What’s New in January 2022

In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

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News Finally in Sydney

• Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions
• Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions
• AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions
• AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Australia

Serverless

• AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) - Old announcement mentioned in show
• Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
• AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources

Containers

• Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking | AWS News Blog
• EBS CSI driver now available in EKS add-ons in preview
• Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions
• ACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production ready
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
• Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
• Amazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloads

EC2 & VPC

• Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances
• New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing | AWS News Blog
• New – Amazon EC2 X2iezn Instances Powered by the Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU for Memory-Intensive Workloads
• Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
• Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
• AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures
• AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2
• Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect
• Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink

Dev & Ops

• Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account Subscriptions
• AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containers
• AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks

Security

• AWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secrets
• AWS announces phone number enrichments for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
• Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake
• AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
• Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)
• Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account
• Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration | AWS News Blog
• Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
• AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health
• AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub
• AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration

Data Storage & Processing Databases

• AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
• Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilities
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trial
• Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle

Glue

• Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)
• Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview)
• Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview)

EMR

• Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio
• Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio
• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging
• Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints
• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled

OpenSearch

• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1
• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical data
• Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains

Redshift

• Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules

Other

• New – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
• Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logs
• AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
• Amazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch

AI & ML SageMaker

• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control
• Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular Data
• Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
• Announcing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instances

Other

• Amazon Kendra launches support for query language
• Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
• Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
• AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business
• Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images

Other Cool Stuff

• Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News Blog
• Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console
• A New AWS Console Home Experience | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
• Amazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configuration
• Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
• Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases

IoT

• AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments
• AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
• AWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivity

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