After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.
As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks.
News Finally in ANZ * Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions * Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers * Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions * In the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News Blog
Serverless * AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog * Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry * AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands
Containers * Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog * Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News Blog * Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview * AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation * Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts * Amazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App Runner
EC2 & VPC Instances * Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together * New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News Blog * Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions * AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances * AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products * Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34 * AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2
VPC * IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server * Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list * Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News Blog * Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC * Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth * Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content Delivery
Other * AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection * Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Dev & Ops Dev * Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog * EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications * Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors * AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more * AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type * Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags * Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available * AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser
Ops * New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog * AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities * AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events * AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand * Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience * Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard
ADOT * New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)
Security * ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) * IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services * Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers
WAF * AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering * AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions * AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules
Detective * Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration * Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
Data Storage & Processing Opensearch * Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog * OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) * Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data * Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms * Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud Please
Databases * Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances * Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances * Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout * Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. * Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. * Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases * AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes * New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune * Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying * Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor
Storage * New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog * How to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog * AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com * Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News Blog * New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News Blog * Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots
MSK * Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog * Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings
Other * Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On * Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost
AI & ML SageMaker * Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines * Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks * Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio * Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems
Other * Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend * Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements * Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
Other Cool Stuff * Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards * Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available * Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage * Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device * Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS * Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits * AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway * Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB * AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity * AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator * New – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Connect * Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available * Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages * Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface * Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions * Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available * Amazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails
IoT * AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements * AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click * AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states
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