July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.
The News Finally in Sydney * AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region * AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions * AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level
Serverless * Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use * Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code assets across Lambda functions * Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
Containers * AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog * Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS * Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate * Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17 * AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways * Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost) * Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available * Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas * Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch * ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys
EC2 & VPC * Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available * Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances * AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring * EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs * EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch * Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations * AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers * Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create * New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog * Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel WHM instance blueprint * AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration
Dev & Ops * Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog * AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent * Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications * CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost) * CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support * AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager * AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting * AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project * Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code
Security * Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations * AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups * AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API * AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules * AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies * Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager * Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections * Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility * Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console * Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization * AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls * AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
Storage & Databases * Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput * Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances * AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway * AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway * Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink * Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR) * Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog * Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy * Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System * New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management * Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog * Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100% * Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking * AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog * HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service * Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances * AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments * Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud
AI & ML * AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase * Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition * Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata * Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) * Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items * Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost * New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog * Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra * AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS) * Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition * Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging * Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training * Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers * Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog
Other cool stuff * New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog * Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog * AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog * Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog * Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available * Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes) * AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device * Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up * Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers * AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower * Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool * Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs * Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)
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