What’s New in April 2020

A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music.

The News Finally in Sydney

• Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
• AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
• AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions
• EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions
• Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions

Serverless

• Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney)
• Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway
• AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1
• The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions
• Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs
• AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available

Containers

• Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available
• AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh
• Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles
• Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking

Databases

• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available
• Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12
• Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces)
• Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type

Dev & Ops

• AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available
• Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack
• EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC

Security

• Amazon Detective is now generally available
• Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization
• Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple
• Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules
• AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard

VPC & EC2

• Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms
• New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available

AI & ML

• AWS DeepComposer is now generally available
• Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions
• Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework
• Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files
• Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items

Other Cool Stuff

• You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations
• Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
• AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone
• Introducing AWS Cost Categories
• Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available
• Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
• Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020
• Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF
• Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots
• Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions
• AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance
• AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM
• Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices

Other links

• AWS DeepComposer - Oasis - Wonderwall - Experiment #001 by The Dirk
• I Think Breath Noise is an Interesting One | Ambassador Lounge Podcast Episode #4
• AWS Inside the Region | ig.nore.me 

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