Melbourne AWS User Group

A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?

The News

Finally in ANZ * Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English * Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle * Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions * Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions * Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand

Serverless * AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB * API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options * AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray * AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows * Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication * mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering * Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering * Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema

Containers * Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers * EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation * Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods * Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments * AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop * Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog * Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones

EC2 & VPC * New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog * Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run * Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract * Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink * Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints * Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts * AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments * Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2

Dev & Ops * AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu * AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java * AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview * Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces * Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks * Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints * Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression * AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources * Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0 * Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15

Security * AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management * Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me * GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions * cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub * Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs * Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs * Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections * Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing * AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points * Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM * Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis * Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy * AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2 * Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)

Storage & Databases * Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift * Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster * Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas * Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB * Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances * Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA) * Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases * Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients

AI & ML * Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets

Other Cool Stuff * AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events * Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces * Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection * Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs * Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance * Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically * AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry * Introducing AWS Perspective * Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC * Queuing purchases of Savings Plans * Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing * The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)

The Nano Candidates * Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel) * AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy) * AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)