The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.
News Finally in Sydney * AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions * Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions
Serverless * Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs * AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles * Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions * Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems * AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda * AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka
Containers * Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups * AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities * Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements * Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog
EC2 & VPC * AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications * Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs * Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances * AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance * Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances * AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds * Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices
Dev & Ops * AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source * AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton * Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog * AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements * Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications * Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog * AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console
Security * Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS * AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring * AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions * AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts * KMS Multi-Region Keys * AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations * IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring
Data Storage & Processing * Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables * Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) * Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) * AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings * Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune * Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster * AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts * File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog * Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions * Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning * Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances * Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets * Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster
AI & ML * Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models * Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability * Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge * Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots * Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics * Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents * Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs
Other Cool Stuff * Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services * Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog * New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN * Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores * AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone * AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux * Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically * In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog * New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog
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