Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.
News Finally in Sydney * AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia * AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions * Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions * Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions * Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)
Serverless Lambda * Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog * The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design * AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
Step Functions * AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML * Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
EventBridge * Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations
Containers ECS * Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate * AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me * AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
EKS * Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40% * Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets * Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation * Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances * Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter * Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
Other * AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution * Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog
EC2 & VPC EC2 * Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog * Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments * Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
VPC * Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction * Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints
Dev & Ops CICD * AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account * AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines * AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates * AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
Systems Manager * AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource * AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
Other * Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code * Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context * Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android * Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16 * AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
Security Security Hub * AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard * AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
Config * AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager * AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
WAF * AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging * AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses * AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
Other * AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB * AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch * AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions * IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog * New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS * AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
Data Storage & Processing S3 * Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog * AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
Databases * Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances * Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) * AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances * Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups * Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades * Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas * Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs * Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries * Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing * Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Other * New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog * Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability * Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates * AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL * AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points * AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
AI & ML SageMaker * Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80% * Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker * Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication * Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
Other * Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available * Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect * Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast * Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription
Other Cool Stuff Regions * AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services | AWS News Blog
Connect * Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3 * Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting * Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Other Services/Features * AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog * Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain * Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces * AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
The Nanos * AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen) * AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel)
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