What’s New in August 2020

Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano

The News Finally in Sydney

• Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions
• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions

Serverless Lambda

• AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings
• AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2
• AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)
• AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2
• AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source
• AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs

API Gateway

• Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names
• API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
• Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs

Step Functions

• AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing
• AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing

Amplify

• Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS
• Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview

Containers Fargate

• AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
• AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans
• Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems

ECS

• Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type
• AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration
• Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI

EKS

• Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
• Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
• Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available
• Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview
• Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2

Other

• AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration

EC2 & VPC

• Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API
• Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation
• AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
• Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability

Dev & Ops

• CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support
• EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally
• AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints
• Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor
• AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases
• AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support

Security

• New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog
• Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
• AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing
• AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers

Storage and Databases

• New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog
• Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
• AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration
• AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows
• Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench
• Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads
• Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster
• AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019

AI & ML

• AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
• Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
• Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability

Other Cool Stuff

• Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket
• AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region
• AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options
• Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area
• Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
• Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
• Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call
• Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer
• AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics
• Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list
• Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization
• Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice
• Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB

The Nano Candidates

• Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
• AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
• Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls

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