Episode 52 - July 2019 Tech Round-up - a podcast by AWS TechChat

In this monster episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Tom (yes he is back) come at you with a raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in the month of July in the year 2019.

They started the show with two Amazon CloudWatch updates. Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, which applies machine learning to continuously analyze a specific CloudWatch metrics determines a nominal baseline, and surfaces anomalies, all without user intervention before introducing you to Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and as the sticker says, is a fully managed service to help monitor and troubleshoot containers. Both of these additions are not GA but get your hands dirty and have a play.

They then pivoted by introducing you to a new service, Amazon EventBridge, which is a serverless event bus that routes real-time data streams from your applications and services to targets like AWS Lambda. EventBridge facilitates event-driven application development by simplifying the process of ingesting and delivering events across your application architecture, and by providing built-in security and error handling. What's more, there are built-in integrations from the likes of ZenDesk, Pager Duty, and more.

On the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) front, we spoke of four updates.
1. Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.1
2. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless has gone GA.
3. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions.
4. Amazon RDS introduces Compatibility Checks for Upgrades from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0.

Another new feature - Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, introduces that ability to control Secure Shell (SSH) access to your instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, plus with AWS CloudTrail events giving you a centralized way to audit your SSH connections.

Finally, Tom snuck in some last-minute updates around Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon AppStream 2.0 adding in support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 base images. Amazon WorkSpaces is now allowing you to copy your Amazon WorkSpaces Images across AWS regions.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Tom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, AWS

Resources:
Amazon CloudWatch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-now-in-preview/
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/cloudwatch-container-insights-for-eks-and-kubernetes-preview/
Amazon EventBridge https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/
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 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 for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/amazon-rds-postgresql-supports-minor-version-112/
Amazon RDS introduces Compatibility Checks https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_rds_introduces_compatibility_checks/
Introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-instance-connect/
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) https://aws.amazon.com/iam/
AWS CloudTrail https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/
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/
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports copying Images across AWS Regions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_workspaces_now_supports_copying_images_across_aws_regions/

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