Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.
News Finally in Sydney 😢
Serverless Lambda * Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
EventBridge * Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region * AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge
Other * AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps * Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog * Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows
Containers EKS * Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20 * Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available * Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs * Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints * EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy
Other * New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog * Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks * AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) * Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring
EC2 & VPC * Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options * EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template * Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy * AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations * AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations * Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services
Dev & Ops Dev * AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview * Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension * Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys * Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling * AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications * AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
Ops * Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter) * Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities * Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events * AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available * Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild
Security * AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources * AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework * AWS WAF adds support for log filtering * Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs * Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK * AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting * AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management * AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets
Data Storage & Processing * Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing * Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x * Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups * Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances * AWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now available * Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups * New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog * AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC) * Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview * Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs * Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier * AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication * Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers * Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations * AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory * Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database * Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas * Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances * Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0 * AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML * Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression * AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
AI & ML * Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs * Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models * Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert * Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization * Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model * Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines * Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points * Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments * Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions * Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%
Other Cool Stuff * New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog * New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE) * AWS Organizations launches new console experience * Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights * AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News Blog * Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity * How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News Blog * AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support * Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor * AWS Application Cost Profiler * AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones * Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android * Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available * In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News Blog * Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues * Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters * Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health
The Nanos * Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen) * Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy)
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