AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.
The News Finally in Sydney ANZ * Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available * Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East
Serverless * AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available * Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection * AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos * Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions) * Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment
Containers * Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances * AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support * Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality * Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview * AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
EC2 & VPC * AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing * Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors * Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs * Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available * Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups * ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups * AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform * Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables * Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Security * AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules * AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events * Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup * AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization * AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation * AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring
Dev & Ops * Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog * Announcing Amazon Honeycode * Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance * AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types * EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink * AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments * AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type
Databases * Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding * AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune * Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility * Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems * Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift * Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility * Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances * Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3 * CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations * Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica * Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables * Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
AI & ML * DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge * Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines * AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach * Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks * Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce * Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize * Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Other Cool Stuff * AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device * Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs * Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service * Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block * Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts * Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed * Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK * Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices * Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice
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