In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.

What's New Finally in Sydney * PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions * AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region * Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions * Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions

Serverless Lambda * AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions * AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams * AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source * AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams * AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK

API Gateway * Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs

Containers Monitoring * Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog * Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog * Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

General * EC2 Image Builder now supports container images

ECS * Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker * Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console * Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies * Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster

EKS * AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations

EC2 & VPC Instances * Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy

EBS * Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2 * Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts

Networking * Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses * Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Lightsail * Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6

Dev & Ops Dev * AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available * AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available * Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation * Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit) * AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows * AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets * Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice

Ops * Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog * New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog * Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager

Security * AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization * Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC * AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries * Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3 * Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS * AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization * Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics

Data storage & processing * AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors * Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances * New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog * Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview * Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 * Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12 * Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily

AI & ML * Introducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloud

IoT * New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog * Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog * Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises * Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise * Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana * AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview * AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters * AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion * Introducing AWS IoT EduKit * Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview * Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise

Other Cool Stuff Policy * Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog

Services * AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog * Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog * AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available

Features * APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool * Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts * Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity * Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview) * AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system * Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) * Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog

SQS * Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview) * Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing

Control Tower * region * AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations * AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update

The Nanos * Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12 * Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit) * Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6 * Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses

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