A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music.
The News Finally in Sydney * Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange * AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia * AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions * EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions * Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions
Serverless * Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney) * Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway * AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1 * The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions * Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs * AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available
Containers * Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available * AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh * Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles * Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking
Databases * Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available * Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12 * Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4 * AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces) * Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type
Dev & Ops * AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available * Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack * EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES * Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available * Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC
Security * Amazon Detective is now generally available * Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization * Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple * Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules * AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard
VPC & EC2 * Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems * AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink * AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches * AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms * New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available
AI & ML * AWS DeepComposer is now generally available * Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions * Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework * Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files * Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items
Other Cool Stuff * You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations * Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region * AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone * Introducing AWS Cost Categories * Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available * Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP * Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels * Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) * AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020 * Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF * Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots * Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions * AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance * AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager * AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM * Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices
Other links * AWS DeepComposer - Oasis - Wonderwall - Experiment #001 by The Dirk * I Think Breath Noise is an Interesting One | Ambassador Lounge Podcast Episode #4 * AWS Inside the Region | ig.nore.me
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