#323: July 2019 Update - a podcast by Amazon Web Services

Simon and Nicki share a bumper-crop of interesting, useful and cool new services and features for AWS customers!

Chapter Timings00:01:17 Storage
00:03:15 Compute00:07:13 Network
00:10:27 Databases00:16:04 Migration
00:17:43 Developer Tools00:22:47 Analytics
00:27:07 IoT00:28:14 End User Computing
00:29:25 Machine Learning00:30:49 Application Integration
00:34:18 Management and Governance00:41:42 Customer Engagement
00:42:47 Media00:44:03 Security
00:46:26 Gaming00:47:54 AWS Marketplace
00:49:07 RoboticsShownotes


Topic || StorageOptimize Cost with Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Lifecycle Management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/optimize-cost-amazon-efs-infrequent-access-lifecycle-management/
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Enables You to Use File Systems Directly With Your Organization’s Self-Managed Active Directory | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-use-file-systems-directly-with-your-organizations-self-managed-active-directory/Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to use a single AWS Managed AD with file systems across VPCs or accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-use-a-single-aws-managed-ad-with-file-systems-across-vpcs-or-accounts/
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Amazon VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-storage-gateway-now-supports-amazon-vpc-endpoints-aws-privatelink/File Gateway adds encryption&signing options for SMB clients – Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/file-gateway-adds-options-to-enforce-encryption-and-signing-for-smb-shares/
New AWS Public Datasets Available from Facebook, Yale, Allen Institute for Brain Science, NOAA, and others | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/new-aws-public-datasets-available-from-facebook-yale-allen/Topic || Compute
Introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-instance-connect/Introducing New Instances Sizes for Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-new-instances-sizes-for-amazon-ec2-m5-and-r5-instances/
Introducing New Instance Sizes for Amazon EC2 C5 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-new-instance-sizes-for-amazon-ec2-c5-instances/Amazon ECS now supports additional resource-level permissions and tag-based access controls | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-ecs-now-supports-resource-level-permissions-and-tag-based-access-controls/
Amazon ECS now offers improved capabilities for local testing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-ecs-now-offers-improved-capabilities-for-local-testing/AWS Container Services launches AWS For Fluent Bit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-container-services-launches-aws-for-fluent-bit/
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.13, ECR PrivateLink, and Kubernetes Pod Security Policies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes113-ecr-privatelink-kubernetes-pod-security/AWS VPC CNI Version 1.5.0 Now Default for Amazon EKS Clusters | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-vpc-cni-version-150-now-default-for-amazon-eks-clusters/
Announcing Enhanced Lambda@Edge Monitoring within the Amazon CloudFront Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-enhanced-lambda-edge-monitoring-amazon-cloudfront-console/AWS Lambda Console shows recent invocations using CloudWatch Logs Insights | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-lambda-console-recent-invocations-using-cloudwatch-logs-insights/
AWS Thinkbox Deadline with Resource Tracker | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/thinkbox-deadline-resource-tracker/Topic || Network
Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/network-load-balancer-now-supports-udp-protocol/Announcing Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring for Amazon EC2 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-amazon-vpc-traffic-mirroring-for-amazon-ec2-instances/
AWS ParallelCluster now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-parallelcluster-supports-elastic-fabric-adapter/AWS Direct Connect launches first location in Italy | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws_direct_connect_locations_in_italy/
Amazon CloudFront announces seven new Edge locations in North America, Europe, and Australia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/cloudfront-seven-edge-locations-june2019/
Now Add Endpoint Policies to Interface Endpoints for AWS Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/now-add-endpoint-policies-to-interface-endpoints-for-aws-services/Topic || Databases
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-serverless/Amazon RDS now supports Storage Auto Scaling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/rds-storage-auto-scaling/
Amazon RDS Introduces Compatibility Checks for Upgrades from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_rds_introduces_compatibility_checks/Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 11.4, 10.9, 9.6.14, 9.5.18, and 9.4.23 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-rds-postgresql-supports-minor-version-114/
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Cluster Cache Management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-cluster-cache-management/Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Data Import from Amazon S3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-data-import-from-amazon-s3/
Amazon Aurora Supports Cloning Across AWS Accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_aurora_supportscloningacrossawsaccounts-/Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports z1d instance types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-z1d-instance-types/
Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.1 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-rds-oracle-supports-oracle-application-express-version-191/Amazon ElastiCache launches reader endpoints for Redis | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-elasticache-launches-reader-endpoint-for-redis/
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports Stopping and Starting Clusters | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-documentdb-supports-stopping-starting-cluters/Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Provides Cluster Deletion Protection | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-documentdb-provides-cluster-deletion-protection/
You can now publish Amazon Neptune Audit Logs to Cloudwatch | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/you-can-now-publish-amazon-neptune-audit-logs-to-cloudwatch/Amazon DynamoDB now supports deleting a global secondary index before it finishes building | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-dynamodb-now-supports-deleting-a-global-secondary-index-before-it-finishes-building/
Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 25 unique items and 4 MB of data per transactional request | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-dynamodb-now-supports-up-to-25-unique-items-and-4-mb-of-data-per-transactional-request/Topic || Migration
CloudEndure Migration is now available at no charge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/cloudendure-migration-available-at-no-charge/New AWS ISV Workload Migration Program | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/isv-workload-migration/
AWS Migration Hub Adds Support for Service-Linked Roles | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws_migration_hub_adds_support_for_service_linked_roles/Topic || Developer Tools
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-aws-toolkit-for-visual-studio-code/The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/the-aws-cloud-development-kit-aws-cdk-is-now-generally-available1/
AWS CodeCommit Supports Two Additional Merge Strategies and Merge Conflict Resolution | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-codecommit-supports-2-additional-merge-strategies-and-merge-conflict-resolution/AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-codecommit-now-supports-resource-tagging/
AWS CodeBuild adds Support for Polyglot Builds | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-codebuild-adds-support-for-polyglot-builds/AWS Amplify Console Updates Build image with SAM CLI and Custom Container Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-amplify-console-updates-build-image-sam-cli-and-custom-container-support/
AWS Amplify Console announces Manual Deploys for Static Web Hosting | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-amplify-console-announces-manual-deploys-for-static-web-hosting/Amplify Framework now Supports Adding AWS Lambda Triggers for events in Auth and Storage categories | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amplify-framework-now-supports-adding-aws-lambda-triggers-for-events-auth-storage-categories/
AWS Amplify Console now supports AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-amplify-console-supports-aws-cloudformation/AWS CloudFormation updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EFS, Amazon S3 and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-cloudformation-updates-amazon-ec2-ecs-efs-s3-and-more/


Topic || AnalyticsAmazon QuickSight launches multi-sheet dashboards, new visual types and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-quickSight-launches-multi-sheet-dashboards-new-visual-types-and-more/
Amazon QuickSight now supports fine-grained access control over Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena! | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-quickSight-now-supports-fine-grained-access-control-over-amazon-S3-and-amazon-athena/Announcing EMR Release 5.24.0: With performance improvements in Spark, new versions of Flink, Presto, and Hue, and enhanced CloudFormation support for EMR Instance Fleets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-emr-release-5240-with-performance-improvements-in-spark-new-versions-of-flink-presto-Hue-and-cloudformation-support-for-launching-clusters-in-multiple-subnets-through-emr-instance-fleets/
AWS Glue now provides workflows to orchestrate your ETL workloads | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-glue-now-provides-workflows-to-orchestrate-etl-workloads/Amazon Elasticsearch Service increases data protection with automated hourly snapshots at no extra charge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-elasticsearch-service-increases-data-protection-with-automated-hourly-snapshots-at-no-extra-charge/
Amazon MSK is Now Integrated with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_msk_is_now_integrated_with_aws_cloudformation_and_terraform/Kinesis Video Streams adds support for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and H.265 video | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/kinesis-video-streams-adds-support-for-dynamic-adaptive-streaming-over-http-dash-and-h-2-6-5-video/
Announcing the availability of Amazon Kinesis Video Producer SDK in C | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-availability-of-amazon-kinesis-video-producer-sdk-in-c/Topic || IoT
AWS IoT Expands Globally | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-iot-expands-globally/Bluetooth Low Energy Support and New MQTT Library Now Generally Available in Amazon FreeRTOS 201906.00 Major | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/bluetooth-low-energy-support-amazon-freertos-now-available/
AWS IoT Greengrass 1.9.2 With Support for OpenWrt and AWS IoT Device Tester is Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-iot-greengrass-support-openwrt-aws-iot-device-tester-available/Topic || End User Computing
Amazon Chime Achieves HIPAA Eligibility | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/chime_hipaa_eligibility/Amazon WorkSpaces now supports copying Imagesacross AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_workspaces_now_supports_copying_images_across_aws_regions/
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-appstream-20-adds-support-for-windows-server-2016-and-windows-server-2019/AWS Client VPN now includes support for AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-client-vpn-includes-support-for-aws-cloudformation/


Topic || Machine LearningAmazon Comprehend Medical is now Available in Sydney, London, and Canada | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/comprehend-medical-available-in-asia-pacific-eu-canada/
Amazon Personalize Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-personalize-now-generally-available/New in AWS Deep Learning Containers: Support for Amazon SageMaker and MXNet 1.4.1 with CUDA 10.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/new-in-aws-deep-learning-containers-support-for-amazon-sagemaker-libraries-and-mxnet-1-4-1-with-cuda-10-0/



Topic || Application IntegrationIntroducing Amazon EventBridge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-eventbridge/
AWS App Mesh Service Discovery with AWS Cloud Map generally available. | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-app-mesh-service-discovery-with-aws-cloud-map-generally-available/Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on WebSocket APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-api-gateway-supports-tag-based-access-control-tags-on-websocket/
Amazon API Gateway Adds Configurable Transport Layer Security Version for Custom Domains | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-api-gateway-adds-configurable-transport-layer-security-version-custom-domains/Topic || Management and Governance
Introducing AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter to enable faster issue resolution | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-aws-systems-manager-opscenter-to-enable-faster-issue-resolution/Introducing Service Quotas: View and manage your quotas for AWS services from one central location | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-service-quotas-view-and-manage-quotas-for-aws-services-from-one-location/
Introducing AWS Budgets Reports | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-aws-budgets-reports/Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection – Now in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-now-in-preview/
Amazon CloudWatch Launches Dynamic Labels on Dashboards | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-launches-dynamic-labels-on-dashboards/Amazon CloudWatch Adds Visibility for your .NET and SQL Server Application Health | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-visibility-for-your-net-sql-server-application-health/
Amazon CloudWatch Events Now Supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs as a Target and Tagging of CloudWatch Events Rules | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-events-now-supports-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-target-tagging-cloudwatch-events-rules/Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate - Now in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-container-insights-for-ecs-and-aws-fargate-in-preview/
AWS Config now enables you to provision AWS Config rules across all AWS accounts in your organization | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-config-now-enables-you-to-provision-config-rules-across-all-aws-accounts-in-your-organization/Session Manager launches Run As to start interactive sessions with your own operating system user account | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/session-manager-launches-run-as-to-start-interactive-sessions-with-your-own-operating-system-user-account/
Session Manager launches tunneling support for SSH and SCP | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/session-manager-launches-tunneling-support-for-ssh-and-scp/Use IAM access advisor with AWS Organizations to set permission guardrails confidently | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/now-use-iam-access-advisor-with-aws-organizations-to-set-permission-guardrails-confidently/
AWS Resource Groups is Now SOC Compliant | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-resource-groups-is-now-soc-compliant/Topic || Customer Engagement
Introducing AI Powered Speech Analytics for Amazon Connect | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-ai-powered-speech-analytics-for-amazon-connect/Amazon Connect Launches Contact Flow Versioning | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-connect-launches-contact-flow-versioning/

Topic || MediaAWS Elemental MediaConnect Now Supports SPEKE for Conditional Access | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-elemental-mediaconnect-now-supports-speke-for-conditional-access/
AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-elemental-medialive-now-supports-aws-cloudformation/AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Ingests Files from HTTPS Sources | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-elemental-mediaconvert-now-ingests-files-from-https-sources/



Topic || SecurityAWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports root CA hierarchies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-certificate-manager-private-certificate-authority-now-supports-root-CA-heirarchies/
AWS Control Tower is now generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-control-tower-is-now-generally-available/AWS Security Hub is now generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-security-hub-now-generally-available/
AWS Single Sign-On now makes it easy to access more business applications including Asana and Jamf | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-single-sign-on-access-business-applications-including-asana-and-jamf/Topic || Gaming
Large Match Support for Amazon GameLift Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/large-match-support-for-amazon-gameLift-now-available/New Dynamic Vegetation System in Lumberyard Beta 1.19 – Available Now | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/lumberyard-beta-119-available-now/


Topic || AWS MarketplaceAWS Marketplace now integrates with your procurement systems | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-marketplace-now-integrates-with-your-procurement-systems/

Topic || RoboticsAWS RoboMaker announces support for Robot Operating System (ROS) Melodic | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-robomaker-support-robot-operating-system-melodic/

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