July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.
News
Finally in Sydney
Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
AWS D...
July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions
- Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
- AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9
- AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source
Amplify
- AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
- Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile
- AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
- AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
- AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple
- Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify
Other
- Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA
- Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
- AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs
Containers
- Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers
- Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
- Amazon EKS now supports Multus
- Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks
- AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries
- AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available
- AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes
- Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
EC2 & VPC
Instances
- Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes
- New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
- Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events
Auto Scaling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in
Other
- Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules
- Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
- AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
- AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints
- AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints
Dev & Ops
Dev Tooling
- EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images
- AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles
- Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions
- CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results
- AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions
- AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications
CDK/CloudFormation
- Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps
- AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support
- AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account
- You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
- Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity
- Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers
- AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances
Other
- AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics
Security
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall
- AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response
- AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates
- Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys
- AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption
- AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
- AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator
- AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning
- AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
Data Storage & Processing
- AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
- Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience
- Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2
- Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language
- Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
- Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog
- AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling
EBS
- AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
- Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation
- AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs
Athena
- Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security
- Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI
S3
- AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points
- Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point
- Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC
- Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control
Redshift
- Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile
- Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
- Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions
Glue
- AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring
- AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations
- AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets
- AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations
- AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables
Snow Family
- AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
- AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices
- AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
- AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
AI & ML
- Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers
- Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts
- Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector
- AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition
- Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more
- Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2
SageMaker
- Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies
- Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances
- Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions
- Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times
Kendra
- Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop
- Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search
- Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search
- Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector
Other Cool Stuff
IoT
- AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities
- AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available
- AWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregations
- Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise)
- Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3
The rest
- The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser
- AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance
- AWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policies
- AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
- Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available
- Introducing AWS for Health
- Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News Blog
- CloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHub
- Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics
- Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)
- Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019
- Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console
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