A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
News Finally in Sydney * Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions * Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Serverless Lambda * AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account * AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
Step Functions * Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog * AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
Amplify * Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify * AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage
Other * Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog
Containers * Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket * AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers * Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers * Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS * Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads * AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service * AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets * AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
EC2 & VPC * New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog * Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units * Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS * Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags * Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs * AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment * AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances * Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files * Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3 * New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog * Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases
Dev & Ops CLI * AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog * Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
CodeGuru * Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer * Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit * Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features
IaC * AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control * AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
Other * NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models * Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates * Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter * AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions * AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
Security Firewalls * AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs * AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
Backups * AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports * AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock
Other * AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture * Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys * AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements
Data Storage & Processing * Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog * Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project * Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle * AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD * Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0 * Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication * Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console * AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls * Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled * Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas * AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications * Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings * New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
AI & ML SageMaker * Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker * Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates * Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys
Other * Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages * Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets * AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions * Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection * Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription * Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing * Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models
Other Cool Stuff * AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration * AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies * VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog * AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring * Amazon Monitron launches iOS app * Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing * Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards * Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities * Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers * Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog * Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically * New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift
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