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances
- AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendations
- AWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metrics
Networking
- AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
- Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
- AWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivity
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWS
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network access
- Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview
- Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
Other
- Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin
- Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%
- Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers
- Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase
- Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing
- AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2
- AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics
Dev & Ops
New services
- Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News Blog
- Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
- Announcing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview
- Announcing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon Aurora
- Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)
- Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance
IaC
- AWS announces Construct Hub general availability
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally available
- You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
- You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets
- AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions
SDKs
- AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)
- AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)
- AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)
CICD
- AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning
- AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates
- AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline
Other
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories
- EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units
- Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced
- Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations
- AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.
- AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC
- Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions
- Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches
- New – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News Blog
- Introducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET
Security
- AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account
- AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights
- AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management
- Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)
- AWS WAF adds support for Captcha
- AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation
Security Hub
- AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs
- AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners
SSO
- Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On
- Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On
- AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows
- AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting
Control Tower
- AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails
- AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units
- AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements
- Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower
- AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization
Data Storage & Processing
Databases
Relational databases
- Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
- New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
- Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots
- Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0
- Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts
Athena
- Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans
- Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query
- New and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally available
- Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features
- Announcing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)
Redshift
- Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling
- Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks
- Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM role
- Announcing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)
- Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2
Neptune
- Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune
- AWS releases open source JDBC driver to connect to Amazon Neptune
MemoryDB
- Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free Trial
Database Migration Service
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a source
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source
- Introducing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor for automated discovery and analysis of database and analytics workloads (Preview)
- AWS Database Migration Service now offers a new console experience, AWS DMS Studio
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism
Other
- Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances
- Amazon Timestream now offers faster and more cost-effective time series data processing through scheduled queries, multi-measure records, and magnetic storage writes
- Amazon DynamoDB announces the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class, which helps you reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60 percent
- Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances
S3
- Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applications
- Amazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filters
- Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval
- Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now free
- Announcing the new S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access tier - Automatically save up to 68% on storage costs
- Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications faster
- Amazon S3 console now reports security warnings, errors, and suggestions from IAM Access Analyzer as you author your S3 policies
- Amazon S3 adds new S3 Event Notifications for S3 Lifecycle, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, object tags, and object access control lists
Glue
- AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow
- AWS Glue DataBrew now supports custom SQL statements to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift and Snowflake
- AWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to create data quality rules to define and validate their business requirements
FSx
- Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
- Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file system
- Amazon FSx for Lustre can now automatically update file system contents as data is deleted and moved in Amazon S3
- Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems
Backup
- Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
- AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune
- AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
- AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies
- AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads
Other
- AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink
- AWS Transfer Family adds identity provider options and enhanced monitoring capabilities
- Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio
- AWS Snow Family now supports external NTP server configuration
- Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
- Now execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR Studio
- AWS Snow Family launches offline tape data migration capability
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas - a visual, no-code interface to build accurate machine learning models
- Announcing Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio
- Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume
- Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints
- Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker Clarify
- Amazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage querying
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: Create high-quality training datasets without having to build labeling applications or manage the labeling workforce on your own
- Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML service
- Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables interactive data preparation and machine learning at scale within a single universal notebook through built-in integration with Amazon EMR
Other
- General Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization
- Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption
- Amazon Kendra releases AWS Single Sign-On integration for secure search
- Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
- AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions
- Introducing Amazon Lex Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview)
- Amazon Kendra launches Experience Builder, Search Analytics Dashboard, and Custom Document Enrichment
Other Cool Stuff
- In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region | AWS News Blog
- Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials
- AWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account management
- Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming
- Amazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API request
- Announcing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management Console
- Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp
- Announcing preview of AWS Private 5G
- AWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form Factors
- Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization - Preview
- Introducing the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency
- Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIs
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web
- Amazon SQS Enhances Dead-letter Queue Management Experience For Standard Queues
- Introducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers service
- AWS Resource Access Manager enables support for global resource types
- AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview
- Announcing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for running hybrid quantum-classical workloads on Amazon Braket
- Introducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces - Preview
Well-Architected Framework
- Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses
- New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework
IoT
- Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview
- AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Microsoft Windows devices
- AWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpoint
- Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficiently
- Announcing AWS IoT TwinMaker (Preview), a service that makes it easier to build digital twins
- AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data
- New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)
- AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources (Preview)
Connect
- Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows
- Amazon Connect launches scheduled tasks
- Amazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmatically
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure security profiles programmatically
- Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows
- Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic
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