Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano

The News Finally in Sydney * Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog * Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions * Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions

Serverless Lambda * AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings * AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2 * AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto) * AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2 * AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source * AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs

API Gateway * Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names * API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services * Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs

Step Functions * AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing * AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing

Amplify * Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS * Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview

Containers Fargate * AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer * AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans * Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems

ECS * Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type * AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration * Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI

EKS * Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer * Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs * Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available * Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview * Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2

Other * AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration

EC2 & VPC * Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API * Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors * AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic * AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms * AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation * AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management * Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability

Dev & Ops * CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support * EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally * AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints * Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor * AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases * AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support

Security * New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog * Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On * AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability * AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing * AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers

Storage and Databases * New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog * Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors * AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration * AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows * Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench * Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads * Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies * Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster * AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source * Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019

AI & ML * AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model * Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy * Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability

Other Cool Stuff * Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket * AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region * AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options * Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area * Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA * Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls * Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call * Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer * AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics * Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list * Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization * Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice * Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB

The Nano Candidates * Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy * AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability * Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls

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